Organization brings ‘results we all desire,’ says Manager of Mines

Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, October 17, 1921

The “results we all desire.” This part of the above caption is inserted advisedly for the reason that each and every one of us from the president clear down to the youngest employee should be absolutely a unit in our desire to see the right results obtained.

If from no other motive, our own desire, selfish if you so care to call it, of wishing to prosper individually, must make us realize that unless the company as a whole prospers, we individually cannot hope to do so. Now how can this end be best attained?

Certainly one of the chief factors in this direction is a perfect organization and I am going to outline briefly the organization in effect at this time in the Mining Department.

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Issaquah remembers: First rapid transit—Ribbons of steel

Originally published in the Issaquah Press, October 18, 1962

It is often surprising to stand in a familiar spot, looking around as you have many times before, and see things you never knew were there.

This happened to me one evening recently outside the east door of the high school, a place where I’ve stood many times before. There was still some daylight, everyone else was still inside the building, and I had a good chance to observe the whole southeast part of town from the top of “school house hill.” Many interesting things appear from up there which are typically part of Issaquah, and make up its character.

There is the yellow, wooden spire of St. Joseph’s Church, for instance, just visible above the trees. It was built there in 1896 on land donated by Peter McCloskey, and has been in constant use by the town’s Catholic congregation ever since. There were no trees around it then, because all the big timber had been cut off to make room for the vigorous new town and there hadn’t been time to grow new ones.

However, the forest was still thick a few blocks to the east and around the railroad trestle on the N.P. branch line to Snoqualmie. There wasn’t even a road out there in 1900, for the route to the easterly neighbor towns of Fall City and Snoqualmie was by way of Vaughn’s Hill.

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