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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1889)
tvM Wilaon. Another motor 1 t the bead of MTU,. Tl! greatly ece TlMJkJI5f Tort TowEd make .lcfatitickljWlUPW !, to H' iy it-tooLdtnei. An jprmrmlnaU.Uthe amendingof t,l, ilarVfa, Hi t. that Waihirgton 1. to be ft Wig aide to ritood the city U i m to Ut!J. tb" ar tll ii properly and jt artftJJ; j-ut f tl corporation in all iti inter u will r-aM th city to extend iti improve fcrtU ail to ami th iCcinc; of amice in ya rvM hfc'a Tb un ato works plant, which l Ht.f irtioD of the town from a Tfi tt ti'l, wtieh, in tern, U died by a pump is ll ullfj, i to U rep!ac! with an improved j lttt, to UU sj i !y fcta iirirgi in the interior (4 li itir.t&!a, at 1 to fortiih wato aerrice to the iUu tUti u veil aa the boiineu houses of lU r,iy. A orttjl't ijara f aowerage will be ki Vl a:J 0"utfflri4. More itrecU will be grad ti at I UCt U;!t The filling and grading of i tl nw.A ilrrrU at a ct of 111,(1)0.00 has UuJ; ta d t, at,l artUr stwt contract of 119, OMfM u jtt or.srtL IMwoen $10,(0)00 a?J Ui.immu tr tJ ijg fijDdl in building i!a.'U IW&utidl tcproTfiECLUihowthat & rJj iuftaat i aririt of enterprise tiki U tfirjr.rg It toiu rapidly into prominence aU ruU..;r g f r it j !ac amotj; the lire cities l tl t-.ttlcl Tii. nidation ia not handicap. H 1 y at j Uf lrt.a M t lu otly indebtedness r.ly tall, wLir b tu ittil j talat linco the pur. la & tUs a aauBti tow oM on it The ! M,.t.;,. lSpo,ctlli ar, tow MCg0vle,M TEE WEST SHORE. Und, owing to the modifying influence of the warn current of the ocean. Very little snow falls in the winter, and it remains but a short time. The temper, ature is remarkably equable. The average tempera, tare for the month of July is about fifty-six degrees, aDd for December about forty degrees above zero, Fahrenheit The freedom from excessive moisture at Port Townsend is a matter of surprise to many, it being generally supposed that a point so nearly sur. rounded by large bodies of water, and in a mild tem. perature, is subject to very heavy rainfall. Port Townsend is the dryest city on the sound, and there are many inland towns which annually receive more moisture than this. The average annual rainfall, as BBcertained by measurements of the precipitation dur. iog the past ten years, is a fraction over seventeen inches. The greatest fall during one year of this pe riod was nearly twenty-two inches, in 1882, and the least nearly thirteen inches, in 1887. The topogra phy of the country about the city shows why the amount of moisture deposited there is so compara tively small. It is situated on the northeast extremi. tyof the large body of land between the waters of the sound and the ocean. All southwestern winds which leave the ocean laden with moisture pass over the Olympic mountains and there precipitate their load before reaching Port Townsend. The other winds which reach this point are comparatively dry. The southwest winds gather a good deal of moisture merely in crossing the waters of the sound, and pre cipitate it on coming in contact with the cool timber and mountains on the east side, so it may readily be seen why there is such a difference in the amounts of rainfall beiween the west and the east sides of Pa get sound. The surrounding waters, with the free circulation of warm currents, equalizes the tempera ture, and the mountains extract from the saturated winds the excess of moisture that otherwise would be u nil U l.mI w,...,. . . . . " w w ueposuea over the entire area between "WTU MC hv 1 , . - . - ... tr.i,, ,L;ri, , f-,,! i , ; UUM MU Abe atmosphere is clear and tonic, u (, tu.M f,Jf r nut couump. ! and the whole character of Port Townsend's climate lUrJIjefstriiorwM.. I l remarkably healthful and delightful This feature wone induces many persons to settle there. Port Townsend is ninety miles from the ocean and about one hundred miles from the head of Paget oaud. It is forty miles northwest of Seattle, and ixty-six miles from Tacoma, thirty miles southeast of Victoria, B. C, and eighty miles from Vancouver, wich is the western terminus of the Canadian Pa cific railway. In addition to the trade which the city vJ ....i f-w now etiovn . j. . . m 111 it . . 1 ThnrrV, a uitu in Uoveiopmg ai ft rapii i7 tx mi, LtU t.esa . . 1&0Dgh thereisarrni . . . 6, ...Tmi-L ii . or uutttJ it -i i . ' Wl w cui a canai inrougu iiw-- ti. l aL?;1 ,U lVl diry to the eastward of the city. at . & U 1 ar latitat i T hh " arly divided naturally, ' . "to reach the growing settlements on the east side At lU j -J !JC fstfiiotu-j (,f forpj ! "wt Luw,u,,,tl, .7" c-tv. . r ul fcwtehoipiul T1'"' ll,,t'r-jt,.Htar,llJ atdthl t. . ' . .,4clj taction. itude, it I,