Olympia, Washington - Olympia, the Capital City of the State of Washington, and the Seat of

Washington State Capitol

With a cordial band extended and a pleasing reception guaranteed to all who wish the largest life and the richest reward, she urges, in the language of the Hebrew prophet, "Come Thou With Us and We Will Do Thee Good.'/,^^ , , ,,^ ,.

Recorder Publishing Company, Olympi Preface

The marvelous advantages which may now be obtained by a settlement at Olympia, Wash., or in Thurston County, are specifically set forth in the following pages. Our purpose in furnishing the information herein contained is a desire to mutually benefit both our readers and this community.

We are convinced that thousands, and even millions, now living in the more populous and developed portions of the country are seriously handicapped by the very lack of opportunities to use to greatest advantage their minds, their muscles, and their money. In such sections the natural resources are either exhausted or completely beyond the control of the individual investor. The most desirable fields of enterprise are also occupied, and to force an entrance requires a capital and a patronage that the average man does not possess.

On the other hand, the advantages offered at Olympia, and vicinity, are superior in many respects - superior, in fact, to those offered elsewhere even in this prosperous and potent section of our great west, and for that reason we are pleased to set before you the facts as they exist, faithfully, and, as we believe, conservatively, hoping thereby to put you in touch with the time and place in which golden opportunities surely await your coming.

With cordial good will to you, our readers, we send greeting, with a pressixig invitation to join us in bringing to full realization our recently adopted motto : 'Tif ty Thousand People for Olympia in Five Years.'

To all Eastern people who intend visiting the Lewis and Clark Fair at Portland the present season, we extend a most cordial and pressing invitation to visit Olympia en-route - -^oing or coming - and permit us to show you some of the marvelous resources about this city.

The Olympia Chamber Of Commerce

The Cascade range of nioriiuains divides tiie state into t'v^o alniQst equal parts which are generally known as Eastern and Western Washington. These portions of the state differ so widely from each other, in almost every particular, that they have practically nothing in common. What we may say, therefore, in this pamphlet, relative to the western part will not apply to the other division, and it is our purpose to write only concerning

Westerx Washixgtox

This portion of the state is again divided by the Olympic, or the so-called '^Coast Eange" of Mountains, which extends from north to south along the western part of the state, thus sub-dividing the western half into two parts generally known as *'The Puget Sound Valley," and ^'The Pacific Ocean Country.'' And now, as Olympia is located in the Puget Sound Valley, it is our further purpose to confine this description to this locality. It will pay you to procure a map of sufficient size to show the sub-divisions of the Puget Sound Valley and follow^ the description with a study of it.

We wish to admit in the very outset that it is utterly impossible for us to describe the wonders, both of utility and beauty, which characterize Puget Sound and the Puget Sound Valley, with sufficient strength and color to create in any mind a picture equal to the reality. We think it is safe to say, of the Sound itself, that of the millions who have seen it, ridden upon its surface, marveled at its utilities, rejoiced in its beauties, and longed for a home upon its shores, not one can be found who would dispute the statement that it is the most charming and useful water in America. The Olympic Mountains, which, as we have noted, extend along the Pacific coast, forming the western boundary of the Puget Sound Valley, suddenly and abruptly divide near the northern limit of the state, and through the opening thus created admit the waters of Puget Sound. It hardly requires a scientist to reach the conclusion that, sometime in the distant past, a mighty upheaval in the very midst of the ocean threw up the Olympics, and separated Puget Sound from its parent waters. More recently, perhaps, the imprisoned waters, struggling for freedom within, and the enraged ocean beating against their prison walls without, made the opening which now connects Puget Sound with the ocean, and is known as the strait of Juan de Puca. In harmony with such a theory, immediately after passing the broken-down walls of the Olympics, the trend of the sound is north and south, and parallel to the coast. We now invite you to consider the protection furnished by that formation. The Cascade mountains, like the giants that they are, stand marshaled at our eastern gates and refuse admittance to Aeolus and his storms; while those that escape old Neptune, and breaking away from his kingdom on the Pacific, try to cross the Olympics, are as succuessfully defeated, beaten back, and left to perish in the ocean. Turn again to your map and note the formation of the Sound itself. It is composed, as you may notice, of a nuiltitude of small bays and inlets, narrow straits and winding water courses, which penetrate all parts of the valley, and divide the land into small islands and narrow peninsulas almost without number. So great, indeed, are these ramifications that while the extent of Puget Sound is only about one hundred and fifty miles north and south, it offers to commerce more than eighteen hundred miles of shore line, fronting upon deep, salt water, and suitable for dockage purposes ; while the marvel of it all is, that over every foot of its winding pathway the largest ocean steamer, loaded to its water line, can float with perfect safety.

As to the harbor facilities of Puget Sound it has been stated by competent authority, that it is the only protected water in the world capable of accommodating all the navies in existence with sufficient room, anchorage, and protection from the elements, so that they might assemble for a grand and united tournament in one place.

Where, then, we ask, can be found another inland sea like Puget Sound ? Where can be found a more royal highway to the ocean, and to all the world ? Where, again, can be found another such harbor to which destructive storms can gain no passport ?

Its Beauty

Puget Sound is as much the wonder of the world because of its gentle beauty, as it is for its utility ; and the very characteristics which combine to make the one, constitute the other. Its freedom from winds and storms gives it a gentleness and peacefulnefs which all admire. Its ever changing trend, and always varying dimensions, winding as it does among the many islands, rounding bold headlands, plunging, now, through the center of the valley, then, skirting close along under the overhanging hills, narrowing at times to the dimensions of a river, then suddenly widening into an open center from which diverge a number of small bays, drive away the monotony which so often characterizes other waters, and add a charm which nowhere finds a rival.

But the beauty of Puget Sound cannot, with justice, be considered apart from its inspiring surroundings. Fringing every bay^ and covering the hilltops, painting their imagss in the crystal waters, are dark, evergreen forests which have no equal elsewhere on this continent; while from the very water's edge, thus wrapped in sable robes -

In that particular Puget Sound is nature itself fashioned into a great picture, which must, therefore, surpass all art, and set about witli a frame of corresponding excellence in which the inner moulding of tree-covered hills forms an easy approach, blending contrast into harmony between the picture itself Jini the outer frame of rugged mountain ranges, with a litness and perfection Avith the w^irkmanship of the Almighty hand only could accomplish ; while at the angles, like so many messengers of promise, stand the four great snow-covered domes, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Olympus, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Baker, looking down from commanding heights upon the lesser mountains, upon the hills, upon the picture, and upon the valley with its active life, and ever increasing enterprise.

After what has been said about Puget Sound as a harbor and a highway to the ocean, and noting the fact that it lies immediately across the great belt-li]ies of commerce wliich surround the globe, it would seem hardly necessary to add that it is fast becoming the most important shipping center within the limits of this coiuitry. In the matter of Oriental trade it already ranks second in the United States, being surpassed by I^ew York only. In total commerce Puget Sound ranks fifth in the entire nation, being surpassed only by Xew York, Boston, Philadel23hia and Xew Orleans, having supplanted Baltimore in her position of fifth greatest jxtrt. During 1901 the Sound's commerce exceeded that of Baltimore by more than 50,000 tons. When we realize that commerce on the Sound had its birth only 15 years ago, this gigantic development becomes the most marvelous phase of American enterprise. In all probability, the world cannot furnish a parallel to the commercial development on Puget Sound during the last decade.

One feature that will lead to still more rapid development in the future is the establishment of the Great Northern Steam Ship Co.'s liije of steamers. The vessels now under construction for this companv ^vill make the greatest freight carrying deet in existence. The Minnesota, the pioneer ship of the line, has jnst heen pnt into commission and left the Sonnd for the Orient on her maiden trip January 2ord with the largest single cargo of freight ever carried across the seas, viz, over 26,000 tons; also over 300 passengers. To better grasp the gigantic proportions of this cargo of freight, let us suppose it loaded into freight cars - an average of 10 tons to the car - and coupled into a single train, the result would show the engine and caboose to be separated by 19% miles. The Minnesota will soon be followed by her sister ship the Dakota, and these by others of the same clats - all the largest freight carriers ever constructed. Tnis line of vessels will be able to largely reduce present freight rc»tc& between Puget Sound and the Orient, thus adding a great impetus to the already swelling tide of commerce centering here, and speeding the day when the unrivaled harbor conditions at Olympia will become A ^N^ECESSITY in handling such commerce.

Xo one who studies the great world-movements can doubt that Puget Sound must become a shipping center for more people and greater volume of trade than any other single port of our entire seaboard. That fact alone should and will induce millions of people to seek their fortunes in the Puget Sound Valley.

A further glance at the 17. S. Government reports for the first ten months during 1901 relative to the foreign shipping from California, Oregon and Washington will disclose the significant fact that the gross tonnage shipped from Puget Sound .exceeds that of both California and Oregon combined, by 229,- 468 tons. The totals given in tons are as follows : California, 809,067; Oregon, 131,651; Puget Sound, 1,170,186. Eemember tlio&e are figures taken from the U. S. Government rejwrts, and are both absolutely impartial and strictly correct.

Eemember also that Washington is but in its infancy and is already far in the lead. We are reminded of what Senator Hoar once said in an address before the Massachusetts Club after visiting this sectiun of the country: - '^It is impossible to foretell the greatness of tliat section of our great west known as the Puget Sound Valley. There, will be enacted over again on a larger scale what we and our forefathers have enaTStes^here. There, will speedily arise cities the easy rival of any on this continent. There, will be the streets of a more populous Xew York, the workshops of a more busy Worcester, the halls of a more learned Harvard, and the homes of a more cultured Boston."

Xatueal Resoueces

The natural resources in the Puget Sound country are both varied and abundant; so much so, indeed, that they have excited the wonder and admiration of commercial men and manufacturers everywhere. In a recent issue, one of the leading publications of the country cited the fact that it had been the boast of Americans that they could live independent of all other nations because they possess in natural wealth all that is required for the development of the highest life, enterprise and happiness. "If that is so,'' continued the publication, "it is equally true of the State of Washington, because it possesses the natural wealth of a continent, both in variety and abundance, together with every convenience for utilizing it."

Timber

The timber of the Puget Sound Valley is quite sufficient in itself to excite the ambition of every enterprising man in America. According to the partial returns from the United States cruisers, the stumpage has been variously estimated from three hundred to four hundred billion feet. If the smaller esti nate is the correct one, Puget Sound has sufficient timber to luild a ten-room house for every family in the United States. Millions of acres of magnificent forest still remain untouched, waiting to bestow their wealth upon the next generation of

The mineral wealth of Washington is quite eqiu\l to its timber, and ofi'cr^- inducements fully as great both to capital and labor. Coal and iron measures, as extensive and as rich as are those in Pennsylvania, Ohio or Michigan, are being located in all parts of the state, and enough has been already discovered to enrich an empire. It is needless for us to nam-? in detail the minerals of Washington, for the facts would not justify us in omitting a single one. Using only the products from this state, we might, upon a foundation of the finest building stone, construct a tower that would represent every

To the timber and mineral wealth of Washington we must add its farming lands. The entire Puget Sound Valley is valuable for agricultural purj^oses, fruit growing, or grazing. The river bottoms or flat lands immediately contiguous to the rivers, being composed of a deep, rich loam, are exceedingly productive. The so-called ^'up-lands" by which is meant the general level of the valley, are even more valuable, because they are suitable for more purposes, especially for fruit growing, and are equally productive. Then we have the open prairie and the hill country that afford excellent grazing. Stock growing is already becoming a leading industry, and is destined to occupy a large place in the wealth of the state. Fruit culture is also an important feature, and is rapidly on the increase. Situated as is Washington, immediately adjacent to an almost boundless stretch of country, amounting to well-nigh one-half of this continent over which fruit growing is not possible, it certainly would appear that the fruit growers of Washington are highly favored. And, indeed, it is so; for nature has furnished to them both climate and soil suitable to their occupations, and withheld the same condition from their nearest neighbors.

The waters of Puget Sound are literally teeming with food fishes. From that source alone the income of the state already amounts to millions of dollars annually, and is steadily increasing. More than fifty varieties are caught for commercial purposes m the waters of the Sound. Shell fish of various kinds aiv a:so fo.md there in abundance, and especially clams and ojsters. During the past few years oyster culture has

The advantages which Washington olfers are available to all who come to the state in quest of them, because the natural resources are undeveloped, and, indeed, large sections of the state yet unexplored, and practically unknown. More than a million acres of the finest forest in America, are still in the hands of the general government, waiting the call of its citizens. All kinds of minerals advertise their presence in rich abundance, and to obtain them requires only a little persistent eft'ort in prospecting, staking and working out the annual assessments.

fathers had, who came into that |>ai't of the country when it was new, and in many cases took np from the government what has become valuable property. To all such young men let u? saj,your fathers never had the golden opportunities that Washington at this moment is offering to you. Your fathers had both to cut and fight their way into their new possessions, and into what you are pleased to call ^'great opportunities ;" but on the other hand, you can ride into greater opportunities, comfortably ensconced in a parlor car, lighted with electricity, and furnished with every convenience of a home on wheels. To be sure such advantages do not come to you, like your bird-dog, and leap upon you, eager for the hunt ; but, they patiently wait your coming, and stubbornly refuse their treasures to the man who lacks the enterprise to hunt for them. If you prefer to pay a small price for land, better located, rather than experience the inconveniences of a settlement upon free government lands, you can find most excellent opportunities in Thurston County. First class unimproved grazing lands, timber or prairie, or both, can be had from five to ten dollars per acre. Nearer the cities excellent fruit lands, in large or small tracts, fronting upon the Sound, can be had, now", from ten to tAventy-five dollars j)er acre ; and ten acres will make a good home, and produce a living income for an average family. In the very vicinity of the cities, and in locations sufficiently attractive to satisfy the ambition of kings and princes, such home-sites can be had at prices within the reach of every laboring man.

Factoeies Waxted

Again, the abundant resources of Washington, their new and undeveloped condition, and the rapidly increasing population, are every day creating a demand for ncAV enterprises. You can hardly find a prosperous factory in the east which could not have its counterpart in the Avest and even Avhere an excei> I'i' ii can be found it can remain so only for a limited Lin:e.

Every incoming train brings into tlie state new people, who, in turn, create a demand for more factories and larger output. All lines of commercial activity are steadily^ and surely, on the increase, thus making new openings for the superniuneraries of the over-crowded east.

Climate

The advantages that Washington offers in the acquisition of honest wealth, are not, in the judgment of the most reliable, ilt greatest attractions. It has a climate which bestows on those who dwaii unaer its influence, health, comfort and long life more generously than that of any other locality between our two oceans; and A^hat the climate is pleased to bestow, wealth cannot purchase.

It is a common thing, throughout the eastern and middle states, to hear people speak disparagingly of the winter's cold, and the summer's heat. In every community may be found people wiicse health is surely and steadily yielding to the trip-hammer blows of great extremes in temperature. In the Puget Soimd Valley such extremes are unknown, and their disastrous efj'ects never experienced. Xo sultry nights rob the citizens of this ^ocality of needed sleep, or steal away their ambition for tomorrow's toil.

With minds at rest, and bodies free From great extremes of heat or cold, And savage storms, as all will be "^Vho seek the shelter of our fold.

AVhy should our exliortations fail With comfort, wealth, long life and rest. To millions offered, who bewail Their present lot, and crave the west?

Puget Souxd The Summer Playground Op The Natiox

Those with wide acquaintance concerning climatic conditions of the various states of the Union, ^vill endorse our prediction that, in the near future, this wondrous region between the snow lines of the Olympics and the Cascades will become the most popular sunnuer resort in America.

Its scenic beauty, its wondrous utility, its marvelous fruit productions, its balmy air - laden with balsam from the forest and ozone from the sea - will make it the Mecca of the tiredout, overworked, nervous millions produced by our intense commercial life, while its opportunities for sport with rod and gun will make it as attractive to thousands more. Olympia will be the center of this new development - predestined by nature to be so. The reasons for this will require a separate t'olumc for their pro|)er statement

Whatever has been said, or may be said, in favor of the Puget Sound Valley in gentral, may be repeated with special emphasis concerning Olympia, and Thurston County. In the matter of timber Olympia is in the very midst of the most and best of it. More logs are put into the water immediately tributary to Olympia than at any other two points on Puget Sound.

The resources thus supplied are sufficient in themselves to build a city of large proportions, and in many respects Olympia has a decided advantage over the other cities now building on the Sound. These advantages are so marked, and at the r,ame time so important that w-e could not do our readers justice

Its Harbor Facilities

While Piiget Sound, as compared with other shipping districts, is a good harbor from one end to the other, Olympia enjoys the proud distinction of having the only site, in the entire northwest, where a city such as Xew York could find, within a convenient area, all the necessary accommodations for its maritime business.

We invite our readers to examine the inclosed map and notice the remarkable fact that within a radius of only six miles, with Olympia as a center, may be had nearly twice the harbor and dockage facilities that '^Greater Xew York" is today requiring.

Such a city builded upon the area mentioned would have ijve royal waterways leading to its very center, and into which the largest ocean steamers, loaded to the water line, could pass A\ith careless ease and perfect safety.

The map referred to is a section, twelve miles square, copie I froi" the oiiicial chart made by the United States in connection wiih the geodetic survey of Puget Sound, and both the clip it and the final report of the survey are matters of record in the jTovernment cfl"ice at Washington, and may be had for the a>l-

Tiii^ chief engineer, in his report of these remarkable waterways called attention to the fact that the map of the world does not show another site, having all the natural acconnnodations for a great commercial city, the equal to that of Olympia aiid its immediate vicinity. We repeat his observation and invite our readci's to verify its correctness by the most rigid investi gat ion.

We further state that when the time comes, and it surely will come, and that right early, in the history of the Puget Sound country, that such accommodations are needed for a great city, Olympia with its many bays, and most excellent and abundant land area, offers ABSOLUTELY THE O^^LY AVAILABLIi SITE.

Heretofore, and to some extent even noAV, all the efforte pnt forth in the building of cities on Puget Sound have been characterized by individual speculations, for the time and occasion, taking advantage of some temporary "boom," with buo little thought of a great city or its needs. A city with a million

But that such a city will be built, and that, too, in the near future, on this ''Inland Sea," is now a settled conviction in the minds of all great commercial men, and their public statements have been repeatedly made in confirmation of it.

In the mind of the average man who talks about this or that location, the necessary accommodations for a commercial seaport are a few hundred feet of dockage, one or two railroad tracks and a convenient area of available land upon which a few thousand people may be comfortably located.

Again, the average man thinks of a harbor as almost any kind of a deep hole where an ocean steamer can float, and the deeper the hole the louder and more prolonged will be his praise of it. The people of the Puget Sound country have

Few people seem to realize that good anchorage is quite as necessary as the water in which to float the vessels. A harbor too deep for good anchorage is less desirable for the needs of a great city than water too shallow; for a shallow channel may be dredgeci, i\n<[ indeed many of the best harbors of the world are so made, but the other defect ib almost irreparable.

forty feet. The floor of these bays is uniform and remarkably even, which fact causes a corresponding unanimity and evenness in the water depths.

The floor, almost without exception, shelves off into deep Avater with such gradual though with increasing abruptness that within two hundred feet form the high water line a perfect foundation at deep water may be had for any kind of dock construction desired. 'No intelligent man of couunerce will ignore that condition in his plans for a great city .

Once more we invite our readers to procure a map of Puger Sound and notice the perfect protection from storms enjoyed by Olynipia and its adjoining waters in contrast with the open harbors in other localities, l^o storm has ever visited Puget Sound that endangered shipping in the least degree, at Olympia.

ISToting all these facts together with the certainty that a great commercial city will soon be demanded somewhere on these waters, we can point out its location with the unerring hand of destiny.

Thurston County contains 700 square miles of territory ; has nearly 100 miles of water line on the Sound; is traversed by three rivers, and contains many deep fresh water lakes well stocked with food fishes. It contains a variety of soils, shot clay predominating. It is especially adapted to dairying and fruit raising, but will grow every kind of grain or grass.

Coal

Thurston County contains some of the largest and richest measures of the state. Directly connected with Ol^inpia by rail, and only a few miles from it, are extensive mines which supply not only Olympia and other cities of the Sound, to a considerable extent, but also the states south and east of Washington. Large areas of coal are yet undeveloped and in many

Thurston County can also boast of having an almost unlimited supply of building stone. Erom the quarries near Olympia are shipped millions of tons, not only into parts of Washington, but into other states as well. It is estimated that the sandstone ledges at Tenino, and between there and Olympia, Avhich produce unquestionably the finest building stone in tha northwest, are sufficient in area and volume to supply the entire state during the lifetime of its youngest citizens, and doubtless for many years thereafter.

About ''>lympia are also found some of the very finest commercial clays known to the trade, which, on account of both their quantity and quality add much to the material wealth of Thurston County. These clays, abundant in extent, and easily accessible, have been thoroughly tested and found superior for building purposes, paving bricks and pottery.

Recent investigation has discovered and tested at least two mines of mineral paint. One of these mines is wholly undeveloped, but has been prospected sufficiently to warrant the statement that it is both rich and abundant. The other has been worked to a slight extent, and its owners have every encouragement to believe that it will prove valuable and lasting.

Peoducts Of The Sea

Oljmpia is headquarters on the Sound for clams, oysters and other shell fish. The trade in these products is rapidly increasing, and even in its infancy brings to us a large amount of money annually. The famous Puget Sound salmon, halibut, cod, bass, smelt, herring, sardines and a score of other food iishes are sufficient in these waters to supply the whole country. Olympia has the lowest death rate of any city in the United States, being only 6 to every 1,000 population.

Olympia has the highest tide of the American coast ; extreme limit, 22 feet. This will soon be harnessed and will furnish unlimited power for industrial development.

Olympia now offers the best opening on Puget Sound for saw mills, shingle mills, flour mills, rope and twine mills, furniture factories, canning factories, carriage and wagon factories, engine and boiler works, blast furnaces, shipyards, pump works^ commission business in dairy products, fruits and vegetables ; and for woolen mills, clothing factories, boot and shoe factories, glass factories and every other line of goods used on the Pacific Coast or in the Orient.

When the Northern Pacific was seeking its terminal location on Puiiet Svound, it employed the best engineers in the Ln-ted States and spent over a year in a thorough investigation of all Puget Sound harbors. The report was unanimous in favor of Olympia as the great entrepot for Pacific commerce. The Northern Pacific accordingly located its terminals here, but before construction reached tide water, the Puget Sound and Lake Superior Land Co., organized by a clique of Northern Pacific stockholders induced the company to relocate its terminals on Commencement Bay. Hence Tacoma. This was a good move for the stockholders who composed "the wheel within the wheel,' as they made millions from Tacoma real estate - but it was a very bad thing for the Northern Pacific Railroad, as it got a receiver for its share in the perfidy. Since those early movements the Northern Pacific has built the Gray's Harbor branch through Olympia. Within the last two years it has bought immense tracts oi tide lands at Olympia for terminals and has located a water level line from Tacoma to this point - expecting to tap tlie main line at or near Tenino With the completion of this line and the line dov/n the north banlr of the Columbia, all eastern trafl^ic via The Northern Pacific and Burlington routes will reach tide water at Olympia. The influence thus exerted upon the future growth of the Capital City

The completion of The Black Hills & Northwestern and The Port Townsend Southern Railroads will turn the products of the entire Olympic peninsula, with its boundless resources of timber Dud mineral, into the lap of Olympia.

E. H. Ilairiman, President of the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line, has recently stated that he will soon build to the Sound to obtain a deep water outlet for his system of railroads. The Union Pacific graded its line to Olympia in 1890 and has ever since paid taxes on the same. There is no doubt that this same line will be used, thus bringing all three of these roads to Olympia.

Olympia As A Home City

Olympia possesses many attractions, and utilities, that make it especially desirable as a home city, and any person seeking a location wull do well to consider them.

Socially, educationally, and morally Olympia stands in the front rank. All the leading religious denominations maintain churches here. The fraternal orders are prosperous. She has the independent Christian College called ^^The Peoples University," tw^o Catholic colleges - one for boys and the other for girls. The public schools are in excellent condition, well equipped with buildings and furnishings, well attended, well managed and well taught.

The Capital Of The State

While we do not claim that the Capital makes it at all certain that Olympia will be a large city, it does make it a substantial city, and insures safety to investments both in real estate and in business. We are also glad that our faith in Olympiads greatness does not depend upon its official character. We have already recited abundant reasons for such greatness, and they are reasons that no commercial man can doubt, luit with all that, and in addition to all the other reasons, the fact that Olympia is the capital of a great state is a very forcible .,Tgument in favor of its coming greatness. It also imparts to it a social character which no homeseeker can prudently ignore. A recent publication has the following to say of Olympia in that respect:

^^'The people of Olympia, through their social characteristics, have gained ji proud reputation. Their praises are recited by almost every publication in the state." A Spokane paper at the close of the capital location contest, said, "The state owes the permanent location of iis capital, at Olympia, to the matchless social power of the Olympia people."

A state senator responding to a toast, at one of our recent state banquets, said, "'No senator, representative or private citizen, who once shares the hospitality of Olympia, or meets her people in a social function can ever after lift his voice, vote or hand against that city or its greatest good." It is decidedly a city of homes, a city of fraternal societies, a city of churches, and a city of good cheer for all who dwell here." l^evertheless, the people of Olympia regard the location of the Capital here ef very minor importance, as compared ivith the great commercial and industrial development sure to center at the head of the Sound, thus mahing this one of the greatest commercial cities on the globe.

Olympia extends a royal welcome to the thousands between the Eocky Mountains and the Atlantic seaboard who desire to exchange the rigorous winter of the polar regions and the tropical heat of the summers for the most equable climate in Ameri-

Olympia has always been called -Beautiful.'' When almost the entire country, and, especially, the valley of Puget Sound, was in a kind of dormant state, Olympia w^as called ''The Sleeping Beauty." The nickname given her at that time indicates at least one advantage she had over her sister cities - all were T^leeping, but Olympia was still ''Beautiful."

To an eastern man, accustomed to seeing paved streets, brick and stone houses, with costly architectural display, cement walks and carefully cultivated lawns any of our western cities might appear, in a measure, crude and unattractive. They all laclv the artificial adornment which comes with age, and a settled condition of things, but which surely will be, in full rcjilizai.ion^ the inheritance of the west.

AVo b;v no means wish to convey the idea that such attractions are wholly wanting in Olympia, and elsewhere throughout the Sotnd country; for, on the contrary, they are already very much in evidence, and are steadily increasing.

The beauty Ave claim for Olympia, however, is superior to the handiwork of man. She is like Mount Zion, ''Beautiful for SiKu:tion.'' Around her are the "everlasting hills," and into her very center ebb and flow the peaceful waters of the Sound.

Olympia is builded around the head of "Budd's Inlet,'" which IS the southern extremity of Puget Sound. The land rises evenly from the bay, terminating the slope in a level tableland about one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet above the tides. The sloping hillsides, occupied by homes, small orchard groves and garden patches, form an amphitheater; while the briy with its rising and falling tides, its commercial life, and pleasure seeking community, constitutes the arena. Thus situated, all parts of the city are brought into view from the other parts, and from the bay.

Wq look forward, with prophetic vision, to the time whftD the entire water front on both sides of Budd's Inlet will be lined Avitli mills, shops, factories and commercial doclis; when the bay will harbor constantly an ever changing fleet of ships, domc&tic and foreign, merchant vessels and passenger steamers, e.^ceedirg by thousands the present nmnber; when also the character, kind and number of the pleasure yachts will, in a measure at least, be commensurate with the extraordinary advantages afforded upon these waters; but most of all, we look forward to the time when the sloping hillsides for miles in extent will be occupied by fine residences, and beautiful lawns, when electric lights will set the whole '"amphitheater" aglow by night, and create a picture for passengers, as they enter the '''arena," which has no equal in America.

Concerning this prophecy one thing is certain, the word ^'impossible" can never be truthfully written under it. Olympia in situation, location and surroundings has all the natural advantages for such a city and such a picture - both the utilities and the attractions.

Because of the sublime beauty of the surrounding scenery, Oljmipia has been called ''The City of the Gods." Proud "Olympus,'' exceeding in grandeur its classic namesake of the East, stands over against the sky line to the north, and protects the valley and city from invading storms.

Still dearer to the heart of every citizen of Olympia, more inspiring, and the pride of all the west, is grand old "Rainier." Far above the valley and the growing city; far above the Sound and its commercial life ; far above the dark forests and the timbered hills, far, in fact, above the rugged mountain ranges, the lesser peaks, and their covering of clouds, nearly fifteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, towers that inspiring dome, forever crowned the king, supreme, of all the noble mountains in America. Up and down the coast, located here and there, between the burning tropics and the frozen north, stand lower peaks, like subjects, respectfully obedient to their fondly cherished and proudly acknowledged monarch. That mountain with its matchless power to charm, encourage and inspire, belongs, in a very precious sense, to the people of Puget Sound Valley. They, alone, standing at the very sea level, can look upon its noble form, and feel the stirring force of its commanding presence.

Moreover, in that respect, the people of Olympia are especially favored, even beyond their fortunate neighbors. From the west side of Budd's Inlet is afforded the most complete and charming view of that old mountain, with its trident summit, its coverini?: of snow, and its rivers of ice, that can be had in iiT the ic'\ored land of its dominion.

From the same vantage ground, looking northward, we may be'iold ilic rugged sides and snowy crests of the 01ymj)ics, appearing loi &li the world like the mad waves of a stormy sea, frozen into icebergs while they still foamed and raged in frantic fury above the breakers.

.Froiu Lue same point of inspiration can be seen the entire Casea<le Pange, extending from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Houd in Oregon, including a panorama 200 miles in extent.

Another picture, quite as attractive, more restful, and wkh a sobci, quieting inspiration, beneficial to every observer, Is <jbfiiin6d by looking westward, across ^'Eld Inlet" to the '"Black Hills." They form a low range of mountains covered with a dark evergreen forest, which afford a pleasing contrast with the rugged, snow-covered peaks in the other ranges.

Having, thus, the Cascades on the east, the Olympics on the north, and the Black Hills on the west, each possessing characteristics the complete complement of the others, wonderfully inspiring and to the appreciative soul, almost Divinely beautiful--contrasting and blending with one another into a wellspring of happiness from which every inhabitant, with a noble purpose and pure heai-t, may draw true pleasure and be satisfied, we unhesitatingly count among the advantages of Olympia, as a home city her scenic surroundings.

Pkoducts Of The Fakm

Concerning the agricultural and horticultural resources of Thurston County, we proudly point to the fact that she was awarded a gold medal ior best and most complete cereal exhibit, consisting of over 170 varieties, at Philadelphia in ISTG; at Chicago in 1893 ; at Buffalo in lUOl, and in St. Louis in 1004.

The rich ''Shot Clay'' loam of Thurston County, for all purposes of agriculture and horticulture, has no superior any- ^\here, and no part of the great undeveloped West offers better inducements to the farmer.

Olympia has free mail delivery, one electric street railway and a second one building, water works, sewer system, splendid hotels, thoroughly equipped paid fire department, modern opera house, fine public schools (three buildings costing over $100,- 000) Catholic Academy and The Peoples University.

Olympia ships monthly 3,000,000 feet of lumber and 15,- 000,000 shingles. Her lumber reaches every civilized country. She has recently loaded at her wharves the British ship Mozambique with a cargo of 2,100,000 feet of lumber - the largest cargo ever sent from Puget Sound.

Olympia has extensive foundries and machine shops, lumber mills, shingle mills, wooden pipe works (largest in the United States) sash and door factories, a glove factory, creameries, a brewery, box factories, a fruit extract factory, sea food i actory, and other industries. Some of these enterprises are here mentioned more in detail.

The Olympia Door Company

The business of the Olympia Door Company was established in 1887 by C. H. Springer and Allen White, under the firm name of Springer, White & Co. The present company, of which C. H. Springer is president, was incorporated in 1897. The business lias had a steady growth from the beginning and has developed into one of the largest and most eonmplete concerns of its kind on the coast.

- The plant consists of a fully equipped modern saw-mill and a large sash and door factory. It turns out every kind of limaber for construction work, as well as all classes of inside finish, tctgether with doors and sash. The product is shipped to all parts of the U. S. which draw supplies from Puget Sound.

Mr. C. Z. Mason, proprietor of above works, has in a few years built from small beginnings a large establishment, doing a prosperous business. It is now one of the substantial concerns of the Capital City.

The above industry owned and managed by S. G. Lister and H. S. Tremper, is one of the most complete and extensive establishments of its kind on the coast. It employs fifty to sixty men and has a trade extending from the Columbia River to British Columbia, the Astoria, Ore., Iron Works being a large coneonsumer of products from this Olympia plant. The lloquiiam Iron Works also depends upon the Pioneer for most of its heavy castings. However, the largest consumers of supplies froju the

'J'iie heavy engines and inacliinery built by this coucorn for htPLiuff and mill work have an enviable reputation. Their hoistiiig machinery for heavy stone-quarry work is regaraea as the bc&t.

G. Pachardson established this business 10 years ago. He began in a small way and soon had a cut of 50 M shingles per day. The mJii has been enlarged until its daily capacity is now 250 M per day. The larger portion of the product of this mill is shipped to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas.

"^It frequently has orders for dimension shingles not obtainable at other mUls, Mr. Kichardson being the patentee oi an ingenious machine for cutting dimension shingles. This mill, under the management of Mr. Kichardson, is regarded as one of the most successful in Western Washington.

Mr. -F. P. Keyes lias been for several years a manufacturer of shingles in Whatcom County. In the fall of 1904 he moved to Olympia and bought the mill of The Capital City Shingle Co. His brother, F. A. Keyes, of Wisconsin, joined him in the Olympia enterprise and they l^ave now decided on improvements which will make this mill one of the best in the state. At present they cut 100 M shingles per day. The contemplated improvements will enable them to buy their cedar in the log as well as in bolts. Mr. Keyes is thoroughly acquainted with all details of the shingle business and is enthusiastic about the future of llie business in Olympia.

Olympia Cedae Co

This company, under the management of S. C. Mumby, is doing a very successful business. The average daily cut of the mill is 250 M shingles. The Olympia plant is closely identified with the Mumby Shingle Co., of Little Kock, in the southwestern part of Thurston County. The Little Rock mill has an output of 200 M shiiu f's j or Ci-av.

These two concerns are in turn closely identified with the Mason i ounty L(»g^ing Co. (so called because first organized in Mason Co. The bulk of its business, however, is done in Olympia and Thurston Co). This company has four logging cainps in 'J'hur^ton (.'o. iwd rwns over 25 miles of railroad, two locomotives and 10 (ior.key -ngines. It employs 300 men and has a cbijy output of logs amounting to 300,000 feet.

In addition to its logging operations for local consumption, it does a large business in ship spars, maintaining one camp in this olass of work. They ship spars as far east as Boston, JSTe vj.'jrt News also being a large consumer of spars from theJr camps. ]S"'o limber in the world equals the Washing"-,-* i fir for spars, consequently the ship yards of the earth are looking to Puget Sound for supplies.

West Side Mill

This is the oldest established sawmill plant on Budd's Inlet. Built originally to cater to the local trade, its business has gradually increased both in volume and range until now the Company's own vessels discharge their cargoes of rough and finished lumber in the ports of China, Australia, the Philippine Islands, and the West coast of South America. The California trade takes a large proportion of this company's output, while the firm enjoys a large and increasing Eastern business over the lines of the JSTorthern Pacific and Great Northern Eailroads. The equipment throughout is kept up to the latest standards of excellence and several carloads of the most modern machinery will be installed in the mill during the month of March. The daily output is 150,000 feet of sawn lumber, the manufacture and handling of which employs the services of 140 men at tlie plant.

Wood Pipe Iistdustky

The City of Olympia has been selected by the National Wood Pipe Company as the most suitable location for an additional plant for the manufacture of Machine Banded Stave Pipe. This conclusion was reached after a thorough investigation of various points in the northwest. The President of this company recognized this fact during a trip through this section in the Fall of 1904. IN'egotiations were promptly opened and concluded for the purchase of the plant of the Puget Sound Pipe Company on tide water at Olympia. This company has been manufacturing Bored Wooden Water Pipe, in sizes from 3 to 13 inches, for pressure up to 400 feet, from selected fir logs, for the past 30 years, and some of this pipe which was first made is still in use in this vicinity.

One very important factor in this pipe is the special preservative preparation with which it is coated, protecting not only the pipe but the bands with which it is wound, from the action of salt, acids or minerals. This pipe is made in lengths of 8 feet, and is connected by means of either steel or wood collars.

Tlie National Wood Pipe Company has already established a very large business in Machine Banded Stave Pipe at their facie- ies located at Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and ^vill at once install additional machinery at the Olympia Plant for manufacturing their Patent Machine Banded Wood Slave Water Pipe. This pipe is made in sizes from 3 to IS inches, for pressure up to 400 feet.

A business has been developed which covers the entire Pacific Coast and Mexico, and a number of large shipments have already been made of this Machine Banded Pipe to South Africa. With tlie superior advantages of the plant located at Olympia it is expected that this business will still continue to

In addition to the pipe described above, the National Wood Pipe Company also builds pipe in sizes from 18 inches to 10 feet in diameter, under their patent known as Continuous Stave Pipe. In building this pipe the material is all shipped in Ivnock down form and built into pipe on the ground. The staves are milled so that when put together they form a perfect circle inside and out, and the ends of the staves are slotted and connected by means of an Oak Tongue, which makes a perfectly water tight joint. The great advantage of this Oak Tongue is in the fact that it is of the same substance as the staves and is not subject to the action of rust, salt or minerals. The staves are held in place by means of individual round steel bands bent to conform to the circumference of the pipe, and coated in hot asphaltum.

As an illustration of this pipe, we produce herewith a view of a small section of a 48-inch pipe line 6 miles in length built by this company for the Washington & Oregon Power Company of Walla Walla, Washington. The demand for these large wood stave pipe lines is increasing rapidly, and this company states that they receive inquiries from Engineers all over the world. The development of this branch of the Wood Stave Pipe Industry means a great deal for Olympia, for the reason that no matter where the pipe line shall be built, the staves will be furnished from this City. The 48-inch pipe line built for theWashington & Oregon Power Company consumed 1,000,- 000 feet of fir staves which were finished by The West Side Mill Company of Olympia.

The Pacific Coast leads the world in electrical transmission development, and it now promises to put another feather in its cap in the development of the Wood Stave Pipe Industry, at Olympia, to proportions not dreamed of by the its most enthusiastic friends a few years ago.

Anothek New Industry For Olympia Pacific Tank Company

For the past ten years the Pacific Tank ComiDany, with factories in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has controlled the tank business on the Pacific Coast. For several years its business in the northwest has grown to such an extent that two years ago they began looking for new locations, and the growing dc-/nand for Tanks manufactured of Washington fir induced them to come to Puget Sound. After thorough investigation, they have decided on Olympia as the most desirable location ill the northwest. They will at once erect here a large Tank Fi.clory equipped with the most modern machinery, with the intcnUon dI making the plant in Olympia the largest and most compi.de Tank Factory in the world.

It is the purpose of the Pacific Tank Company to make Olympia the distributing point for their northwestern and eastern trade, also to handle all the export business from the Olympia factory where it is possible to make direct ocean shipments, thus giving their customers the advantage of minimum cost, which means low prices.

The Pacific Tank Company manufactures all kinds of tanks, running in capacity from one thousand to five hundred thousand gallons. These tanks are being used for storage of water, oil, wine, and other liquids, and a special department of their enterprise is mining tanks and complete cyanide and mining plants. This company has manufactured the largest wooden tanks ever erected in the world. Not only one, but hundreds of these large tanks are standing as monuments to the enterprise of a strictly western concern. While their operations heretofore have been confined to their California factories, it being a California- corporation, their trade in the northwest has been extensive, but on account of the freight rates on the raw material to their California factories, and freight back again to the northwestern distributing points, it has been necessary to absorb these additional expenses in the cost of the tanks tu their customers, and with the new factory at Olympia they will be enabled to deliver tanks throughout the northwest and eri.-:t at much lower prices than ever before.

The Pacific Coast leads the world in its quality and supply of lumber, and it is the intention of the Pacific Tank Company to lead the world in the manufacture of wooden tanks, and Olympia will be the center of this tremendous development. No words are needed from this Chamber, to impress upon the mind of the reader, the vast importance of this enterprise to the Capital City.

The Olympia Maiufactu>'in£^ & Building Company, eapltilized rit $50,000.00 has just begun operations in this <uly. They are doing a large amount of building on the installment plan. The company is managed on a co-operative basis. Their finishing mill is now in operation - furnishing their own supplies. Their ultimate aim is to be able to take the logs from the water, put them through all the milling processes and into a finished house, turning over the key to a modern home built entirely within their own resources. The special field this concern has entered has not been heretofore occupied in Olympia, and surely a bright future is in store for this newest of our important industries.

Buckeye Extract Co

In the fall of 1902 the Olympia Development Co. received a communication from Yan-Scoy Chemical Co., of Mansfield, Ohio, asking about the opening in Olympia for manufacturing and jobbing flavoring extracts. The Olympia Development Company gathered what facts it could get bearing on the subject, and submitted its report. The report fell into the hands of J. B. Stentz, of Trov, Ohio, at that time in the employ of TheVan-Scoy Co. He at once decided to come to Olympia and take advantage of the opportunities described in the report of the Olympia Development Co. He arrived in February, 1903. He at once rented a place and began the manufacture of a complete line of flavoring extracts, toilet supplies and medicinal preparations. In one year he was convinced that the field was too large to handle by himself. He induced his brother, C. AV. Stentz, of Cleveland, Ohio, to come to Olympia and join him in the enterprise. During 1904 they erected a modern laboratory and f actorty for their rapidly increasing trade, and their business already covers Washington and Oregon and is rapidly extending.

In a few weeks they will add a full line of spices, baking powder, teas and coffees. In two years time they have laid the foundation of a great business and the superstruction is well under way. Hundreds of such opportunities are here awaiting men of energy.

The business of this company was established by Mr. Leoix)ld F. Schmidt in 189(3 at the falls of the Des Chutes River, at the extreme head of Puget Sound just south of the city limits of Olympia. The artisian water found here led Mr. Schmidt to locate at this point. The analysis of this water shows it to be betler lor beer brewing than ariy other known in America.

The company has received one of the very few coucessions granted for private exhibition buildings at the Lewis and Clark Fair in Portland this year. A large expenditure is being made in special building and exhibits, including a panoramic view of the Olympia plant. Xo expense will be spared to make it one of the most unique features of the Fair.

The Olympia Packing Company does an extensive business in Oysters, Clams and Fish. Their product finds a market in every town in the E'orthwest.

The Olympia Oyster Co

The Olympia Oyster Company, with branch houses in Tacoma and Seattle, controls the largest Oyster business on Puget Sound. Oysters, Clams and fish are shipped by this concern to all points on the Pacific Coast. The business has a steady and rapid gro^\i^h.

The Olympia Meat Company

C. E. Crane and W. W. Hopkins proprietors, do an extensive business in slaughtering, wholesaling and retailing meats. Their slaughtering and packing houses are located three miles east of Olympia. They have two retail shops in Olympia. The Palace Market, corner Fourth and Washington streets, is one of the finest markets on the coast.

A. Ii. Chambers Meat Co

A. H. Chambers operates an extensive slaughtering and packing business in Olympia. He also operates a large city market. He has an extensive jobbing trade in meats among the logging camps and towns of Southwestern Washington. Gray's Harbor uses large shipments from this Olympia plant. Mr. Chambers keeps a resident buyer of stock east of the mountains, whose whole time is fully ocupied in buying and shipping stock to the Olympia concern. Mr. Chambers' plant has a capacity of five cars of cattle per woeV.

Hazen W. Maynard, of Wisconsin, a man thoroughly educated in the Agricultural College of that State, came to Olympia six years ago, with the intention of engaging in stock raising and agriculture. After thoroughly investigating conditions here . he saw the great opportunities in dairying. By the assistance of the Olympia Chamber of Commerce he induced a number of farmers to increase their herds and he established a creamery in Olympia. The business has rapidly developed and Mr. Maynard two years ago, established his second plant at Winlock, on the Xisqually River. The product from his plant is considered second to none on the coast. Thurston Ccmnty is so peculiarly adapted to dairying that the business has developed very rapidly. The number of creameries now in operation in Thurston County is more than double that in any other county in the state. While the business has made rapid strides, it is yet in its infancy. Its future the most enthusiastic can not measure. Ko man deserves more credit for this dc^velopment than Hazen W. Maynard.

An Important Olympia Enterprise

The enterprise has had a rapid growth from the beginning. In 1904 it handled milk and cream - the equivalent of 86,000 pounds of butter. Its butter is in great demand in all markets in the northwest.

Since its organization many of the farmers composing it have doubled the capacity of their dairies and many newcomers have joined the enterprise. In building their plant the company provided for several times their needs at that time. The growth of the enterprise has shown the wisdom of this. The present plant can handle the product from 1,000 cows. S. D. Sullivan, the manager, Avhen asked what he thought of present conditions and future prospects for the dairy business of Western Washington said, ^'I believe the natural conditions for dairying in Western Washington - and particularly in Thurston County - are better than in any other state in the Union, With grass green nearly all the year, with a climate in which root crops can be gathered any day in the winter, with cool summers and abundance of pure water, we can produce the dairy products in the world."

Probably no enterprise has contributed more towards the progress and well-being of Olympia, or the comfort of her people, than the excellent light and power service, situate at Tumwater, a picturesque suburb of this city, at the mouth of the Des Chutes River and the extreme head of Puget Sound, on Budd's Inlet The lighting, as well as the car service, i& strictly up-to-date, and the equipments of the power house, at the foot of the lower falls, are not surpassed by that of any city of its size on the continent. It has a capacity of 1,600 horsepower, which can be easily doubled by further installation of machinery. The flume, whose intake is at the head of the falls, about 80 feet in height, and the penstocks and stand-pipes^ are all of iron resting upon solid rock. The cars, for both summer and winter service, are the l)est made, and the three miles of track is over a route that affords views of enchanting beauty. As it ascends Capitol Hill, a gentle eminence, a splended view is obtained of the contour of the bay for a distance of fifteen or tweiily miles, with Tlympia in the foregiound and the shimmering ^^aterc and the verdure-clad short^line affording a vista of surpassing loveliness. As the cars round the curve at the higher elevation, a beautiful view of Tumwater (or 'New Market as it was formerly called) the first point of settlement by Americans on Puget Sound, bursts into view. Ihe series of cascades dashing at intervals into foamy clouds of spray, the little village with its occasional workshop, nestling on the gently rising hillside, the embryo park, under development by the car company, with its fine herd of elk and other attractions; with its rustic seats amid the remaining evergreen trees overlooking the falls, the rustic bridges that span the foaming current, the gardens and lawns and occasional family group amid the flowers and other adjuncts of home-liff, afford a glimpse of pastoral delight ever retained, that will cause the heart to throb whenever memory turns the pages of time. It is probable that it was this appeal to the heart of the poettraveler, Tulia Ward Howe, that caused her to purchase a couple of lots in this bud of promise for an ideal home.

The route of the car line is studded Avith pleasure and recreatioix grounds. At one point is a spacious, cleared enclosure, where the Olyujpian games are renewed in all thci]' life-givijig vigor, where baseball, football, wrestling, cvcl''-' ridin.^\ and kindred s]iorts, are in constant progress during the delightful days of summer. Then there are the quieter picnic resorts, and cosy nooks, for family outings, all of ^asy access by the car service.

And for those who regard this enterprise from a more practical view of utility, in dollars and cents, it presents promise of an unlimited distribution of ])OAver, Avherever needed, for all sorts of projects that cause the air to resound Avith the hum of industry. Here is an opportunity for all S(»rts of factories to secure sites on deep water, with the power brought to them, for building up industries that will have a far more than local demand for their wares.

The car service began in Olympia in 1890 with horse cars. The lighting plant then consisted of a very poor and uncertain gas plant. If it were possible for our people to experience a like degree of evolution in the next decade, we would be living with heads above the clouds and with perpetual daylight at command.

A fifteen minute car service is maintained between Olympia and Tumwater, closed cars being run in winter and open obsorvalion cars in summer. The service is first class and will cojiipare favorably with that of cities several times Olympiads size.

Kates for light and power are low and splendid inducements are offered by the company to manufacturing concerns desiring to locate here. Olympia is probably the best and cheapest lighted city in the northwest.

The Capital National, the oldest bank in the City, is one of the strongest financial institutions on the coast. Possibly no other city in the United States the size of Olympia contains so strong a bank. Besides being a United States Depository, it carries deposits ranging from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.

The Olympia Katioistal

Like the Capital National, it owns its own bank building and has a splendidly appointed business house. It is officered and managed by our most energetic besiness men and as a result its business has a steady growth which is most gratifying to its friends and patrons. The wisdom of its management appeals to the public and it is justly regarded as one of the corner stone of the Capital City's financial structure.

Assets The Olympia Development Compaxy

Among the aids to the County's development and the growth of Olympia, and probably the foremost factor of progress at the present time is the above company.

This corporation is composed of nearly one hundred and fifty influential people, organized in Ohio, abont three years ago, for the express purpose of aiding in development of resources that must of necessity be tributary to Olympia, a place selected, after careful investigation and thorough consideration, as one of the best, if not the very liest, point in the rapidly growing west for speedy, sure and lucrative results from well-directed enterprise. Its organization was effected at an opportune time, and, with sufficient capital its directors were enabled to secure a large part of the unimproved real estate, immediately adjacent to the city, including four thousand acres of land, and nearly all the unimproved city property on the west side of the bay, amounting to several thousand lots. That purchase practically puts the company in control of the futui'e development on that side of the bay, and enables it to accomplish its purpose in the most effective manner. Among its holdings are several miles of water frontage, including the most desirable sites for factories, mills and machine shops, of all descriptions. It is the intent of the company to deal liberally with all who will locate labor-employing enterprises. The manager of the company's affairs in Olympia is Mr. A. S. Caton. The officers are : A. P. Howard, President, Pittsburg, Pa. ; Dr. L. P. Holbrook, Vice-President, Olympia, and E. B. Conner, Secretary. Oiympia.

Aside from Olympia's natural advantages, it seems to the Chamber of Commerce that no one feature furnishes greater assurance of its ultimate success in trying to build a great city, than the fact that a company with such holdings is devoting its efforts in that' direction.

The Peess

The Washington Standard, Weekly. This is the oldest continuous publication in Washington. It has been edited and published for 45 years by John Miller Murphy without a siniiie break in its weekly issues. 'No other journal in the United States has such a record under one management.

let, about l^/o miles north of the city. The to^wgraphy of the land makes it an ideal spot for the city's playground. For natural beauty, probably no spot on the Pacific Coast excells it. It will be speedily improved and will soon be connected with the city by electric car line.

Tlie credit of Olympia merchants has a high rating. Veiy few failures occur. Some of our scores will compare favorably with those in much laroer cities.

Of Olympia

^'The Pacific is the storm center of the world. Low political barometers are traversing its vast surface. Danger-signals are ex.liibited on nearly every coapt. Ail great capitals are watching their ventures. The storm center has left the Mediterranean and the Britisli Channei and the North Atlantic, and now draws all evfi to the Yellow Se& and the Pacific."

De Tocqueville said, ^'The United States ^vas a new factor in the world, the significance of which even the imagination could not grasp." Creasy, the English historian, in 1851 predicted the forcible opening of Japan by the United States and vast changes in the Orient.

Thomas H. Benton, argiiing in the United States Senate for a Pacific Eailroad, pointed to the setting sun and said, ^' There, there, gentlemen, is the East."

The Pacific washes five continents out of six. Asia contains the three greatest empires on earth - British, Russian, Chinese. It cradles three-fourths of mankind. It has the loftiest mountains and the most important rivers. It has the widest stretches of arable land and the most productive soil. It had an empire extending from the Arctic Sea to the Indian Ocean, and from Germany to the Yellow Sea. It built the most wonderful of all cities, Babylon, and the richest of all palaces - Persepolis, and the most beautiful of all tombs, the Taj Mahal. It has given us music and the drama, gunpowder and the compass, guide on earth ; and the Bible, guide to heaven. It has generated nearly all philosophies, and is the birth-place of nearly all great religions. It has given birth to the five greatest religions and moral teachers of the world - Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Confucious and Mohammed. In this land Abraham , received the covenant and Moses the laAv. In this land the first Adam sinned and the second Adam suffered. This is great Asia, whose populations are still on the increase; whose commerce is the magiiet of every metropolis, and whose markets are the inspiration of every great nation and the necessity of all the dense populations. With new blood monopolizing her highways and developing her resources, it is impossible for the imagination to measure its importance. Xot a harbor open to the Pacific but feels the throbbing of its swelling pulse, and not a nation with a Pacific exposure that can safely sleep at the present low-tide mark.

China's Bulk is too vast to be easily grasped by our minds. Her 1,500,000 square miles of the richest land on earth and her 400,000,000 of industrious people will make her, in the near future, the greatest consumer of the world's products. John Barrett - than whom America has no higher authority on Oriental conditions and possibilities - said, in an address to the Chicago Board of Trade during the recent Boxer uprisings, that when China's foreign commerce reaches a total of $5.00 per capita (which he predicted it would do in 15 to 20 years under the present tendency to an open-door policy) to handle the portion of it that would naturally fall to the United States without any effort upon our part - would require a fleet of 1,300 such steamers as the largest now plowing the Atlantic, making trips every thirty days. If this vast amount of com merce would fall to us by gravitation, surely American pluck and ingenuity would soon secure as much more. If China can in the next twenty-five years furnish us a commerce that will require in its transportation 2,600 ocean steamers, of the largest capacity, making monthly trips, surely all the rest of Asia, Japan, Siberia, Marchuria, Korea, Tibet, Hi, Kasgaria, Mongolia, India, Persia, Burmah, the Philippines and Formosa, when the open-door has been established, should furnish us as much more. What does this mean? It means that the ships employed in commerce between Asia and the United States, if lined up single file, prow to stern, would make a procession 500 miles long coming to our harbors every thirty days. It is safe to say one-half of this commerce will be handled through Pacific Coast ports. In all probability three-fourths of it will be admitted through the gates facing the setting sun. This means three to four thousand of these ocean liners must be apcommcdated on tlie Pacific coast. To tliis commerce must be adaed also that of Australia^ Hawaii and Alaska. This will ic jiiire 375 to 400 miles of dockage facilities. The same forces which have made Puget Sound, even in its infancy, the second port in the Union in Oriental commerce and the fifth in totcil commerce wuU constantly be at work.

The Sound being 1,200 miles nearer these Oriental ports than JlS chief competitor, San Francisco, and having, as it will in the near future, the terminals of practically all our transcontinental railroads, will no doubt continually increase the lead it has already gained. European commerce has built on our Atlantic seaboard eleven cities with a total population of 8,000,000. The Pacific has only two harbors capable of great development, viz: San Francisco and Puget Sound. Among individual harbors on the Sound, Olympia only, can furnish more than ten miles of dock lines. By again referring to the map showing the possibilities of Olympiads harbor, it will be seen that within a radius of six miles she can furnish over seventyfive miles of dock lines. Again, the gently sloping beaches about these harbors will permit of every mile of this water line being built into slips rather than straight dock lines, thus increasing the capacity three fold. The contour of the land and lines of the sea about Olympia make it possible to handle with dispatch a greater commerce than can be handled in any other harbor on earth. Here, ^'Prophecy'' points to the greatest commercial emporium known to history.