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In regard to the Olympic Highway. It begins a short distance north 
of Island Lake a little north of Shelton, crosses the Skokomish 
and passes through Potlatch and on north down the west shore of 
the canal to Quilcene, north and west to Sequim, then to Pt. Angeles 
Piedmont, across Lake Crescent by ferry, Soleduck, or properly, 
Sol Due, through Beaver to Mora near the mouth of the Quillayute. 
Prom there it will go by the best route they can survey, south to 
Taho at the mouth of the Quinault Reservation where it will connect 
with the Chehalis county roads. The Gray's Harbor country, and by 
the way, that id the present name of Chehalis County, is a very 
rich and prosperous section, Aberdeen,Cosmopolis and Hoquiam are 
almost one town and a solid waterfront odf saw mills. These mills 
do a large cargo trade with the west coast, San Francisco, San Pedro 
and other points, but I do not think they have enough water on the 
bar to allow of the larger vessels which might trade on the South 
American coast. Much of the very finest timber in the country is 
standing in the Gray's Harbor country, including a large amount of 
spruce, the finest of which is used for sounding boards etc., in 
pianos, and also I heard some tine ago that they were exporting a 
lot of it for aeroplane propellers. Did you ever see a country so 
cut up by streams as the watershed of the streams running into 
Grays Harbor? The spruce loves the valley lands where there is 
plenty of moisture and grows to very large size, it is a rdd clayey 
formation and very good land. The Milwaukee owns a lagge amount of 
timber in differeht portions of the Peninsula and it looks as if 
in a very few years they would have a track round the entire penin¬ 
sula. 
That S&rgossa sea must be a very interesting bit of the 
world. I suppose it lies somewhere south of 60 north lat. I have 
been looking it up m my Enclopaedia, and find it much south of 
that. I have an old Appleton of the vintage of '75, and it is very 
