. 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 . f this basin are a score of valleys, manya one of which is larger than some European principali-ties, all of which are well watered, and clothed withnutritious grass. In the eastern section th
. 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 . f this basin are a score of valleys, manya one of which is larger than some European principali-ties, all of which are well watered, and clothed withnutritious grass. In the eastern section the temperature is decidedlyhigher in summer and lower in winter than in the westernsection—the average indicating respectively 85^ and 30^.The rainfall is only half as heavy; but it has proved suffi-cient for cereal crops. From June to September there isno rain, the weather being perfect for harvesting. Theheat is great, but not nearly so oppressive as a much lowergrade would be in the Eastern States, and the nights areinvariably cool. The winters are short, but occasionallysevere. Snow seldom falls before Christmas, and some-times lies from four to six weeks, but usually disappearsin a few days. The so-called Chinook, a warm windwhich blows periodically through the mountain passes, isof great benefit to the country. It comes from the south-west across the great thermal 3tream known as the Japan. Through Washington, 219 current, and the warm^ moist atmosphere melts thedeepest snow in the course of a few hours. The soil is a dark loam, of great depth, composed ofalluvial deposits and decomposed lava overlying a claysubsoil. The constituents of this soil adapt the landpeculiarly to the production of wheat. Agriculture is the leading industry, ^nd wheat is theprincipal product of the entire country. Its superiorquality and great weight have made it famous in the grainmarkets of the world. The entire surplus of the wheatcrop is exported by sea to Liverpool and other Europeanmarket
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