New geographies . efore, that the ranchmenmust live far apart, and that a grazing countryhas very few people. The cattle and sheep are shipped east-ward in great numbers, even to Europe,to furnish meat, leather, and wool. world grow here, and some of them havebeen growing for a thousand years ormore. Many of the trees are as large round as anOrdinary living room, and several have beenfound to be over ninety feet in circumference,which is as much as the distance around many aschoolroom. The main limb on one of thesetrees, called the Grizzly Giant (Fig. 186), startsfrom the trunk two hundred fee
New geographies . efore, that the ranchmenmust live far apart, and that a grazing countryhas very few people. The cattle and sheep are shipped east-ward in great numbers, even to Europe,to furnish meat, leather, and wool. world grow here, and some of them havebeen growing for a thousand years ormore. Many of the trees are as large round as anOrdinary living room, and several have beenfound to be over ninety feet in circumference,which is as much as the distance around many aschoolroom. The main limb on one of thesetrees, called the Grizzly Giant (Fig. 186), startsfrom the trunk two hundred feet above ground,and measures six and one half feet in diameter,or more than most large trees in the East. Asingle giant tree will supply lumber enough tobuild a whole house. In such a region lumbering is natu-rally a flourishing industry, and the TffE WESTERN STATES 149 forests are being cut down very is true especially of Washingtonand Oregon and California, and theremany lumber mills on the lower are. Fig. 186. -The huge trunk of the Grizzly Glaut, in the redwood forest ofCalifornia. Columbia River, and along the shores ofPuget Sound. Find this sound on Figure180. The mountains and high plateausin other parts of the Western States alsobear extensive forests, and here, too,lumbering is an important industry. While there is fishing of various kindsalong the Pacific coast, salmon fishing is by far the most prominent. The salmonspends most of its life inthe ocean, but runs up ^^the rivers in order to lay its eggs in freshwater. These fish go upmany streams, from Califor-nia northward, and arecaught in immense quanti-ties. Great numbers, for ex-ample, run up the ColumbiaRiver, so that salmon fishingis very important there (). Trace this river. Most of the salmon caughtare canned, though some aresent away on ice as freshfish. Probably much of thecanned salmon that you haveseen has come from the can-neries either-near Portland,Oregon, on Puget Sound, orelse along
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