The Boomtown That Outgrew Its Directory

The number of business houses and professions credited to our city is 178, against 129 in Walla Walla, 108 in Olympia, 77 in Vancouver, and 63 in Port Townsend. The showing, however, is more inadequate as regards Seattle and King county than some other sections, for the reason that so large a part of the growth of our city and county has been within the past year, subsequent it would seem to the returns from which the Directory in question was made up. For example, King county is credited with only one grist-mill (the old Woodward mill, long since torn down), whereas we have three, all put up last year: Buzby's, Stetson & Post's in town, and Nelson's on White river. It would be wearisome to specify the numerous other discrepancies to show how far our growth has outstripped the enterprise of the fact-gatherer, but we will mention only a few: instead of ten attorneys as given, we have now fifteen; auctioneers, three instead of none; brick-yards, three instead of none; carpenters and builders, twenty-two instead of one; hotels and restaurants, fourteen instead of six; saloons, thirty-five instead of eighteen.