. Seattle and the Orient. werfrom Snoqualmie Falls, as well as thepower for electric lighting and rail- made a more remarkable growth with-in the past few years than its fishingtrade. It has grown from a very in-significant start to a business whicngives employment to several hundredpeople at the present time. The illus-trations shown herewith give a viewof the wholesale fish house of FrankV. List, formerly George S. List ctBrother. It is located at the foot ofLane Street, south of the Stetson-PostMill Companys property, and hasvery advantageous arrangements for 4^ SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. rece
. Seattle and the Orient. werfrom Snoqualmie Falls, as well as thepower for electric lighting and rail- made a more remarkable growth with-in the past few years than its fishingtrade. It has grown from a very in-significant start to a business whicngives employment to several hundredpeople at the present time. The illus-trations shown herewith give a viewof the wholesale fish house of FrankV. List, formerly George S. List ctBrother. It is located at the foot ofLane Street, south of the Stetson-PostMill Companys property, and hasvery advantageous arrangements for 4^ SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. receiving fisli from steamers and ship-ping by rail. Tiie house has been es-tablished three years, and is doing avery extensive business, principallyshipping from their fish in cold storage fish all the way from Olympia to Alas-ka, and employs anywhere from ten totwenty-five men. The market in theEast for Puget Sound fish is very largeand no difficulty is experienced infinding a ready salefor all the fish thatcan be The Kstablishment of Frank V. (Formerly owiud by Geo. 6. List.) to the Eastern market. Last year theincrease was fully 50 per cent. Thisyear Mr. List contemplates operatinghis own steamboat, and will then beable to greatly increase the amountof product he handles. He now buys THE TIMBEROF PUGET SOUND, Very few peopleoutside of the Stateof Washington realizethe vast importanceof the timber wealthof this state. It mightalso be stated thatfew people outside ofthose very familiarwith the subject, evenin the State, renlizethe importance of thegreat lumbering in-dustry now carriedon. Directly employ-ed, there are, approxi-mately, 22,000 peopleengaged in the lum-bering business in thewestern part of Wash-i n gto n , fully two-thirds of whom areupon Puget Sound,and the value oi theproduct which is turn-ed out will reach intothe millions. not a country inthe civilized worldwhich is not nowusing lumber shippedIrom Piiget Sound ;there is iiardly a stale Un
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