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mountains back of the city, and with all these 

 natural resources and advantages at her command, 

 Seattle is sure to become a great metropolis in the 

 near future. The climate of the Puget Sound coun- 

 try is temperate; snow seldom falls before Christ- 

 mas, never to a greater depth than a few inches in 

 the valleys and lowlands, and seldom lies more 

 than a few days at a time. My friend, Mr. W. 

 A. Perry, of Seattle, in a letter dated December 6, 

 says: 



4 k The weather, since your departure, has been 

 very beautiful. The morning of your arrival was 

 the coldest day we have had this autumn. Flowers 

 are now blooming in the gardens, and yesterday a 

 friend who lives at Lake Washington sent me a box 

 of delicious strawberries^ picked from the vines in 

 his garden in the open air on December 4, while 

 you, poor fellow, were shivering, wrapped up in 

 numberless coats and furs, in the arctic regions of 

 Chicago. Why don't you emigrate? There's lots of 

 room for you on the Sumas, where the flowers are 

 ever blooming, where the summer never dies, where 

 the good Lord sends the tyee (great) salmon to your 

 very door; and where, if you want to shoot, you 

 have your choice from the tiny jacksnipe to the 

 cultus bear or the lordly elk." 



There are thousands of acres of natural cranberry 

 marshes on the shores of the sound, where this fruit 

 grows wild, of good quality, and in great abundance. 

 It has not been cultivated there yet, but fortunes 

 will be made in that industry in the near future. 



But the crowning glory of Puget Sound, and its 

 greatest source of wealth, are the vast forests of 



