| Show PUGET SOUND soeiro that thai Is good nowa news that a site silo Is to bo be selected on puget fusel sound for a dry dock arid station our people tire are cry slow great britain already it lias AS ft 16 it dry ry dock there and amplo anio becom mo at 1 0 its for as many silipa sed soldiers S as aa may inay lin fin needed under any ny omergene enior ncncy c y our people do not half air understand tile tho glory and importance of puget sound it Is ii an open gateway front the soi sea towboat to what Is II to bo be one of tho the most splendid ot of states it ought to bo be it 11 place tor for fit titling ing out fishing fleets larger than over ever sailed front from all tire hio ports of new angan angland Cn gland di it Is 14 tile tho northern starting point tor for allin alaska and tile lie ships that go there will steadily swell in numbers they will amount to treat great fleets every year in every view that 1 ii a most moat and important country it N ill he bo tile tho plat place tor for yachts it 11 will bo be tho the place for or fishing fleets and lumber fleets in 0 a low lew icari with every morril ill a steamer ste ninor will salt sail away to tile norah on oil that most moat insolo Ins of all summer excursions a trip to alaska alaka and then tho the 13 from our territory to tho the orient will bo be from thorp there and tile the trado that will pas pam in and out alit of that sound when s dome more railroads dball bo be made oer IT alio llio to cascades and business adjusts it itself se if to nil all tile tho new conditions up ther 0 1 1 ill T most marvo loiis in ili it A little wh while ll 11 1 longer there here will mill not bo be much wheat shipped front from our ports but cho wheat ships that will float out of puget sound into tins the pacific will bo be greater than those that hat salted galled ahn th mediterranean in tile the old days when greece and rome homo and carthage Cart hago hatzo and egypt and tro tiro were rivals and when villen in ia the estimation of those people they possessed nearly all tho ilie world our government has been too slow in making arrangements tor for the building find and repairing of ships hips and for tho defense of tho the coast lit in that roost most important locality |
