A Wagon Road, a Supply Store, and 400 Hogs for Seattle
Snoqualmie road boosters say Kittitas subscriptions are coming in fast as their young secretary opens a store and stable at Preston.
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George H. Smith, the enterprising young gentleman who is secretary of the Snoqualmie wagon road enterprise, has established a supply store and stable at what is known as the Preston place, this side of the mountains. He is putting in about 100 acres of grain there and will feed 400 head of hogs for the Seattle market.
Wm. Tillman, of Ellensburg, has been in Yakima several days this week. He says the people of East and West Kittitas are subscribing very liberally to the wagon road enterprise. Several good subscriptions have been secured. The projectors feel very much encouraged. The books have only been opened a little more than a week, and the people generally respond willingly all that they are able to do. He thinks its success is assured. — Signal.
“He is putting in about 100 acres of grain there and will feed 400 head of hogs for the Seattle market.”
In 1883, crossing the Cascades was still a subscription-and-wagon-road proposition, and Seattle's growth depended on persuading inland settlers to pay for the route. Today the Snoqualmie corridor is I-90, but the region still argues over how and where to build mountain infrastructure.
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