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14 It is only on great water-ways like the Columbia or the Sound that one feels the bounty, the beauty, and the peace of the free gifts of God. Such a highway is always at the door of these mediterranean cities. Upon it may float a palace or a plunger. Let us take something intermediate and visit some of Seattle's outlying territories.

The first of these may be said to come under the head of sawmills, and to give an idea of the importance of these to the State of Washington, let me borrow some figures from the Post-Intelligencer for January 1, 1890, showing the number of feet of lumber cut in the State for the previous year.