Identifier: officialnorthern00nort (find matches)
Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e goodorder of the reservation is enforced by a justice of the peaceand constables elected by the Indians themselves. Tacoma (1,935 ^^^iles from St. Paul; population, 40,000) isthe western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad and thepoint where it meets the commerce of the Pacific Ocean. Itis situated upon the tide water of the Pacific near the head ofPuget Sound, and occupies a commanding position both as aseaport and a railroad centre. The arm of the Sound uponwhich the city fronts is called Commencement Bay, and fur-nishes an excellent harbor, where the largest ocean steamersand sailing vessels lie at anchor or receive their cargoes ofcoal, lumber, wheat, and other products of the region, at thespacious wharves, coal bunkers and warehouses. Tacoma has had an extraordinarily rapid growth. Whenselected (1872) as the Pacific Coast terminus of the NorthernPacific Railroad, the site was covered with a dense forest. Thepopulation in 1875 ^^as only 300, in 1880 it was 760, in 1886 it
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344 The Northern Paeific Raiboad. was 6,907, in 1887, 9,000, in 1888, 15,000, and in 1889, 25,000.The city is built upon a succession of benches or plateauxbeginning at the head of Commencement Bay, and slopinggradually upward to an elevation of about 300 feet, at thepoint where the Bay joins the broader waters of Puget Sound.The landscapes and water views are superb. The Cascaderange can be seen for nearly a hundred miles from north tosouth, and Mt. Tacorna, one of the loftiest snow peaks inthe United States, rises to a height of 14,444 ^eet, 10,000feet of which are covered with snow fields and glaciers.This superb mountain, which has no rival in the world forbeauty and grandeur is in plain view from all the terracesof the new city. Tacoma is, next to San Francisco, themost important wheat-shipping port on the Pacific Coast.It also ships more lumber and more coal than any other porton that coast. The wheat goes around Cape Horn to Liver-pool. The lumber goes to California, Mexico, So

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