. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. , 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 elevato
. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. , 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 the great transcontinental lines of Tacomas harbor. Plans for additional docks, larger than those shown and adjoining them,are being prepared and the opening of the Panama Canal will probably see these structures completed. Berthed in the thirty-five foot channel, .i^vL^ JaS. ONE OF TACOMAS MANY BIG SAWMILLS.—The panorama above illustrates one of the largest of the many large sawmills in manufacture, together with the manufacture of wood products, is of great importance among the industrial operations of the cityand of the Puget Sound country. Tacoma has for years been one of the principal lumber producing centers of the world, the cut for 1911amounting to ,000 feet, being valued at §7,000,000. The mill shown below is in reality two mills, and does both a rail and cargo business,its ocean dock, equipped with electric cranes and every other known appurtenance for the quick and economical handling of lumber, appearing inthe far background, being on the open roadstead and connected to the millyards by an electric tramway. The State of Washington, with the Stateof Oregon and the Canadian province of British Columbia, comprise the last great timbered region on the American C
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