The westernmost town in America bets its future on a telegraph wire

Ocosta-by-the-Sea, in Chehalis county on Grays Harbor, the most westerly railway terminus of America, was connected this morning by telegraph, making it the most westerly telegraph station in the Western world. Messages of greeting were sent by Mayor F. G. Deckebach to President Oakes and other officials of the Northern Pacific Railroad company and to the mayors of Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle. The Western Telegraph company are prepared to handle messages for Ocosta without delay.

Ocosta is on South bay of Grays Harbor, facing the magnificent beach at Peterson's Point near the southern entrance to Grays Harbor. It is about five miles from the Pacific ocean, which is within plain sight, and on a clear day the breakers can be seen dashing over the sand spit in the center of the bar outside. At Peterson's Point, which is a narrow peninsula at the southern entrance of the harbor, between the ocean and South bay, there is quite a seaside resort growing up at the town of Peterson, and many of the wealthy citizens of Tacoma, Seattle, Olympia and the Grays Harbor towns have purchased lots there and are erecting cottages. The military G.A.R. encampment will be held there this summer. The whole beach from Peterson's Point to North cove, near the northern entrance of Willapa harbor, will doubtless be filled with settlements and towns, as is the lower beach in Pacific county from Willapa bay to Cape Hancock, the mouth of the Columbia river. On this lower beach there is generally a population during July, August and September of ten thousand people, mostly from Portland and Eastern Oregon and Washington.

The Northern Pacific railroad will be running trains to Ocosta in a few days and the Ocosta people are about to build a plank road from Ocosta to Peterson's Point, by the shore road, nearly three miles in length. The centennial anniversary exercises of the first discovery of the state of Washington, by an American citizen, Captain Robert Gray, May 7th, 1792, will begin here on the 7th of next May, and be continued at Hoquiam, Aberdeen and Montesano. There will be a big clam bake, Indian war dance, addresses, dancing, etc. Half fare rate for the round trip will be charged by the N.P. railroad. It is expected that several thousand people will be in attendance.