Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE NEW TACOMA BUILDING This new office building was erected jointly by the Commercial Club and tha Weyerhaeuser Timber is a Class A concrete and steel structure. The two top floors were designed for and are used exclusively by TheCommercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. The Clubs suites contain a banquet hall, dining rooms, reception,smoking, library and reading rooms, billiard and pool rooms, offices and committee rooms, kitchen, etc., all of thefinest character. The head offices of the Weyerhaeuser timber and lumber man
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . THE NEW TACOMA BUILDING This new office building was erected jointly by the Commercial Club and tha Weyerhaeuser Timber is a Class A concrete and steel structure. The two top floors were designed for and are used exclusively by TheCommercial Club and Chamber of Commerce. The Clubs suites contain a banquet hall, dining rooms, reception,smoking, library and reading rooms, billiard and pool rooms, offices and committee rooms, kitchen, etc., all of thefinest character. The head offices of the Weyerhaeuser timber and lumber manufacturing interests of the North-west, are here, and many prominent Tacoma busine,ss concerns have offices in the new building, the erection ofwhich was completed in TACOMAS NEW SKY LINE, LOOKING FROM THE WATERWAY CHAPTER THREE. PIERCE COUNTY: TACOMA, MT. RAINIER-TACOMA, PUYALLUP, &c. Pierce Crmnty was named in honor of President Franklin Pierce. Pierce County, with a population of 121,-000, is one of the most important in thestate. Its area of 1,800 square miles occu-pies much of the upper reaches of PugetSound, taking in the Rainier National Parkand Mount Rainier-Tacoma, 14,526 feet abovesea level, covered with eternal snow, an end-less scene of majestic grandeur, giving thecounty a greater variety of elevations andmore beautiful and startling scenery thanany other county in the United States. Ithas about 125 miles of salt-water shorelands, with innumerable bays and inlets andseveral important islands. Its central partis one great coal field, covered with forests,producing annually about 1,000,000 tons ofcoal. Its rivers possess almost immeasur- able water power. Cereals are successfullyraised; dairying is one of the most import-ant industri
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