WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 



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tion, to tear about one half of the old rubble- ing, and have proved very productive. It is 



stone base from under the walls of the shaft estimated that 27,000 acres have already been 



and replace it by a concrete underpinning diked, and that 125,000 acres more on the 



extending out on to the new concrete foun- sound, besides 23,OUO acres on Shoalwater Bay 



dation. This was successfully completed in and the Pacific coast, might be thus reclaimed. 



May, 1880, and the work of building the obe- The population is estimated at 150 000 

 lisk proper was begun in August of the same Financial. The Territory is free from debt, 



year, the old shaft having been first reduced and on July 1, 1884, had $47,901.81 in the 



to a height of 150 feet. The shaft, which is treasury. The rate of taxation is 2J mills on 



55 feet 1-5 inch square at the base, and 34 the dollar, besides of a mill for penitentiary 



feet 5-5 inches square at the top, rises with a purposes. The following table shows the as- 



batter of 0-247 inch to the foot to a height of sessed value by counties in 1883 and 1884: 



500 feet 5 inches, and is surmounted by an apex 



or pyramidion 55 feet high, making the total COUNTIES. isss. 1884. 



height 555 feet 5 inches, the topmost point Adams... $175 444 ' 



being 596 feet 9*36 inches above the mean Asotin !'.'.'.!!'.'.'.'.'.'.!!".!.' !!!!!!! 404'9os 



level of the Atlantic Ocean at Sandy Hook, and gJmSS" **g'f 



697 feet 3 inches above mean low- water level Clarke .".'.'.'.'.'.". .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.\'.'.'..'. 1,604 sso 



in the Potomac. At the top of the shaft the Columbia '...'. ...'. 8,882,210 



walls are only 1-5 foot thick, and the apex is gS^V/.V./.'.'.V.V.y.V.:'.'..::; ^fl? ravm 



built of 7-inch marble slabs, is composed of Franklin '. '..'.'. ..'.'.'.. 149^003 



262 separate pieces, and is capped by an alu- gg : 



minum point-, the largest single article of that Jefferson 74s's40 873 '619 



metal yet made. At a height of 160 feet the ing 8>W >l 



walls were reduced to a thickness of 8 feet 7 ISS* ! ! '. ! ! ! : ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . ! ! ! ; ! ; ; ! ; ' ?:. . '9$* 



inches, and from that level the walls were car- Kiickitat 1,050,883 1,184',766 



ried up plumb on the inside. The total cost Lincoln ' "I 1 ' 483 ' 378 i'ooi982 



of the monument was $1,187,710.31, of which Mason .V.V.V.V .'.'I.'.'.''. .'.'." .'!.'". 363,639 '546,628 



$300,000 had been expended by the Washing- Jgjf - - J,jg{ ,}jg 



ton Monument Society. The weight of the SSfu^:::" ::::::::::: :::;:: m ^SS 



shaft is 43, 633 gross tons, the weight of the Skamania 135,538 92,303 



pyramidion 300 tons, the weight of the iron Iffi^";:;::::;::; :::;::;;: 548,3ii 604,S 



frame 275, and of the foundation and the earth Stevens 235440 242402 



upon it 36912 gross tons, making the total JCfcH' ; E' SSSJg !', 



weight 81,120 gross tons. A pamphlet has Wahkiakum 248,648 320,660 



been recently published by John 0. Goodridge, Walla Walla 5,536,832 5,356,795 



jr., an authority on foundation-work, which iSSS"'::.::::::::::::;:.: 8 'SS ^flS 



throws serious doubt on the stability of the Takima 2,393,921 1,314,318 



completed structure. T to , TU'WI^T' "*5i oo84sT 

 WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Government.-The __Z ota1 ^^ 7 | $51,008,484 

 following were the Territorial officers during Adams, Asotin, Douglas, Franklin, Kittitas, 

 the year : Governor, William A. Newell, sue- Lincoln, and Skagit are new counties, assessed 

 ceeded by Watson 0. Squire; Secretary, N. for the first time in 1884. 

 H. Owings; Treasurer, T. N. Ford; Auditor, Agriculture. In fertility of soil and climat- 

 T. M. Reed ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- ic conditions favoring the production of cere- 

 tion, R. 0. Kerr. Supreme Court : Chief-Jus- als, probably no country in the world can sur- 

 tice. Roger S. Greene ; Associate Justices, Sam- pass that portion of the Territory bordering on 

 uel C. Wingard, George Turner, John P. Hoyt. Idaho, a boot-shaped region extending south- 

 General Features. The Territory comprises an ward from near Spokane Falls to Colfax, and 

 area of 69,994 square miles, of which 3,114 thence to and including the Walla Walla valley, 

 are water. It is estimated that about 20,000,- It was expected that the Oregon Railway and 

 000 acres are timber-lands, on which there are Navigation Company would bring out from 

 standing 400,000,000,000 feet of merchantable eastern Washington Territory alone the present 

 timber; 5,000,000 acres rich alluvial bottom- year 150,000 tons of wheat and flour. Great 

 lands, and 10,000,000 acres prairies and plains, interest is also centered in the Big Bend coun- 

 The bottom-lands are nearly all in the western try lying west of Cheney. During the past 

 part of the Territory, and the fertile cereal- year settlers have peopled this region more 

 producing prairies and plains in the eastern rapidly than ever. The extensive valleys of 

 part. Shoalwater Bay, just north of the mouth Klickitat, Yakima, and Kittitas, just east of 

 of the Columbia river, contains extensive flats the Cascade range, have great capabilities of 

 covered with oysters, thousands of baskets of development, being adapted to fruits and cereals 

 which are annually shipped to various cities on as well as to stock-raising, 

 the Pacific coast. Large bodies of land along In western Washington less attention has 

 Puget Sound, near the mouths of the rivers, hitherto been paid to agriculture than to lum- 

 notably in Snohomish and Skagit counties, bering and mining; but the recent results of 

 have been reclaimed from overflow by dik- hop-farming in this part of the Territory and 



