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tannery and boot- and shoe-factory; for a woodenware- and willow ware-factory: for powder works; for two flouring-mills, and for wholesale houses dealing in men's furnishing goods, in hats, in paints, oils, glass, drugs, stationery, millinery, and general machinery, as specialties. This gives a better idea of the condition of trade than an enumeration of business firms. Seattle has eleven banks,—not as many as Tacoma by two or Portland by five,—with an aggregate capital of about four million dollars and deposits amounting to nearly six million dollars.

The coal-mines of King County which are tributary to Seattle are the Franklin, Black Diamond, Cedar Mountain, Newcastle, Gilman, and Durham. Their total output for 1889 was three hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred and eighty-three tons. There was a suspension of production for a couple of months while the coal-bunkers destroyed in the fire were being rebuilt, which lessened the amount. The present facilities will enable the companies to receive and discharge two million tons a year.

It is in contemplation to erect iron- and steel-works at Kirkland, on Lake Washington, which will employ one thousand men, a company having already been formed for that purpose, with a capital of two million five hundred thousand dollars. The ore is to be obtained from the Denny Mines in the vicinity. The manufacture of railroad material will be carried on in connection with the iron-works.

From these items, putting that and that together, it is safe to say that Seattle is no bubble which a pin-prick will cause to collapse, and that a century hence it will be here with added area, wealth, dignity, and history.

Speaking of history reminds me to give a leaf out of Seattle's past. It is not about the siege of the town by the Dwamish and other Indians in 1856, when a stockade was built with Mr. Yesler's lumber to protect the settlement, and when Captain Gansevoort, of the United States ship-of-war, which was fortunately in the harbor, came to their relief, together with the territorial authorities, but concerns a period about ten years later.

The want of Washington during the territorial times was women; excepting the families of the original pioneers, few had come to settle here, the majority of men who had drifted