Category: Travel Writing
The matter of this Report on Washington Territory is so arranged that the reader, by referring to the table of contents, can turn at once to any particular topic. The report is divided into six chapters, to wit:
The largest shipments will be from the Gilman Mines for domestic and steam-boiler purposes. The coal must, of course, come in competition with other coals which are mined within...
11. Part 11Puget Sound must also become the chief ship-building centre of the continent, and the possession by Seattle of the great fresh-water lakes so close to the Sound, and the fact th...
13. Part 13"To arrive at the available number of horse-power which the Spokane River could furnish at this point, assuming 90,000 horse-power as the gross power of the river, and deducting...
5. Part 5East of the Cascade Range the forests are smaller, and confined to the mountain sides. There are some narrow belts of pine along the northern edge of the Great Plain of the Colu...
6. Part 6For this reason the plateau, as will also be the case with the great plains eastward, can never carry the number of cattle that can be grazed in a grass country. A farmer told m...
10. Part 10+--------------+---------+-----------+----------- |Metallic Iron.| Sulphur.|Phosphorus.| Silica. ------------------+--------------+---------+-----------+----------- Typical Stee...
9. Part 9Roof, fine-grained Sandstone, under which is seven inches Black Slate. FT. INS. Coal 0 6 Slate 2 0 Coal 0 7 Slate 0 4 Coal 0 5 Slate 0 5 Argillaceous and Ferruginous Rock 1 7 Co...
8. Part 8"The great falling off in the output for 1886 is attributable mainly to the labor troubles of that year, the mine being closed for several months; also the abandonment of the wo...
2. Part 2November 11.--Returned to Seattle by way of Tacoma, where I met Mr. Peter Kirke, the partner and agent of the Moss Bay Company, who is preparing to erect a steel plant; but whet...
4. Part 4====================+=========================================+ | 1883 | +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | July. | Aug. | Sept. | STATIONS. +-------------+----------...
3. Part 3+------------+------------------------------------- PORTS ON THE | APPROXIMATE| PACIFIC. | VALUES. | -------------------+------------+------------------------------------- Humbo...
7. Part 7Somewhat similar coal is found on Raging River, but where opened, so much slate was interleaved with the coal that washing would be necessary before use. More will be said herea...
1. Part 1The matter of this Report on Washington Territory is so arranged that the reader, by referring to the table of contents, can turn at once to any particular topic. The report is...
14. Part 14On this side of the mountains no work except surveys has been done on this line. At Spokane Falls the bridge across the river, and about forty miles of track is finished, and th...