STEEP TRAILS 



new ambitious town at the terminus of the 

 Canadian Railroad, thus getting views of the 

 outer world in a near foreign country. One 

 of the regular summer resorts of this region 

 where people go for fishing, hunting, and the 

 healing of diseases, is the Green River Hot 

 Springs, hi the Cascade Mountains, sixty-one 

 miles east of Tacoma, on the line of the North- 

 ern Pacific Railroad. Green River is a small 

 rocky stream with picturesque banks, and 

 derives its name from the beautiful pale-green 

 hue of its waters. 



Among the most interesting of all the sum- 

 mer rest and pleasure places is the famous 

 "Hop Ranch" on the upper Snoqualmie River, 

 thirty or forty miles eastward from Seattle. 

 Here the dense forest opens, allowing fine free 

 views of the adjacent mountains from a long 

 stretch of ground which is half meadow, half 

 prairie, level and fertile, and beautifully diver- 

 sified with outstanding groves of spruces and 

 alders and rich flowery fringes of spiraea and 

 wild roses, the river meandering deep and 

 tranquil through the midst of it. On the por- 

 tions most easily cleared some three hun- 

 dred acres of hop-vines have been planted and 

 are now in full bearing, yielding, it is said, at 

 the rate of about a ton of hops to the acre. 

 They are a beautiful crop, these vines of the 



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