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THE OLYMPIC COUNTRY 
cannot be found ten or more acres of good land comparatively 
easy to clear, and the timber on all these lands will be valuable 
in a few years and be a help instead of a hindrance in establish- 
ing a home. 
The principal streams draining this slope are the Quillyhute 
and its four branches, the Dickey, the Solduck, the Killawah, 
and the Bogachiel ; the Hoh, Quects, Quinault, and Humptulips. 
Tliey are all clear, cold, rapid streams, capable of floating logs 
and being canoed considerable distances. They teem with sal- 
mon and trout. The Quinault salmon, peculiar to that stream, 
is a short, thick fish, weighing from three to seven pounds and 
said to be the finest variety of salmon on this coast. Oppor- 
tunities for developing good water-power at very small cost are 
numerous along these streams, and especially so in the moun- 
tains. Game is plentiful, and .it would be a ])aradise for the 
hunter were it not so difficult of access. In addition to elk and 
bear, before mentioned, are deer, mountain goat, cougar, beaver, 
otter, fisher, wildcat, marmot, geese, ducks, grouse, partridge, 
quail, pelican, and many smaller or less desirable birds and 
animals. Off' the beach from Gray’s harbor to ])oint Grenville is 
one of the few sea-otter ranges of the world. It still furnishes a 
few hides of that valuable fur to market each year. 
The country rocks of the mountains are syenite, gneiss, quartz- 
ite, i)rotogene, crystalline and chlorite schists, slate (hard black 
flinty to soft green talc) shale, sandstone, trap, and basalt. In 
the foothills on tlie west and along the coast the formation is 
])rincipally shales, sandstone, cement gravel, conglomerate (in 
one place near IIoli Head, boulder conglomerate), clays and drift 
gravel and sand. Limestone much criss-crossed with small 
quartz seams is found in a few places. Claj^s are especially 
al)undant and good-appearing, and, so far as tried, give very ex- 
cellent analytic returns. Beds of partially formed lignite are 
abundant along the coast between the Quinault and Quill 3 diute 
rivers. In a bluff, a few miles south of the mouth of the Hoh 
river, four seams of such lignite, from 18 inches to 3 feet thick, 
show, lying horizontally one above the other, and separated b,y 
4 to 12 feet of sand or clay or both. In this lignite the form of 
roots, trunks, and limbs of trees, also the grain of the wood, 
show veiy distinctly, and occasional!}^ pieces of Avood, but little 
changed, are found. Small seams of very good coal crop out in 
several ]daces in sandstone and shale, but the}" are too small, so 
far as found, to l)e of any value. Between Pillar point and 
