A Report on Washington Territory

Name: A Report on Washington Territory
Author: Ruffner, William Henry

Ruffner, William Henry

Washington (State)

SEATTLE                                                            171

    Commercial and manufacturing advantages, 171--Good
    climate, 171--Good population, 172--High civilization,
    172--Railroad lines, 173--The chief ship-building centre,
    174--Seattle better located than San Francisco, 174.

  THE TERMINAL PROPERTY OF THE SEATTLE, LAKE SHORE
  AND EASTERN RAILWAY                                                175

    Unrivalled terminal property, 175.

  SUBURBAN INTERESTS                                                 175

    But two entrances by land, 175--Superiority of the
    northern suburbs, 175--Factories of the future, 176--Ship
    canal, 176.

  TIMBER                                                             176

    Superiority of the timber on the Seattle, Lake Shore and
    Eastern Railway, 177--The forests described, 178--Forests
    of Raging River, 178--Forests near Hop Ranch,
    179--Superior to the Long Leaf forests of the Southern
    States and of the Mississippi Bottom, 180--Trees ten feet
    in diameter, 180--Average nearly five feet in diameter and
    250 feet high, 181--Lumber product per acre, 181.

  AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS                                              183

    Agricultural freights, 183--Produce of Hop Ranch,
    183--Farming, fruit and grazing lands, 185--Hops, barley
    and beer, 186--The two great railroads, 187--The Great
    Bend country, 187--Douglas County, 188--Lincoln County,
    189--Spokane County, 189--Price of farming lands,
    189--Tonnage, 190.

  COAL                                                               191

    The Seattle railway passes five coal fields, 191--Largest
    shipments from the Gilman Mines, 192--Superior mining
    advantages of the Gilman Mines, 193--Mr. Whitworth's
    testimony, 193--Cost of mining coal, 196--Cost at Gilman
    Mines, 197--Prices of coal, 197.

  IRON ORE                                                           199

    Handling the iron ores, 199--Furnace sites, 199--Salal
    Prairie, 200--Charcoal cheaply produced, 200--Quantity of
    charcoal to the ton of iron, 201--Bessemer ores commonly
    distant from fuel, 202--High cost of Lake Superior ores,
    203--Cost of producing ore in Pennsylvania, 203--Cost of
    Bessemer-pig in Snoqualmie Valley, 203--Large market for
    steel rails, 204.

  THE OTHER MINERALS                                                 204

    Limestone, 204--Marble, granite, sandstones, slates,
    204--Precious and base metals, 205--Okanogan, Colville and
    Kootenai, 205--Coeur d'Alene, 206--Transportation lines
    to the mining regions, 206.


CITIES AND TOWNS                                                     209

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A Report on Washington Territory

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