. Seattle and the Orient. act lends all tne moreweight to the enterprise andenergy displayed by the Seattle con-cern and shows that houses here are quarters in this city, is one of thelargest steamship companies on tliePacific Coast, and in order to get acomprehensive idea of how extensivethey are, the following list of vesselswhich they operate is enumerated:Steamships Queen. Santa Rosa. Cot-tage City, State of California. City ofTopeka, Coos Bay, Santa Cruz, WallaWalla, City of Pueblo, Corona, Coracao,Alki, Bonita, Gipsy, Umatilla, Senator,Orizaba, Alex. Duncan and Willamette,having a total
. Seattle and the Orient. act lends all tne moreweight to the enterprise andenergy displayed by the Seattle con-cern and shows that houses here are quarters in this city, is one of thelargest steamship companies on tliePacific Coast, and in order to get acomprehensive idea of how extensivethey are, the following list of vesselswhich they operate is enumerated:Steamships Queen. Santa Rosa. Cot-tage City, State of California. City ofTopeka, Coos Bay, Santa Cruz, WallaWalla, City of Pueblo, Corona, Coracao,Alki, Bonita, Gipsy, Umatilla, Senator,Orizaba, Alex. Duncan and Willamette,having a total carrying capacity of 32,- SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. 17 495. The routes operated are practi-cally five in number, as follows: Cali-fornia, southern coast, between SanFrancisco and San Diego, California,at which all the ports, large and small,lying between those places are visited;the next is the Sian Francisco, BritishColumbia and Puget Sound, betweenSan Francisco and Seattle, which alsoincludes Victoria and Vancouver, Brit-. SoME Ships of the Pacific Coast Co ish Columbia; the next route or divi-sion is the line plying between PugetSound and Alaska, which includes allpoints on Lynn Canal, as far north asSitka; the next is San Francisco toHumboldt Bay, a distinct service beingperformed between the southernmetropolis and Eureka, California;then there is the San Francisco andMexican route, which consists of a line of steamers plying between San Fran-cisco and Guaymas, Mexico, and vari-ous intermediate ports. In addition tOthese steamship routes, the Pacific-Company has several lines of railway,,which they also operate—one of thesethe Columbia and Puget Sound Rail-road is used largely for coal purposesout of Seattle, and was, by the way, thefirst railroad that Seattle ever luldition to thisline, they operate the-Fort Townsend audiSouthern under thehead of the divisionand the Port Towns-end Southern underthe title of Olympiadivision. Besidesthese roads they als
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