. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. I IN THE FLOrR-MILLING DISTRICT.—Taonma is the largest flour-millinE; center west of Minneapolis, and one of the principal cerealmanufacturing points of the United States, There are ten flour, cereal and feed mills which, in 1011, produced $6,850,000 worth of finishedproducts. The flour-milling plants have an average daily capacity of 2,500 to 3,000 barrels. Tacoma flours go to consumers all over the world,persistent, well-directed publicity having made the various brands household words in thousands of homes. The Orient is perhap
. Tacoma, the city with a snow-capped mountain in its dooryard. I IN THE FLOrR-MILLING DISTRICT.—Taonma is the largest flour-millinE; center west of Minneapolis, and one of the principal cerealmanufacturing points of the United States, There are ten flour, cereal and feed mills which, in 1011, produced $6,850,000 worth of finishedproducts. The flour-milling plants have an average daily capacity of 2,500 to 3,000 barrels. Tacoma flours go to consumers all over the world,persistent, well-directed publicity having made the various brands household words in thousands of homes. The Orient is perhaps the largestforeign customer of the Tacoma mills, its demand affording outbound steamers and sailing vessels from Puget Sound full cargoes practicallythe year around. Indeed, the demand in 1011, from the Orient, was so heavy that two lines of steamers, whose principal American terminals areelsewhere on Puget Sound than Tacoma. sent practically all of their steamers to Tacoma for the major portion of their Oriental and European demand of the Uni
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