href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@40132@[email protected]#Page_162" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">162 —The mines in the Colville region, 164 —The Old Dominion Mine, 165 —The Daisy Mine, 165 —Young America Company, 166 —The Little Dalles, 166 —Cœur d'Alene Mines, 167 —The large tonnage from and to the mines, 169.

Commercial and manufacturing advantages, 171 —Good climate, 171 —Good population, 172 —High civilization, 172 —Railroad lines, 173 —The chief ship-building centre, 174 —Seattle better located than San Francisco, 174.

Unrivalled terminal property, 175.

But two entrances by land, 175 —Superiority of the northern suburbs, 175 —Factories of the future, 176 —Ship canal, 176.

Superiority of the timber on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, 177 —The forests described, 178 —Forests of Raging River, 178 —Forests near Hop Ranch, 179 —Superior to the Long Leaf forests of the Southern States and of the Mississippi Bottom, 180 —Trees ten feet in diameter, 180 —Average nearly five feet in diameter and 250 feet high, 181 —Lumber product per acre, 181.

Agricultural freights, 183 —Produce of Hop Ranch, 183 —Farming, fruit and grazing lands, 185 —Hops, barley and beer, 186 —The two great railroads, public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@40132@[email protected]#Page_187"