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Rh timber used for the manufacture of shingles and lumber. Across the Sound is the lumbering town of Shelton. There are numerous coal mines adjacent, the principal ones being at the towns of Carbonado, Wilkeson and Pittsburg.

Near here are the great fruit sections of Puyallup, Buckley, Auburn, Sumner and Orting, all increasing the immense trade of Tacoma.

The hunting and fishing are practically unlimited. The climate is salubrious, seldom freezing weather and never very hot, being both a glorious and perpetual summer and winter resort.

I viewed from the Tacoma hotel the unsurpassed scenery across the beautiful harbor and level expanse, and that giant, far-famed and widely known