An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . IN THE STANWOOD SRCTION y .•>: NEW YOH«:PUBLIC ilWAKY CITIES AND TOWNS 35;J has continued to be one of the best-conducted on thesound and an important agent in the distributionof trade. The first instaUment of fish for this can-nery known as the Friday fish cannery, consisted ofa thousand fish, whicli were converted into seventhousand cans of extra quality canned sahnon. Thecannery, as first opened, had a capacity of
An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . IN THE STANWOOD SRCTION y .•>: NEW YOH«:PUBLIC ilWAKY CITIES AND TOWNS 35;J has continued to be one of the best-conducted on thesound and an important agent in the distributionof trade. The first instaUment of fish for this can-nery known as the Friday fish cannery, consisted ofa thousand fish, whicli were converted into seventhousand cans of extra quality canned sahnon. Thecannery, as first opened, had a capacity of betweenfour and five thousand cases per day and employedfifty men. Stan wood became an incorporated town of thefourth class in September, 1903. The first officerschosen were the following: Mayor, D. O. Pearson;councilman, O. R. Allen, Ira Galloupe, Tver John-son, H. Hafsted, Charles Chadbourne. The fol-lowing year the municipality erected a town hall onthe corner of Irvine and Oliver streets at a costof seven hundred dollars. The town has not yetacquired its own water system, and that necessityis furnished by water works installed in 1888 byn. Orchard, now owned by
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