Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — A Rising Country. [ARTICLE]

A Rising Country.

The Puget Sound region of Washington Territory—and that.means an area larger than the State Massachusetts—is destined to do and see great things in the near future. It has a wealth of the finest lumber which finds a market even in the Orient, great agricultural resources, coal and iron, excellent harbors, ready connection with Portland and the East, and a broad and deep outlet, in the Fuca straits, to the Pacific ocean. And then it has a mild climate and a “live” class of people, a fair sample of whom are those who are building up, as if by magic, the cities of Seattle and Tacoma, on the banks of the sound. Seattle is already a solid town, with all the modern improvements, and has a bustling, ambitious, public-spirited population of nearly 10,000. Either Seattle gr Taooma—they are thirty-five miles apart —will be the great Puget sound metropolis of the future, and Oregon’s now substantial and lively city of Portland will have to look out for a powerful competitor in trade, manufacture and general prosperity.— Ex-Gov. Shuman, in Chicago Journal. The latest improvement in bulls is educating them to work a tread-mill.