Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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summer Chau-tauquas are held and many campers congregate. OTHER ISLANDS. A few minutes ride out of Seattle is Bainbridge Island, hav-ing forty miles of water front lined with summer homes or suit-able for camping sites. Tributary to both Seattle and Tacomaare Vashon and Maury Islands, practically one, comprising sometwenty-three thousand acres, which yield for these cities berries,fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and offer some of the most de-lightful sites for homes along their fifty miles of attractive shoreline. Fox, Anderson, and McNeils Islands are integral parts ofthe Bay Island country, a rich district tributary to Tacoma andoffering unlimited opportunities for campers who are alwayswelcomed by the hospitable ranchers. Hartstine Island main-tains one of the largest vineyards in the west, yielding deliciousgrapes which find their way to distant eastern markets. Numer-ous smaller islands are scattered about the Sound and insurepleasant retreats for all that love the simple life.
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WHAT YOU WILL SEE IN THE OLYMPICS. 38 The Beauties OLYMPIC PENINSULA. Lying between Hood Canal and the Pacific Ocean and ex-tending from the Strait of Juan de Fuca southward toward theChehalis river valley is the vast Olympic Peninsula, whose re-sources and wonders are probably less known than almost anyother section of the world. The central portion constitutes onegreat forest reserve within which is the Olympic National Monu-ment set apart by the government for the enjoyment of naturelovers. The population is distributed among the cities and townssituated on the level lands skirting the waterfront. This Monu-ment contains the most rugged mountains, the deepest canyons,the most turbulent rivers and the thickest forests in the state. The Peninsula is now reached both by steamer and automo-bile. Highways lead well up into the foothills from the citiesof Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Quilcene, Shelton,Aberdeen, Hoquiam, and Hood Canal points, and paissabletrails thread their way

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