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Show Milions in Lumber.- Forests and Shingles of iho Paget Sound Region, How Ma.htngton is Roofing the Vnlon-A Chat 11 M Gen Shelby-The Komantlc Career of Cov. NcGrawanda talk llllh Mm about tht Monte Crista Mmet-llou, Mmet-llou, tht Richest HUr and Gold Lead, of the iorld Mere Discovered IV.th a Sfy CUss-A Glance at Three Big Cite, of the A'orth t est, ifiokme, Seattle and Tacoma-Stories of Tacoma MUlionalre, and the Rosy Mure of I'uget Sound. ft Bptiat Cerrarmlff r Naws. f Tacoma, Wash , May 18, 1893. Itaw a cedar flump the other day on which a crowd of seventy two people stood and tat whlto a photograph was taken of them. It was to large that a cottage could have teen built upon It, nnd the height of the tree beforo It was cut, I am told, was 300 Icet. The greatest Industry In-dustry of this I'uget Sound region Is Its timber. The trees here turn out logs from 100 to soo feet In length, and Washington has now at the Chicago exhibition a loug lour feet square which Is i feet long. I rom a tree cut here the other day, six big saw logs were taken each thirty feet long, and the tree was five feet In diameter at the bnsc, and its first branch started out 170 leet above the ground. A farmer not far from Tacoma lived In a hollow cedar tree while clearing his homestead. The cavity was twenlylw o net In dlameter.or as big as a large prlor. Ills celling was forty feet above the, ground and a knot hole Just below thti formed his chimney. He put In a floor eight feet above the earth and on this he built a stone fireplace with a stick and clay chimney. Under the floor ho kept his horso and cow, and he lived on the second story of the tree hole. The best ship timber of the world comes from Washington, and masts and spirs are tent from here to Australia, China and other pirts of Europe, Asia and Africa. 1 he timber resources are practically unlimited, anil 1 am told that there are over three hundred billion feet ol standing timber In this state At the B present time a little more than one billion feet Is being cut every year, and at this rate there Is enough Iclt for three . centuries to come, borne of the largest I Mwmllls In the world are located near I Scattlo and Tacoma, and tnoro than two I million feet of timber are now cut every day. ROOFS OP THE WORLD. '' During my stay In Minneapolis I was told that the 'red cedar shingle Of Washington were fast driving the pine shingles out of the market And I learn here that shingles arc being shipped In vast quantities all over the United Siatrs I was shown In tho Scitlle JVtl Irlilli-geneet Irlilli-geneet office a cedar shingle which hid been on n root forty ears aud which was still In (rood condition, nnd I siw esterday n photograph of a fir tree, the marks upon which show It to be more than sco ycirs old, and In the roots of this tree was fastened a cedar log, which must have been lying on the ground when the first sapling grew oter it. Tro aoo-j tar-old cedar log was examined nnd found to be perfectly sound, although al-though it his reached this vast age. 1 talked last night with Mr Shelby, the general maniger of the Great Northern railroad on the Pacific coast, about the shingle trideolthls section. He tells inethit It Is growing rapidly and that he expects to be able to put cedir thin- firs down In New York, Ohio and ndlani at about the same rate as pine shingles. He predicts that within a fcwjeirsthe pine shingle will practically practi-cally go out of the mtrket. lie tells me that two billion shingles will be turned out from this region this car. Said he: "There Is no comparison between the two products. A roof of pine shingles has to be replaced ctery five or six jcars, while one of cedar Is good for forty or fifty yeirs. At the present price and rites of transportation wo can ship shingles from here to DiilTalo so that for thirty dollars a man can obtain enough Punt sound shingles to coer a ten room house, and the result Is thit the lumber dealers of the east arc giving giv-ing up pine and taking to cedir. It would surprise )ou to know how much traffic there Is in this form of lumber. It wilt take 16000 cars to carry the shingles which Washington will send to the cast this year, and when you remember remem-ber that the first car loid of these shingles that was ever shipped to Chlcao went east In 1SS7 you will tee how great the growth has been. I expect to see this trade rapidly Increase. and within two years three quarters of the entire production of shingles in Iho United Slates will go out from the state ol Washington we now uso about 10,000,000,000 of shingles In this country every car, and the day will toon coma when the whole of the Union will be roofed with Washington cedar." "Can )0u give me some Idea of the extent of the lumber regions of Pugct sound? ' 1 asked. ' We have," replied Cen Shelby, 1 ncirty ns much as all the rest of the United States put together. It Is a low estimate to put it at 300,000 000 000 feet. Or, to give n moro prtcllcal Idea of It, It wiuid take a train ol cars long enough to go nine timet around the world to carr) this lumber, Alrcndy there arc 30,000 men cinplovcU In the wood working Industries of this stile, and we spend more than $ 10,000 000 In wnges for lumber wotkirs enry jeir. Lumber is sent from here to Dulmli and comes right Into competition there in the midst of the pine regions of Minnesota Minne-sota anil Wisconsin. We get out a diss ol togs hero llntjou cinuot find nn-where nn-where else, and Itiu long timbers, Irom forty feet unci upward, which we send out cannot be found in the eastern states " GOV, ll'URAW. I met the oung governor of this state last night at the Kinlcr club In Seattle, nnd I111I a chit with him about Washington Washing-ton and its possibilities Gov. McCraw Is one of the brightest young executives of the Union, lie is lust about forty years of age, nnd he came here from Mime eight or tin ears ago His career reads like n romance. Ho was the son ol a lumberman of Miine, andhis father died while he was still small His mother mirried again and his ttcplathcr did not cradle him In the lip ot luxury. The boy had, to a large extent, to take caro of himself, and his schooling was confined to nbout six months in all. One story I heard wis that the old man made young McGraw wear liii boots to school. 1 hey were number twelves, and when little McUraw wore them they caused him no end of trouble It was the custom there to make the scholirs toe the mirk. There wis it chalk line drawn upon the floor) which the bojs had to toe when they stood up in their classes to recite. McGraw't boots were so Urge that with Ids toes on the clnlk his body was thrown (ar back of the line of the rest of the diss The tcicher could not at first understand it. He thought the boy was cutting up and lie would go behind and line up thu class, hilling little McGraw lor getting out of the line, and then going in front nnd seeing his feet over the chalk lino he would be driven back, flying thus between Scylla and Charybdis the greater part ol the time. HOW It'CHAW MADE A FORTUNE. McGraw's boyhood was spent In hard work and by the lime he was a young man he had saved enough to go Into business. He filled, however, and awoke one morning to find that he had a wife and family on his hands and only l.jl in his pocket. He decided to leave Maine and go west. Sa)ln good bye to his family he struck out for California nnd arrived in bin I ranclsco with bis total assets amounting to only forty two dollars. He sent forty dollars of this to his wife and looked about for,work. The only job he could find was that of street car driver, and he lietd the reins of nboblalled car for sevcrat weeks, all the-while looking out for something better. One day while driving down Kearney street he saw this sign on a bulletin board "CUV "tBATTLB COAt " The words stuck to him and he kept siylng It over and over, nnd wondering u here Seattle was am! what kind of a place it was Ho had heard cf It before, but he could nut think where I inally ho remembered that n man front his region In Maine had gone to beattle He found where the place was and wrototohlm, nnd a week or to liter cimc here to make his fortune. The town was smilt at that time nnd he soon made nciiuilntances. He got a place on the police force nnd proved hlmscll so efficient tint ho was elected sheriff He held the office of tlicrlfT for years, then went into the hotel business He had in the meintime brought his fimily from Maine and wis doing well, when a fire burned him out ind left him iigiln without a dollar. He hid studied liw, however, while he was slicruT, and he hung out his shingle. He toon gained apnctlcc. He invested in arlous properties pro-perties nnd made money. Now he Is president of one of the first banks of beattle and Is In independent clrcum-slinccs. clrcum-slinccs. He is one of the most popular men in the state, and when his name was sprung, without any preliminary cmasslng,nt the list Slate convention he was nominated for governor with a hurrah Ho was e'ected by a large miiorlty, and though he Is not a man of politlcil ambition he will be sooner or later In ihc United States benate. He Is one of the shrewdest pollllcil managers mana-gers as well as one of the best business nun of this slate, and It was through his management tint bqulrc got his present scat in the United States Scnitc. THE EVERGREEN STATE. 'We call Washington," said Gov McGraw, Mc-Graw, 'the 'evergreen stale,' and we have no doubt but that it is to bu one of the greatest stites In the Union We aro rapidly incrcisliig In population and the emigrants follow close on the heels of the government turvejors. The ttate Is not all surveyed as )tt and Is rapidly being taken up, and we hive now more than 400,000 people. We expect to be the I'ennsylvanla, Ohio and New York of the west. The population popu-lation of Pugct sound will be the greatest of any part of our 1'iclfic coast. Kight here In Seattle w e will have n tow n as great as ban 1 ranclsco, and I'uget sound will, I am convinced, eventually be n greit shipping center for Asiatic trade. We hive n fresh w ater like here which, with two to four miles of canal, would be accessible to ocean vessels, nnd along I'uget sound there are mignl-ficcnt mignl-ficcnt harbors We arc 400 miles nearer Shanghai thin San I ranclsco, and we except eventually to have the bulk of the Chinese trade The trade of Clilm amounts to J 130,000,000 peoenrandnow largely belongs to Great llritan It steadily increases, and it is safe to say that at no very distant date the trade of China and Japan wilt amount to&oo,-000,000 to&oo,-000,000 per year. There is no reason why America should not hate its shire of it, There is a vast tride between China and ltujila and between Man-choorla Man-choorla and Furopean Kisila There is caravan tine ol 36,001 camels and more than ioo,ouo hones every year. Thero Is no reason why a large pirt of the shipments carried In this way should not be sent over here to blbrrla and China, and I expect to see the time when our Asiatic trade will be nucof the most Important features of our commerce. We aro so located tint we will eventually be tho great manufacturing manufactur-ing section fur this trade, and our mines and lumber are such that we can mike nnthlng tint the world wants We hate vast cult fields and greit beds of iron, and the prospect now Is tint we hive the greitest gold and sihcr fields of the world." 'Tell me something about this, governor," said I, THE MONTE CRISTO COLD UINI.S. "I refer," said Gov. McGraw. "to the Monte Lrlsto gold mines. These are owned by n small an Jcite of rich capl-tilislsts capl-tilislsts including such men as John Rockefeller, Colgate, Ilojt and Mr, Colby, and n railroad is now being built from here to them at a cost of 3 000 000. The mines lie about fifty miles northest of beattle. They aru surrounded by the most rugged of mountains and they run In and out of great gorges. The ore is found In large veins, and some of It assays hfly dollars of gold and seventy-five seventy-five dollars of tlher to (he ton nnd upward. There arc n number of mines In this region, but thu most of them belong to this syndicate. It will take a fortune to get the ore out, but It will Iprobibly pay n dozen fortunes as soon as the roid Is finished and the veins are opened up." "How was the gold discovered)" 'Its first discovery was made with a telescope," replied Gov. McGraw. ' bomo piospectors siw the gold glcim-Ing glcim-Ing out ot the side of the mountun four miles away from where they stood They worked their way up to it and found that a great tilde of the drill had left baro this ercat vein of gold. '1 he amount in slj,ht, I am told, Is worth millions, and one of the ledges exposed may bo traced a distance ol 4,000 feet up the mountiin side from the bottom of the gorge, and the width of this ledge Is Irom ten lo forty feet. The gold seems to run through the mountiin nnd it is almost altogether In ledges, There arc no placer mines and no nuggets nug-gets to be lound In the streams. A town Is now being built at the mines, and by the middle of summer we will have lucre one of the liveliest mining camps in the u orld. The w ay it w ill be run, however, will be more as a great m tnufacturlng Industry thin a gold camp The chiracter of the mining Is such that It will have to be done with the most Improved machinery and after the latest and most practical of business methods " I find that there is Utile chance for a poor man to make money In mining In Washington The country has teen very thoroughly prospected in the neighborhood of the new gold regions, and his only hope of work would bent regular wages in the mines The railroad rail-road which the Colby-Hoy t sjndicate is now building will take plenty of good workmen there, nnd wages will not bo extravagantly high. There Is more money in the buying of lumber, tracts and In Investing in hop lands and In the taking up of Ihc still vacant territory of the state. A GLANCE AT SPOKANE I have now spent two weeks traveling through the slate of Washington It is one of the finest stites of the Union and promises to be one of the most prosperous The population is mido up ol cistern men nnd It Is full of enterprise, enter-prise, fire nnd inegar, 1 1 seems to me now to be on the verge of n boom It is recovering from its temporary stagnation stagna-tion nnd its cities are growing very list My first stop was made at bpokinc, the metropolis of the eastern part uf the ante and the biggest city between the Pacific nnd St Paul bpokanc Ins 35,-coo 35,-coo people and It Is practically only four vein old. It wis burned lo the ground four j ears ago, but it has now as fine business blocks as you will find nn-where nn-where in thu country, nnd Its bank clearances show that It docs us much business In proportion to its size as nn town in the Union. It has one of the finest watcrfdls in the world nnd Its electric car lines, electric lights and n great part of tho electric power of the city comes from these great falls. Ihc city now uses about thirty fit e hundred horse power from the bpokanc rltcr, and I am told that the fills give a horsepower horse-power of more than thirty Ihousind. bpokinc Is almost entirely populated by New I nglard people nnd families from Ohio and the north middle stites It is in the center of nn agrlculliiril country and It w ill continue to grow . TACOMA ANO ITS TROSI ECTS. One of Ihe richest cities of the United Stites Is Taconn, which is at the head of navlgitlon on I'uget sound and which promises to be one of the greatest cities of the countr). The town is onl about six jcars old, but It Ins n population of about 50,000 and Is assessed atfttooo,-000 atfttooo,-000 Its banks hive n capital 01 fS.ooo,-000 fS.ooo,-000 and its cir shops piyout In w aires f 10,000 every month. It his fifty miles of electric cir lines and it Is building more It Is the terminus of the Northern Pacific rnllro.nl and it has now a line of stcitmhlps to Chun and Jipan It is one of the greit lumber centers as well as one of the great shipping ports of the northwest, nnd It sent out last ycir more than 6,000000 bushels ol wheat to foreign markets It has a monthly piy roll of nearly 1 300,000, TACOMA MILLIONAIRES. It his 1 lirge number of elevators nnd factories Taconn is one of the prettiest cities of the northwest. It has more millionaires to the block than any other town in Ihe country and its rich men tiat e come to stay. They hat e built big houses and It is a city of homes. The people of the cast cinnot imigine how quickly one of the western elites builds up There are residences hero that w ould do credit to New York or Chicago, nnd I drove vestcrdiy through miles of fine houses riie Highest property owner 111 Tacoma Is, as I have said, C. II. Wright of 1 hllidelphla, who wis president of the Northern Pacific railroad when the city .wis, started and who Ucilledthe ' liilherpfTficoina I' lis owns about J 11,000,000 wdrth of property jnbuihl- Ings and lands there and he Is said to ba jsH worth moro thin f 50,000 coo lie is bul'dlng n hotel here which will cost til over a million dollars and he believes ll that Tacomi will be the Chicago of lbs tfl I met Judge Calkins at the clubbers il list night, lie was, ou know, proml- 11 nent for j cirs as a Congressman from ,'oB Indiana, and he came neir being elected tiH for thcbcnito instead of bqulrc. Ho ) ilB came out here ntiout four years ago with j HrH f 10000 and he has mido enough to bo I HH prictlcally Independent. He Is inter- !&lfl esied to some extent in the mines of tho ' flil northwest nnd miy bob up ns a rich tiH man at no distant dale IH lly tho wiy, one of the rich men out j liH hero Is Sim Wilkinson, who Is, I think, IvHH n ton of the Wilkinson who was famous ! nfl as a publisher In New York some years MlJI ago It was Wilkinson who hid the j'l publicitlunof Dcechcr's works. When jnl thcTilton scandil occurred it was an- rilN nounccd to the old man one night after 1 ffli he had gone to bed As soon as he 219 heard it he rose up in htS red nightshirt llfl and exclilmed. "That knocks Dcechcr's ml Life of Christ higher than a klie." llH 1 RANK G. CARfENTER. 1 11 |