Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . ty seat of SkagitCounty. It is situated on the Skagit, thelargest navigable river in Western Wash-ington, at a point ten miles from sea,in the western part of the county. Thecity has excellent transportation is on the coast line of the Great NorthernRailway, 69 miles north of Seattle and mid-way between Everett and Bellingham. Ithas regular steamer service with Seattle andTacoma. It has one of the finest roadsystems in the country, and is a division point of the new interurban system travers-ing the county. The rapid gr
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . ty seat of SkagitCounty. It is situated on the Skagit, thelargest navigable river in Western Wash-ington, at a point ten miles from sea,in the western part of the county. Thecity has excellent transportation is on the coast line of the Great NorthernRailway, 69 miles north of Seattle and mid-way between Everett and Bellingham. Ithas regular steamer service with Seattle andTacoma. It has one of the finest roadsystems in the country, and is a division point of the new interurban system travers-ing the county. The rapid growth in therecent past, and its present solid prosi)erity,comes from its being the most importantcenter in the great productive territoryknown as the Skagit Flats, which extendthirty miles along the river, with a varyingwidth of five to ten miles. This sectionproduces annually a million and a halfbushels of oats and barley, 30,000 tons ofhay, sustains 10,000 cows and grows awealth of apples, pears, plums, cherries and 106 Paget Sound and Western Washington. 1 The Steamer Dock with a ; SCENES ABOUT MT. VERNON Hinpse of the Skagit River. 2 The City High Cream Companys Milk Cannery. 3 Portion of First Street. 4 The Mt. berries of every description. In the 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 pr
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