. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. TACOMAS NEW GATEWAY TO THE ORIENT.—Typical of the cargo handlins development on Tacomaa harbor is the above panoramicview of the western terminals of one of the newest American transcontinental lines and the American terminus of one of the latest foreign steamshipcompanies, owned and with headquarters in the new Orient, to enter into a traffic alliance with an American rail system. This terminal has beencreated within the past three years and is but the first unit of a development being made to care for the immense and weekly incr
. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. TACOMAS NEW GATEWAY TO THE ORIENT.—Typical of the cargo handlins development on Tacomaa harbor is the above panoramicview of the western terminals of one of the newest American transcontinental lines and the American terminus of one of the latest foreign steamshipcompanies, owned and with headquarters in the new Orient, to enter into a traffic alliance with an American rail system. This terminal has beencreated within the past three years and is but the first unit of a development being made to care for the immense and weekly increasing trade betweenand through Tacoma and the Far East. Three years ago the clams spurted where these great warehouses now stand and duck hunters shot attheir winged targets from blinds on the sites of the buildings when the tide was out. To the right of the grain elevator and wheat warehouse, along industrial waterway is now being dredged as the basis for production of further tonnage to be handled by these terminals and the terminalsoperated by other of
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