Centralia Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 2, 1890, Centralia, Washington VOL 1 LEWIS COUNTY WASHINGTON THURSDAY JANUARY NO 25 Wonderful Progress of Our Town in One Year FACTORIES MILLS AND HOMES Increase in Population and Improvements not passed on This Coast The growth of in the year just closed has been been a matter of marvel to the most sanguine of her In 1872 when the Northern Tacoma line was built through this section there were two or three houses only standing where is now the prosperous city of One of these was occupied by the pioneer col- ored man George Washington who owned the original townsite A track was put in and the tiny village dubbed Centerville a name that was Boon after changed to to avoid confusion with another Centerville in the then territory For yeare the little town grew imperceptibly almost Its Eingle store was kept by C Crosby who is still a prominent resident and a ber of the city council On the last day of December 1888 when the present passed through Centralia en route from Tacoma to San Francisco there was little suggestion of the busy town of the present The sightly tract now known DE the addition with its hundred residences and ness blocks was then a cow pasture with only two houses upon it During the past year as will be seen by the companying exhibits more than has been invested in mills and ings in this addition alone besides the large amount that has been paid for the loU on which they were built In the older quarters of the city the game is observed whole blocks occupied by stores from street to have been erected since the first days of has a naturally beautiful site for a level prairie from one to two miles in width between the halis river on the south and weft and the on the north and west Several of the numerous mills of Centralia are located on the Chehalis but the majority are near the chuck The main business street of the city Tower avenue extends southward from the to lie southern limits of the city a distance of about two miles The chief cross are Main Pine Locust Walnut and lia Eastward directly adjoining the city are stately hilly covered with heavy timber Beyond these hills is the j fine agricultural valley of Hannaford creek and the passes loading the valley of the Cowlitz Northward is a fine prairie bounded by wooded On the west skirting the is n narrow belt of timber chiefly trees and beyond this the fertile Ford's prairie and Mound prairie dotted by comfortable farm houses and owned by prosperous farmers who get a dollar n bushel for then wheat 80 and per pound for their butler and a ton for their hay Three or four miles out one fords tho river and the Lincoln Creek country one of the inept farming districts of Washington A bridge will be put across the river ut this point the coming year All the way be- low Centralia the Chehalis valley is rich in fanning lands and Centralia is the Key City that connects the rich coal fields that lie eastward and the great belt of almost impenetrable that ex- tends all tho way to the Cascade range and covers its foothills In compiling the following statistics in this region we have drawn from tho work of Mr J K ell tho pioneer editor of Tlic County We Live In torn land acres hill or upland CLIMATE To people who have lived in the ern states about the same latitude as Washington it may seem almost ible that the winters should be so mild here but when we come to compare tudes and climates with part of Europe we find are no farther than France and not so far north as England The Japan current on tho Pacific coast cor- responds with the Gulf stream on the west coast of Europe thus giving us a climate very similar to southern land and different from any other part of the United States The summers are without much rain but autumn spring and winter is usually accompanied by frequent rains and yet we often have from two to six weeks at a time of con- fair and pleasant weather the winter months From a compiled meteorological summary before us for Western Washington we take the Mean annual temperature for lie past ten years 40.0 for spring 48.7 for summer 00.7 for Highest lowest 2 above zero The weather report from the United States Signal office at Olympia for the first week of December 1887 if about an average for the time of year in this county 44 de- grees highest 50 lowest 34 degrees The prevailing winds are from the west during winter and spring and west during the summer months MINERAL WEALTH Of and silver that me day will be traverse the eastern portion of the county Coal is found in vast quantities throughout the county The largest veins are near tralia Near Winlock arc also large de- posits 01 chalks we have tho red white and yellow Granite sand lime and marble is found in several localities Clouded stone susceptible of receiving a high polish is found in the part of the county near ledo Amber in considerable quantity is found near in lock it In a report of Chas A White C E red huckleberry growing on a bush four to six feet high is the finest fruit for jellies that we have Blue and black huckleberries bayberries thimble berries and other berries grow in ance throughout the county Western Washington has fresh age for a greater number of months in the year far than any other section of the United States and for nearly a month longer than the dairy section of England The climate and fine natural pasturage of Lewis county greatly favor the pursuit of the dairy business The cool Bummer nights the abundance of pure cold spring water which ia pensable to a fine flavor the freedom from sultry weather and thunder storms during the production of butter and cheese Dairying will in the near future become the leading pursuit of our rural community There is at present a de- mand in to the supply which a few years ago was to the reverse and the demand is liable to increase faster than the home which tates shipment from the south as lias been done heretofore At the present time the price of butter is 40 cents per pound During the past summer 30 cents per pound was the ruling price FLOWERS To all lovers of flowers Western men with almost constant work On Bellingham bay we believe the price of real estate is now higher than it will be five years too high for the population and business And so it is in many other places In wo claim that the man who works for tt living gets good wages and ia able to buy a lot and erect a house thereon at a comparatively less expense than in any other live busy town we know of In the accompanying list of building improvements we would re- mark for the of eastern readers that a good frame dwelling can be built here for about half what the same would cost in Dakota or Kansas ber is sold at per thousand and other grades in proportion on second NAL r n MCDONALD PHYSICIAN AND Graduate of University Late U S A corner Walnut street and avenue Washington A G SMITH M D in he estimates the timber Lewis county to be third in quantity of any body in Washington This embraces AND SURGEON Lute 0 R Y R of college member of the society of n over Lewis County hours Washington would ben paradise as this Heady is indeed a hind Nearly nil G G EITEL HEINE Office over Lewis County T G HEIXE flowers can bo grown in the ern can be grown here All kinds of flowering bulbs do can be loft out during the winter and hyacinths grown here are superior to those imported from Holland G i The eastern man Office with I n Northey Tower avenue knows this country only as an unknown The Live Real Estate Broker If you have anything to buy or sell Mr Northey is the man to see He lias the best advantages and makes his clients business in every sense his own INFORMATION ABOUT LEWIS COUNTY Cheerfully furnished Mr Northey is familiar with all property in the extensive country tributary to Centralia and can furnish all who desire reliable and intel extensive country tributary information in regard to lands titles etc I- land far removed from himself apt to j imagine that here he must social and educational disadvantages 1 I K C to I U DENTIST but this is not the fact n mil no to of rental College of- lt T i IHV IT A U Smith hours from 9 of the citizens of j 10 5 r u over Lewis in the CHRONICLE of the bred people and yet are not more anxious to secure good education for WASH their children than are the children of I E RHODES the who still naturally take I tir cedar aih older maple and oak j largo Fir comprises the greater purl cedar has another the lead in tho direction of O tralia lias in the past year erected one or largo two-story school building NOTARY PUBLIC second At the present demand to erect in the spring The I place of the las building is taken by a i TJ bcr and shipped east by temporary school in the north end of road there is good profit to the town Grace seminary which will cost j office on North Tower Lumbering will be tho and which will toon be com- NOTARY PUBLIC The will a higher education est industry for tho next few years quality of our lir timber is unsurpassed within the United States and is rapidly inking precedence over the pine in the east and south Our cedar for shingles takes preference over the redwood of California The alder and ash with maple veneering makes the furniture in our markets Of fire woods we have crab apple yew i their fairer sisters society is apt to be wood mock orange elder j a little loss refined than in the older re hen are the J M D and will attract pupils from all parts of i lt I'M Western Washington It has a attention to hours 10 location overlooking the town J J and is beautifully situated on the mit of a hill around which cluster the 11 A waving pine SOCIETY j In a where men outnumber j and UEAL ESTATE AGENTS CENTRALIA WASH and ninebark As is different regions from timbered count the land only dissipation Centralia that produces the most timber is of the j has very many intelligent T soil fur agricultural purposes I and refined ladies One need only Where now stands the heaviest growth step into one of our churches look on at of timber in time will be fields of golden one uf the invitation parties of office I A AT LAW WISH Then write to L H for information bargains etc L H Agent for the Union Pacific Railway ATTORNEY AT LAW grain or fine meadows of C G A or at one of the public grasses dotted with orchards of the at the to lvalue that we JAMES n finest quality of fruit AND There has been so much said and ten on this subject that we will not are with as of feminine and culture eastern j town of like population The south To tion of men and women in is attempt to but a few general re- nearly equal i marks on the same It is a common j THE thing with the farmers of Lewis county j There are three newspapers in to raise from forty to sixty bushels of i daily and two wheat per acre from sixty to 110 bushels j where a year ago a single weekly led a i of oats from twenty to forty bushels of life The is the peas and grains in proportion only republican paper of the nnd is Hay is grown Western glad to congratulate itself thai it is and in this county in particular j backed by 100 republican majority as o enormous yields Timothy yields two j shown by the election of October 1 o four tons per acre clover three to six its against a tie vote of the two ons by cutting two or three times per in season Roots grow the year round 1 Wrst Main St CENTRALIA LOCATION Lewia County ie situated about half between the Columbia river and sound in 40.31 longitude 123 west Tho county extends from the Coast of mountains on tho west to the summit of the Cascade Mountains on the oast or about eighty miles east and west by milen north and south divided into us Commencing in the north part of tho county is a part of tho river mid its tributaries tho Hannaford country the north and south forks of the river river tho Cowlitz river and its branches and crook south and Deep creeks went the north and south forks of tho river and Lincoln creek All of streams have fertile valleys together with numerous small streams tributary to them with small prairies intervening nnd nil this within boundaries of miles north and south by about fifty-two oust and west or 1362 con- acres nnd nl the very lowest estimate of bis or is noil free from rockn nnd gravel nud capable til pill under of which III mw i valley prairie and river Main ami WASH A L IX Material SASH FAINTS The question is occasionally Why did begin to grow so long after Tacoma Seattle and B mrg 7 Her growth the past year we will only give this prob em If a turnip cabbage or other able grows to the weight of live pounds ii one month what will bo its weight at the end of twelve Hops are j been more rapid than that of being introduced into this county and burgh Yakima Vancouver from a yard near Centralia the he i etc simply because past season was equal in quality and has better natural Hut all of to thegreat these smaller cities have grown Wo j think the reason is that a tew years ago Apples pears plums prunes cherries j Seattle nnd Tacoma received nearly all quinces and in some localities and capitalists who and in all the smaller fruits ami came to this section All the while real row to enormous size and are of the j estate was going rapidly skyward and best flavor The season being so mil and of such extreme length tho fruit crate capital to locate a i BRU WASH udi JAMES DOLAN Pro South Tower eonth of street irs a Counter in Connection j TYCOON Billiard Hall The Centralia Chronicle THE ONLY REPUBLICAN PAPER OF CENTRALIA Best Local Paper of Lewis County i At the last general election of October 1889 the re- publicans carried this city by one hundred majority In next election this majority will be increased by the HT C nn present and recent emigration from the northern state City Acre and j THE CHRONICLE IS THE BEST FOR ADVERTISERS Five Acre Tracts near City r j o by Section Or Specimen copies mailed tree All kinds of job work in first-class style Also Claims i Thurston and Counties becomes thoroughly matured thus into any kind of general ing it to retain its Fruit of moderate means Ol I h nil AND LOTS VOK Oil Uo trees brought here from the east and i overflowed the surrounding planted in our county will produce much j as it woro and began mug the larger nnd liner fruit than in their mi- j merits of oilier points Hundreds oh live elates There have been many in- this sort the writer among ot hers are in here that fruit trees brought from tho east have produced such a superior quality of fruit as to muse n question whether it was I lie same class UH that grown cast Small and berries currants black berries and grow superior to almost any other part of Ilio United Slates both In the wild and slate Of the the blackberry taken the lead both in quantity and quality ing in Western fruit hits ho combined flavor of blackberry nnd black raspberry berries nearly of the cultivated along nil the in The 7 O ft I [j A 1 D omc H u K KOU MKN HOSS CENTRALIA MEAT MARKET de Tower all kinds of and Cured ered to any part of the city Highest prices paid tor lr Katt Goodi UTO stock located in Las Washington At Io The only place in the city where draft i illustrate hundreds going in and HKKK ON ICE can be out again bu when wo came to what was back of ho town in the way of resources one could not tee much promise Tt would have been a very i investment to have purchased veal estate on buy at that time but we thought mid slill think it would be unwise Io locale a Iho pool ami were shut down while tlm of lumber was slill higher hull in when he loot and p 17 o to rapier Only the best work is enough for my patrons POST j WASH Next door to Arlington Open Day and Night Finest a Liquors HUOS Tacoma Bazaar CI Proprietor for hinisekcepiug ill Tinware Notions Goods on 6 10 It and Jo cent counters Surprise you nil All useful goods of quality nrr nut mpl IHil 1 nf
