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Show CITIES HAVE GREAT FUTURE Ports on the Coast Bound to Grow Enormously as the Country's Wealth Is Developed. Seattle on Pugot Bound in 1913 cleared for foreign trado ships with 3,058,501 tons tonnage, Now York nlono leading It and New Orleans coming 'third. At tho present time, says tho, Christian Sclenco Monitor, thoro aro ,50 deep water ships In Seattle's harbor har-bor loading for foreign or Atlantic ports and duo to mako tho passago through the Panama canal. A considerable con-siderable numerical and high tonnago proportion of these vessels aro Amor-i lean owned and fly tho stars and stripes. They Indlcato a mounting volume of business for tho port and for tho region of tho country of which it lo ono of tho soveral doorways to tho outer world; bo that when tho statistics ot 1911 aro compiled tho city's rolatlvo rank will not havo changed. What will bo disclosed probably prob-ably will bo Its supremacy on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast and Its lead over most of tho Atlantic and Gulf ports. Tho natural resources of tills city as a port of entry and of exit woro exceptional ex-ceptional prior to dollberato planning by citizens tor their use. Equally so wcro tho potcntlnl storos of wealth In tho vast hinterland which tho railways rail-ways focussing Seattlo tap. But when tho nation set about Unking tho Atlantic At-lantic nnd tho Pacific at Panama, and when tho citizens of Seattlo created a port commission and began developing devel-oping tho harbor nnd providing terminals ter-minals then a now day dawned, and tho results aro now npparent; and not tho least of tho gain Is from growth of tho port as a placo for transshipment transship-ment of goods billed through to Asiatic Asiat-ic ports. West-bound cotton and east-' bound silk Bymbollzo a double current that flows In and out and out and In. And as for lumber, tho Pacific slopes aro under attack to provldo heavy timber for tho world, now that exports to tho Atlantic coast and to Europo havo tho Panama canal freight rato. What Is truo ot Seattlo also Is truo of Tncoma, Portland and Vancouver. Seattle s pre-emlnonco Is In degrco and not In kind. All outlets of this enormously enor-mously rich reglou of tho North American Amer-ican continent aro bound to grow rap Idly under altered conditions of business, busi-ness, conditioned by tho Interoceanlc short cut and by economic changes following tho present war. They also will prollt by coming development ot Alaskan resources undor restrictions that will lnsuro growth ot population In territory and retention thero of a larger proportion ot Its wealth, hitherto hith-erto so largely falling Into tho hands ot transients and abaentco owners ot properties. |