Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . and the Burlington sys-tem, which routes trains over the GreatNorthern and Northern Pacific; spread outlike a fan north, east and south, connectingSeattle with every part of the United are ten different steamship companiesoperating lines to the Orient, the HawaiianIslands, South America, the Atlantic U. and to Europe, with two lines toAlaska out of Seattle. A large number ofsailing craft, steamers and steam schooners,for charter, are engaged in carrying freight,principally lumber, grain and flour. Alto- gether th
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . and the Burlington sys-tem, which routes trains over the GreatNorthern and Northern Pacific; spread outlike a fan north, east and south, connectingSeattle with every part of the United are ten different steamship companiesoperating lines to the Orient, the HawaiianIslands, South America, the Atlantic U. and to Europe, with two lines toAlaska out of Seattle. A large number ofsailing craft, steamers and steam schooners,for charter, are engaged in carrying freight,principally lumber, grain and flour. Alto- gether the citys ocean commerce for theyear 1911, including foreign and domesticexports and imports, reached the enormoustotal of $109,276,290. Twenty lines of inlandwater routes are covered between Vancou-ver and Victoria to the north, and Tacomaand Olympia to the south, stopping at twohundred landings daily, with Seattle as theirterminal point. There are twenty-threebanks in Seattle, with a stock valuation of$7,655,000. The clearings for 1911 were$552,640, Looking across Magnolia BiuH. Seattle, and the Sound to the Olympic iVlounlains Puget Sound and Western IVashingion 81 RENTONRenton is a city of 3,000 population locatedat the foot of Lake Washington, ten milesfrom Seattle. It is reached by the NorthernPacific, the Oregon-Washington and the Chi-cago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroads,while two electric roads give frequent con-nection with Seattle and Tacoma. Renton isalready an important industrial and manu-facturing center. Two coal mines employinglarge crews are in active operation, andthere is, also, a car manufacturing plant, aglassware factory, brick and terra cottaworks, and an ice plant, besides lumber andshingle mills. With the completion of theLake Washington Canal Renton will be ac-cessible to ocean-going steamers, and haveunsurpassed shipping facilities for transpor-tation of products of large and small manu-factories by water as well as by rail. Thetown is supp
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