Tacoma: Electric City of the Pacific Coast, 1904 — John Shaqi
Tacoma: Electric City of the Pacific Coast, 1904Pratt, Louis W.
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Tacoma: Electric City of the Pacific Coast, 1904
Pratt, Louis W.
Tacoma (Wash.) -- Description and travel
1—Unloading Logs at Tacoma.
2—Sluskin Falls, Paradise River.
3—Lake Kapowsin Station.
4—Mount Tacoma from Paradise Valley.
5—Train Leaving Tacoma.
6—In the Mountains.
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Among the other lines of industry in TACOMA not already enumerated are
mills or factories for the manufacture of brick and tile; brushes and
brooms; artificial ice; soap; tannery products; shoe uppers; boots and
shoes; buggy-tops; furs and for goods; clothing; shirts; overalls;
stockings; underwear; knit-goods; tents, awnings and sails; paper boxes;
fish baskets; oilskin garments and other goods; cigars; cigar boxes;
metal bedsteads and woven-wire bed springs; cotton felt; carpets and
rugs; excelsior; egg cases; enamels; furnaces and stoves; blank books,
ledgers; stencils; rubber stamps; trunks and traveling bags; paints and
varnish, and many other articles. _TACOMA IS THE LEADING MANUFACTURING
CITY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST._
RAILWAY FACILITIES AND TRAFFIC.
_TACOMA HAS THE MOST EXTENSIVE RAILWAY TERMINAL FACILITIES AND HANDLES
MORE FREIGHT THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST._ The Northern
Pacific railway has expended many millions in improvements on the TACOMA
waterfront. The official figures furnished by the railroads showing the
number of cars of pay freight consigned to each of the three leading
cities of the Pacific Northwest during the year 1903 are as follows:
Cars of freight received at—
Railway System. Tacoma. Seattle. Portland.
Northern Pacific 58,779 47,219 8,463
Tacoma Eastern 10,074
Commercial Dock 155
Great Northern 9,837
Pacific Coast Co. 11,020
O. R. & N 35,815
Southern Pacific 17,281
Astoria & Columbia River 896
O. W. P. & R. Co. 193
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Totals 69,008 68,070 62,648
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