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Show ! I ji An intelligent resident of Seattle was in this H h IB city during the past week. When asked if Seattle, 1 i j IB as some of her sanguine residents declare, is KHr I '! i ffl really to become "the New York of the Pacific," BhI I B he replied in substance that "to predict that Seat- jH 1 1 1 - tie is to be another New York is not a very wise ! J H prophecy, because it would be like most of the HB '! 'IB phophecies heard in this region its truth would BbB ' i 1 i IH depend upon circumstances. San Francisco has HB j(i j I behind it a state as great in area as all the New Hh Iwb England and middle states, with Maryland added, B ' I iS an s a state amost unparalleled resources. HB . m 'i So San Francisco is not yet and for a good flflf ?$Bm while to come will not be relegated to a second BB ; ! H place. fli iififlH "But we Seattle, who try to keep our BBs ' ' IHI heads, are aware that we are a long day's sail BH nfll nearer the Orient than San Francisco is; that we, ' ) too, -have a great state behind us; that our fish- eries are finer and more extensive than those that New England depends upon; that no state can compare with ours in the production of lumber. lum-ber. "But our chief est advantage is our trade with Alaska and the northwest generally, which we think no rival can take from us or. divide with us. How mighty are the proportions that trade is taking on cannot be conceived by those who have never tried to estimate it. The way it is expanding is an astonishment to even us who watch it day by day. And this mighty region is not yet half explored and not a tithe of its magnificent mag-nificent and wonderful resources has yet been drawn upon. Seattle may never be a New York or London, it may never catch up with San Francisco, but it will be heard from. Keep that in mind, it will be heard from." |