Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . railway anda few miles from the southern boundary lineof Mason County. Logging, general farm-ing and dairying make up the chief indus-tries of the surrounding district. A unique industry upon Grays Harbor isthe only whaling plant in the United steel whaling boats, going to sea,bring back the big mammals, which are cutand ground up making oil, whale bone, fer-tilizer, and other by-products. This plantcost in the neighborhood of a quarter of amillion dollars, and although only in opera-tion for one year, has converted into
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . railway anda few miles from the southern boundary lineof Mason County. Logging, general farm-ing and dairying make up the chief indus-tries of the surrounding district. A unique industry upon Grays Harbor isthe only whaling plant in the United steel whaling boats, going to sea,bring back the big mammals, which are cutand ground up making oil, whale bone, fer-tilizer, and other by-products. This plantcost in the neighborhood of a quarter of amillion dollars, and although only in opera-tion for one year, has converted into oil, etc.,nearly two hundred whales that averagedsixty-tons in weight. The avearge value ofa whale is two thousand dollars, making atotal valuation of the whales caught in 1911,$376, The plant is at Bay City, wellwithin the land-locked harbor, but near theocean. The federal government is expending mil-lions of dollars at the entrance of GraysHarbor, building jetties and other permanentimprovements for the benefit and safety ofshipping and THE CHEHALIS CITY HALL THE CHEHAUS PUBLIC LIBRARY CHAPTER TWELVE. LEWIS AND COWLITZ COUNTIES: CHEHALIS, CENTRALIA. WINLOCK, CASTLE ROCK. KELSO, &c. Lewis County was named in honor of Captain Meriwether Lewis, the explorer. Cowlitz County was named after theriver which waters so wide an extent of territory on its course to join the Columbia. Lewis County is one of the largest countiesin western Washington, having an area of2,593 square miles of territory and about35,000 people. It occupies a large part of thedrainage basins of two large rivers, theCowlitz and Chehalis—one emptying itswaters into the Columbia River and the otherflowing into Grays Harbor. It reaches fromthe peaks of the Cascades 100 miles toward? the ocean, but is cut off 30 miles from thecoast, and is about 30 miles wide. MountRainier is just north of its extreme eastern portion and about one-fourth of the county iswithin the Rainier forest reserve. At presen
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