[Illustration: TACOMA ELECTRIC CITY OF THE PACIFIC COAST 1904 ] Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES 1903-4 WILLIAM JONES, _President_. A. F. ALBERTSON, _Vice President_. HENRY A. RHODES, _Treasurer_. J. S. WHITEHOUSE, _Secretary_. JOSHUA PEIRCE CHARLES BEDFORD GEORGE W. FOWLER JESSE S. JONES THOMAS B. WALLACE E. J. FELT S. R. BALKWILL WM. H. SNELL R. L. McCORMICK ALEXANDER TINLING WILLIAM VIRGES R. G. HUDSON This pamphlet is issued by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. Its object is to present reliable information concerning Tacoma and to interest in this city those who desire a location on the Pacific Slope in which to engage in business, manufacturing or shipping, or a desirable place in which to live. The information herein contained is reliable and the statistics are official and up-to-date. Further or special information of any character will be cheerfully furnished upon application to the SECRETARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TACOMA, WASH. MADE IN TACOMA—— HALF-TONES BY TACOMA ENGRAVING CO. PRESS OF ALLEN & LAMBORN PRINTING CO. TACOMA—1904 BY LOUIS W. PRATT. Tacoma, the Electric City of the Pacific Coast, and the chief seaport of the North Pacific, is situated at the head of ocean navigation on Puget Sound in latitude 47° 15´ north and longitude 122° 25´ west from Greenwich. Being further north than Duluth or Quebec, Tacoma is supposed by many to be bleak and cold. A popular misapprehension among Eastern people seems to be that Puget Sound is somewhere near Alaska and that for half of the year the people contend with snow and ice. CLIMATE AND HEALTH. The climate of the Pacific Slope west of the Cascade Mountains is tempered by the Pacific Ocean, the “Japan current” and the equable southwesterly winds. The climate resembles that of Western Europe rather than that of the American Continent east of the Rocky Mountains. Tacoma is four degrees further south than London, in about the same latitude as Nantes, the chief city of Brittany, near the mouth of the Loire. The climate of Puget Sound is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than that of Southern England, and is the most equable, salubrious and delightful to be found in the United States. [Illustration: Eleventh Street at Pacific Avenue.]