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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ys ofthese great rivers. From the summit of Mt. Hood,north and south are seen a score of peaks, from tento fifteen thousand feet high, mantled with perpet-ual snows. Mt. St. Helen, Mt. Adams, Mt. Tacoma,and Mt. Baker are all single snow monoliths. Tothe south, 250 miles is famous Mt. Shasta, supposedto be the highest of all these giants of the skies.Engineers estimate that the volume of water dis-charged by the Columbia River equals that of theMississippi. It averages two miles in width forthree hundred miles. It passes a little to the westof Spokane Falls, the metropolis of eastern Wash-ington, and a vast mining region. To the northwestlies Puget Sound. In Oregon and Washington, west of the CascadeRange are prodigious supplies of timber, practicallyinexhaustible, a hundred billion feet or more.Millions of acres will yield from 50,000 to 200,000feet per acre. There are miles of forests where theground could not give room for the cordwood oftrees felled and worked up. The area of dense
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TRAVELS. 401 forests Is twice the size of Iowa. The yellow andred fir, or Oregon Pines, and the white and redcedar, reach twelve or more feet in diameter andare three hundred feet high. The logs are largelyclear-stuff, and are used for ship timbers, masts,deck planks, flooring, siding or railway construc-tion. Lloyds, the English ship-builders report,We find the red firs the best wood in the world.The cedar shingles are unequaled. The output oflumber from the Columbia River and Puget Sounddistricts is not far from 1,000,000,000 feet annually.In old Tacoma, four miles south of Tacoma, onPuget Sound is the oldest bell-tower on the Conti-nent. It dates back prior to the discovery ofAmerica. This ivy-covered and stately trunk,sixty feet high, supports the cross, and every Sab-bath its bell notes awaken to duty the people of asleepy village. Here wrought by natures hand alone,More picturesque than chiseled stone,A sylvan belfry stood. A fir trees trunk the shaft supplied,And nestling quain

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