. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . selected in 1872 as the Pacific coast terminus of theNorthern Pacific railroad, the site was covered with a denseforest. The population in 1875 was only 300, in 1880 itwas 760, in 1
. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . selected in 1872 as the Pacific coast terminus of theNorthern Pacific railroad, the site was covered with a denseforest. The population in 1875 was only 300, in 1880 itwas 760, in 1886 it was 6,907, in 1887 9,000, in 1888, 15,000,in 1889 25,000, in 1890, 30,000, and in 1898, about 50,000,The city is built upon a succession of benches or plateausbeginning at the head of Commencement bay, and slopinggradually upward to an elevation of about 300 feet, atthe point where the bay joins the broader water ofPuget sound. The landscapes and water views aresuperb. The Cascade range can be seen for nearly a hun-dred miles from north to south, and Mt. Rainier, oneof the loftiest snow peaks in the United States, rises to aheight of 14,532 feet, 10,000 feet of which are covered withsnow fields and glaciers. This superb mountain,which has no rival in the world for beauty andgrandeur, is in plain view from all the terraces of the new■city. Tacoma is, next to San Francisco, the most impor-. Tlie Northern Pacific Railroad. tant wheat-shipping port on the Pacific coast. It alsoships morfe lumber and more coal than any other port onthat coast. The wheat goes around Cape Horn to Liver-pool. The lumber goes to Calfornia, Mexico, SouthAmerica, China, and Australia, and the coal is chiefly con-sumed in San Francisco. Lumber is manfactured atthree large mills, one of which is the largest on Pugetsound. The coal is brought in by rail from mines aboutthirty miles distant in the foot hills of the Cascade moun-tains. The principal mining towns are Carbonado, Wilke-son and Spring Pra
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