Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE BAKER RIVER COUNTRY he view is from a photograph looking from the mountains in Skagit County into Whatcom County, showing Baker River, Mt. Baker and far to the right, Mt. .Shuksan. CHAPTER SEVEN. WHATCOM COUNTY: BELLINGHAM, BLAINE, SUM AS, &c. Whatcom—An Indian word meaning noisy water. Whatcom County lies on the boundary ofBritish Columbia, stretching from the Straitsof Georgia to the peaks of the Cascade Moun-tains—24 miles wide and 100 miles long. Theeastern half or more of the county is in-cluded in the national forest reserv
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE BAKER RIVER COUNTRY he view is from a photograph looking from the mountains in Skagit County into Whatcom County, showing Baker River, Mt. Baker and far to the right, Mt. .Shuksan. CHAPTER SEVEN. WHATCOM COUNTY: BELLINGHAM, BLAINE, SUM AS, &c. Whatcom—An Indian word meaning noisy water. Whatcom County lies on the boundary ofBritish Columbia, stretching from the Straitsof Georgia to the peaks of the Cascade Moun-tains—24 miles wide and 100 miles long. Theeastern half or more of the county is in-cluded in the national forest reserve, withMount Baker, 10,827 feet high, in the centerol the county. It is one of the importantcounties on tide water, and has an area of2,226 square miles and a population of about50,000. The climate is mild and are no severe storms nor sultry heatand no severe cold. It is estimated that thecounty has three billion feet of standingtimber. This is its greatest source of western half of the county, outside ofLimbering, has a
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