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Title: Tacoma, the Pacific terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: (Radebaugh, Randolph F.) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Tacoma, Wash., The Ledger steam book and job printing house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ued, being covered with a thick growth ofsmall brush which can be cut with a brush scythe. It is also easily drained bycutting a ditch through the rim of clay /vith which it is surrounded. There are many small creeks running through the country back of Tacoma,and where there are no creeks, water of excellent quality and endless quantity,is obtained from wells 15 to 20 feet deep. One such well has been known to fur-nish enough water for 150 head of stock. On all this land except the gravel, as shown, grass, fruits and vegetablesthrive. There is no place in the world where it is easier to grow fruits and veg-etables of all sorts—except peaches and hot weather fruits—than on the landaround Tacoma. The richness of the soil and the moist, temperate climateadapt Western Washington to the growing of grass and the industries connectedtherewith—stock raising and the dairy. Land suitable for dairy business and D 03 O-J CT. on 7^ CT oo non Tl 0) n n >< cu ex rr 03 CT
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1 ri^V \ s ail*.. Timber. 25 stock raising can be bought in tracts of from 40 to 640 acres within a few milesof Tacoma. The price varies from $5 to §50 an acre for unimproved land. TIMBER. Tacoma is in the heart of the most famous timber region in the world, andthis is of course one of the greatest sources of its natural wealth. A denseforest of fir trees is visible in all directions from the city, to the east and northacross the waters of the Sound, southward along the railroad, and to the west inthe rear of the city. The exterior limits of this timber belt are, generally, thesummit of the ridge of the Cascade range of mountains on the east, the Pacificocean on the west; and it extends across the Columbia river into Oregon on thesouth, and through British Columbia and far beyond to the north, approxima-tely 600 to S00 miles long by say sixty miles in width. It has been estimatedthat within the boundaries named the yield of lumber to the acre will average25,000 feet, running in some

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