. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. T r~. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF TACOMA AND VICINITY; PACIFl WHILE far-famed as a city of lovely homes; while a leader in the wholesale and jobbing business of the Pacific Coast; while a great wheat-shipping point and distributing center. Tacoma is, primarily and fundamentally, a manufacturing city, and will always continue as such. Thisfor two reasons: First, within sixty miles of Tacoma over 250,000 horse-power of hydro-electric energy—the cheapest power in the world—is now being generated, while more than a million horse-power can be ge
. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. T r~. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF TACOMA AND VICINITY; PACIFl WHILE far-famed as a city of lovely homes; while a leader in the wholesale and jobbing business of the Pacific Coast; while a great wheat-shipping point and distributing center. Tacoma is, primarily and fundamentally, a manufacturing city, and will always continue as such. Thisfor two reasons: First, within sixty miles of Tacoma over 250,000 horse-power of hydro-electric energy—the cheapest power in the world—is now being generated, while more than a million horse-power can be generated, as soon as demand warrants, in the streams and torrents plungingfrom the Cascade and Olympic Mountains to the sea. , Tacoma is nearer by forty miles than any other city of the Pacific Northwestto the only coking coal fields west of the Missouri River, and this coal reaches tidewater first at Tacoma. To these inalienable advantages, Tacomais now adding a third, a good illustration of which appears in the foreground of the above birds-eye view. Ta
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