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History and Progress of King County, Washington \n^' / h I/' History and Progressof King County (WASHINGTON)/ lAA A C U T M n T rk XT \ l^ KRIST KNU DSE N M. L. HAM I LTO N M. J. CARR I GAN CHAIRMAN THI RD Dl STRICT Fl R ST D 1ST RICT SECON D DISTRICT u. -_!/}///// XJ Off/ f/f/, //rfj/ff/u/fOff REGULAR MEETING DAYS BYRON PHEUPS AND EXOFFlCiO CLERK OFTHE BOARD MONDAY AND TUE S D AY OF EACH WEEK COUNTY AUDITOR N. M . WARD ALL. DEPUTY CLERK OF BOARD ^.ecf/tee April 15, 1916. Puget sound Bridge i Dredging Co., Central Building, Seattle, Washington. Gentlemen: Having accepted the Kew King County Court House from you as completed under your contract, we taice this opportunity of expressing to you our sincere thanks and appreciation for the prompt, able and efficient manner in which you handled this job. It is seldom that the construction of a building of this magnitude is completed without more or less friction between owners ana contractor over the interpretation of specifications and other details. We are pleased to say that in all matters in controversy, you have met us in a spirit of absolute fairness at all times, thus enabling an adjustment of all questions at issue without bitterness on either side. Thanking you again for the many courtesies extended us, and wishing you success, we are. Very respectfully yours, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, .KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON. / Att By 44 r/J/xJ/yL:i- 7?/. £. Chairman. CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Deputy Chairman, S.saA. '^tJbli^ Uhray HISTORY and PROGRESS of KING COUNTY, Washington liagiiig IlivtM- Brirlg-e on the Is.saqiiali-Falls I'ltv Cuail. An l-ixaiuiilt- ul i'li maiiciii and ArUsiiL Uinly.- Constructioij. Built by Charles G. Huber. /-N Richest in Natural Diversified Resources of Any County West of \ S/ / yJ^ ' /^.V.^'^ kcr-^U^^ Chicago and North of San Francisco Present ('(.niniissioners: .M. L. HAMILTON, M. J. CARRIGAN, KRIST KNUDSEN ^""^^^ ^- *^- PIGOTT Concern Published by CHARLES J. HUTCHINSON 1 Q 1 M ^y Printing % Y. arv VIKW OF THE ENTRANCE OF THE NEW COITNTY COURT HOUSE AND MUNICIPAL BUILDUNU Authentic Pioneers' Record of Early Events Chronological notes of the early settlement of that part of Washington now embraced principally in King County -1. \Vm. N. ('. I), lioren and A. A. // y'~>k N tlu' 16th day of Sfptciiilici-, IS,")!, Uciuy \'aii landed N. Low, I'.ell, with their families. I i Asselt, Jacob ]\Iai>('l, Saiuiit'l .Mapd and L. M. Denny ("olliiis seleeti'd claims on the Dmvaiiiish "loth of Kehruai'y, iN.'rJ, Hell, lioren and A. A. Denny month moved on Kivef and (in the 27th of the next located claims on the east side of Elliott Hay extending I he River where ('ollins had to them rrom Xistiually north from what is now the head of Commercial Street ]ireviously located. (now First Avenue) to Hell's present northern houndar.w and on the 23rd of March Horeu and D. T. Denny started •On the 2r)th or 2(:)th of Septeiidier, liSol, Joiiii X. to the Willamette for the stock, leaving Hell and Low, Le<- Terry and David T. Deiuiy arrived at Alki Valley A. A. to look after the claims initil their return. Point where Low and Terry located a claim, and on the Deiniy 2Sth of and laid the fotmdation September Terry Denny '13th of March, 1S."')3, Dr. D. S. .Maynard arrived at first on the claim. Low retnrneii to for the home having Alki Point, and I'.cll :nid Dc-nny agreed to move their Portlaml for his family. southern boundary north to what is now Mill Street a claim "r)th of November, ISol, the Schooner Exact sailetl (now Yesler Way), in order to give Maynard from Portland for Puget Sound, and Queen Charlotte's south of theirs. with for the Sound and a of Islantl passengers jiarty '3rd of April, lSr)2, Htdl, Horen's family and Jlay- gold miners for the island. uard moved on to the tdaim before the return of Horen "13th of November she arrived at Alki Point and and D. T. Demiv, leaving A. A. Denny and family sick I ST () R \ AND I' IxMX; \i K S S at Alki Point \iiitil a Ikhisi' cdiild lie pri'iiarcd liir llinii arrived, and .Mei'cei' settled on the idaini where he still on the claim. lives. "In December, 1852, A. A. and I). T. Denny dis- "lu October, 1852, II. Jj. Ye.sler aiTived fi-oni Poi't- co\ered and explored Salmon Day which was pi-e\ionsly land and the land chiinis were again readjn.sted to ena1)le nnkn()\\n In the white settlers. him to hold a chiim inchidino; tiie site he had selected foi- a steam saw mill which was the first steam mill huilt on "IIFA'HV VAX ASSKLT, the Sound. \V. .\. r.ELD, "11. ].. VESLEK, ••23l-d of is.",:!, the first of Seattle was tiled Mi\y. plat "DAVID T. DENNY, for I'ecord L'. 1). lioi'eii ami A. A. ami siilise- by Denny, "C. D. BOREN, qxiently ou the same da\- the i)lat of another |)0fti<iii was Jany. l.st, 1880." "A. A. DENNY." tiled by D. S. Mayuard.' "Note: This epitonu' of historical events was pre- "la the winter of 1852-58, •!. -1. Felt arrived and after jiared and signed by the al)ove W(dl known [lioneei's. somewhat extensive exploration located at Apple Tree Arthur A. Denny was tlu' prime mover, and the or'iginal Cove and built a mill which lie i-emoved to Port Madison is in his safe at the famil.v residence. —Editor of the Pio- early in 1854. neers' Record of Early Events of King County." "In the of William Kenton came si.)ring 18513, Captain It is right that the above chronology should have been to Alki, and the sumnu'i- l>nilt a mill which he, during jn'e])ared by those hardy pioneers, all living on .lanuary in 1S54, removed to Port (>reliai'd. early 1st, 1880— l)nt all having passed to the gre;it beyond at "In .\pril, 185:!, Thomas .Meri'er and Dexter TToi-1on the timi' this histoi'y is being ]irepared. "Passing of the Wilderness" NINETY YEARS A(i(), or to be more exact, he moved that the hill be indelinitely p(ist|ioned and his motion carried a \dte of niiiteen to seventeen (Ui the twenty-fifth day of February, 1825, lion. by ayes OVER noes. Mahlon Dickerson, Cnite<l States Senatoi- fi'om During the controversy \\itli (ireat liritian ovei' the New Jersey, made a s]ieeeh ill the Senate ui)on a bonndai'y it was even jiroposed that this section of Oregon hill which for a of land to settlers to pi'ovideil grant Territ(U-y wliei'e is no\'- located Seattle, be traded foi' the induce them to locate in the ()regon Teri'ifory, in which Island of New Foundland ami had it not been for the hei'oic and of 111' said that Oregon could never liecome one of the United patriotism energy Marcus Whitman, who rode across the whole Continent to the caiisi' ol Stati-s and that the country would never lie of any essen- plead the far Northwest before the |)OWers in Washington, it tial benefit to tile riiion, either as a colony or as a State. is more than probable that this country woiihl have been Kemember now. that all of that land now embraced lost to the United States. within the confines of the state of Washington, w;is at The passing of the wilderness in the Pacific Xorth- west is one of the most stories in American that time part of the then "Oregon Coinitry." interesting liistory. The great Northwest is interesting because it the declaration that would never Repeating Oregon is the only section of the United States that never ac- be a member of the he it Union, undertook to show tiiat knowledged allegiance to any other government and has would be extremely difficult if not altogether impossible never recognized any flag but the Stars and Stripes of Freedom. to securi> from it a reiu'esentative in f-ongress. He es- timated the distance form the Columbia Rivei' to Wash- The "Old Oregon Country" inchuled all that terri- toi'y which now emliraces the state of Washington, Ore- ington, D. ('.. at 4,ti50 miles, and said that a member of gon and Idaho, with a small part of Westei-n Montana Congress from the state of Oregon wotdd travel, going and Wyoming. It was oidy accessible by vessels sailing to and frcmi the seat of i-etni'iiing govcrnmi'iit, !t,300 miles, around ('ape Horn or by land route over the Isthmus of aiul supposing he would travel at the rate of thirty miles Panama. a day, and allowing for Sundays, it would take him 350 days of the year to go to Washington and return. This The first attem|)t at setth^nent in what is now would allow him only a roi'tiiight to rest himself in the King County, was made by .lolin Ilolgate in the fall of 1849, cajiital befoi'e commencing his journey home. As a con- when he staked out a land (daini near the mouth of the siderable of the was over ])art way rugged mountains, Duwamish River, which he intended to make his future covered the larger part of the year with a great depth home, but he went back to the Willamette Valley and of took no to file on it snow, he stated, that traveling at the rate of thii-ty ste])s as a "donation claim." In of 1851, Van Luther miles a day would be a hardship.
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