Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . e deltasection Sliagit county has reclaimed 42,000acres by a system of dikes and drainagedistricts, a section which is nowhere sur-passed for great crops. The lumber inter-ests were among the first causes to bringinhabitants to Mt. Vernon, and the cityshares in the great industry today, having anumber of saw and shingle mills. is one of the principal dairy mar-kets in the state, with two large milk con-densers which pay the dairymen of Skagitcounty an average of $80,000 per month for milk. Among other industries are a fruit
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . e deltasection Sliagit county has reclaimed 42,000acres by a system of dikes and drainagedistricts, a section which is nowhere sur-passed for great crops. The lumber inter-ests were among the first causes to bringinhabitants to Mt. Vernon, and the cityshares in the great industry today, having anumber of saw and shingle mills. is one of the principal dairy mar-kets in the state, with two large milk con-densers which pay the dairymen of Skagitcounty an average of $80,000 per month for milk. Among other industries are a fruitcannery, machine shops, sash and box fac-tory and a number of other small enter-prises. The city has a fine public schoolsystem, a dozen religious societies, manyfraternal bodies, and a progressive Com-mercial Club. The county has here a finebrick court house, and there are many solidbrick and cement business structures; threesolid banks, two progressive newspapers,many fine modern homes, a modern sewersystem, a gravity water system, and wellpaved PACIFIC COAST CONDENSED MILK COMPANY PLANT, MT. VERNON Paget Sound and Western Washington 107
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