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Identifier: alaskayukonpacif00reid (find matches)
Title: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, and Seattle the beautiful exposition city
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reid, Robert A., Seattle, pub. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)
Publisher: Seattle, R. A. Reis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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MT. RAINIER FROM THE EXPOSITION The beautiful features at the Exposition are many. The landscape gardening, with floral displays supplements the magnificent mountain andlake scenery. The Cascade Mountains are frequently seen, the beautiful Mt. Rainier less frequently, but a clear view of its snowy cap well repayseager watchfulness. Rainier is the highest mountain in the United States, 14,526 feet. Its forests, rivers, lakes, canons, glaciers and snowy slopeshave a fascination for tourists and mountain climbers. Being visible for long distances and from all directions it has always been an object ofadmiration to both the red man, and his successors, the whites.
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THE FORESTRY BUILDING The Forestry Building is one of the most striking structures on the grounds, being one of the largest log houses ever built. It has a frontageof 320 feet and in width is 144 feet. In the various fronts of the building are 124 logs each forty feet high, containing 6,000 feet board measure. Theweight of each log is estimated at 50,000 pounds. At each end of the building is a tower built of smaller logs reached by a spiral stairway. Thebuilding has a balcony for exhibition purposes, at the southern end of which, is an exhibit of the states sanitary work. At the northern end of thegallery is a most interesting museum of relics of pioneer days. On the main floor is a house built in a stump, and on the rear balcony is the bigstick 156 feet long. The exhibits comprise displays of timber of various kinds showing the logs as they leave the forest and the various kinds ofwoods, in a finished condition, for all purposes. To many visitors this building with its contents is t

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