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Identifier: beautiesofstateo00gile (find matches)
Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Willapa Bay, one of the best harbors on Coast.Lumbering, farming, shell and salmon fisheries, and cranberry cultureare sustaining industries. Read also The Harbor Country. CENTRALIA AND CHEHALIS: Important railroad centers fourmiles apart, connected by trolley and half way between Tacoma andPortland. Combined population about 15,500 (10,000 in Centralia). Arich dairy and farm country surrounds them, formed by the Chehalis,the Newaukum and Skookumchuck rivers. About 44 trains leave Cen-tralia daily. Coal mines, farms and lumber are important. Betweencities are Southwest Washington Fair Grounds. At Chehalis, countyseat, is a large condensery. The Pacific Highway and the Rainier Na-tional Park Highway cross near by. Suggested trips: The oldest Temple of Justice in the state—built in 1851. Old Block House at Fort Borst, junction of Skookumchuck and Chehalis Rivers, Territorial Inn where Gen. Grant stopped.Boys training school just south of Chehalis. Girls school just north of Centralia.
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HARBOR COUNTRY BEAUTIES. 110 The Beauties Convict Rock Crushing Quarry at Meskill Station. Coal Mines at Tono and Mendota; oil wells at Tenino. Mossy Rock, Sulphur Springs, Sulphur Springs Falls, CowlitzGorge. Cowlitz Valley and Columbia River; stopping at Winlock, Napa-vine, Vader, Castle Rock, Kelso and other pretty towns. Seesmelt fisheries and ocean-going cigar shaped raft. Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake via Castle Rock—two weeks trip. VANCOUVER: Oldest city in state; settled in 1824 by the HudsonBay Company. It slopes gently towards the Columbia river, visiblefrom all points. To the north are the prune orchards for which Clarkecounty is noted, and the English walnut seems to have found its idealhabitat. Adjoining city are the Vancouver Barracks, occupying 640 acres of land, 300 of which constitutea natural park with many windingroads. State schools for the deaf andthe blind are located near. What issaid to be the oldest apple tree in theNorthwest still thrives. Electriclines

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