. Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes . ma— Forty miles south of Seattle on Puget Sound is Tacoma, a prosperous city of 50,000people. It has a magnificent harbor with excellentdockage facilities, having on its water front whatin accounted the greatest warehouse in the are to be seen at all times vessels from all overthe world loading lumber at the mammoth saw millsof the city or taking on coal or grain. From thiscity grand old Mount Tacoma, or Ranier,
. Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes . ma— Forty miles south of Seattle on Puget Sound is Tacoma, a prosperous city of 50,000people. It has a magnificent harbor with excellentdockage facilities, having on its water front whatin accounted the greatest warehouse in the are to be seen at all times vessels from all overthe world loading lumber at the mammoth saw millsof the city or taking on coal or grain. From thiscity grand old Mount Tacoma, or Ranier, as manyare wont to call it, seems to be but a stones throwdistant, though in reality fully 40 miles away. Ris-ing to a hight of 14,444 feet, its snow mantled peakis often seen protruding far above floatingclouds. Itis one of the most exquisitely beautiful works of na-ture that it has ever been mans good fortune to per-ceive. Nature has been lavish with her works ofart in this part of the globe, for only a few miles southof Mount Tacoma, between the city of Tacoma andPortland, Ore., the fairy white crests of Mount and Moimt Adams stand out from the clouds. Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route. 53 STATIONS like twinjangels come to guard the peace and happinessof this much favored country. Within view of thisbeauteous spectacle the train rushes from the verdantwoodland to where grand old Columbia sweeps ma-jestically by on its journey to the , Ore.— Due south of Tacoma and 142 milesdistant, is Portland, with a population of about100,000, the metropolis of the state of Oregon. Itis beautifully situated at the confluence of the Wil-lamette and Columbia rivers, one hundred miles fromthe mouth of the latter. Aside from its vast manu-facturing industries the city is one of the greatestports of the Pacific coast, crafts from all over theglobe making their way up the Columbia river fromthe ocean to its docks. From the heights south ofthe city one obtains an excellent v
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