Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . f the soil from its re-claimed forest lands. The waterways areso extensive that all corners are reached bysteamers, and travel is cheap and freightconveniently handled in all parts of thecounty. THE NAVY YARD A little more than twenty years ago, whenthe future importance of the Pacific Coastbegan to dawn upon the minds of easternmen, Congress decided that there should bea naval repair station in the Northwest. Thecommission to whom was left the selectionof a site, after careful examination, recom-mended the north shore of Port Orchar
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . f the soil from its re-claimed forest lands. The waterways areso extensive that all corners are reached bysteamers, and travel is cheap and freightconveniently handled in all parts of thecounty. THE NAVY YARD A little more than twenty years ago, whenthe future importance of the Pacific Coastbegan to dawn upon the minds of easternmen, Congress decided that there should bea naval repair station in the Northwest. Thecommission to whom was left the selectionof a site, after careful examination, recom-mended the north shore of Port Orchard Bay,in Kitsap County. Washington, as offeringthe best advantages for this purpose. Hereat times may be seen different types ofUncle Sams best fighting machines. In theplacid waters of the bay ride grim, gray bat-tleships and cruisers. Long, lithe torpedoboats and powerful monitors move amongthem and the lesser craft of the mosquitofleet dart to and fro, across the harbor. Inthe yard the clang of hammer and the crash 142 Paget Sound and Western Washington. O ho S5 Pugei Sound and Western Washington 143
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