Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 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 i» wealth of the finest lumber which finds a market even in the Orient, great agricultural resources, coal and iron, excellent bar-, bus, ready connection with Poit* land and the East, and a broad and deep, outlet, in the Fnca straits, to. the Pacific ocean. And then it has a mild c’imate 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 budling, ambitious, public-spirited population of nearly 10,000. Either Seattle or Tacdtna— thev 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 jwwerfill 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.