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 (14574375219)

Original caption: "Loading an Ocean Sailing Vessel at Tacoma."
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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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idelyfrom year to year, and is mainly dependent on the Germancrop. Some years it is claimed that there is no profit atall in hops raised in Washington, but in the long run thehop farmers all become comfortably well off. There arefew forms of agricultural industry where so much moneycan be made from an acre of ground. After leaving Puyallup the railroad traverses for abouteight miles the Puyallup Indian reservation. These Indiansown their land in severalty, and are, as a rule, industriousfarmers. Their children are educated in the agency school,and the good order of the reservation is enforced by ajustice of the peace and constables elected by the Indiansthemselves. Tacoma (1,912 miles from St. Paul; population, 50,-00) is the official western terminus of the Northern Pacificrailroad and the point where it meets the commerce ofthe Pacific ocean. The road extends 100 miles furtherwest, however, by a branch line that reaches the Pacificocean at Ocosta and Hoquiam, on Grays harbor. It has
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Loading an Ocean Sailing Vessel at Tacoma.255 .256 The Northern Pacific Railroad. also a second ocean terminus at South Bend, on Willapaharbor. From Tacoma the main line runs southward toPortland, and a branch turns northward to Seattle, where itconnects with other lines controlled by the Northern Pacificthat run as far as far as Vancouver, in British Columbia. Tacoma is situated upon the tide water of the Pacificnear the head of Puget sound, and occupies a command-ing position both as a seaport and a railroad center. Thearm of the sound upon which the city fronts is called Com-mencement bay, and furnishes an excellent harbor, wheretha largest sailing vessels and ocean steamers lie at anchoror receive their cargoes of coal, lumber, wheat and otherproducts of the region, at the spacious wharves^ coalbunkers and warehouses. Tacoma has had an extraordinarily rapid growth.When selected in 1872 as the Pacific coast terminus of theNorthern Pacific railroad, the site was covered with a dense