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these mills are among the largest and best of their kind in 
the world. The mills on Puget Sound and Hood’s canal 
have a capacity to produce forty million feet in a year. Next 
to lumbering comes farming. The Territory does not produce 
more than grain enough for its own consumption. The climate 
is too moist and cool for maize, peaches, melons, and sweet po- 
tatoes; but wheat, oats, Irish potatoes, and apples do well. The 
fern and sorrel trouble the farmers greatly. The territory has 
no manufactures, not even a woollen-mill. It is impossible now 
to say what will be the importance of the gold-placers found in 
the valleys of the Salmon and Clearwater Rivers; but ifall the 
men who have already gone thither remain there and find 
profitable employment in digging gold, mining will soon be 
the principal industry of the country. The chief present 
annual exports of Washington Territory may be set down at 
twenty million feet of lumber, five hundred barrels of 
salted fish, one thousand bushels of oysters, and some Bel- 
lingham Bay coal. The Territory bas no railroad or canal, 
and wagon-roads are few. -The Federal government has 
nearly completed a military road from Vancouver on the 
Columbia River to Bellingham Bay. The government cut 
a road from Steilacoom across the Cascade Mountains. by 
the Nahchess Pass in latitude 47° 15’, and is now engaged 
in opening a road from Walla Walla to Fort Benton on the 
Missouri River. There is no Federal fortification, arsenal, or 
navy-yard in Washington. There is a United States marine 
hospital at Port Townsend, and there are small military posts 
at the same place, at Steilacoon, Gray’s harbor, Vancouver, 
Walla Walla, Simcoe, and Colville. The Territory has few im- 
portant public institutions, and no important public buildings. 
The capitol building in Olympia is of wood; the Territorial pri- 
son is in Vancouver. There is a school called a college in 
Olympia, and there are numerous common-schools, Olympia, 
Steilacoom, Port Townsend, and Vancouver have each a 
weékly newspaper. The taxable property of the Territory, 
according to the assessor’s returns, is $3,300,000.—The settlers 
