The west shore., February 01, 1890, Page 137, Image 9

WKST SHORE.
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A WESTERN HOP CENTER.
PUYALLUP, a young city on the .N'orthrrn IVific
R. U., nine miles cast of Tacoma, has attained a
wide reputation as a hop renter. It is in the
valley of the Puyallup river, a stream of consid
erable size which rises among the un iting glacier of
Mt. Rainier, and pursues a tortuous counie to the head
of that arm of Pugot Hound known as Commencement
hay. In the Puyallup valley are annually produced
aliout -TV) )ft-('1' f ww, f-h hale weighing 19
K)undM on the average, and the hulk of the crop is
shipjed from the city of Puyallup. Urge shipments
of hops consigned direct to LiverjKxd are made from
Puyallup every year. While its hop yield has made
the valley and town known far and wide, there is
much more than that one crop, imortant though it is,
to commend Puyallup to popular attention.
When the Northern Pacific railroad was huilt from
Tacoma to the coal mines at CarUmado, some twelve
years ago, the town of Puyallup was located, through
the efforts of Messrs. K. Meeker and J. P. Stewart, who
were large proju-rty owners there. Their enterprise
has ben a very imjortant factor in the growth of the
town to its present size. The chief industry of the
town for a numher of years was a barrel factory. As
the country became more thickly settled Puyallup en
joyed a very healthy growth, but during the pant year
and a half it has made as much progress as during
the whole of its previous existence. Its population
has doubled, and every branch of business has In
creased in proortion. The phenomenal growth of
Tacoma has brought Puyallup into a ition of prom
inence as the principal suburb of that bustling city.
A "team motor line to eonmvt the two Is in an ad
vanced stage of construction, and an electric motor
road is projioscd. One difficulty that has to ! over
come is the matter of getting a right of way across the
Puyallup Indian reservation that lies Utwcen Tacoma
ami Puyallup and within one mile of the corporation
limits of the former. This matter is now bring ar
ranged in Washington, and it is ted that right of
way will be obtained for another steam motor also,
making three motor lines and one standard-gauge rail
way. Puyallup Is also the junction of the Northern
IVific line arid the branch going to Seattle.
Puyallup has a full city government, two weekly
newspajiers, one national and two private banks, with
a total capitalization of l'lW; a public rho.l
building, costing I7.MH, which is to be dup!iatl this
year; five churches; a number of 1' ""..ousts,
and the usual mercantile establishments and mitj.
laneous shops in a town of I,V) to IW inhabitants.
Among the improvements now assured ar a Urge
meatpacking establishment, a saw mill plant guaran
teeing employment for 120 men, ami to have a rapac
ity for sawing 150,(X) f.?t daily, with planing mill
and sash and dour factory in connection. An rta trie
light and power plant for tho city will U operated in
connection with the saw mill. This company will
construct a railroad southward to its titular, which
will ojm n up a valuable section at present having no
transjH.rtation facilities. A fine hotel, to r,t ITi.dii,
is to 1 erected this year. This hotel is rjrlall de
signed for the accommodation of tourists, and it will
prove an lmrtant addition to the attrartions of that
locality. Another saw mill, to be located just south of
the city, a furniture factory and a starch and gluc
factory are in prosjiect. The city has reached such a
stage that it can offer inducements to secure manufac
turing institutions and a lilrral oliey In that regard
is being pursued.
Probably the most valuable Indian reservation in
the United States, acre fr acre, is that occupied by the
Puyallus. The Tacoma city limits ntend t within
a mile of the reservation on one pi. !, and Puyallup,
Taroma's largest and most imortaiit suburb, is on the
other side. The reservation has an aria of alut
H,(ms) res, three-fourth of which is the i holirst U.
tout land. Included within the reservation is a con
siderable tract of tide Hat, at the bead of Commence.
ment bay. The uplands are aUi rich and parti ularly
adapted to fruit culture, These Indians do not hold
their lands in common. Sevrral years ago th reserva
tion was divided and the lands allotted In severalty,
but, as now arranged, they amount l about the same
as entailed estates, only the sun nding generations of
Indians having a right to the soil. Kff-rts am bring
made to obtain for the Indians titlrs in f'- limplo to
their land, so that it ran I put upon the market and
liecume available for th" ii of rlviliiatlon The In
dians, however, are mor pr"grrive than (Ik Ir rait
usually Is, and they have adopted many of lh" busi
ness habiu and iii1'S of lit- of their white bnthft n
without making a socially of the evil f-alurr
Tliousari'ls of bushels of grain, veg-ubs tf I fruit,
many bea of rattle and considerable hay art; mar
kets! by the Indians annually, U; l the amoont
iieimsary for home consumption There are Utwmi
and U) Indians on this reservation, every soul of
whom would have more wraith than tU averai whit
farmer, if his land bad the value on the ,jn markrl
which the ability to t ran f- r tit!" would gtv it.
While the h"p industry is the lof of th
Puyallup valley, the intension of cultivated territory
up lh river and on lh adjv-rni uplands U giving It
a more general j r'jnty thst Is, n,l Im.iud to lh
sum- lit any on crp One of lh lafjrst h"p
grywr rs in the valley rrjru that lh avrraj prke i,t
h during lh paat tlghlrni yrafs at Puyallup, ha