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of the cedar, ash, maple and red wood here used is beautifully
displayed by being finished in their natural colors. The hotel
possesses about 100 sleeping rooms, a number of which are en
suite. The comforts and conveniences to be enjoyed here by
the sojourner are not to be surpassed. Tae whole building is
heated by steam. A few of the rooms, in addition, are pro
vided with grates. It is lighted by electricity, and nearly all
of the rooms are provided with electrical call bells. Great care
has been taken to have as perfect as possible the sanitary
arrangements. Every precaution has been adopted to provide
against fire. The tank system has been adopted, and fire
escapes and hydrants are conveniently located throughout the
building. It is handsomely and richly furnished, and must
become very popular as a summer resort. It overlooks both
the harbor and the town, and one can here eDjoy all the exhil
arating effects of the sea air and the advantage of living in a
progressive and enterprising town. It was opened for business
last rreekj and has been appropriately named " The Hoqul
' The theater, just built by the Hoquiam Theater Building
Company at a cost of $15,000, is one of the cosieBt and most
artistically finished buildings of the kind on the coast. No
needed expense has been spared in the furnishing. The inter
ior arrangements seem perfect, every modern improvement
having been adopted by the management. The seating is made
by one of the best known firms in the east, and the scenery is
painted by the celebrated scenic piinters, Sosman & Landis, of
Chicago. The building will comfortably seat 1,000 people. The
Casino Association, which was capitalized at $10,000, is finish
ing a three-story building, 60x42 feet, that is to ba heated by
steam and lighted by electricity. It is the intention of this
association to sumptuously furnish this establishment.
The town is abundantly supplied with water which is ob
tained from springs situated about a mile from town. Here the
city has built a reservoir and has an engine. The mains for the
conveyance of this water are laid through all the principal
streets. The city is lighted by electricity, arc lights being sus
pended at all of the principal street corners. A private com
pany has recently put in a Westinghouse electric plant that
possesses the latest improvements in machinery, capable of
supplying 100 arc lamps of 2,000-candle power each and 1,000
incandescent lights of 10-candle power each. For fire purposes
the town has purchased two hose carts and 1,500 feet of hose
and a hook and ladder truck. It will also shortly purchase a
steam fire engine.
One of the sights is the number of steamers that constantly
ply between the different towns on the harbor and the Chehalis
river. Most of these boats are owned in Hoquiam, and include
the tugs Traveler, Hunter and Printer, which are the only ocean
going tags on the harbor, and the passonger and freight steam
boats Cruiser, Tillie and tug Ruttler.
This season will witness the erection of many tine business
blocks and residences. Among some of the larger improve
ments about to be inaugurated are the construction of a dock at
the foot of K street, which will be eighty feet wide by 200 feet
in length, and of a warehouse, by the Hoquiam Warehouse
Company, close to this dock. The Hoquiam Steam, Heat and
Power Company is about to erect a two-story building, thirty
by forty feet, in the rear of the Casino, and place therein a fifty
horse power boiler and engine, and lay through the streets a
ten-inch main to be used for fire service and the flushing of
sewers. The Hoquiam Pavilion Association is about to build
a pavilion at a cost of 5,000, the auditorium of which will be
seventy by eighty-five feet in the clear. The Novelty Wood
Works Company is about to erect a factory at the foot of K
street, at a cost of $10,000. A new saw mill is being erected
on the Hoquiam river, about three miles from town, with a
capacity of 25,000 feet of lumber per day. F. M. Davis & Co.
are about to erect a saBh and door factory, and there is also
shortly to be built an artificial ice factory. There is disbursed
at Hoquiam monthly among the many men employed about
$45,000.
Hoquiam, in the short period of its existence, has acquired
a good school house. The churches are also woll represented.
Tbe Presbyterians have a neat church edifice, and the Baptists
and Methodiata are erecting houses of worship that will cost
over $3,000 each. Several of the leading socret societies have
lodges, and the Grand Army has a post, It is often considered
that one of the boat indications of the progress and prosperity
of a town is to be seen in the newspapers it possesses, In the
Wanhingtoniau this rapidly increasing town has a fit represen
tative. In the short space of one year this paper has become
one of the leading publications in this section of the state. It
possesses an excellent plant, and is issuod somi-weekly. The
Capital is also a semi-weekly publication which is enterpris
ingly edited and printed by a youth with the assistance of a
younger sister.
A board of trade is one of the enterprises which has a cap
ital stock of $10,000, and has recently been incorporated. Its
shares of stock are valued at $100 each, and every one has
been taken, thus making every business house in town inter
ested directly in its actions for the good of the city.
Hoquiam is reached from Tacoma and Seattle by steamer to
Kamllchie, and from there by rail to Montesano, and thence to
Hoquiam. It also has a steamer once every ten days from San
Francisco, and once a week from Portland, and is also reached
from Astoria via Shoalwater bay and North Cove.
G. Birnie.
The Seven Devils copper mines, in Idaho, are claiming the
attention of the mining world as being very extensive in area
and remarkable in richness. The ore runs from twenty to
ninety per cent, of copper, and contains silver and gold. There
has recently been incorporated and capitalized with $100,000
a company for building a town and utilizing water power and
generally developing the resources of the district.
The Anacortes & Fidalgo City Electric Hallway Co. has
been incorporated. The object is to construct an electric rail
way between Anacortes and Fidalgo City, Washington. The
capital stock is placed at $250,000. Joshua Pierce, of Tacoma,
II. O. Culver, of Walla Walla, Julius Potter, of Fidalgo City,
and C. B. Holman, of Seattle, are the incorporators.
The legislature of Washington appropriated $10,000 with
which to purchase new law books and to supply missing vol
umes of reports, et j., for the state library. The contract to sup
ply 2,000 volumes has been awarded to Callahan A Co., of Chi
cago, for $8,575. The library has an additional allowance of
$3,000 per annum.
It is stated that the contract has been lot and work begun
on the construction of the Pacific, Chohalls A Eastern railroad
from Chehalis to South Bend, on Shoalwater bay. Grading
has been commenced at South Bend, and it now looks as if the '
road will be pushed to a rapid completion.
The HidJon Hand Mining Co., of Caittle, Montana, has
been incorporated, and has placed 75,000 shares of its stock on
the market for the purpose of obtaining funds for the develop
ment of its property.