VIEW OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE FALLS. FACING PAGE 210. VIEW OF SEATTLE AND THE HARBOR. FACING PAGE 222. LIST OF MAPS. MAP OF ASIA AND PACIFIC OCEAN. FACING PAGE 27. MAP OF WILKESON COALFIELD. FACING PAGE 109. MAP OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE. FACING PAGE 170. MAP OF SPOKANE FALLS. FACING PAGE 232. MAP OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. IN POCKET, INSIDE BACK COVER. MAP OF UNITED STATES. IN POCKET, INSIDE BACK COVER. ITINERARY. [Sidenote: Great Plain.] [Sidenote: Cascade Mountains.] [Sidenote: Hop Ranch.] I entered Washington Territory, by way of the Northern Pacific Railroad, on the morning of October 27, 1887, coming first to the valley of the Spokane River, and spending the entire day in traversing the plains of Eastern Washington, reaching Pasco Junction a little after nightfall. I crossed the Cascade Mountains on the Switchback, and arrived at Tacoma about noon of the 28th, at which point I took a Puget Sound steamer, and landed at Seattle about four P.M. the same day. The next morning, accompanied by Mr. F. H. Whitworth, engineer, and Mr. F. M. Guye, I went out on the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad to the end of the road, near Newcastle, where we took horses, and reached Hop Ranch, on the Snoqualmie River, the same night. October 30.--Proceeded up the south fork of the Snoqualmie River, and reached the engineers' camp near the top of Cascade Mountain, at Snoqualmie Pass. Distances by rail and by wagon road: Seattle to Coal Creek, near Newcastle, twenty miles; Coal Creek to Squak Valley, five miles; Squak to Falls City, ten miles; Falls City to Hop Ranch (or Snoqualmie) six miles; Hop Ranch to Engineers' Camp, twenty-six miles; Camp to Summit, five miles. [Sidenote: Snoqualmie Pass.] The railroad on which I left Seattle is a narrow-gauge coal road. Between its terminus and Squak Valley is a high mountain spur. The proportion of cleared land along this whole line is not large in comparison with the forests of evergreen timber, but there are many farms of great fertility, some of them large. The timber increases in quantity and size nearly to the top of the mountain. On these points I shall speak fully hereafter. My object in thus hastening to the Cascade Mountains was to make my observations first at the point where I was most likely to be interrupted by bad weather. I found the engineers, headed by Mr. Thompson, busily engaged in making the location of the railroad, beginning at Snoqualmie Pass (the summit), and working westward and downward, so as to connect with their finished work in the neighborhood of Hop Ranch. [Sidenote: Guye Mines.] [Sidenote: Mt. Logan.]