ITINERARY. 



SHASTA ROUTE. 



SEATTLE TO SAN FHANCISCO. 



On May 11, 1792, Capt, Robert Gray, of Boston, anchored in tlio 

 great river that he named Columbia, in honor of his ship, and hud 



the fomidation of our subsequent claim to the region 

 Washington. which it drains. The Hudson's Bay Co., whoso 



agents early visited the extreme Northwest, discour- 

 aged settlers, but at Tumwater, near Olympia, at the head of Puget 

 Sound, a permanent American settlement was esta1)Iished in 1845. 

 Marcus Wliitman and other missionaries settled near tlie site of 



Walla in 1836. but in 1847 W 



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by the Indians and the station was broken up. Conflicting claims 

 between the United States and Great Britain were adjusted by a 

 treaty July 17, 1846, wliich fixed the forty-ninth parallel as the inter- 

 national boundary. Oregon, as all this wild country was then called, 

 became a Territory on August 14, 1S48, and on March 2, 1853, the 

 part of it north of Columbia River was separated as the Territory of 



nn whinh wns arlrnittpH n>; a Rtnte Febrnarv 22. 1889. The 



Washing 



Washington has an area of 69,127 square miles and in 1910 



had a population of 1,141,990. 



The superb forests of Washington, illustrated in Plate II, are the 

 basis of its chief industries. Within it are 10 nation ;d forests, a 

 national park, and a national monument, wliich together cover more 



than one-fourth of the State. 



Coal is the principal mmeral resource of Washington. In the pro- 

 duction of this fuel the State holds first rank on the Pacific coast, the 

 output in 1913 having been 3,877,891 tons, valued at S9,243,137. 

 Wheat, grown chiefly in the eastern part of the State, is the prmcipal 

 agricultural product, Oats and barley are next in importance. 

 Western Washmgton, which has a moister climate than the eastern 

 part, produces large crops of hay. The fruit industry is developing 

 rapidly, apples in particular fuiding good markets in the eastern 

 cities and abroad. The waters of the State are full of fish, and the 

 salmon mdustry' is large. The high mountams and heavy rainfall 

 insure abundant water power, which will no doubt be increasmgly 

 utilized. 



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