. History of Washington; the rise and progress of an American state . wn made their coal discovery. A tall fir tree, which stood immediately over the vein, had been blown down, and its iad torn up the earth so as to expose the coal. They iiiently sold the claim to the Bellingham Bay Coal iv, of San Francisco, for $18,000. larch 1852, B. J. Madison, an Indian trader, • a claim on the south shore of de Fucas Strait Dungeness. Soon afterwards he was joined by al Daniel F. Brownfield, who had stopped for a time on the Cowlitz, and been elected a representative from :nty in the Oregon legislature.
. History of Washington; the rise and progress of an American state . wn made their coal discovery. A tall fir tree, which stood immediately over the vein, had been blown down, and its iad torn up the earth so as to expose the coal. They iiiently sold the claim to the Bellingham Bay Coal iv, of San Francisco, for $18,000. larch 1852, B. J. Madison, an Indian trader, • a claim on the south shore of de Fucas Strait Dungeness. Soon afterwards he was joined by al Daniel F. Brownfield, who had stopped for a time on the Cowlitz, and been elected a representative from :nty in the Oregon legislature. Later Thomas Abernethy, J. J. B f. C. Brown, J. W. Donnell, * Those who took d< this neighborhood were the ng, some of whom n would 1. indicate: ibody, Dec. 16, 18 Feb. 1, 1853. •attels, April 18, 1853. fune i, 1853. Barnes, June 13, 1853. June 14, 1853. Sept. 17, 1853. 27, 1853. Hugh, Feb. 23, 1854. D- J- Harris, May 28, 1854- ;e, June 1, 1854. Edmond Eldridge, June 21, 1854. ly 10, 1854. M. OConnor, Sept. 1, 1854. Oct. 1, 1854- J- W. Lyle, Dec. 13, OF AN AMERICAN STATE 131 C. M. Bradshaw, G. H. Gerish, Samuel L. Jurwin andHoseah Lowrey arrived, and took claims in the neighbor-hood, while John E. Burns settled somewhat farther southat the head of Port Discovery. All these except Brownand Bradshaw made their filings before the end of 1853. A considerable number of those who came with the firsttrains up the Yakima River and over the new road whichthe settlers were making through the Nachess Pass, settledin the Puyallup Valley, after they had first examined theprairie in the neighborhood of Steilacoom and Fort Nis-qually. Among these earliest settlers were Willis Boatman,John Carson, George Haywood, Isaac Lemon, Perham,Abiel Morrison, James Williamson, A. H. and Isaac Woolery,Wm. M. Kincaid, and their families, while Michael Connelland A. S. Porter took claims further east on what were after-wards famous as ConnelPs and Porters prairies. There were not many oth
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