79 —Amazing wheat crops: surpassing all other States, 79 —Railroads overwhelmed with freight, 80 —Price of wheat and cost of production, 81 —Also barley and oats, 83 —The soil a natural fertilizer, 84 —Quality of the wheat, 84 —The market in England, China, and other Asiatic ports, 85 —Astonishing growth of vegetables, 85 —Crops without rain, 86 —West (not East) Washington to be the great cattle country, 86 —Tree-planting, 87.

  Labor 88  

Good supply of labor, but more wanted, 88 —Wages, 88.

  THE GEOLOGY OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY 90   Historical and Structural 90  

The Western Coast regions younger than the Rocky Mountains and Appalachians, 91 —An outlying Continent, 91 —The rise of the West Coast, 92 —The rocks and minerals of the Cascade Mountains, 93 —The metamorphic rocks of doubtful origin, 93 —The coal beds, 94 —The volcanic mountains and their great activity, 95 —The wonderful cañon of the Columbia River, 96 —The great sheets of basalt, 96 —Origin of the rich soil of East Washington, 97 —The volcanoes not wholly extinct, 98 —Glacial drift, 98.

  Economic Geology 99   I. Coal 99  

Thickness of the Coal Measures, 99 —Fifteen workable seams, 100 —Different kinds of coal described, 100 —The chemical changes in coal beds, 101 —Deficient nomenclature, 102 —Lignite an unsuitable name for the coals of Washington Territory, 103 —The coking quality not general in these coals, but found in some, 104 —Analyses of Washington Territory coals, 106.

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