. A complete geography. e removed from the forest in Washington. A small engine,used to draw the logs to the railway, is also shown. THE WESTERN STATES 159 wonderful sight may be seen. The tree bends slowly over, quickens itsmovement, then falls to the ground with a mighty roar, breaking good-sized trees, against which it falls, as if they were twigs. After the branches are removed, the tree is sawed into logs of differentlengths, as twenty-four, thirty-two, forty-eight feet, and these are draggedto a railway which leads up into the forest. Several of these sections arethen fastened together,
. A complete geography. e removed from the forest in Washington. A small engine,used to draw the logs to the railway, is also shown. THE WESTERN STATES 159 wonderful sight may be seen. The tree bends slowly over, quickens itsmovement, then falls to the ground with a mighty roar, breaking good-sized trees, against which it falls, as if they were twigs. After the branches are removed, the tree is sawed into logs of differentlengths, as twenty-four, thirty-two, forty-eight feet, and these are draggedto a railway which leads up into the forest. Several of these sections arethen fastened together, one behind the other, and dragged between therails to the foot of the mountain several miles away. There they arepiled upon flat cars and taken to the mills, a single section sometimesoccupying an entire car. Many go to Tacoma and Seattle, where thereare enormous sawmills. Since there is so much lumber, many of thestreets of Tacoma, and other places in this region, are paved with thickplanks instead of stone or Fig. 156. Harvesting wheat in the great wheat fields of the Palouse region of Washington. By thismachine, drawn by many mules, the wheat is both cut and the seed removed at the sametime. A farm must be A^ery large to make such an expensive machine pay. Agriculture. — Farming is carried on extensively in the well-watered section of the Northwest (Fig. 156). This is a wheat-pro-ducing country like the Red River valley. Indeed, some of thefarms are even larger than the Dalrymple farm (p. 126). Barley isanother common grain and much hay is also raised. During harvestseason the air is so dry that both hay and grain may be left out forweeks with little danger of being spoiled by rain. Great quantities of fruit are also raised in this region. In thenorth apples, pears, and grapes are produced; but in the south, asfor instance near Stockton, and Sacramento, the capital of Cali-fornia, are groves of oranges, lemons, olives, and figs, as well as othertrees which grow o
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