PUGET SOUND 



mountains. She is rich in square miles (some 

 seventy thousand of them), hi coal, timber, and 

 iron, and in sheltered inland waters that ren- 

 der these resources advantageously accessible. 

 She also is already rich in busy workers, who 

 work hard, though not always wisely, hack- 

 ing, burning, blasting their way deeper into 

 the wilderness, beneath the sky, and beneath 

 the ground. The wedges of development are 

 being driven hard, and none of the obstacles 

 or defenses of nature can long withstand the 

 onset of this immeasurable industry. 



Puget Sound, so justly famous the world 

 over for the surpassing size and excellence and 

 abundance of its timber, is a long, many- 

 fingered arm of the sea reaching southward 

 from the head of the Strait of Juan de Fuca 

 into the heart of the grand forests of the west- 

 ern portion of Washington, between the Cas- 

 cade Range and the mountains of the coast. 

 It is less than a hundred miles in length, but so 

 numerous are the branches into which it divides, 

 and so many its bays, harbors, and islands, that 

 its entire shore-line is said to measure more 

 than eighteen hundred miles. Throughout its 

 whole vast extent ships move in safety, and 

 find shelter from every wind that blows, .the 

 entire mountain-girt sea forming one grand 

 unrivaled harbor and center for commerce. 



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