The official Northern Pacific Railway guide - for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches - containing descriptions of states, cities, towns (14738033396)

Original caption: "Glaciers of Mount Tacoma". Mount Tacoma is an alternative name for Mount Rainier.

Identifier: officialnorthern1899nort (find matches)

Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)

Subjects: Railroad travel

Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s made inabout two weeks. Tacoma and Seattle Line (from Tacoma to Seattle,40 miles).—Tourists visiting Seattle from Tacoma shouldmake the trip in one direction by rail and in the other byboat. The rail route runs through a series of highly fer-tile valleys, which are thickly settled with market gar-deners, hop-raisers and fruit raisers and dairymen andwhich support a number of pretty and thriving towns.The trains run eastward on the main line for ten miles toMeeker Junction, passing through the hop metropolis ofPuyallup, described elsewhere in this volume. FromMeeker they turn north along the valleys of the Stuck, theWhite, the Black and the Dwamish rivers, and skirting thewestern shore of Elliot bay run into the heart of the cityof Seattle. Frequent trains are run to accommodate thelarge travel between Seattle and Tacoma. Sumner is a hop-growing village with about 500 inhabi-tants. The hop gardens come up almost to the doors ofthe pretty cottages. There is an academy for the higher

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Glaciers of Mount Tacoma.261 262 The Northern Pacific Railroad, education of both sexes. Auburn, formerly called Slaugh-ter, is a smart town of i,ooo inhabitants in^a rich valleymainly devoted to hop culture and the small fruits andvegetables. Kent has 1,500 people and is the chief townon the line. With ten acres of land in this highly produc-tive alluvial valley a farmer is looked upon as well-off.Kent is a well-built town in themidst of orchards^ gardensand hop fields. On Puget Sound.—All tourists visiting the Pacificcoast should make a voyage on Puget sound, at least tothe extent of taking the trip from Tacoma to Victoria andreturn. This is one of the most delightful and impressiveexcursions by water in the world. Nowhere else, save inAlaska and in Japan, can gigantic snow peaks be seen ris-ing almost from the sea level to heights far above theclouds. The whole of the Cascade range from MountRainier to Mount Baker, its two white monarchs, is seenon the eastern horizon, and on the

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1899

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