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the other projects and all the 

 other public and private work 

 now in progress is a big one. 



A hospital has just been built, 

 five big warehouses have been 

 built, and four miles of trestle 

 are under construction, scattered 

 over nearly every mile of the 

 project. 



Shovels, scrapers, picks, axes, 

 tools, and equipment are liter- 

 ally fought for, being assem- 

 bled from all parts of the 

 Pacific Northwest as far as 

 Montana. The markets of 



PASSING UNDER THE BRIDGE 

 A raft of logs passing under a bridge 

 over the Lake Washington Canal at 

 Seattle. This canal, connecting Lake 

 Washington with Puget Sound, makes 

 a part of the great Seattle harbor, and 

 is especially useful just now in the 

 transportation of logs and lumber. 



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Seattle, Portland, and San Fran- 

 cisco are combed for supplies. 



Rail for the railroad has al- 

 ready arrived and is being bent 

 at Yaquina to the curve needed. 



The railroad is 60 per cent 

 on curves, so difficult is the 

 country. 



With the completion of the 

 last mile of spur into any 

 tract, a train arrives with 

 donkey engines and heavy 



IN THE SPRUCE FOREST 



Loggers in western Washington, photo- 

 graphed just after they had felled a big 

 spruce for one of the sawmills in the 

 Paget Sound region. The lumberjacks 

 in the northwest, and in all other lumber 

 regions as well, are working at high speed, 

 and ten of thousands of additional men 

 are wanted for the industry. 



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