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Show Colonel Meek's Trip. General Manager Meek of the Gulf division of the Union Pacific has just made a trip through the northwest. IIo is very enthusiastic over tho outlook in that section of the country and predicts pre-dicts that Seattlo will be the metropolis of tho Paciiic coast. Tho railroad prospects pros-pects in that section he says nro excellent. excel-lent. The Union Pacific is pushing the work on its extensions in the vicinity of Gray's harbor. Col. Meek says that General Alger has faith enough in that country to put up a steel plant at Kirk-land Kirk-land just across lake Washington from Seattle, that will cost at least half a million dollars. |