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Rh. Hamilton is a lumbering town. Mt. Vernon, La Conner and Stanwood are lumbering towns, and the great oat producing section. At Arlington, Darrington and Marysville, I still found lumbering industries.

I found a great improvement at Everett, a few years ago it was a small town; now it is a metropolitan city, with its numerous thriving enterprises. As I stood on the balcony of Hotel Monte Cristo, and gazed over Gardner Bay on Whidby Island, I exclaimed, "Nature cannot show me more grandeur than this," and combined with the hand of man the vessels busily ply back and forth upon its broad expansive waters, over the bay and sound to the Pacific Ocean.

The bay front presents a busy appearance from the saw and shingle mills, where vessels are constantly loading for foreign ports.