VOLUNTEER PARK 
FISHING ON THE SKYKOMISH 
ON THE SCENIC BOULEVARDS 
PUGET SOUND AND THE OLYMPIC MTS. 
MT. RAINIER (14,519 FEET) 
SECOND AVE.-MT. RAINIER IN THE DISTANCE 
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT 
SNOW-CAPPED OLYMPIC RANGE 
SEATTLE STATISTICS FOR 1913 
Assessed valuation, $215,362,151. 
Bank clearings, $664,857,448. Deposits, $81,578,418. 
Number of banks, 30. 
Building permits, $9,321,115. Postal receipts, $1,344,248. 
Rainfall, 35 inches. 
Customs receipts, $1,473,626. Vessels entered, 2,149. 
Total net tonnage, 8,000,049. 
Paved streets, 203 miles; planked streets, 105 miles; 
graded streets, 642 miles; sewers, 402 miles; cluster lights, 
21 miles; street railway lines, 251 miles; cement walks, 885 
miles; water mains, 563 miles. 
Area of City—Land, 58.56 square miles; water 35.91 
miles. 
Water frontage available for industry and commerce, 140 
miles. 
Park area, 1,803 acres, 20 playgrounds. Public bathing 
pavilion conducted by Park Board. 
Annual value of salmon pack, Puget Sound and Alaska, 
is more than $27,000,000. 
Value of factory products (1909 census), $50,569,000. 
State coal output, 3,350,000 tons. 
Public schools include six high school and sixty-four 
graded schools. Attendance, 33,437; last school census 
showed 46,098 school children in Seattle. 
A home city, with 300 churches. Ten standard theaters. 
Seattle has the largest clay products, shoe, jewelry, and 
condensed milk plants, dry docks, brewery, fisheries, flour, 
coal, and lumber industries on the Pacific Coast. The 
center of a large, fertile, and only partially developed agri¬ 
cultural region. 
Location — The Hub of the Northwest. The gateway to 
Alaska and Orient. 
Climate — Roses bloom the year round. Warmed in 
winter by the Japanese current. Cooled in summer by 
ocean and mountain breezes. Average high temperature 
62 degrees. Average low temperature 40 degrees. Sun¬ 
stroke is unknown. Snow is rarely seen. Any slight 
snowfall that comes in the night always disappears before 
noon. 
Population — 1900 census, 80,671; 1910 census, 237,194; 
increase in decade, 194 per cent.; 1913, estimate, 301,670. 
Health Advantages — The equable climate, pure city 
water rising in the mountain glaciers and distributed by a 
great municipal water system, to this modern city with its 
complete drainage, sanitation, pure milk, and similar advan¬ 
tages, combine to make Seattle the healthiest city in the 
world. Death rate for 1913 was 8.37 per thousand. Infant 
death rate lowest of large world cities. 
Scenery — Snow-capped mountains whose peaks range 
from 8,000 to 14,500 feet form the east and west horizons of 
Seattle. The waters and islands of Puget Sound are on the 
west boundary of Seattle, while Lake Washington, 28 
miles long and from one and a half to four miles wide, forms 
the east boundary. Seattle, undoubtedly, has more varied 
and beautiful natural scenery than any other large city 
in the world. 
Light and Power — Municipal and private electric com¬ 
panies make Seattle the best-lighted city of the West and the 
cheapest-powered city for factories in the United States. 
The average industrial power rate is lower than that of 
Niagara. Special facilities are provided for locating factories 
in Seattle. 
Tourist Advantages — Ideal climate, seven transcon¬ 
tinental railroads, 60 steamship lines, 10,000 hotel rooms in 
radius of one mile, hundreds of beautiful side trips on salt 
and fresh water, 30 miles of city boulevard connecting 38 
parks, and thousands of miles of automobile roads, leading 
to fishing and hunting grounds and points of interest in this 
section ; the finest of theaters, the best of restaurants. And 
scarcely more than an hour’s ride away, a magnificent 
national park surrounding the most striking and beautiful 
mountain in America, easily reached by train or by a 
splendid automobile boulevard. 
FALLS OF THE SNOQUALMIE, 286 FEET HIGH 
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