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 .. . he region and madehimself the possessor of such information as en-abled him to contribute in 1883 an exhaustive articleon the Puget sound region, to a government publica-tion on the tide marshes of the United States. Thisreport has been referred to heretofore in these pagesin connection with Skagit county, but a few statis-tics from it touching the tide lands of Snohomishcounty are essential to the completeness of this n
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 .. . he region and madehimself the possessor of such information as en-abled him to contribute in 1883 an exhaustive articleon the Puget sound region, to a government publica-tion on the tide marshes of the United States. Thisreport has been referred to heretofore in these pagesin connection with Skagit county, but a few statis-tics from it touching the tide lands of Snohomishcounty are essential to the completeness of this nar-rative. The report states that the tide marsh lands inSnohomish county south of the Snohomish riverconsist principally of a tract of nearlv a hundredacres at Twelve Mile Point, near the King countyline, a marsh of similar area at Ten Mile Pointand one of fifty acres on Point Elliott, the aggregateamount diked being about fiftv acres. On the Snohomish. continues the report, isthe greatest amount of unreclaimed tide land to befound at any one place on Puget sound. The log-ging industry has carried settlements up the river,and hundreds of farms have been cleared out of. IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY CURRENT EVENTS, 1870-89 267 heavy timber, while the tide marshes have been al-lowed to lie unimproved or to fall into the hands ofspeculators. The Snohomish, near its mouth, di-vides into crooked channels, forming^ islands in thedelta. The main channels converge hut do notmeet, some flowing into Priest Point bay, whichopens toward the south or southwest. Ebey slough,the first channel to branch off from the main river,is twentv-five miles long, while a straight line fromits head to its outlet is only six miles. ()n the mainriver, one mile below the head of Ebey slough, isthe town of Lowell. From Lowell, a fresh watermarsh extends eight miles in a southeasterly direc-tion. The main portion of this marsh is south ofSnohomish City and on the opposite side of theriver. In some places it approaches
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