What to see in America . , threshes, and cleans thewheat, and packs it in sacks. Dry farming has madeproductive much formerly almost worthless land, and irri-gation has reclaimed enormous tracts. The Yakima Valleyin the southern central part of the state is one of the largestirrigated areas in the West. Probably no part of Washington appeals to the travelerquite so forcibly as the Puget Sound country. The Sounditself is a magnificent waterway with a shore line of 1800miles. The rapidity with which some of the places borderingon it have developed into affluent modern cities is amazing. In 1845
What to see in America . , threshes, and cleans thewheat, and packs it in sacks. Dry farming has madeproductive much formerly almost worthless land, and irri-gation has reclaimed enormous tracts. The Yakima Valleyin the southern central part of the state is one of the largestirrigated areas in the West. Probably no part of Washington appeals to the travelerquite so forcibly as the Puget Sound country. The Sounditself is a magnificent waterway with a shore line of 1800miles. The rapidity with which some of the places borderingon it have developed into affluent modern cities is amazing. In 1845 the first perma-nent American settlementwas established at Tum-water near Olympia atthe head of the mills were built forgrinding grain and sawinglumber. A hamlet sooncame into being at Olym-pia, now the capital, andknown as the Pearl ofPuget Sound. When thefirst governor of the Ter-ritory arrived there, in1853, he found it a rain-drenched mudhole. Thehouse he occupied hasSnoqualmie Falls been preserved. It was. Washington 527 originally proposed that the territory should be called Colum-bia, and when the name of the countrys first Presidentfound more favor in Congress the unsuccessful suggestionwas made that this name should have the form of Washing-tonia to avoid confusion with the nations capital. Olympiais the shipping point of many hundred thousand povnidsof oysters, clams, and ^shrimps every vessels can come ,:up the inlet to it fromPuget Sound at high tide,but at low tide a long-mud flat is uncovered,and even small boats can-not reach the wharf. Seattle, queen of athousand waterways,and the largest of Wash-ington cities, is perchedon a ridge east of theSound where there is awonderfully large anddeep harbor at its verydoor. The outer pillarsof the crescent harbor. West Point and Alki Point, are fivemiles apart. At the latter place a trading post was estab-lished in 1851 by a handful of settlers who had made anoverland journey of one hundred and eight
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