Show SEATTLE Another Ambitious City of the Sound SEATTLE W T Feb 918S3 Editors Herald I have visited this place in passing pass-ing two or three times but believe I have omitted to make any mention of it which omission I now propose to remedy Seattle is one of the oldest towns Washington and if her citizens are permitted to judge is now and hereafter will be the future city of the Sound and candor compels OLe to say that nearly every other town on the eastern shore of this vast body of navigable water puts forth I a similar claim i have been furnished by Mr Thos I W Prosh manager of the Post Intelligencer a very respectable E daily of Seattle with certain data Ii upon which to hase a few remarks in relation to the place and which are hereinafter appended in substance sub-stance Population 1880 3553 estimated popnlationFebruarylS830500 vote of 18821274 buildings erected in 1882 300 coal shipped 1882 tons 151800 oats COOOO bushels hops 2000 bales Three daily and three weekly newspapers The best built town in the Territory A respectable fire department Telephone Tel-ephone system being introduced I Ten churches Probably thirty gin mills City assessment in 1882 4280000 Fourteen thousand shipping ship-ping measurement in port February 6 including five ocean steamers 1 I Oregon is ambitious of becoming the terminus of the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Short Line rail reads 4VR Regarding the claim of being the best built town in the territory 1 am unable to judge not having visited all of them though 1 was informed in-formed by a gentleman who has seen the place that Walla Walla is larger and better built than Seattle the latter is however beyond doubt the boss town on the sound as to business and population New Tacoma ranking next Concerning the claim to be the prospectiveterminusof the two railroads rail-roads named I have but little knowledge but must confess that the idea of the Oregon Short Line Co extending its road to the sound is new to me as it may also be to Hon John Sharp director of the U P And touching this terminus question I think I have already suggested that the final ending of the N P has not been decided on It is true that on paper as well as actually at the present time New Tacoma is the end but really another an-other organization has been effected which being in the interest of the EL P will no doubt be governed by it This company is at present constructing con-structing a line of road nominally from New Tacoma to Seattle but which in my opinion is destined to be continued when required along the eastern border of the town touching perhaps at several points on the water front until connection is made with the Canada Pacific Railway It is further not at all unlikely that a line of road may be some day be built over the Cascade range touching the sound at or near a good harbor on Bellingham Bay in which event it may be that a rival to Seattle may grow up in that vicinity I omitted in the proper place to give the number of town lots in Seattle a question of too much importance im-portance to real estate dealers to be left out Twenty sections of land making 12500 acres have been laid off into 45504 lots enough to give every man a chance There would have been more lots however had there been any more land between the sound and Lake Washington Should any of you readers visit Seattle I would advise them to patronize the Hotel Brunswick which is a good one kept by Major E A Alden and A W Atkins Esq formerly of Salt Lake City and Frisco H D J |