Recapitulation. Geographically, Puget Sound forms the 
central focus of our vast domains on the northwest coast, being 
equi-distant from San Diego on the southeast, and the peninsu¬ 
la of Alaska on the northwest. The iso-thermal line of 50° on 
which the great cities, universities, manufactures, commerce, 
and the visible wealth of the world is located, passes through 
our vale-of-paradise. The warm stream from the Indies bathes 
our shores, the aerial trade-winds accompanying the 44 gulf 
stream ” fan our coast and modify our temperature, the moist 
wind from the tropics tempers our winters and bathes our fields 
with vernal showers, purifies our atmosphere, revives the sick, 
stimulates grass, mantles our pastures in living green, decks 
our orchards with budding shrubbery, and dresses our gardens 
with blooming flowers. 
Harbors are continuous and secure from all winds, the ebb 
and flood of the ocean tides facilitate repairing, cleaning, 
painting, and afford every facility for seining and trapping fish. 
The vast resources latent in and around Alaska—cedar, coal, 
iron, copper, silver and gold ; furs—bears, wolves, panthers, 
elk, deer, fox, etc.; cod, halibut, salmon, otter, seal, walrus and 
whale,—the visible and invisible treasures of that great territory 
will be developed from Puget Sound. The enormous wealth 
now slumbering in Siberia, metals and furs, fish, oil and ivory, 
will also enter our strait and pay tribute to our people. The 
rich products of the Indies will land on our shores, and pay 
freight to our ships and revenue to our treasury. The North 
Pacific Railroad, traversing over the iso-thermal plateau of 50°, 
connecting at each terminus with ocean steamships, will trans¬ 
port the products of Asia and the treasures from the sea to 
the marts of northeastern America and northwestern Europe. 
Ocean steamers congregating in our waters will create an active 
demand for, and develop our coal and iron and other useful met¬ 
als ; founderies, forges and machine-shops will be reared at the 
principal points. The lumber interest along our shores will 
feel the impulse, and greater development in this industry will 
be developed; shipbuilding in all its branches will attain a 
grand scale, jpid our Sound will become the great national ship¬ 
yard on the northwest coast. Our splendid water powers will 
also be harnessed and resound to the music of machinery; vari¬ 
ous branches of mechanism will be established, and manufac¬ 
turing will be developed to a mighty degree. Agriculture will 
