Governors of Washington, territorial and state . fine soil you have here! exclaimed thegovernor, as he reached down and fondled a handfulof it. You ought to raise fine grapes on suchsoil. The old settlers always relished the telling ofthat incident to newcomers. The writer heard itas a boy, though he had not the privilege nf meet-ing the governor who was being gently laughed at. On the conclusion of his term as governor, removed to San Francisco. There he wastwice elected to the California legislature and alsoheld the office of district attorney of San Fran-cisco. He was department
Governors of Washington, territorial and state . fine soil you have here! exclaimed thegovernor, as he reached down and fondled a handfulof it. You ought to raise fine grapes on suchsoil. The old settlers always relished the telling ofthat incident to newcomers. The writer heard itas a boy, though he had not the privilege nf meet-ing the governor who was being gently laughed at. On the conclusion of his term as governor, removed to San Francisco. There he wastwice elected to the California legislature and alsoheld the office of district attorney of San Fran-cisco. He was department commander of the GrandArmy of the Republic and for eight years was com-mander-in-chief of the Army and Navy RepublicanLeague. Gov. Salomon died in San Francisco on the eve-ning of July IS, 1913. His son occasionally visitsSeattle from his home in San Francisco. The son is Doctor Max Salomon, who resides at 1634 Fell Street, SanFrancisco. ELISHA PEYRE FERRY ELISHA P. FERRY Tenth Territorial Governor 1872 to 1880First State Governor 1889 to 1893. NO. X.—ELISHA PEYRE FERRY No man in the history of the commonwealth ofWashington has had so long and intimate an asso-ciation with its public life as Elisha Peyre lived here twenty-six years and nearly everyone of those years was filled with some form ofpublic service. He was a clean, upright, courageousman, whom the public loved to honor and to follow. He left Illinois in July, 1869, to take up the dutiesof his new office as surveyor general of Washing-ton territory. Not long after his arrival at Olym-pia he was called upon by Gov. Alvan Flandersfor a report on the number of acres of public landssurveyed in the territory. His report was brief andto the point, showing more than 5,000,000 acres sur-veyed, about equal portions on each side of the Cas-cade mountains. That early evidence of promptnessand thoroughness characterized his whole publiccareer. He had received his appointment at the hands ofPresident Grant, who promoted
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