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Identifier: beautiesofstateo00gile (find matches)
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
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,and the homes of the first Territorial Governor, Isaac I. Stevens, andGeneral R. H. Milroy are still to be seen. Trips should include: Tumwater, Nisqually River, Tumwater Falls—trolley cars, paved road.Clear Lake, 30 miles; Summit Lake, 13 miles; Black Lake, 5 miles; Long and Patterson Lakes, 5 miles; Talcotts Lake, 8 miles; Blooms and Hewitts Lakes, 2 miles.Tenino Stone Quarry and oil prospects; Bordeaux Logging Camps.Hartstine, Quaxin, Stretch and many other small islands.Shelton, Union City, Skokomish River Valley and Lake Cushman, 45 miles distant; Olympic Mountains and Canal always in sight.Grays Harbor and the beach resorts; also all upper Sound points. ABERDEEN AND HOQUIAM: Two cities on Grays Harbor, con-nected by electric interurban. The gateway to the Olympics by thesouthern route. Combined population about 29,000 (over 18,000 in Aber-deen), an increase of nearly 400 per cent in 14 years, due chiefly tolumbering and fishing industries, but farming and dairying are gaining
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IN AND ABOUT TACOMA. State of Washington 109 Near by are some of the largest trees in the state. Splendid highways,including the Olympic, lead in various directions, while the broad, firmocean beaches a short distance away offer miles of excellent motor racetracks. Three transcontinental trains serve the district. Suggested trips: Cosmopolis, a pretty city of 1,200 people, just across the ChehalisRiver. A trolley line connects it with Aberdeen. Cohasset, Westport, Pacific, Sun-set and Moclips beaches, by au-to, train or boat—ideal sum-mer resorts. Point Grenville and Cape Eliza-beth, bold headlands of theOlympics on either side of theQuiniault River; near by aresporting grounds of the sealions. Montesano, county seat, at junc-tion of Wynooche with the Che-halis River (boat, train or au-to). Land near by produces 125bushels of oats or 80 tons ofrutabagas to the acre. Around the harbor visiting Whal-ing station, Government jettyand light house; see crab fish-eries; enjoy ocean swell.

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