[Sidenote: Population of Seattle.]
[Sidenote: New manufacturing establishments.]
A census was taken in June of this year, and the total enrolled was
19,700. I presume it was safe to say that the population then was
20,000, and that now it is from 22,000 to 25,000, for although houses
have been built very rapidly, there is not a house, or a room hardly,
that is not occupied. There are now seven brick-yards in operation, each
manufacturing from 10,000 to 50,000 per day. Two boiler-works have been
added to the manufacturing interests since you were here. Three
saw-mills, besides four on the line of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
Railway between here and Gilman, have been built, and all have more than
they can do.
A new fish-canning establishment has been started, and is in successful
operation. A pile-creosoting works, an extensive shipyard works, a
shingle mill, and a timber-preserving works and saw-mill are all under
way on the north side of Salmon Bay.
[Sidenote: New steamers.]
The _Alaskan_ and the _T. J. Potter_, two magnificent steel steamers,
and the _Harry Bailey_ and _Hassalo_, good-sized passenger steamers,
besides three or four tugs, and an extra steamer on the Alaska route, as
well as an extra steamer every second or third week for freight from San
Francisco, have been added to the Seattle fleet since you were here.