The Real Estate Boom of the 'West End'

We quote the following description of the scenery as seen from West Seattle from an article in the San Francisco Journal of Commerce: Our Seattle friends, we trust, will pardon a stranger within their gates offering this gratuitous advice; we take an exceptional interest in the truly magnificent surroundings of this coming 'West End' and at the risk of being considered 'gushing' in our praise by some, and 'cheeky' in our unsought advice, we must excuse ourselves by saying that we have inspected this coast from Alaska to the Mexican border. We have seen the sun rise on the Alps, and have revelled in the beauties of Lucerne from the summit of Rigi, we have felt the soft influence of the Mediterranean and delighted in the castle-fringed banks of the glorious Rhine. We have sought out and admired the finest scenery of the Old World and the New, but from no one spot have we been so impressed with the beauty of the landscape as with that viewed from the tableland of West Seattle. It is simply unique. On one side of you the majestic Rainier points his hoary crest into the very heavens. Until his grandeur, like a very god, his massive front of 14,444 feet seems to dwarf into pigmies the surrounding mountains that would else be giants. In front of you Mount Baker, another white and glistening monster, though a hundred miles or so away, thrusts himself upon your vision, whilst right and left of you the Cascade and Olympic ranges form a background of the most exquisite mouldings that the mind of man can conceive, vibrant, rugged in their outline and ever changeful in their soft and glorious tints. Through this territory will pass the Seattle Southern R. R., which will at once be rapidly pushed to completion with a depot close to the ferry slip. On either side will extend wharves and warehouses, factories and stores.