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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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industries connected with the lumber trade. Astreet railroad connects the principal wharves with the north-eastern suburbs of the city. The neighboring coal fields areone of the chief elements which contribute to the prosperityof Seattle. The mines now worked are chiefly in the vicinityof Renton and Newcastle, and are reached by a narrow-gaugerailroad, twenty miles long. There are extensive coal fields,which have been explored, and are being developed, lying onthe Green and Cedar rivers, near the base of the CascadeMountains. Coal is brought to the wharves in Seattle, andshipped by a line of steam colliers to San Francisco. Boththe mining and shipping operations, as w^ell as narrow-gaugerailroad, are in the hands of the Oregon ImprovementCompany. There is considerable agricultural land tributaryto Seattle in the valleys of White, Green and Snoqualmierivers. «J=z^2=L^ Hotel Northern, SE> \TTLE, WASH. AMERICAN PLAN. • Pranl^ D. Ray. Proprietor. R( $2.50, $3.00, $3.50. ••• -^
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Loading Lumber at Tacoma.349 350 2lie NorlJiern Pacific Railroad. Other Towns on Puget Sound.—Besides lacoma,Olympia and Seattle, which have been described in the pre-ceding pages, the important towns on Puger Sound are PortTownscnd, La Conner and Whatconi. Port Toionscnd is some-times called the Gate City of the Sound. It is situated atthe entrance of Admiralty Inlet, on the Strait of Juan de Fuca,and is the port of entry for the entire Sound district. It hasabout 4,000 inhabitants, and its principal trade is iri su))plyingthe ships which enter and clear at its custom house. An ironfurnace in the vicinity man.ufactures pig iron from hematiteore. There is a military post about three miles distant. Theharbor of Port Townsend is an excellent one, being well shel-tered from the north and west winds. La Conner, on theeastern shore of the Sound, is a lumbering town with consider-able agricultural country tributary to it. IV/iatconi, on theLower Sound, is the last town before the British

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