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USA > Washington > History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana : 1845-1889 > Part 39
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On Oreas Island was the Port Langdon lime-kiln, situated on the east side of Buck's Bay, first worked about 1862 by Shottler & Co. It was sold to Daniel Mclaughlin, of the last-named firm, and R. Caines in 1874, Caines subse- quently buying out Mclaughlin. Between 1874 and 1879 more than 20,000 barrels of lime were sold from this quarry, which covered but two acres. The kiln had a capacity of 175 barrels, and burned forty per day.
In 1878 a quarry was opened on land leased from the Northern Pacific R. Co., situated in the Puyallup Valley near Adlerton station. Two furnaces were running in Nov., owned by Crouk & Griffith, having an aggregate capacity of 275 barrels. An extensive quarry was discovered in 1882 on the Skagit River; and limestone was reported as found near Walla Walla in 1872. The production of lime in 1880 was 65,000 barrels, worth $84,500.
A kindred industry was the manufacture of cement from nodules of a yellow- ish limestone found on the banks of the Columbia about the mouth of the river. This manufacture was commenced in 1868 by Knapp & Burrell of Portland, at Knappton opposite Astoria. The works yielded in the beginning 35 barrels daily.
Taking into consideration that both Oregon and Washington are stock- raising countries, little attention is paid to the manufacture of leather. Three small tanneries, at Tumwater, Olympia, and Steilacoom, complete the list. The first was erected by James B. Biles and Young, in 1857, and was still in operation in 1883.
Soap was first made at Steilacoom in March 1862 by the Messrs Meekers. The manufacture was discontinued.
The manufacture of tobacco, from plants grown by himself, was begun at Elhi, Pierce county, by T. E. Patton, in 1877.
Fruit canning and drying was first engaged in by an organized company in 1883, at Walla Walla.
Brooms have for several years been manufactured at Olympia, and broom- corn raised in Yakima county.
Gloves were first made at a factory established in Olympia in 1880 by Weston & Swichart.
A sash, door, and blind factory was established at Tumwater in 1871 by Leonard, Crosby, & Cooper. Cooper soon became sole manager.
A chair factory was erected at Seattle in 1879 by Newell & Cosgriff.
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The Seattle lumber mills run machinery for manufacturing sash, doors, and blinds, and scroll and ornamental work for house-building.
Water-pipe was first manufactured in 1868, at Tumwater, by W. N. Hor- ton. In 1870 C. H. Hale and S. D. Howe were admitted to a partnership, and the company called the Washington Water- Pipe Manufacturing and Water Company. It subsequently passed into the hands of D. F. Finch. The capacity of the works was from 2,500 to 3,000 feet per day of finished pipe. The material used was wood, bored, bound with iron hoops, and soaked in as- phaltum. In 1877 a new company was organized in S. F., under the title fo American Water-Pipe Company, with a capital of $250,000, for the [pur pose of manufacturing wooden pipe at Tumwater for both gas and water service.
Two stave, box, and excelsior mills are operated on a large scale at Seattle and Puyallup by the S. F. Mattullath Manufacturing Company. The build- ings at Seattle cover four acres, 200 persons are employed, and the staves and heads for 5,000 barrels a day turned out. The waste is used to make boxes. This company have patented several machines, and have a process of their own for making barrels. The sides are made of a single sheet, which takes the place of separate staves. These sheets are cut from a large log by revolv- ing it against a large knife. Another patent of this company is a petroleum- barrel, which is a tin cask inside a wooden one, the intervening space being filled with cement. Hittell's Commerce and Industries, 624-5.
The Puyallup factory employs sixty men, and turns out 1,500 barrels per day, the staves and heads being sent to S. F. to be set up. Excelsior is made at this establishment from the cottonwood trees of the bottom-lands.
Wagon-making is carried on to some extent. The first stage-coach, Con- cord make, ever built north of S. F. was manufactured in Walla Walla in 1867.
The first brick was made in the territory by Samuel Hancock, on the Cow- litz prairie. Good brick were scarce as late as 1867, and brought twenty dol- lars a thousand.
The largest brewery in Washington is at Seattle, owned by Schaffer & Howard.
Until quite recently no iron-works of any extent existed north of the Co- lumbia. The Port Madison Mills had a machine-shop attached to their lum- ber establishment previous to 1870. In 1877 Lister & Burse opened work in an iron-foundery at New Tacoma, employing twenty men. In 1878 the North Pacific Foundery and Machine-shop, Scattle Coal Company's machine- shop, and the Williamson Machine-shop were all running at Seattle. The North Pacific Company put up new works the following year. There was also a foundery at Walla Walla.
In 1880 the Puget Sound Iron Company, Cyrus Walker president, erected a furnace for smelting iron near Port Townsend. The place was called Iron- dale, where work was commenced in January 1881. The first iron was made on the 23d of that month. Ore used was obtained from the iron-beds which underlie the dairy farm of William Bishop at Chimacum, and from Texada Island in the gulf of Georgia. The Chimacum mine was a stratum of bog- ore twenty-two inches thick, lying two feet beneath the surface, and exten- sive enough to keep a forty-ton furnace running for twenty years. The Tex- ada mine was found in a fissure vein eighty feet wide, cont lining 62 per cent of metal, the quantity of which is inexhaustible, and the quality excellent, al- though the ore has to be desulphurized by roasting. The ores, delivered at the furnace, cost about two dollars a ton, including a royalty to the owners. The Chimacum iron being soft and the Texada hard, they are mixed to obtain the proper density. Charcoal is made from the timber at hand; lime is brought from San Juan and Orcas islands at a dollar and a half a ton-all of which greatly cheapens and facilitates the production of the iron, which is worth in the market thirty dollars per ton. The experiment being successful beyond expectation, the works are being enlarged.
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COUNTIES AND TOWNS OF WASHINGTON.
Of the three judicial districts into which Washington is divided, the first comprises the counties of Walla Walla, Whitman, Stevens, Spokane, Colum- bia, Yakima, Lincoln, Garfield, Kittitass, and Klikitat; the second, Ska- mania, Clarke, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Pacific, Thurston, Lewis, Chehalis, and Mason; the third, Pierce, King, Snohomish, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, Clallam, Jefferson, and Kitsap. Walla Walla co. in ISSO had an area of 1,600 square miles, a population of 6,212, and taxable property to the amount of $2,971,560. New Tacoma N. P. Coast, Feb. 1, 1880. Whitman co. was established by setting off the southern portion of Stevens, Nov. 21, 1871. It was named after Marcus Whitman, its first American settler. Recent settle- ment began in 1870. Its area was 4,300 square miles; population 7,014; taxable property $1,237,189. The first county commissioners were G. D. Wilbur, William R. Rexford, and Henry S. Burlingame; sheriff, Charles D. Porter; treasurer, W. A. Belcher; auditor, John Ewart; probate judge, John Denny; supt. of schools, C. E. White; coroner, John Fincher; com- missioners to locate the county seat, William Lucas, Jesse Logsdon, and J. A. Perkins. The county seat is Colfax. Wash. Stat., 1871, 134-5. Henry H. Spaulding, son of the missionary Spaulding, was born at Lapwai, in Idaho, Nov. 24, 1839. He settled at Almota in 1872, and opened the first road to Colfax. In 1875 he married Mary Warren, and has several children. L. M. Ringer, born in Washington co., Ind., in 1834, immigrated to Or. in 1870, settling at Eugene. In 1872 he took a land claim 3 miles from the present town of Colfax. Five years later he removed to Almota and erected a flouring mill, half of which he sold to Adams Bros & Co., forming a partnership with them in merchandising, subsequently purchasing their interest. He married, in 1859, Sophie W. Owen, and had in 1875 six children. Stevens co. had a remaining area of 3 or 4 times that of Whitman, and in 1879 Spokane co. was set off from it with a pop. of 4,262. Its valuation in 1885 was over a million and a half. County seat, Spokane Falls. Daniel F. Percival, born in Bangor, Me., in 1839, immigrated to Montana in 1866, whence he went to San Diego, Cal., and thence, after a residence of 2 years, to Or., where he spent 2 years. In 1872 he settled in Spokane co., at farming and stock-raising. He was elected county commissioner in 1876, and was a member of the legislative assembly in 1877 and 1879. He married Lizzie Blythe in 1871. Residence at Cheney. Elijah L. Smith, born in Jefferson, Iowa, in 1842, came overland to Or. with his father, Elijah Smith, a resident of Salem, aged 80 years, having a numerous family. Of 11 children of the elder Smith 3 sons resided in Wash- ington, and the remainder in the Willamette Valley. Elijah L. married Julia Tate in 1871. In 1862 he went to the Florence mines, and followed the Rocky Mountains from Kootenai to Arizona, working in every camp of importance. In 1873 he came to the Spokane country to engage in stock-raising, where he remained permanently, with the exception of 4 years spent in Or. In 1879 he took up a body of land surrounding Medical Lake. William Bigham, born in Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1831, came by sea to Cal. in 1852, where he mined for 6 months, going to Or. in the autumn, and residing there until 1859, when he removed to the Walla Walla Valley, having married, 2 years previous, Jane Anu Kelly. In 1870 he removed to Butte Creek in Wasco co., where he re- mained until 1878, when he returned to Washington and settled at Cheney in Spokane co., where he engaged in the business of stock-raising. Vroman W. Van Wie, born in Cayuga co., N. Y., in 1833, came overland to Cal. in 1852. Mined on the upper Sacramento until the following spring, and then drove a freight team to Shasta. He soon returned to San Francisco and supplied milk to customers for 5 years, after which he farmed in the vicinity of San José for some time. In 1861 he came to the Walla Walla Valley, going hence to the Florence mines, and to Montana, following the Rocky Mountains south to the Colorado River, then going to Pahranagat and White Pine, Nev. He built the first house in Shermantown. Afterward he returned to Washing- ton with the N. P. R. R. party which first broke sod at Kalama, and remained
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in the Puget Sound country 3 years. In 1872 he settled in Stevens co. (later Spokane) and engaged in stock-raising. In 1884 he went into merchandising at Medical Lake, the firm being Campbell & Van Wie. His farm was 35 miles from the lakes. He married, in 1871, Mrs M. L. Harris. Columbia co. was set off from the eastern portion of Walla Walla, Nov. 11, 1875. County seat, Dayton; pop. in 1880, 6,894; taxable property, $1,948,050; area, 2,000 square miles. S. L. Gilbreth, born in Knox co., Tenn., in 1825, immigrated to Oregon, and settled in Yamhill co., in 1852. In 1859, or as soon as the Walla Walla Valley was opened for settlement, he removed to his residence 4 miles from Dayton, and was the first sheriff of the county. He married. in 1859, M. H. Fanning, and had in 1855 3 sons and 6 daughters. His brother, Joseph Gilbreth, who came to Or. with him, died in Yamhill co.
Yakima co., established in 1865, area 9,224 square miles; had a popu- lation in 1SS5 of about 2,000, and a valuation of about $1,000,000. County seat, Yakima City. Among the settlers of Yakima co. was L. H. Adkins, who was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1838, and came to Honey Lake Valley, Cal., in 1860. Thence he went to Nevada, and in 1862 started to the Salmon River mines in Id., but stopped in the Powder River Valley, Or., being one of the first California company which came overland to these mines. Adkins went to driving a freight wagon between Canon City and The Dalles, or Boise City, and was so occupied 3 years. In 1865 he opened a photograph gallery in Umatilla, and subsequently a livery-stable, but failed, and went next into the dairying business. In 1867 he was appointed postmaster at Umatilla, and had a contract to carry the mail to the Yakima country for 6 years. In 1872 he settled in Yakima City at hotel-keeping, having married Flora Markham of the former place.
George S. Taylor, born in Fountain co., Ind., in 1832, at 20 years of age removed to Iowa, where he resided 12 years, immigrating to Umatilla co. Or., in 1864, and removing to Yakima co., Washington, in 1866. He settled in the Selah Valley, 8 miles from Yakima City, on a stock farm, when there were but 2 families in the valley, those of Alfred Henson and William Mc- Allister. Taylor was married in 1857 to Rebecca Mclaughlin.
H. M. Benton was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1836. He came to Cal. by sea in 1859, around the Horn in a sailing vessel. He sailed for 3 years between San Francisco and China and Japan, then came to the Columbia River and was employed by the O. S. N. Co. to run their steamers, until 1869, when he settled in the Ahtanam Valley, Yakima co., which was then with- out towns except the small settlement of Moxie, the county seat, opposite the present Yakima City. He was elected auditor in 1872, to succeed C. P. Cook, the first auditor of the county, and served 5 years. He was first clerk of the district court, when 1 clerk was allowed for each court, and deputy clerk when only one was allowed in a district. There being no county buildings, he carried the county records about with him, until the district court was established. Judge J. R. Lewis organized the first court, and first sunday- school, in what was known as Schanno's Hall, the only public room in the county. The first grand jury met in a small school-room outside the limits of the town. Previously justice had been loosely administered. James Cathrell was jastice, in a case of assault, and there not being a sufficient number of men for a jury, put the sheriff on the panel. The man was bound over to appear at the next term of court at Colville-Yakima being, it was believed, joined to Stevens co. for judicial purposes, whereas it belonged to Walla Walla. Such was pioncer law. Benton married, in 1869, Mary A. Allen, a native of Oregon. They had 2 children, the eldest of whom was the first white native of Ahtanam Valley.
A. J. Splawn, born in Holt co., Mo., in 1845, immigrated to Linn co., Or., with his mother and family in 1852. He settled in the Yakima Valley in 1861, when only 2 other men, Charles Splawn and M. Thorp, were in that part of the country, the former being the first sheriff of the county. Two other brothers settled in Yakima Valley. A. J. Splawn married Melissa Thorp in 1868; and again in 1873 married Mary A. Davison.
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Garfield county was established in 1881 out of the eastern portion of Co- lumbia co. County scat, Pomeroy.
George W. James, born in Muskingum co., Ohio, in 1836, immigrated to Cal. overland, in company with 1 brother, Preston James, in 1856, remaining in Honey Lake Valley 3 years, when he went to Virginia City, Nev., and from there to Sacramento Valley in 1862, taking a farm near Marysville, where he resided 7 years. In 1878 he left Cal. for the Walla Walla Valley, settling in Colombia co. (now Garfield), near Ilia. He married Rosanna Sharp in 1856, and had 4 sons and 3 daughters.
Moses Wright, born in Franklin co., Va, came to Cal. overland with the Tornado Train in 1851. He went to Siskiyou co. and engaged in packing, which he followed until 1857, when he removed to Benton co., Or., with his brother John, who resided near Corvallis. In 1864 he returned to Cal. with horses and cattle, remaining there 3 years, settling in Walla Walla Val- ley in 1867, near Ilia, in what is now Garfield co. He married Louisa Spawr in 1863, by whom he has 3 sons. She died, and in 1884 he was married again to Mrs Huldah Lewis.
Ransom Long, born in Kanawha co., West Va, in 1812, immigrated over- land in 1852 to the Willamette Valley, Or., with his brother Gabriel. In 1872 he removed to Walla Walla Valley, settling near the present town of Pomeroy, in Garfield co. He was married, in 1833, to Rosette Clark, and had 5 sons and 2 daughters.
William C. Carns, born in Niagara, province of Ontario, C. E., in 1835, came to Cal. in 1858 by sea. He resided in Cal. until 1865, when he went to Montana, remaining there until 1878. In that year he settled in Garfield co., S miles from Pomeroy.
N. C. Williams, born in Surrey co., N. C., in 1824, came overland by rail in 1873, settling near Pataha City. Hemarried, in 1848, Catherine B. Martin, and had 5 sons and 6 daughters, all of whom, with one exception, settled about him.
George W. Burford, born in Lloyd co., Ind., in 1832, immigrated overland, in Mason's Train, to Yamhill co., Or., in 1852, with his father and family, consisting of 8 children. In 1854 he went to Yreka, Cal., to work in the mines, and in 1858 returned to Polk co., Or. In 1862 he married S. E. Cul- longh, by whom he has 3 daughters, and 3 years afterward went to reside at The Dalles, whence he came to Ilia in 1877.
Kittitass county was organized out of Yakima county in 1884. County seat, Ellensburg. It is rapidly filling up with farmers and stock-raisers. Some of the pioneers are the following: Samuel C. Miller, born in Ashland co., Ohio, in 1828, came to Cal. in 1852, overland, and settled in Nevada co., where he resided 9 years, less 1 spent east. In 1861 he removed to Umatilla, Or., engaging in the business of packing freight to the mines of John Day, taking two partners, so extending his lines in 1864 as to have trains running in all directions where packing was required. In 1872 the firm removed to the Wenatchee Valley, then in Yakima co., bringing a train load of goods, buying out another trading firm, Ingraham & McBride, and setting up as merchants, where there was but one other white man, John Goler. One of his partners, Frank Freer, died in 1878, leaving David Freer and Miller to continue the business. The Freers were also from Ohio, and came out in 1855 and 1857. There were in 1885 11 families iu Wenatchee Valley and 44 voters, the first settlers being single men. This valley, says Miller, is 800 feet lower that the Kittitass Valley, after which the county is named, which recommends it to fruit-growers and farmers.
Thomas Haley, born in Onondaga co., N.Y., in 1847, came to Washington in 1869, and settled in Kittitass Valley, engaged in farming and stock-raising. Married, in 1878, Vancha Hackett, a native of Or.
Charles B. Reed, born in Indiana town and county, Penn., in 1838, went to Pike's Peak in search of gold in 1860, and thence to Montana in 1863. He discovered the Snow Shoe Gulch mines of Butte district, with Joseph Bowers and Jack Swartz, in the winter of 1864-5, and went from there to Deer Lodge,
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where he remained until 1869. Starting for Puget Sound, he was attracted by the advantages of Kittitass Valley for stock-raising, and remained here, where in 1883 he was appointed postmaster. He married Mary Ebey, a native of Penn., at Deer Lodge, in 1865, and had 4 sons and 1 daughter. His second son was the first boy born in Kittitass Valley. Reed, with F. D. Schnebly, Charles S. Schnebly, Charles Kenneth, and John Catlin, constituted a party who went out to capture the Yakima murderers of the Perkins family in 1878. William Splawn headed another party which joined Reed's, and they with the assistance of chief Moses effected the capture, and prevented a war.
David Murray, born in Maine in 1831, came to Cal. in 1852 by sea, and went to the mines at Auburn, but returned to the ship which brought him out, Queen of the East, Capt. Bartlett, and helped to unload the dry-dock, which she had in her hold, at Mare Island. For 3 or 4 years he mined and worked at the navy-yard alternately, and in 1859 purchased a farm near Mare Island, where he resided until 1862, when he went to the British Columbia mines, remaining in that country 10 years, when he returned to Cal. and the east. In 1870 he settled in Yakima co., Washington, of which he was a commissioner, but in 1883 removed to Kittitass Valley, and resided at Ellensburg. His business was stock-raising. He married Minnie May of Ill. in 1878, who died in 1885.
Charles P. Cooke, born in Erie co., Ohio, in 1824, was brought up in San- dusky City. Hc came to Cal. overland in 1849, and after 1 year in the mines of the south fork of Feather River removed to Independence, Polk co., Or. On the establishment of a post-office at that place in 1851, and the appoint- ment of Leonard Williams postmaster, Cooke was made his deputy, until 1853, when he was appointed postmaster, which office he held until 1867. He was also a justice of the peace from 1851 to 1867, when he removed to the Yakima country, settling in Moxie Valley, across the river from the present Yakima City. On the 17th of March, a few days after his arrival, the county was organized, only 17 voters being present. In June 1868 he was elected auditor for 2 years, and was chosen county commissioner several times. In 1870 he removed to Kittitass Valley. In 1873 he was elected joint assembly- man for Yakima and Klikitat counties; and in 1875 was again elected from Yakima co. The legislature of 1883 appointed him one of the commissioners of the new county of Kittitass, which he helped to organize the following year, when he was elected joint assemblyman for Yakima and Kittitass counties. Cooke says that in 1870 there were only 6 other white settlers iu what is now Kittitass co., viz., F. M. Thorp, Charles Splawn, Mathias Baker, S. R. Geddes, Tillman Houser, and P. Doveran, all with families. There were about as many single men. Cooke married Susan E. Brewster, born at Saratoga, N. Y., but brought up in Ohio, a descendant of the Vandercooks of the old Dutch colony of N. Y. They had 6 sons and 4 daughters. This is the same Cooke family which furnished Jay Cooke, Henry D. Cooke, and in Or. E. N. Cooke.
Thomas Johnson, born in Prescott, Canada West, in 1839, immigrated to Vancouver, V. I., in 1862, and settled in Klikitat co., on the north side of the Columbia, the following year, running a ferry between Rocklin and The Dalles for 3 years. In 1871 he surveyed the town of Goldendale, erected the first house and store, and opened trade, and also built the first flouring mill, destroyed by fire in 1875.
The first organization of Klikitat-co. in 1859 having been practically aban- doued, but three families residing there, viz., Parrott, J. S. Bergen, and Doty, in 1867 the legislature again appointed county officers. H. M. Mc- Nary and A. Schuster were chosen commissioners, A. H. Simmons sheriff, William Connell treasurer, and Johnson auditor, which office he held for 3 years, after which he was elected probate judge, and again treasurer. In 1882 he removed to Kittitass Valley, having a contract with the N. P. R. R. to furnish lumber. He erected a large mill and opened a store, which prop- erty was destroyed by fire in 1883, entailing a loss of $26,000. Johnson mar- ried Ann Connell of Spruceville, C. W., in 1866.
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John A. Shoudy, born in Rock Island co., Ill., in 1840, served in the U. S. army during the civil war, and in 1864 immigrated to the Pacific coast via Panamá, spending 1 year in Cal. In 1865 he removed to Seattle, on Puget Sound, and in 1871 to the Kittitass Valley, where he purchased the small stock of merchandise of A. J. Splawn, and settled down to trade with the 12 or 14 other settlers, where in 1885 there were 4 general merchandise stores, carry- ing each a stock of from $25,000 to $40,000. Shoudy took a preemption claim, a soldier's homestead claim, of 160 acres each, and having purchased another 160 acres, laid out the town of Ellensburg, naming it after his wife, Mary Ellen Stewart of Ky, whom he married in 1867. Shoudy was in 1882 elected to represent Yakima co. in the legislative assembly.
James H. Stevens, born in Beaver co., Penn., in 1842, immigrated via Seattle in 1873, and settled at once on a farm in the Kittitass Valley, where he raised wheat, which he used to fatten hogs, with a profit. He married Mary C. Rego ef Ind. in 1870, and had 2 children.
John P. Sharpe, bern in Harrison eo., Ohio, in 1842, came to Or. overland with his parents in 1852, and settled in Lane co. In 1862 he removed to the neighborhood of The Dalles, and in 1874 again removed to Kittitass Valley, for the purpose of raising stock. In 1865 he married Nancy J. Roland, a native of Or., and had 8 children.
John M. Shelton, born in Wythe co., Va, in 1841, went to Pike's Peak for gold in 1860, revisiting his home and returning to Denver in 1865, where he remained until 1882, when he came to Kittitass Valley to reside. He married Carrie C. Jones of Mo. in 1866, and has 4 children.
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