CHAPTER III. 



Oregon Railway & 

 Navigation Company's steam- 

 ers leave Tacoma, for Seattle, 

 at four o'clock in the morn- 

 ig, and at six-thirty in the 

 / evening, so we were unable to 



see this portion of the sound 

 til our return trip. Seattle is another 

 those rushing, pushing, thriving, West- 

 a towns, whose energy and dash always 

 surprise Eastern people. The population of the city 

 is 15,000 souls; it has gas-works, water- works, and 

 a street railway, and does more business, and han- 

 dles more money each year than many an Eastern 

 city of 50,000 or more. 



The annual lumber shipments alone aggregate 

 over a million dollars, from ten saw-mills that cost 

 over four millions, and the value of the salmon-can- 

 ning product is nearly a million more. The soil of 

 the valleys adjacent to Seattle is peculiarly adapted 

 to hop-raising, and that industry is extensively car- 

 ried on by a large number of farmers. Some of the 

 largest and finest hop-ranches in the world are loca- 

 ted in the vicinity, and their product is shipped to 



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