\ jm <•<■<•<■<•<•<•«•€■<■<•<•<■<•*<■«•*<•<■«•<•<• «•<•<•<•<■<•<■<•<•<■<■< £'<■<■<•<■<•<•<<■<-€• <-C-<-<-<-<-<- <■<■<•<■<•<•<•<•<•<■ <-€><>C'C<><>«-<-C-C-C-<-<<><-tm "AN EMBLEM OF PURITY" Is a Guarantee of Its Quality PACIFIC BEER IS THE BEST, EAST OR WEST SOLD OVER THE ENTIRE WEST. FROM ALASKA'S FROZEN WASTES TO HAWAII'S SUNNY LAND Pacific Brewing 6l Malting Co. TACOMA, U. S. A. Look for This Trade Mark W/Z Z ^ ACME MILLS COMPANY Tacoma, Wash., Lamar, Wash., Portland, Ore. MANUFACTURERS FLOUR, ROLLED OATS, ACME g RALSTON CEREALS Ours Are Goods of Quality M/LLS % J 7- 3V^V6 is3i AWfAI, .Xf.MI'.l'.R. H)oy. ^y^^^ ^ Wt^ni} i>f Wnshinfftori. We solicit your trial order. FACTORY AND OFFICE Tarofni VVnchino-fon THIRTY FIRST ST. AND SAWYER AVE. PHONE MAIN 345. laCUnid, » JM I I 1 1), tVil I THE TACOMA NEW HERALD FOSTER LUMBER COMPANY MANUFACTURERS Fir Lumber Office, 517-20 Berlin BIdg., TACOMA MILLS Nnirrn SIIOHIO LUMBER CO. KAPOWSIN LUMBER CO.. KAPOWSIN. BISMARCK MILL CO., BISMARCK. ADNA MILL CO., ADNA. Defiance Lumber CO M pa NY Manufacturers LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES TACOMA, WASHINGTON CARGO AND RAIL SHIPMENTS rilu.VKS: Main 200 Main 296 THE WHEELER OSGOOD CO. Manufacturers and Car Shippers of Red Cedar Doors and Soft Yellow Fir Doors CEDAR COLONIAL COLUMNS TORCH POSTS. MOr.niNGS. SIDINO ANO r.UMr.EK HARDWOODS TACOMA WASHINGTON C W. GRIGGS. President. A. G. FOSTER. Vicr Prfsiilinl. EVERETT G. GRIGGS. Second Tice-PyeaUient. GEO. BROWNE. Secretary and Treasurer. St. Paul and Tacotna Lumber Co. CAPITAL, $1,500,000. STORE DEPARTMENT Wholesale Hardware, Ship Chandlery, Wire Cable, Shingle Bands and Lumbermen's Supplies. 518 and 519 California BIdg. J. S. Bogle & Co. REAL ESTATE. LOANS AND INSURANCE Special attention given to care and sale of Property for Non-Residents TITLES EXAMINED AND TAXES PAID Richardson & Elmer LUMBER, DOORS SASH and GLASS Mantels, Hardwood Doors and all Kinds of High Grade Milhvork 917 Commerce St. TACOMA, WASH. ANNUAL NUMBER. 1907. J. r. mrUANAN. GKOIKJB II. KKKl), President. See. and Treat. TELErHONE MAIN 524 North End Lumber Co. { in<-.iriM)rut<'d) Mautifafturrrn of Rough and Dressed Lumber I!i;ii CICI'AIl SHINGLES. MOIU.DINCS. riMSIIING MATIMUAI.S. iBIocks 109 and 110, Water Front TACOMA, WASH. ■ WHOLESALE DCALCfi IN Violet Oats, Columbia Oats, Violet Wheat Flakes Our Violet Brands of Cereals are Pure and Unadulterated. TACOMA SEATTLE PORTLAND VIENNA CAFE AND BAKERY ROBERT SICKER, Prop. WE CATER TO THE PEOPLE WITH THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS AT ALL TIMES 131 1 Pacific Avenue TACOMA, WASH. TIIK TAC'OArA XF.W HF.RALD Pacific Cold Storage Co. DEALERS AND PACKERS Frozen, Mild Cured and Canned Salmon, Dressed Meats, Poultry and Perish- able Products. Fish Freezing and General Cold Storage. Alaska Trade a Specialty. N. P. WHARF TACOMA l.dllS Ii. IW.Ml'ItEI.I.. /'/cv/-;. »/. KAi.I'II .MKTC.\I.I'. S'r mill Vi ,■«,■<. .lillIX I.. II.\I!I;IS. (Inii'iill Miiiiiiili METCALf SHINGLE COMPANY IMill.lislnii is'.i) TACOMA, WASHINGTON M.WnWCITKIOKS OF WASHINGTON CEDAR SHINGLES CEDAR AND FIR LUMBER 77ic Lfinjcst Mniiiifnrtitrrrs iif lliil t'lihti t.il .\rcliiipct for rclciiliiino lilack (IsC; cilv nl" Tacuina FREDERICK HEATH ARCHITECT 503-504 Fidelity iBuilding TACOMA. WASH. Tacoma Trunk Factory G. KUEDERLE TRUNKS, BAGS, SUIT CASES, TE5LESC0PES ETC, 931 South C Street. Telephone Red 2772. l: I i;i;\l:.-;, /'.•.>, mnl Miir WM. MSII. s,,,, I.I TICI.EI'HO.M-: 4:!. ■THE- Tacoma Carriage & Baggage Transfer Co. Ill I'll i; ; li^'.i .'^iir III MN 111 .< I Carriages, Baggage Wagons, Tally-Ho at all Hours Private Ambulance Perfect in Every Detail First-Class Livery llanil your clipeks for bagpagc 'to our mP!>s?ngers. who will meet you on all iDconifn^ trains. . Brick Stables, 6th and St. Helens Aves. TACOMA. WASH. PHONE BLACK 523J. ALL KINDS OF CEMENT WORK. L. Y. STAYTON Contractor for CEMENT SIDEWALKS. CEDAR AND CEMENT BULKHEADS. CURBS. ETC. Cement Steps and Bulkheads and Orna- mental Work around Residences a Specialty. Room 510 California Bldci TACOMA. WASH. THE TACOMA XFAV HERALD Mmt ftnrus $c Ban^ (Established 1858) TACOMA. U. S. A. LINDSTROM & BERG CABINET MAKERS CORNER TWENTY-FIRST AND COMMERCE STREETS TACOMA, WASH. TELEPHONE MAIN 469 INTERIOR HOUSE WORK IN HARD WOODS OFFICE. STORE. BANK AND BAR FIXTURES Office Telephone. Main 474. Residence Telephone. Red 1700 L. A. Nicholson CIVIL ENGINEER Platting and Drafting. Railroad Location and Construction. SUN AND ELECTRIC BLUE AND BLACK PRINTING. ROOKS 605-6.7 FIDELITY BUILDING TACOMA. WASHINGTON. ^rcfel^.n'' PATENTS And IIRAWIXGS TRADE MARKS R. I. ELLIOTT 313 Fidelity BIdg., Tacoma, U. S. A. iiLVi: 7'/,'/.vy.s .I.iME.S .\. KELLY. E. >I. Il.iltUV D rll.VI'M.VX. C. E. Telephone James 2601. KELLY and CHAPMAN CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEERS 512-13 Provident Building TACOMA. WASHINGTON. U. S. A. Surveys, Estimates. Reports, Designing and Superintendence of Construction. Coal, Iron and Copper Mines. Wasliin.2 and Cciking IMants, Examinations With a Viow of Docroasing Cost of Operation or Increasing On t put. Fonnda- tions, Uoofs. Bridges, Wliarves and Railroad Struc- tures, Watt r Supply. Drainage, Hydraulic Tower riants. and Railroads ami Trannvjys, Largest Cigar Factory in the State. Established in 1892. BEN HAVERKAMP Manufacturer of HIGH-GRADE HAND-MADE HAVANA CIGARS TACOMA. WASH. MAKER OF THE POPULAR BRANDS Fior De Valdez Absolutely High-Grade Vuelta Abajo Havana Cigar Olympic Choice Mild Havana Cigar State Seal and Little Duke The Old Reliable 5c Sellers Office and Salesroom. 1104 Pa- cific Avenue. Factory. Corner Yakima Avenue and Tenth St. The Quality and Wor rmanship Representcil in My Products are R.TMgnizod as the Best by M'-n Wlm Kn-.w. McRAE-SHERMAN ELECTRIC CO. NK.'lliiI.S. (;. SIIEIIMA.V. rnip. TeleiJlioue Jlain S30. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS DYNAMOS A.NT) .MOTORS. ARMATinK WIXDIXG. HOUSE WiniNG. ETC. 1526 COMMERCE ST. TACOMA, WASH. Reliable Automobile Co. 705-707 Vacific A^e. Garage and Salejroomj A Thoroughly Equipped and Up- to- Date 'Repair Shop tlenting and Supplies AGENTS FOB Pope^Toledo, Buick, Oldsmobile, Thomas Cars and Pope-Waverly Electrics ANNUAL NUMBER. 1907. THIS IS A PICTURE OF OUR AUTOMATIC DESK TELEPHONE IT WILL GIVE YOU PROMPT, ACCURATE AND SECRET SERVICE ALL MAIN LINES HOME TELEPHONE CO. OF PUGET SOUND Temporary Office 515 PROVIDENT BLDG., TACOMA Cable Address: •McCABE- CODES: Scott's. ABC. Watkins'. and A 1 Telegraph McCabe & Haiiiilton,M^ General Stevedores Doing Business at All Puget Sound Ports W. L. McCABE'S PATENT SHIP AND WARE- HOUSE CONVEYOR loads and discliarKes ships. li;;lucis ami liarijes: carrips and pilfs sacks; op- erates by steam or electricity. Weis^ht so little as to ijerniit easy and ready handling. Simple and strone; in construction: cost of operation, light ; .i;reat speed with fewer hands. .Also friction chute and double hoist. Ship's Mail Promi)tly Delivered. Correspondence Solicited. Tacoma Office. Pacific Cold Storage Building Seattle Office. Colman Building. Marion Street Puget Sound, Washington, U. S. A. PHONE MAIN 392 BEN OLSON CO, PLUMBING AND HEATING 1130 Commerce St. TACOMA DEMPSEY LUMBER CO. L. T. Dempsey, Pres. James Dempsey, Vice Pres. J. W. Dempsey, Treas. J. J. Dempsey, Secy. LOGS, LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES TACOMA WASHINGTON THE TACDMA XEW HERALD Fidelity Trust Company Bank — "" TACOMA, WASH. = ' OLDEST TRUST COMPANY IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $425.00000. TOTAL ASSETS. OVER. $3,500,000.00. GENERAL BANKING OFFICERS .1, C. AI.XSWoItTII. Prcniilnit. .I.\(). S. liAKKK. Tier President. 1". C. KAl'FFJIAX. Hee.oiul Tire rimiilmt. Airriir'i! i;. ruiciiAKD. rnsiiir,-. r, I'. llASKi:i.I.. .71!. -Unt. Ciislii,, SA\"IXGS BAXK DEPARTMENT Three Per ('(iit. I'li'nl on Ih /josit.s SALE DEPOSIT \'Al'LTS Itriifls siilil fill ain/ cfnniU'ii in iltr irorlil R. L. Mccormick. President. STEPHEN APPLEBY, Cashier. A. A. MILLER. Asst. Cashier. WM. M. LADD, Vice President. C. H. HYDE. Vice President. L. J. PENTECOST, Vice President. The Pacific National Bank OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON THE OLDEST BANK IN TACOMA RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $2,827,191,86 Stocks and Bonds 238.053.82 U, S, Bonds and Premiums 232,100.00 Cash and Due from Banks 1.035.323.15 $4,332,673.83 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 300.000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 121.631.23 Circulation 220.600.00 Deposits 3.690.442.60 $4,332,673.83 DEPOSITS JUNE 28, 1905, $1,869,770,61 DEPOSITS JAN. 29. 1906. $2,603,941.08 DEPOSITS NOV. 12, 1906, $3,690,442.60 V"" Bank of California [ Mstnlilisli, .1 IMM I HEAD OFFICE. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Tacoma Portland Seattle A General Banking Business Transacted TACOMA TIIK r.ANK ()!■■ CAI.II'DK.XIA I'.r 1 i.rn \(; S. .\I .TACKSOX. Mniini/i 1; .7. coupon. The Scandinavian American Bank TACOMA. SEATTLE AND BALLARD, WASH. Capita:. $500,000. Surplus. $350,000. Resources Over $10,000,000. TACOMA BRANCH 955 COMMERCE ST. I'UE.SIDENT MAN ACER CASIIIElt A. nill.I'.EIKi n-:ci. 11. T.\uni:i,T. A V II.WHEN We Solicit Your Account. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT open Saturday evenings from G to THE BELL PRESS. Publiihcn E m hi » o w H X M > i-l M 16 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD ies are limited and "bottled up" by Nature's high hills. For the foregoing REASONS, inspired by the example of Chicago with its motto "I Will," Tacoma will become the foremost city of the Coast. Why not of this country and of the world? "\Vhen?" Answer: Ultimately! "How soon?" you ask. THAT ALL DEPENDS UPON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE. Theie is the greatest opening on earth for live men, with their chins up, right here In Tacoma. We need MEN more than money. The bright and brainy men who are here now will welcome the Newcomer of that kind. "Plenty of room at the top" — and all the way up. Yours truly, Tacoma, Nov. 1, 1906. DONALD FLETCHER. Wonderland. 1906. EVENING ON PUGET SOUND. ANNUAL NU.MIJKk. npj. 17 TACOMA AS GREAT INDUSTRIAL CENTER Magnificent Harbor, Glorious Climate, Inexhaustible Natural Resources, and Ample Water and Rail Transportation. By L. W. PHATT. Secrotiry Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. T n li li HE year l!)(Mi has been one of extraordinary industrial activity and expansion at Taco- ma. The city is exceedingly well favored as a nianufactiirinR point. Its extensive and varied industries are suited to local conditions, both as to production and mar- kets. Location is a most important factor w '^ y in determining the success of any enter- VBjE/ prise, and this is particularly true as to ^r manufacturing. Proximity or access to mar- Itets, command of raw materials, transpor- tation facilities, fuel, power, labor conditions, water sup- ply, taxes and the benefits resulting therefrom, and climate have an influence, favorable or unfavoral)le as the case may be, in determining the fate of an industrial enterprise in any given location. The industries thus far established at Tacoma have generally prospered because the condi- tions that obtain here are favorable to the particular lines of industrial enterprise that have been undertaken. Tacoma's access to markets for her products in almost all quarters of the globe is direct. Few manufacturing centers are as favorably located in this respect. As Ta- coma is both a rail and ocean terminal point, freight rates are governed by the cheap cost of water transportation to and from points on the Atlantic seaboard or elsewhere where there is actual or possible competition between the two modes of transportation. Established steamship lines operate from Puget Sound to Alaska, San Francisco, Hono- lulu and New York, .Japan, Asiatic Russia. China, Manila, Singapore, and on to Liverpool and Glasgow by the Suez Canal and Metiterranean route, and to Hamburg, Havre, Dunkirk and Marseilles by way of Mexican, Central and South American ports. Hundreds of tramp steamers and sailing vessels are chartered each year to carry Tacoma products to the various ports of the world. In short, in the markets of the Pacific Coast, the Orient and Alaska, the Tacoma manufacturer has a distinct advantage over manufacturers in the same line at any interior or eastern point in the United States. The consumption of American products in these markets is increasing annually at an ex- traordinary rate. The demand for products which can be economically manufactured at Tacoma may therefore be expected to increase in proportion to the growth of popula- tion on the Pacific slope and in .Maska and in pace with our success in the promising and incalculabl.v large mar- kets of the Orient, the Philippines. Hawaii and the Latin republics to the south of us. There are certain natural avenues of industrial enter- prise which are open to Tacoma and in which permanent success is almost absolutely assured. These are the lines of manufacture which utilize the raw materials which can be readily assembled at this city. Tacoma has at command raw materials varied in character and almost unlimited in quantity, including i)roducts of agriculture, the forests, mines and fisheries. F"ew manufacturing centers in the world can show an equal diversity of natural resources. .Vlmost all the products of .American agriculture, with the exception of cotton, tobacco and Indian corn, are raised in the country directly tributary to Tacoma. while raw- cotton and unman\ifactured tobacco are shipped in large quantities through this port to foreign markets. In the manufacture of flour and cereals Tacoma already leads all other points in the I'nited States, west of .Minneapolis and Kansas City. The forests of Western Washington and Oregon supply the material for the great lumber industry of the North- west, the magnitude of which surpasses anything previous- ly known to the lumber trade, while Tacoma has become the leading i)oint for the manufacture of lumber and products of wood working establishments in the entire I'nited States. The development of the mineral resources of the Far West has only begun, but Tacoma has already become the headquarters of the smelting industry of the coast and a very important point in the i)roduction of lead and copper. The conditions which have favored the reduction of ores at this point will equally affect the development of the iron and steel industry in the near future. The fisheries of the Pacific are yet in their infancy, but Tacoma enjoys the distinction of having the largest fish- eries plant in the I'nited States and ships hundreds of cars of fresh, frozen, cured, salted and pickled fish each year to eastern markets. No resume of Tacoma's facilities for manufacturing would be complete without special reference to the ques- tion of fuel and power. Pittsburg has become the Indus- trial center of the world by reason of the supplies of coking coal in the immediate vicinity. The only coking coal thus far discovered on the Pacific Coast is in Pierce County, and 350 ovens are now in operation within twenty- five miles of Tacoma. This is used extensively in manu- facturing in Tacoma, i)articularly at the smelter, and Pierce County coke will unquestionably be the controlling factor in determining the location at or near Tacoma of the initial plant in the iron and steel industry on the Pacific Coast in the near future. Cheap electric power is everywhere recognized as a most important factor in industrial development. One naturally thinks of a great waterfall, such as is found at Niagara or Minneapolis, as a natural source of electrical energy, but few recognize until it is pointed out the value of a snow-capped mountain as a power producer. Mount Tacoma. the loftiest nioimtain peak in the contiguous territory of the I'nited States, is a greater source of power than Niagara Falls, and its harnessed glaciers are already producing tens of thousands of horse power for use In in- dustrial operations at Tacoma From the snow-line at an elevation of 7,000 feet the water must find its level in the Sound only forty miles away. Fifteen primary glaciers feed in summer the streams which carry off the copious rains of the winter months. The utilization of only two of a great many natural water powers found within a short distance of Tacoma has made it possible for manufacturers to obtain electric power at this city at lower prices than can be obtained at any other point in the United States. The harnessing of Mount Tacoma has only begun. Again, climatic conditions are exceedingly favorable to industrial enterprises at Tacoma. Freedom from extremes both of heat and cold makes it [lossible for men to work in comfort throughout the year without appreciable loss of time from bad weather, excessive heat or extreme cold. Labor Is efflcient and though well paid is cheap to the man- ufacturer. Tacoma is distinctively recognized as an indus- trial community and its army of wage earners Is well housed and prosperous and constitutes a loyal and pro- gressive body of citizens. I'p to the present time no seri- ous labor dlfflculties have occurred at Tacoma. Every manufacturer recognizes the advantage of a location at a « E-l H H » H H a g •jn THF. TAC(),\[A NEW HERALD B.^illMnl. NISaUALLY RIVER. LOOKING DOWN CANYON. good market for labor. The diversity of industries already alluded to is a safeguard against serious results from peri- ods of depression in any one line of industry. While the question of water supply for a city which is growing as rapidly as Tacoma is generally a serious and perplexing one, and while the details of the solution of the problem for Tacoma have not as yet been fully worked out, there is absolutely no question as to the adequacy and purity of the water that can be obtained. Tacoma is so situated that water can be secured in almost unlimited quantities sufficient to meet the requirements of a great metropolis, at a comparatively low cost. Tacoma is situated at sea level, but the Cascade mountains are only a short distance to the east and the annual rainfall is large enough to insure an abundance of water at all seasons of the year. The greater part of the present supply is ob- tained from wells on the prairie south of the city, where an unlimited supply of pure and naturally filtered water can be obtained. The cost of pumping can, however, be eliminated by the installation of a gravity system from one of the mountain streams. At the charter election of 1906 a bond issue of $l,6S0,n00 for a gravity supply of 40,000,000 gallons per day from the Green River was authorized by popular vote, and preliminary engineering work is now in progress. The topography of Tacoma is admirably suited to the requirements of an industrial center. When the harbor improvements on the tide and river flats are completed, more than thirty miles of deep water frontage will be available for commercial and industrial purposes. Manu- facturers can obtain sites with both rail and deep water facilities if desired, while thousands of acres of level land in the estuary of the Puyallup river afford ideal sites for manufacturing. For manufacturers who do not require ocean docks and waterfront property the level prairie south of the city is admirably suited. The new railroads which are building into the city from the south or through the Puyallup Valley will add a great many miles of railroad frontage to the sites now available for manufacturing purposes. The lumber and wood working industries at Tacoma have been very active and prosperous during the year 1906, with only one ground for complaint — namely, the shortage of cars to move the output. Rail shipments of lumber and shingles from Tacoma have, however, broken all previous records during the year. During the twelve months ending with June. 1906. the increase as compared with the previous year was at the rate of 46.4 per cent. Aggravating as the inability to procure cars has been. It must nevertheless be admitted that the actual shipments have increased at a rate far beyond the most sanguine expectations, and little surprise can be expressed at the failure of the railroads to promptly handle the enormous increase in traffic. The two most important additions to the long list of lumber mills at Tacoma during the year are the new plants of the Dempsey Lumber company and the Defiance Lumber company. The former, on the tide flats on the east side of the Puyallup river, is one of the largest mills in the state and will have a capacity of from 250,000 to 300.- 000 feet of lumber a day. The work of construction is about complete and the mill will be ready for operation early in 1907. The Defiance Lumber company's new mill on the North End waterfront has a capacity of 100,- 000 feet a day and the plant is admirably adapted for cargo shipments. Unless unexpected difficulties are encoun- ered in the matter of transportation facilities, or an un- locked for change occurs in conditions throughout the country, the Tacoma lumber cut for the year 1907 may be expected to amount to the unprecedented total of 600,000,- 000 feet. One of the most gratifying industrial developments of the year 1906 has been the enlargement of the car and locomotive construction and repair shops of the Northern Pacific Railway at South Tacoma. Fifty-five acres of additional land adjoining the plant on the north were ac- quired early in the year, a large part of which is already occupied by spurs, rolling stock and construction ma- ferial, while plans have been prepared for some very large new buildings. The force of men employed at the shops has been greatly increased during the year and the con- struction of new cars has been carried on on a larger scale than ever before. The enormous demand for cars at this end of the line justifies the belief that the car building industry at Tacoma will continue to expand and will grow to enormous proportions. Extensive improvements and enlargements have also been made during the past year at the Tacoma smelter, particularly in the copper department. One of the sig- nificant changes during the year at the smelter was the voluntary adoption by the management of an S-hour day with three shifts of men in 24 hours, in place of two. This necessitated a considerable increase in the force. It has been announced that further and very extensive enlargements at this plant are shortly to be made. In the natural development of the copper industry at Tacoma a copper rolling mill and copper wire works are expected to follow the successful establishemnt of the copper refinery, the capacity of which has been largely increased during the past year. Large shipments of copper ingots to Europe have been made during the year by steamers of the Tacoma-Liverpool line, the steamers going directly to ANNUAL NUMBER, 1907. 21 the smelter do-ks for cargo. DurinK the year the smelter for the ShullDay company, manufacturers of overalls, has acquired extensive coal deposits at Fairfax and owns Other noticeable additions to the long line of miscellaneous and operates a large number of coke ovens at that point. industries in Tacoma are to be found in the Center street \nother important industrial development during the district along the Northern Pacific line to Portland. One past year has been the purchase of a site of 3300 acres of ihc new buildings in that section is occupied by the southwesi of the city for an enormous plant to be erected Barm-s. MOENING VIEW OF MOUNT TACOMA. by the Diipont Powder company. The work of construc- tion is now in progress. Tacoma will shortly supply the material of greatest importance in mining operations in Alaska and the Pacific Coast. Next to labor, the cost of explosives is the most expensive factor in mining. The establishment of this plant near Tacoma will enor- mously increase the volume and value of Tacoma"s ship- ments to Alaska. Two important industries which utilize Alaska pro- ducts have been established at Tacoma during the past year. One of these is the Pacific Coast Gypsum company, whose extensive plant on the east side of the city water- way north of the Kleventh street bridge, began operations in the early summer. Just south of the Eleventh street bridge on the east side of the waterway are the works of the Western Marble company, which have been in operation for several months and are now being greatly enlarged. Four thousand tons of marble from Shakan. Prince of Wales Island, were shipi)ed to this jilant during the year, and ten thousand tons will be handled in 1907, and sawed and iiolished for building purposes. In the manufacturing industry at the head of the bay, some noticeable improvemetns have been made during the year. One of these is the new four-story brick and concrete plant of the Tacoma Iliscuit and Candy company. The Stilson-Kellogg Shoe company's factory has been raised to five .stories and a new factory has been erected Davies Bros. Electrical company for the manufacture of electric lamps and fixtures. The plant of the Northwest Conserving company has been greatly enlarged and improved and doubled in capacity. On the tide flats, the big jjlant of the Carstens Pasklng company shows several important additions. One of the new buildings has been equipped with machinery from .Milwaukee for a wool sheep-skin tannery and a wool pullery, which will shortly be in operation. A large num- ber of other industries have been established during the year which are scattered through the business part of the city. The industrial expansion of the year 1906 un- doubtedly exceeds that of any previous year in the history of the city. The growth of industries in the suburbs has also been gratifying. Tacoma capital has been invested in the new works of the Acme Malleable Iron company, which is nearing completion at Meeker .Junction, south- east of the city. Along the line of the Tacoma Eastern railroad there has been a large increase in lumber manu- facturing, chielly by concerns which are owned and oper- ated from this city. It is to be expected that a great deal of the industrial development of the future which will center at Tacoma will spread out over the territory within a radius of fifteen or twenty miles from the busi- ness center and in a territory exclusively tributary to Ta- coma and identified with it in interest, though not actually within the municipal boundaries. The Tacoma smelter, for example, is located just outside of the city limits. The growth of the community at the smelter has been such as MOUNTAIN GOAT IN INDIAN HENEY'S HUNTING GROUNDS. Itiinu'S. Si'viiilv r.il illataiit wh.ii ■•sli..|* l..v 111.' cum.-ni, to lead to the incorporation during the past year of "Rus- lon." In the natural course of development other towns will be mcorporated in the vicinity of the city, which later on will request annexation and become part of the Greater Tacoma of the future, the Industrial Center of the Pacific .Northwest. ►J = O rS O ^ X V- o = w i ID ^ o W if •>! 3. E 24 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD THE FINANCIAL SITUATION Tacoma Has Successful and Stable Banking Institutions Clearings Increase 650 per cent, in Ten Years By P. C. KAUFFMAN. Second Vice President Fidelity Trust Company. HE year 1906 has been especially marked as the most prosperous in Tacoma's history, and 1907 opens with promise of even greater things. The wonderful increase in the volume of general business is well re- flected in the reports of the Clearing House Association and statements of the l)anks. The various financial institutions in Tacoma report the year 1906 as being the most prosperous in their history, and each one has made a substantial addition to its undivided profit account. Three new banks have been established during the year, and each reports a very satis- factory volume of business. The growth in deposits in the past twelve months has been especially marked, the com- bined deposits at the close of 1906, in round numbers, being $15,000,000. as against $10,000,000 at the close of 1905, a gain of fully $5,000,000, or 50 per cent. This gain in deposits has been equitably distributed, each of the sev- eral banks showing a proportionate increase. The bank clearings for the year largely exceeded those of any previous year, each month showing a decided gain over the clearings of the corresponding months in 1905, while the total for the year of $204,962,372 shows a gain of $40,007,318 over the clearings of 1905, and $89,168,511 over the clearings of 1904. It is interesting in this connection, in order to obtain a fair idea of Tacoma's commercial and financial expansion, to make a comparison with 1896, when bank deposits, clearings and general business were at the lowest point of depression, resultant upon the panic of 1893. The total clearings for the year 1896 are shown by the records of the Tacoma Clearing House Association to have been but $27,083,966, or $13,506,711 less than the com- bined clearings of the two months of November and De- cember, 1906. The total clearings for the year 1906 were $204,962,372, which shows a gain over the clearings of 1896 of $177,878,406. or over 650 per cent. The two following tables will be especially interesting as furnishing an adequate statement of the remarkable ex- pansion of business in Tacoma. the first showing the clear- ings for the past four years by months: Tacoma Bank Clearings. Month — .lanuary . February March . . . April .... May June .... July August .. Sept'ber . October Nov'mber December 1903. I 1904. I 1905. I ___J 1906. 8.969.3991$ 7.521,157] 8,639,381 8,162,92l| 7,965,4031 7,767,7071 7,715,5801 7,308.1971 S,330,087i 9,268,7861 8,764,6911 10,060,8551 719,9011$ 175,534| 144,349] 231,9101 ,299,8391 ,279.9241 ,652,5881 ,151,961] ,589,4431 ,649,087] ,968,242] ,931,0841 !_ I 829,6581$ 857,3621 ,774.3181 146,767] ,241,901] 322,6301 ,567,5741 ,468,185] ,134,518] ,662,226] ,579,307] .370,608] 16,045,040 14,751,368 17,079,260 15,899,099 16,476,142 15,574,771 15,714,512 16,178,598 16,100,179 20,552,707 19,494.061 21,041,618 Totals . .|$100,474,164]$115,793,861|$164,955,0541$204,962,372 I I \ I The second table, showing the clearings for each year from 1896 to 1906, inclusive: 1896 $ 27,083,966.44 1897 28,921,480.37 1898 43,126,143.93 189.1 45,389,836.18 1900 53,762,587.12 ] 901 59,622,649.65 1902 75.749,763.38 1903 100,474,164.08 1904 115,793,859.78 1905 164,955,054.32 1906 204,265,737.00 This great increase in banking activity is easily ac- counted for when the wonderful increase in all lines of trade, business, and commerce is considered. The 400-odd manufacturing concerns of Tacoma, with a capitalization of $11,000,000, employing an army of 15,000 employes, with a monthly pay-roll of $800,000, produced an output during the year valued at over $40,000,000, a very large increase over any preceding year. The jobbing trade of Tacoma increased wonderfully during the year, aggregating close to $38,000,000, an increase of $5,000,000 over 1905. Most of Tacoma's largest wholesale concerns have erected and are now housed in substantial new buildings that will greatly facilitate their rapidly growing trade. The ex- penditure during the year by the Union Pacific and Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Companies of $8,000,000 in the acquisition of terminal facilities in the city of Tacoma and recognition of the fact that it will require the expenditure of another $S.0()O,000 to make these terminals available, gave a remarkable impulse to business in all lines, and it seems certain that, owing to its unsur- passed wharf and dockage facilities, Tacoma is destined to become the main entrepot tor the great future commerce of the Orient. The rapidity with which this commerce is growing is evidenced by the following table: Ocean Commerce of the Port of Tacoma. By fiscal years from 1900 to 1906— Value. 1900 $22,803,773 1901 29,189,163 1902 39,133,813 190 J 36,570,765 1904 37,410,682 1905 46,808,976 1906 50,084,215 The Tacoma banks handled a large part of this vast business, which contributed greatly to the remarkable ad- vance in clearings. The outlook for the coming year is most encouraging. In fact, it seems assured that the year 1907 will show a gain in all lines of business far surpassing any previous year. The building record of 1906 exceeded that of any pre- vious year since the founding of the city, many millions of dollars having been expended in the construction of new buildings, while miles of beautifully paved streets were constructed by the city at a further expenditure of millions, and millions more by the street railway companies in extensions and improvement of their lines. During the coming year the street car lines will spend additional mill- ions in further much-needed extensions, and it is assured that Tacoma will have a series of street railway systems unsurpassed by any city of its size in the country. Both the Sunset Telephone Company and the Indepen- ANNUAL NUMBER, upy. 25 dent Telephone Company during the year just closed put under ground all their lines in the business section of the city and the paved portion of the residence section, at a very heavy expenditure, which was largely added to by the installing of the latest and most inii)roved switch- boards. Tacoma claims justly to be the industrial center of the Pacific Northwest, and bases its claims on the following facts : It- Has the lar.gest wheat warehouse in the world — 2.350 teet long .Manufactures more lumber and products of woodwork ing factories than any other city in the world. Mills more flour than any other city west of Minneapo- lis and Kansas City. Reduces more ore than any other city west of the Rocky Mountains. Has the largest private drydock north of San Francisco. five years and has well earned its motto, "Watch Tacoma Grow.'' Has the largest fisheries plant in the United States. Population. 1S70 73 1880 1,093 1900 37,714 1906 85,000 The growth of the state of Washington is commensurate with that of its large cities, the figures for the year being remarkable. The aggregate value of the agricultural and horticultural crops of the state for the year was close to $100,000,000, so that the banks in the interior cities are fairly overflowing with money. To illustrate the growth in bank deposits: The total deiwsits of the banks of the three cities. Seattle. Tacoma and Spokane, were, at the date of the controller's last call, $103,000,000, or two and a half times the entire deposits ot LAKE IN INDIAN HENRYS HUNTING GROUNDS. PARADISE PARK. Has the largest car and locomotive construction and re- pair plant in the Pacific Northwest. Has the largest meat packing industry west of Denver. Employs more than 1.5.000 men in nuinufacturing indus- tries. Has gained more than two new industries a month for five years. Tacoma has unlimited supplies of cheap electric power from the harnessed glaciers of Mount Tacoma for manu- facturing. Tacoma has abundance of coal and coke, produced with- in twenty-five miles, and cheap fuel from the waste of the lumber mills. Tacoma handles the largest share of the leading nat- ural products of the Pacific Northwest — timber, coal, ores, grain, fish and furs. Tacoma's population has more than doubled in the past the state in 1901, just five years ago. A conservative esti- mate shows that the banks of the state of Washington are today creditors of the East to the extent of fully $30,000,000 in call loans, commercial paper and stocks and bonds pur- chased and held as liquid assets. With confidence in the future, Tacoma extends a hearty invitation to all who desire to be in the very center of the world's greatest commercial development to locate within her limits, and to every one that comes eager to do his part in this great undertaking Tacoma will give a most cordial welcome. Tacoma is noted for her many excellent public and pri- vate schools. In the number and character of her private institutions of learning she surpasses any other city in the state. Among these may be mentioned: Whitworth Col- lege and University of Puget Sound, for both ladies and gentlemen; Annie Wright Seminary, for ladies, and the Lutheran University at Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma. l>».l.t.l^.V» V 'M li #> ^ i-^^'^a yMIKfr;!^ . "^ ^^^^^^IHI *4:^^| ./#^^ffi %'.^fW ^. """"■'"*■ ^-^..-^'^^^ ifS ^J^^l H H Q N g s •a o o 28 THE TACO^IA NEW HERALD HISTORICAL SKETCH OF TACOMA Early Settlement How City Was Named Through Boom Days and Panic to Era of Great Prosperity By C. L. B. IRST: A tribute of affection to the man ■who gave us the name "Tacoma. " Theo- dore Winthrop, the young poet-patriot of a noble race, whose beautiful descriptions of our glorious scenery have endured for half a century as the best, though he only passed, in canoe and saddle, through this region, where duller minds have vegetated a lifetime without painting a picture in either words or colors that gives any ade- quate idea of the grandeur that surrounds them. This service from the great writer whose book reflected the soul's response to nature's beauty, has met a deserved recognition lately from a local improvement club, which has given the name "Winthrop Heights" to the cious minerals and the facilities for smelting and refining them; fine fisheries; healthful climate, mild and equable, unique among the various violent extremes to be found in our country, from the 130 below zero of the North (in exactly our latitude) to the 130 degrees above in torrid regions, while Puget Sound remains placidly between 34 and SO degrees, its normal temperature in the sixties. Tacoma stands as a magnificent illustration of the truth of genial Tom Benton's assertion, made more than seventy years ago, in his effort to induce Congress to build a rail- road to the Pacific, that the way to India was not across the Atlantic, but across the Pacific: for Tacoma now stands, a gateway to the Orient, where the "rails meet the sails." connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific. The story of how the railroad finally came has often A WDfTEH OF LONG AGO — PIONEER BAHN NEAR TACOMA OVER FIETY YEARS OLD. section of our city overlooking the most beautiful part of the scenery and commanding a view of the point around which Winthrop's canoe floated that misty August day in 1853, when the poet first beheld our mountain, whose name he, and he alone, adapted to its present form from his Indian guides' gutteral and varying "Tachoma, Tahoma, Tak-koma, Tacoma." As for our city, none can dispute that nature has willed there shall be a city here. None of all the Eastern or Middle states has as many advantages combined to make a great city as we have: The cheapest power for manu- facturing in the world: .good harbor; good railroad con- nections: abundant agricultural resources; a plentiful supply of Dierchantable and fuel woods, of useful and pre- been told. Tacoma. more than any other city on the Pa- cific Coast, demonstrated the supreme advantage of being the terminal point on Puget Sound of one of the great transcontinental lines, the Northern Pacific railroad; and now, in the second stage of her development, spite of sub- sequent discriminations against her by methods whose abuses in general are promised correction by our govern- ment, two more lines, the Milwaukee and the Union Pacific, are completing preliminaries for an entrance here. To understand fully the causes leading up to the foun- dation of Tacoma and to its s?lei!tion as a site, it is neces- sary briefly to review the history of the great railway en- terprise which founded our city. Early prophets of a transcontinental railroad, beside the most important. "Mis- souri compromise" Tom Benton, the first of our prominent ANNUAL NUMBER. 1907. 29 men to appreciate the possibilities of the Far West (which he learned from Lewis and Clark, after their return from their journey of discovery), were Rev. Samuel Parker, in 1835: Dr. Samuel Barlow, of Massachusetts, in 1837, and especially Asa Whitney, who by public meetings agitated the building of a road connecting Lake Michigan with the Columbia river. Finally, in 1853, Congress made an ap- propriation of $150,000 for the survey of railroad routes from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. Isaac I. Stevens (later Governor Stevens) was intrusted with the survey of the northern route, while a corps of surveyors under orders from the war department began a survey In 1S53 from Puget Sound, over the Cascade range, to meet Stevens' force — the same whose work was met by Win- throp in his trip across the moimtains on the horse pur- chased at N'isqually. In 1S57 an act to incorporate the .Northern Pacific Company was passed by the territorial legislature of Washington, but It was not until 1864 that the charter was formally granted by Congress to the Xorth The first white settlement in Tacoma was made by Nicholas De Lin in 1852, the year that old Fort Steilacoom was established. "De Lin's sawmill at the mouth of the Puyallup" was the name. In 1853 his ]>artner. Harnhart, left his claim, which was taken up by Peter Judson, father of Stephen and John Paul .ludson. This claim extended from what is now Seventeenth street to the City Hall, and up the hill. In 1855 the Indian war broke out. its inciting cause the white man's coveting the Indians' fertile farm lands. By the trickery of the Medicine Creek (Nisqually) treaty, many tribes lost their lands, and the N'isqually tribe were also notified by Governor Stevens (against whose ad- ministration this act will always remain as a blot) that they must by a certain day abandon their productive valley farms and be confined to the salt meadows and thick for- ests, where neither grass for their horses nor food for themselves could be raised. But Leschi, the Nisqually chief, was a warrior, and he aroused the tribes to resist this injustice. They combined for an uprising, and onlv Aviri, ENTEKING POINT DEFIANCE PARK. ern Pacific, the franchise including a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. In 1870 the work was be- gun; in 1873 the company, at a meeting in New York, formally declared its Western terminus at Tacoma. In September of that year came the great panic, the failure of .lay Cooke resulting in the stoppage of the Northern Pacific operations. The contractors building the line from Kahima to Tacoma were unable to pay their men. It was necessary to reach Tacoma before the end of the year to meet the requirements of the charter. Sixteen miles re- mained to be completed. The railroad company, through the individual efforts of some of its officers, completed the road into Tacoma the day before the limit prescribed by the charter. In 1877 the first portion of the Cascade branch was built, connecting Tacoma with Wilkeson. In 18S1 Villard selected the Stampede i)ass as the route across the Cascades, and in 1887 the first through train arrived in Tacoma from St. Paul. the warning of a friendly squaw to the white settlers saved them from a general massacre, giving them time to flee to Fort Steilacoom for refuge the day before the attack took place, when farm buildings were burned, and the White river valley settlers, who had been assured by the acting governor that there was no danger, were slain, men, women and children. Throughout the war Leschi showed himself to be a brave and magnanimous warrior, saving the women and children of his enemies when possible. The hostile Indians were not driven out of the valleys until 1856. Leschi then crossed the mountains and fought with the Yakinias. When peace was made Leschi surrendered to the federal troops, under a guarantee of pardon. But the territorial authorities would not agree to this, and Leschi was betrayed into their hands by a renegade Nis- qually for $500. He was tried for "murder." in having taken part in a war where men were killed — a most un- heard-of violation of precedent, impossible of imposing on a white man — and Governor Stevens concurred. Judges ^ K O n SB *• ^ 2 ^ S ra a; a s H -5 o S MOUNT TACOMA. FROM PARADISE PARK. 32 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD and citizens wlio tried to save Lesctii were threatened witli lianging if tliey stood between tlie mob and their victim, those same whites of the territory who, some of them, now boast that they were of the expedition that took Leschi from the fort, tied his feet under his horse, and — they will show you the spot down in the ravine of Chambers creek where they hung this patriot. "He gave his life for us, that we might keep our homes," his followers, weeping, say unto today — and the Xisqually tribe still own the lands he saved to them. Not until 1851* did the valley settlers feel safe in returning to their farms, and the future site of Tacoma remained an unbroken primeval forest until 1S67. In that year Job Carr, with his two sons, Anthony and Howard Carr, located at what is now Old Town and built the log cabin now preserved at Point Defiance park as something of great historic interest to our city. This spot, with its natural harbor, was called the place of refuge by the Puget Sound tribes, which as early as 1S40 gathered annually at the head of the bay and were preached to by Archbishop Blanchard, who had planted a cross on the shore where the Northern Pacific depot is now. Shortly after this Messrs. ilcCarver, Steel and Starr, of Portland, anticipating the probable site to be chosen by the Northern Pacific for its Puget Sound terminal, took up claims. The former purchased five acres of land from the Carrs and platted it, naming the place "Commencement City." In 1>>67 a man named Galliher came and operated the old De Lin sawmill at "Galliher's Gulch." Naming the City. That Tacoma is appropriately named, even as attrac- tively as is San Francisco s "Golden Gate, ' is evinced by the many namesakes it has all over the country, in towns, building blocks, boats and a warship. And its name is dua to Theodore Winthrop, thus: Mr. Thomas \V. Prosch, in an address before the pio- neers of Pierce county, says: "On Friday, the 11th day of September, 186S, Mr. Philip Ritz landed at Steilacoom from the steamer George S. \\ right. Mr. Ritz was one of the most prominent men in the territory of Washington, dwelling east of the mountains, respected and honored by all. Not only was he :i scientific farmer and a man of great public spirit, but he was a reader of books, a writer, and a Huent, forceful talker. He was then on a trip acquir- ing information for use in the interest of the Northern Pa- cific Railroad Company. He wanted to see the site of their contemplated new Puget Sound town, and he also wanted to suggest a name for it. He rode over to the reservation, and from there he went by canoe to the house of the Mc- Carvers. and later spent the night at Job Carr's. That evening and the next morning he talked with all the elo- quence in him the name Tacoma. He told of a recently issued book called 'Canoe and Saddle.' which he had just read. It was, he said, written by one Theodore Winthrop. "In this book Winthrop made known several names which, he alleged, were of Indian character, among them Kulshan, for Mount Baker; Whulge, for Puget Sound, and Tacoma. for Mount Rainier. It is only historically fair to say that these names were unknown to the white people until after the publication of this book, and unknown in our own territory until about lafciti. Mr. Hitz's presentation was convincmg, and General AicCarver promised not only to think the matter over, but to lay it before his asso- ciates." Mr. Carr and Mr. McCarver being entirely willing, and Mr. Starr being not unwilling, it was settled that the place should be called Tacoma. And wlien we consider that be- lore Air. Hitz's arrival the pioneers had discussed for their town tne names of \\ ashington, Pierce, Puget, Pacific, Puyaliup, Rainier, Vashon, Defiance, Chebaulip and Com- mencement City, we feel an impulse to raise a monument to the Northern Pacific's reading emissary for rescuing us from such a fate. In lotjy the townsite of Tacoma City was platted by Mc- Carver, Carr and Steele. The Northern Pacific's commis- sion visited the Sound, and, after carefully balancing the relative merits of the various terminal points suggested, selected Tacoma as possessing better natural harbor facili- ties and situation than the already established towns of steilacoom, Olympia and Seattle. In a single month the population bounded from 200 to 1,000. Then came the Jay Cooke failure and delayed the new town's growth. In iooO — population l,09a — the county seat was removed to Tacoma. induced by the offers of the land company branch of the Northern Pacific. In IbSO Villard pushed on the work of the road until financial failure overtook him, and C. B. Wright, of Philadelphia came to the fi'ont and fin- ished building the road from Hillhurst to Tacoma. In 18S6 the Northern Pacific awarded the contract for piercing a tunnel at Stampede Pass to Nelson Bennett, a temporary switchback over the pass being used to connect the great Kast with the great W est. The first train arrived on July 6 from St. Paul. It was a gala day for Tacoma, and great rejoicing was indulged in. Then came the "boom" days, the "era of speculation." In 1890 the city had a population of 36,000. Town lots mul- tiplied their values, worth hundreds one day and thousands the next. Then came the reaction, hastened by the panic of 1893, the Baring Brothers' failure swept the world, and it left Tacoma, so newly planted, withered down to the roots. Yet it weathered the storm as well as any other Western city, and came safely out of it, partly aided by the Klondike discovery, and locally by the wise, honest and economic city administration of Mayor Louis D. Camp- bell, from 1900 to 1904. 'Various previous administrations had exploited the city treasury, or the new town, or had been the tools of corporations, one aiding in foisting a worthless water plant on the already overburdened tax- payers for the enormous sum of $2,000,000; another was elected in the interests of the holders of nearly $2,000,000 worth of warrants, already once paid from the treasury, but being marked "not paid" by a peculiar method of its treasurer, who thus kept them in circulation, and was paid a commission on every one he sold to the banks, they were finally added to the burden of debt under which the people were already staggering. Under Mr. Campbell's adminis- trations interest on the city's bonded indebtedness was paid for the first time; the bonds also, which had been bearing S and 10 per cent, interest, were taken up; $59,000 was placed in the sinking fund, the tax rate, water rates and light rates were greatly reduced, foreign corporations, power and car companies were forced to cut down ex- orbitant exactions and improve poor service, street paving and cement sidewalks were begun, and street car fares forced down. The certainty of the arrival of new railroads to Tacoma has given a wonderful impetus to the city's growth. Real estate values are steady and advancing; vacant tracts are being filled with beautiful homes; the population is now estimated at .S5.000. and is increasing every day. WILD FLOWERS ON SLOPES OVERLOOKING NISQUALLY GLACIER. Tacoma made the record shipment to the Orient of 91,080 barrels of flour in a single cargo. Tacoma is the first city of the Pacific Northwest in manufactures, and in manufacturing facilities. ANNUAL NUMBER. 1907. 33 ASSET OF STUPENDOUS VALUE Hon. R. L. McCormick. Secretary of the Weyerhaeuser Company, Discusses Washington's Enormous Wealth in Timber An estimate of the amount of standing timber in the United States and British Columbia shows: Feet. North Atlantic States 5,000,000.000 Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota 20,000,000,000 Southorn States 100,000,000.000 British Columbia 200.000,000.000 Washington 200.000,000,000 Oregon 400,000,000,000 California 2'00,000,000,000 Idaho and Montana 100,000,000.000 Total 1.225,000,000,000 The United States census in 1790 showed a population ot 3,929.214. and in lOon the pojiulation was 73.303.3S7. the writer measured some years ago, and which was one hundred and five feet in circumference and one hundred feet to the first limb, which was six feet in diameter. The area of the state of Washington is 66.S80 square miles; 42,S03,200 acres. The area of Pierce county is 1.554 square miles. The estimated amount of fir. cedar, hemlock and spruce timber in the state is 200 billion feet, or one-fifth of Pacific coast timber, which in other words would be one-sixth of the total in the I'nited States. The timber of Washington would make a plank road three inches thick and five hundred feet wide around the world. It would load ten million cars of twenty thou- sand each, forty-five feet long, equal to So, 227 miles of trains. These cars would reach nearlv three and a half .t rerj). MoKINLEY PARK. The growth of fir per annum in Washington is one- eighth inch until trees arrive at maturity. The size of trees varies. Some fir. cedar and spruce in Washington grow to twelve feet in diameter at the butt of the log. The average diameter is probably six feet, and the average length two hundred feet. In Snohomish county the Weyerhaueser Timber Com- pany owns a cedar tree near the Snoqualmie F'alls which is over one hundred feet in circumferance. This tree must be very old. as it ranks in size with the famous "Griz- zly Giant," the monarch of the California redwoods, which times around the globe at the center. This timber, one inch thick, would cover as a canopy one-ninth of the state of Washington. It would cover as a canopy one inch thick and afford a floor three inches thick, all of Pierce county. Washington. A six to eight-room house for five people requires about forty thousand feet. The timber of Washington would build five million such houses, which would be sufficient to accommodate one-third of the people of the United Slates. For 1906 the lumber cut in the state of Washington A TRAIL THROUGH THE SOFT MAPLES. SOUTH FORK OF MINERAL CREEK. NEAR MOUNT TACOMA. 36 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD will probably be four billion feet at $15 market value. .?60,000.000. Cost of Production. Expended for labor on logs, per M feet ....$4.00 Labor in sawmill, planing mill, etc 3.50 Labor in yards and loading 1.50 $9.00 Driving or log freight ] -50 Interest, insurance, taxes and office w^ork . . 1.00 Value of standing timber, $1 and $2 per M . . 2.00 Profit per M feet to operator 1-50 $15.00 The labor bill on lumber is fully two-thirds of the price at which lumber sells— at present about $10 per thousand feet, or tor 1906. $40,000,000. In order to convert Washington's 200 billion feet of standing timber into lumber, reckoning the cost to be $10 per thousand feet, the total cost would be two billion dollars for labor, and the owner of the timber would realize one-fifth for his investment. Those who pretend to be scientific say that the Pacific coast was a wilderness of growth 4,000 years ago; that volcanic eruptions spread fires from Alaska to Southern California about l.om years ago, and all timber of the coast was burned except the redwoods of California, which do not burn by exposure to forest fires. Consequently the redwood timber now standing may be said to antedate the Christian era. These magnificent forests of fir were doubtless in their prime before Colum- bus discovered America: before Spaniard or Russian had dreamed of the Oregon land they afterward sailed past; before Captain Gray, or Lewis and Clark, or John Jacob Astor laid the foundation claim of .\merican discovery and occupation; before the advent of Captain Cook; before Jean de Fuca, Admiral Drake or Admiral Vancouver sailed the Pacific seas; before Admiral Wilkes explored the Pa- cific and chartered Puget Sound, and before Commodore Perry had opened Japan to America. The .great white pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota originally were covered by a growth esti- mated at 350,000,000,000 feet. Lumbering in those states began in the early 30's, but did not assume much impor- tance until forty years later. In 1873 the cut of that dis- trict had only reached 4,000.000.000 feet. Twenty years later the cut was at its maximum. 8,500,000.000 feet. Last vear, 1905, the volume of cut had dwindled to about 3,000,- 000.000 feet. There is probably standing timber there now not to exceed 20,000,000.000 feet. The spruce forests of Maine are almost a memory. The white pine of Pennsyl- vania and New York is all cut and the hemlock nearly so. The yellow pine forests of South Atlantic and contiguous states have never b-.en estimated higher than 300.000,000,- 000 feet. Of this there has already been marketed fully 200.000.000,000 feet. Their annual cut of 10.000,000,0oo feet will soon consume the remaining 100,000,000.000 feet. Before the 70's lumber was produced in many localities suflicient for demand, but the treeless plains of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and the Middle West opened for the settler, railroads made distribution possible and lumber became the commercial commodity. In the first days timber was cut from the land of the settler or from that of his neighbor. Later, as one forest was cut, it was easy to turn to another. Today the fields of standing timber are known to be narrowing to the Pacific coast. Half a dozen to ten more years the Pa- cific coast will be the only source of great supply. Intel- ligent forestry will doubtless renew a growth of timber on lands more valuable for agriculture, but this will be a slow crop of nature. Yellow pine in the south will, if cared for. grow to two feet in diameter in thirty years. White pine in the colder climate of the white pine reaches two feet in diameter in one hundred years, and the Pacific coast, with its mild temperature and moist climate, will produce as quickly as any country under the sun, so that we on the Pacific coast not only have today the world's timber re- .sources, but we have the most favored locality for renew- ing timber growth and perpetuatin.g for all time timber resources for all the world. The arid plains of torrid heat do not grow any timber except a limited supply of valuable hard wood. The frozen regions of the north are also barren of this growth. The future will never again see as much forest growth as is seen today. The increased population encroaches on cut-over land for homes, for grazing, for fruit and agricultural pursuits. The increase in population increases demand normally thirty per cent every ten years. The inroads of fire in Washington, as a sample, have been ten per cent, and will continue with greater hazard as accumulating litter fol- lows increased cutting. The imposing of taxes will prevent private persons or companies from reforesting and waiting thirtv to fifty years for a merchantable growth. We have on this coast today the timber supply for the world. None of us hero present will live to see it all cut down. Improved methods of handling the product in the forest, the stream, by rail, in the sawmills and economies and saving features introduced will utilize the raw material closer, so that waste will become minimum as the value of raw material increases. If the state would take the cut-over lands of the lumberman and keep the fires out of the new growth, I believe every timber owner would turn his lands over to the state and accept for his heirs in 50 or 100 years a small percentage of what the timber and lands would then sell for, and this I believe is the only way a forest growth will be maintained to conserve the water supply at the sources of the streams. RAILROAD AVENUE. NEAR ELBE. WASH. Courtes.v Tacnnia Eastf-rn R. R. Tacoma has regular lines of ocean steamships to China, Japan, Manila, Liverpool, Hamburg, Honolulu, South Amer- ican ports. New York and Alaska. ANNUAL NUMBER. 1907. 37 OUR GREAT LUMBER INDUSTRY Washington's Equipment of Mills More Extensive than than That of Any Other State in The Union By FRANK B. COLE. Publisher West Coast Lumbermln. ASTERN States have grown great on agri- culture; others on horticulture; others on fisheries; others on mines; others on commerce; others on lumbe'-ing. The state of Washington has within its boun- daries all these great factors, which will \iul it some (ia.v at the head of the list of states. Eighteen .vears ago this state had nn.OOn people; today it has 1,000.000. It is increasin.g more rapidly now than at any time in its hiiitory. Far above any other single industry, and perhaps greater than all other industries in the state, stands the vast lumbering interest. with its far-reaching, multiplying results. The standing timber in the state today is estimated at 200,000,000,000 feet, worth at a fair estimate $300,000,000. Let manufacturing go on at the rate it is now progressing, and the timber will increase so much in value that at the end of twenty years the remainin.g timber will be w'orth Economy in the manufacturing of lumber is not a marked feature. It has not yet reached the point where any fair-minded man can truthfully say that there is no useless waste. The stranger that visits the mills and the logging camps of the state is shocked by the useless waste and extravagant methods of manufacturing. Today, how- ever, at least one-third to one-half more lumber is manu- factured from a given timber area than was manufactured fifteen or twenty years ago from an equal area. It was but a few years a.go that, in the buying and selling of timber, hemlock was not considered of value. Today it is known as one of the best timbers that grow, and in the market it is regularly quoted at high figures, while as an interior finish it has no equal. Fir, however, stands preeminently the king of the forest. It practically grows everywhere in Western Washington. On one acre carefully cruised has been found :!00.000 feet of it, while occasional sections have cruised fiO.OOO.OOO to 70.000,000 feet. The ordinary mind can not conceive what these big figures stand for. They apiienl to a man like the great figures so flippantly used STEAM YACHT ■■Eh PEIMERO" Trim Craft Ownid lij- ChistiT Tliornc. President of (he Natl.nial Hank 'f Commprcp. more than it is today. One can not read the future, but unless all signs fail, this will be true fifty years hence. The protection of the timber of the state is yet in a primi- tive condition. The government and the state are working along hand and hand, but as yet the handling, the con- servation, preservation and the propagation of the timber of Washington can not be said to have reached more than the primary lines. The policy that will protect the timber and reforest the cut-off areas will ultimately result in re- producing the forests of this state. Timber will grow under good conditions to a diameter of two feet in fifty years. This coast is peculiarly favored in the fact that its timber reproduces itself. All it wants is the opportunity. It is thought by some that the timber today is reproducing itself faster than it Is cut off for manufacturing. in the financial statements of great corporations or govern- ment statistics. If the lumber of Washington could be today manufactured and put on the market at once, it would bring to its owners from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000. There are in the state of Washington over 1.000 plants engaged in the manufacture of lumber and shingles; there are ISO logging roads, besides perhaps 4,000 logging en- gines at work bringing in its timber. The mills of this state will manufacture during the year 1906 approximately 4. 000 .000. 000 feet of lumber and 7.000.- 000.000 shingles. The value of this enormous output will not be far from $70,000,000. A great per cent, of this vast sum comes to the state from outside territory, or. in other words, it is foreign money brought into this common- wealth. It brings, on an average, to each man, woman Barnes. VIEW OF NISftUALLY CANYON FROM A POINT 300 FEET ABOVE THE RIVER. VIEW DOWN UPPER 3K0K0MISH RIVER. ABOVE LAKE COSKMAN. 40 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD MOUNTAIN TROUT FROM MASHELL RIVER. and child in the state, $70, an amount per capita that Is exceeded perhaps in no other state from natural resources, excepting the state ot Montana, where its fabulous mines bring untold millions to its limited population. There are two great central manufacturing points that stand out prominently in the lumber industry in the state of Washington. Ballard is the leading shingle manufac- turing town of the world. It has no rival, though What- com county is the greatest shingle manufacturing county in the state. Tacoma has the largest lumber cutting capac- ity of any city in the world. The Tacoma Mil) Company holds the record of having cut more lumber in a day than any other mill. In one day of ten hours it manufactured 467,866 feet. Since it began manufacturing in 1868 it has turned out over 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company has an annual product exceeding in value that of any other mill company on the Coast, while the same may be said of the output of sash and doors from the great plant of the Wheeler-Osgood Company. During the past year several new mills have been added to Taconia's list, while the output of others has been increased. Not included in Tacoma's list of mills is a large number of mills that pay tribute to this city, and which add largely to the volume of lumber business and the general trade. Among the many factors that have con- tributed to the lumber industry of this locality, the Tacoma Eastern railroad deserves pre-eminence. Along its one hundred miles of tracks a large number of mills have sprung into existence, which market their product largely through Tacoma. The advent of other railroads into the state of Wash- ington will open up new fields for lumbering, widen the market, and make this state a greater factor in the lumber markets of the world. It has been held by many that manufacturing lumber in this state will double within ten years, though it is quite probable, however, that the manu- facturing of shingles has practically reached the limit. So many substitutes for shingles are now on the market that the demand is not increasing with the population. The shingle manufacturer of the state is obliged to curtail his output, and at times suspend entirely the manufacture of shingles until there is a demand for them. This year would have been phenomenal in the manufacturing of lum- ber but for the inability of transportation companies to care for the traffic. Lumbermen have suffered untold losses by the inadequate service rendered by the transcon- tinental railroads. In spite of this drawback, however, the year has been an active one. Local demand and the ex- cessive call from California have absorbed large amounts of lumber manufactured in this state, and in a way offsa". the loss occasioned by car shortage. HEADWATERS OF Courtes.v Tacoma Eastern R. R. PARADISE RIVEK, AXXL'AL XUMBUR, 1907. 41 TACOMA'S EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES Unequalled bv Any Other City in the Northwest Excellent Public School System and Many Private Institutions of Learning. By ALBERT H. YODER. Superintendont Tacoma City Schools. T i:3__d. innr HE educational facilities of Tacoma are the equal of most cities of 100,000. There is a well-organized system of public schools, and an unusual number of private ones. The city has two large Catholic academies, a Lutheran academy, an excellent boys' boarding school, three large business col- T — Tw T leges, the Annie Wright seminary for ^^jP^ young ladies, one of the best of its kind in ^ I the West; Whitworth college (Presby- terian), and the T'niversity of Puget Sound (Methodist), in the center of the best residence district; a large Indian school in the suburbs, two hospital training schools for nurses, a summer normal school for school teachers, now in its twelfth year; the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. night schools, with special work for employed people, and a number of private schools conducted by vari- ous denominations. There are 2G3 teachers employed in the public school system, and more than 10,000 children enrolled. The course is divided into 12 years, eight in the elementary school, and four in the High school. There are 26 schools in the city, including the re- cently established Parental school, where boys of com- pulsory school age, without good homes, or incorrigible in school, are given special training in the usual branches, gymnastics, and manual training. The Grammar schools are of good size, most of them employing a supervising principal, but are not crowded. For example: The en- rollment of some of them for the past month is: Bryant 61 G Central 795 Edison 670 Emerson 520 Grant 533 Hawthorne 701 Logan 602 Lowell 550 Grant 572 Special supervisors are provided for the work in music and in drawing. There is also special supervision of the l)rimary grades. The course of study is similar to that obtaining in other cities of the same size. In September the High school moved into the beautiful new building, the best model of school architecture in the Northwest, and only equaled in the West by the new High school of Los Angeles, California This building has been fitted with the best furniture, designed especially for the school, and equipped with the best laboratory facilities. In addition to the usual laboratories in phy- sics, chemistry, biology, botany, etc., there is a labora- tory devoted to physical geography, the equipment of which is the best in the West. There is also a strong commercial department, with a tour years' course of study. The gymnasium is 28x104 feet, thoroughly equipped with the best apparatus, and provided with lockers, dress- ing rooms, and shower baths. There are two instructors in physical culture, one for boys, and one for girls. The manual training department has a four-year course tor both boys and girls, the boys taking the usual work in wood, iron and cabinet-making, and the girls, cooking and sewing. There are 38 teachers and 1100 students in the High school. Every student is required to take four years in English, at least two years of some other language, two years of science, one biological and one physical, and two years of mathematics and two of history. The balance of the course is elective. Sixteen units are required for graduation. The usual student activities are maintained — athletics, football, baseball, track and other sports, basket hall and tennis, debating societies, a cadet corps, a school paper, etc. People coming from other cities will find the school opportunity for children, or for special work in private schools or colleges, as good as that maintained in most of the cities In the East. Tacoma, as other Western cities, aspires to maintain as good educational facilities as can be found elsewhere. Tacoma's foreign exports exceed those of all the other twelve ports of this district combined, including Seattle. MAHONS PRAIRIE. WITH MOUNT TACOMA'S SNOW. CAPPED PEAK IN THE DISTANCE. o o '-' i s u a 44 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD RESOURCES OF WONDERFUL REGION Vast Wealth and Incomparable Scenic Beauty Along Line of Tacoma Eastern Railway HE Tacoma Eastern railroad passes through a section of Washington's richest country, tamed for its vast natural resources and advantages, as well as its incomparable scenic beauty. Lumbering is the great source of wealth, the immense forests of fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock and other valu- able woods furnishing material for Sin- gle, lumber, and planing mills along the road as well as at Tacoma, giving employ- ment to hundreds of men, as this great reserve is being drawn on to supply the markets of the world. Million Feet of Logs Per Day. It is only a few years since the Tacoma Eastern was first projected into this region. At first the giants of the forests were felled to supply the mills at Tacoma, but with the constant pushing forward of the road into this virgin territory, the natural and other advantages so ap- pealed to the mill owner and investor that today there are twenty-six saw and shingle mills, with a daily cut of near- ly 700,000 feet of lumber and 1,000,000 shingles, located along this line. The demand of these mills, as well as the mills in Tacoma, swell the daily log cut to nearly one and one-quarter million feet. While these figures must appear to the average reader as enormous, still the impression made in this great reserve can hardly be noticed, so great is the supply. Growing and Prosperous Towns. As the railroad was extended, mills were built, and the forest near the rails cleared. Laborers were brought in, then came homeseekers, merchants and professional men, who formed the nucleus for the towns that now show prosperity and growth at numerous points on the line. Other thriving industries have found place beside the busy saw and shingle mills, and the valleys and logged- off lands of almost inexhaustible fertility are blossoming through the efforts of the agriculturist and horticulturist, who find it easy to raise profitable crops of grain, hops, fruits and vegetables — in fact, almost anything that can be grown in the temperate zone. Agriculture and Horticulture. Berries and other small fruits thrive, especitlly in the valleys, and bear most prolific crops, ripening, however, slightly later than near the Sound, where the full benefit of the warm Japan current is felt. The soil of the valleys is suitable for hops, which average a ton per acre. Hay yields two crops a year, the first from three to four tons, and the second two tons an acre. From 250 to 350 bushels an acre is the yield of potatoes, while carrots and other root crops, including sugar beets, average from 30 to 40 tons. Oats cut about 90 bushels to the acre, while wheat, which is raised chiefly for feed, averages from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. Rich Mineral Deposits. In the Cascades is gold-bearing copper pyrites ore, while silver and lead are to be found In paying quanti- ties, and some valuable mines are being worked. Extend- ing along the base of the Cascade mountains, nearly the entire distance from the Columbia river to the British line, is one of the most extensive coal fields in the world, and it is only just beginning to be developed. In quality this coal varies from light to a heavy bituminous. While some is well adapted for making gas and coke, other va- rieties are excellent for domestic use and steaming pur- poses. A Ready Market at Tacoma. Tacoma. lying at the head of Commencement Bay, is the headquarters and western terminus of the Tacoma Eastern railroad. Thousands of acres of land with water frontage afford terminal facilities for any number of rail- roads, and the deep sea-going ships, which register from ports all over the globe. In addition to the Northern Pacific railway, which makes this point its principal ter- minus, several other transcontinental lines are building west to take advantage of these exceptional facilities at Tacoma. Thus distribution to the markets of the world is afforded the products of the region reached by the Tacoma Eastern railroad. Pierce's County's Varied Resources. Pnerce county, which the Tacoma Eastern traverses, already has a population of more than 125,000, with re- sources as varied as its topography, which rises from sea level at Tacoma to the top of Mt. Tacoma, the greatest volcanic glacial peak in the Northwest — 14.528 feet high. Numerous streams, which are fed by the great glaciers on the mountain, afford unlimited horse-power for the generation of electricity. About two-thirds of the area of the county is covered with forests of fir. spruce, cedar, ash, maple, alder, with some oak and cottonwood. Out From Tacoma. From the station in Tacoma. to the south, the rails lie through a portion of the manufacturing section of the city. Beyond Bismarck, at the city limits, are numerous small ranches or farms, whose owners have cleared the ground and are growing fruit and vegetables, and raising poultry. Dairying is also successfully carried on. espe- cially in the Clover Creek valley, ten miles out, where rich meadows grow on alluvial soil. Between Tacoma and Ka- powsin, 23 miles out, and included in the latter town, are nine saw mills, three shingle mills and one planing mill. $3,000,000 Electrical Plant. On a spur, extending two miles from Kapowsin, at Electron, is the plant of the Puget Sound Power company, the building of which has involved the expenditure of $3,000,000. With an ultimate capacity of 40,000 horse- power, one-half that energy has been developed. This affords cheap electrical power and light, which have been a large factor in the development of Tacoma and the surrounding cities. Lumbering and Gardening. Kapowsin, at the lower end of Lake Kapowsin. is a mill town, as is Lakehead. at the upper end. From Lakehead on. the road passes through the fertile Ohop valley, where, in season, hops, fruit and vegetables are grown in pro- fusion. Lumbering is also carried on through there to some extent, especially around Ohop lake, five mills being located at Lakehead. Ohop. Skewis and Eatonville. Pictu'-esque Scenery, Hunting and Fishing. From Eatonville. the line passes through splendid forests and the country becomes more rugged. Not far ANNUAL NUMBER, IQ07. 45 from EatonviUe are several gold prospects, a deposit of fine silica and an immense ledge of mineral paint. At LaGrande, thirty-seven miles from Tacoma. the road en- ters the Nisqually canyon, with its perpendicular walls hundreds of feet high. The scenery for several miles along the road from here is most grand, the Nisqually river, far below the track, rushing and (umbling over the rocks, wasting thousands of horse-power that before long will be utilized for the generation of electricity. Numer- ous streams along this portion of the road afford fine trout fishing, while in the hills are found deer, grouse, bear, cougar and other game. At Alder and Elbe are six shingle mills, the latter town being in the center of the Succotash valley, a fertile bottom well adapted to farming and fruit growing. Mineral Lake — Lumbering and Mining Arsenic. Three miles from Elbe, at I'ark .lunction, llii' line turns south, crossing the Nisqually river into Lewis county. For four miles the road winds through a magnificent for- est of fir and cedar, some of the trees being immense in size, ranging up to 14 feet in diameter and to a height of 200 feet, without a limb to mar their symmetrical beauty. There are several hotels at Mineral, which is becoming noted as a summer resort, while the lake and streams flowing into it afford fine sport and heavy creels of trout. Two mills are located there. An exceedingly rich deposit of realgar, or arsenic, is bing mined and smelted near this point. Coal Mining. Four miles away, on a branch, are the Ladd coal mines. where a fine quality of steam coal is being taken out. Here the railroad secures its supply of fuel for motive power. Rich Big Bottom Country. From mineral the line has been built through Wat- kins to Tilton, a distance of 60 miles from Tacoma, and is being rapidly extended into the famed territory known as the Big Bottom country, comprising some 100,000 acres in the Cowlitz. Rainy and Cispus valleys in eastern Lewis county. Here the soil is exceedingly rich, being an alluvial deposit mixed with volcanic ash. Unusual Opportunieies. Away from the bottom lands it is more or less moun- tainous and is covered with fine timber. In addition to coal, copper, gold and silver, fire and other clays are being taken from the hills. The principal agricultural products of this country are wheat, oats, barley, hops, hay and vegetables. Cattle, hogs and poultry are raised and dairying is carried on profitably. Unusual opportunities for making money in any of these lines are open to anybody. Wonderland of the Cascades. From Park .Junction, a branch of the Tacoma Eastern extends to Ashford, the eastern terminus of the road, where the stage is taken for Longmire Springs and Mount Tacoma, the "Wonderland of the Cascades," with its great glaciers, beautiful waterfalls and lakes, and grand and rugged scenery, equaling, it is said by travelers, that of the Yosemite valley and the Yellowstone National park. SNOW FIELDS ABOVE ALTA VISTA — GIBRALTAR ROCK IN DISTANCE. CiirtMj- Tacoma Easti-m R. R. a 4) m 48 THE TACO'MA NEW HERALD WASHINGTON'S MINERAL RESOURCES Many Promising Mining Districts, With Bright Outlook in Production of Precious Metals — Greatest Coal Measures in the West. F WASHINGTON'S four great primal re- sources — the forests, the fields, the fish- eries and the mines — the last remains an asset about which there is the least def- inite knowledge, with the largest amount of speculation. There are a few elements of certainty in the situation, however. The state is centrally situated within the min- eral zone. The mountain range that inter- sects it from north to south is part of a chain that has yielded untold wealth of precious metals from Alaska, through California, and on to the southward, while geologists and experienced pros- pectors who have carefully examined into the situation aver that the vein has not faulted, and that Washington will ultimately take her place among the leading pro- ducing states, with this important interest ranking well up with lumbering and agriculture in its contribution. Up to this time mming operations have been carried forward under serious drawbacks, due to the fact that the mountain fastnesses of the state are comparatively inac- cessible, and it has been practically impossible to secure transportation facilities for material and machinery to properties already discovered in order to work them upon a scale sufficiently large to produce results, or to freight the ores to smelters for reduction. This obstacle has like- wise served to prevent systematic prospecting, and devel- opments have necessarily been retarded. The difficulty, however, will soon be largely overcome. The construction of 2,000 miles of additional railway trackage within the state will be accompanied by the completion of a com- prehensive system of highways that will allow of the ex- ploitation of mineral deposits upon a scale which will soon demonstrate the real worth of this interest. There are a number of districts within the state which have already established themselves as producers of merit. Prominent among these is the Mount Baker dis- trict in ^Vhatcom county, where $2,500,000 has been in- vested in development work, stamp mills and the neces- sary equipment for mining upon a representative scale. Commensurate results are being obtained In the output of free milling ores, while to the southward there are many districts of rich promise. Snohomish county has a half dozen districts under development, shipping their pro- ducts to the smelter at Everett, while there are seven mining districts in Pierce county, and extending over into King and Kittitas counties, in which discoveries have been made, though insufficient development work has not permitted of the establishment of their capacity. Placer gold has been taken from the streams of Kittitas and Ferry counties for nearly a half century, and the product is still maintained at its pristine volume, with consider- able improved machinery recently added to facilitate work. Several fine properties of proved worth have been developed into productive mines in Okanogan and Ste- vens counties, demonstrating the presence of workable ore bodies both east and west of the Cascades, while there are indications of rich mineral resources in the Olympic range, to the west of Puget Sound, that await the opening up of the peninsula to settlement. While the ultimate future of the mining of precious metals cannot at this time be foretold with accuracy. there is no doubt as to Washington's eminence in mining. Her vast coal measures are already contributing from their storehouses a splendid revenue, and are serving to give precedence to the state from a commercial and in- industrial standpoint. No other commonwealth on the Pacific slope produces coal in merchantable quantities, and the element of cheap fuel gives an unquestioned pre- eminence in manufacturing and shipping operations. For a time the coal mining industry was retarded be- cause of the increased use of oil from the California fields for fuel purposes, and the establishment of immense electrical power plants, but during 1906 there was a marked revival, and the output was increased more than 25 per cent over the previous year, with a total product exceeding 3,500,000 tons, worth more than $11,000,000 at tidewater. The increase in demand was due to consump- tion throughout the Pacific Northwest, the capacity of working properties being taxed to suply the requirements, with bright prospects for extending the output very ma- terially in the future. The mines of the Northwestern Improvement company at Roslyn and Cle Elum are the largest on the coast, producing nearly one-halt of the output credited to this state, while there are fine working properties in Pierce and King counties, the former producing an excellent coking coal, with over 100 ovens in operation. Extensive lime deposits in San .luan and Island coun- ties are the basis of a large industry. The cement rock in Skagit and Whatcom counties has attracted hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital in their development within the past two years. The iron ores of the state re- main to be brought to the producing stage, though sev- eral millions of dollars is being expended in the estab- lishment of iron and steel works, and capitalists are ac- quiring properties which give promise of placing this interest upon a paying basis of great worth to the Pa- cific coast, where millions of dol- lars are annually sent abroad in the importation of iron and steel. Large sand- stone quarries are worked at Tenino and Chuckanut, with marble de- posits in Spokane and Stevens coun- ties, while many deposits of c'lay adapted to the manufacture of drain tile sewer pipe, vitrified pav- ing blocks and brick, in various sections of the state give the baser metals a present \vorth of inestimable value. TROUT FISHING IN MINERAL CHEEK. \\Xr.\T, XTMHRR. 1907. 49 FISHERIES A THRIVING INDUSTRY Famous Waterways Provide a wealth of Sea Foods Washington Leads in Fishing, tor Profit or Pleasure Sea foods of infinite variety and incalculable value contribute to the precedence of Washington among the states. Her commercial fisheries are unapproached. while a wealth of species of the finny tribe adds to her attractions tor the sportsman. Equally famed for great canneries and takings of thousands of salmon for market purposes, and for splendid trout streams. Washington waters are an important element in enhancing industrial activity and adding to the pleasure of her inhabitants. Fishing as an industry affords employment to more than 10,000 people during the season of active operations, and for 1906 the disbursement for wages alone amounted to $3,024,795. There is a permanent investment of $7,S31, 130 in the industry, and the product of last year amounted in value to $7,175,614. Of this total, Puget Sound showed returns of $5,584,705; the Columbia river, $1,311,321; Grays Harbor, $132,180, and Willapa harbor, $147,318. Sal- mon takes the lead in the extent and value of productions, the various canneries of the state making a pack of half ;i million cases during the year, to the value of $2,607,360, while more than $2,000,000 worth of this splendid fish were sold in the fresh state and either put in cold storage or cured for market.. The output for the year was materially lessened from the previous season, due to the fact of its being the "off" year in the run of sockeyes, which are the leading mer- chantable fish taken in the waters of Puget Sound, this species coming in flood tide only once in tour years, when the total fisheries output is in excess of $10,000,000. Of other variesties of commercial fisheries, the cod family is prominent, the annual takings being very extensive, while large fleets of vessels are operated from Puget Sound in Alaskan waters, bringing their catches here for curing. The Pacific cod is rapidly making for itself a market throughout the country, extending clear to the Atlantic seaboard. It is pronounced equal in quality to the New- foundland product, and the basis of a great industry has been laid in its curing and distribution. Millions of pounds of halibut are annually brought to Puget Sound from the north and shipped in refrigerator cars to every portion of the United States, while an im- mense export trade is being developed in fisheries pro- ducts, Europe being a large consumer of canned and cured salmon, the excellent quality of the product ana Its economy as a food supply giving it high favor in the mar kets of the world. Deep sea fishing, however, will soon find a rival in the shell fisheries of the state. The oyster industry has al- ready established for itself an Important place, while through systematic cultivation it is susceptible of a de- velopment which will ultimately accord to it first place in this important interest. There are great areas suitable to oyster culture throughout the state, while this toothsome bivalve thrives exceptionally. Native oysters have been marketed for many years, and, though small, have estab lished for themselves a demand in excess of the supply. The planting of eastern oysters is of recent date, but has been attended with such successful results that more than one hundred carloads of seed oysters are now being Imported annually, and these will soon be yielding a revenue of great worth. The present center of cultivation of eastern oysters is in \Villapa Harbor, but experiments have demonstrated that they will thrive, attain a larger size than in their native waters, and retain their flavor in Puget Sound and Grays Harbor. Equipped with a spade, the camper on almost any of Washington's si)lendid beaches may provide a bucketful of delicious clams in a few moments, and the larger pro- portion of the product of this variety of shell fish is thus consumed, though thousands of dollars' worth are annual- ly marketed, and one large cannery is maintained, ship- jiing a considerable quantity to points outside the state. The last year crabs to the value of $30,000, and a quarter of a million pounds of shrimps, valued at $35,000, figured as a commercial product. The state maintains a system of artificial hatcheries for replenishing the supply of salmon, more than 50,000,- 000 fry having been turned into Washington waters last year, while two hatcheries operated by the national gov- ernment added 2.T.OOO.0O0 more. One trout hatchery pro- duced l.OOO.ono fish in 1906. FAIRY FALLS. STEVENS CANYON. o ■= H " o - W f. m E M c o t K H f 9 - CO = ij s is - H 1 rlaiid. IN THE CASCADE RANGE. A rcnj. HOTEL TACOMA Newly remodeled at an expense of nearly $200,000. The Finest Hotel in the Northwest. Overlooking Commencement Bay. Bath Rooms supplied with Sea Water. Hot and Cold Water in every room. A modern and splendidly appointed Cafe. .1 ' * I fi. Tin; i.ni'.ia MAIN 1;N 1K.\.N( i;. 64 THE TACOMA NEW HERALD OUR ADVERTISERS To the tens of thousands in all parts of the United States, as well as abroad, who will examine the contents of the New Herald Annual for 1907 we commend, as a specially important feature, the advertisements of leadin-^ business men and firms which occupy a number of its pages. The list is one of which any high-class publication might well be proud, since it comprises none but those of high reputation and standing in the community, and hence in whom the outside public generally may have full con- fidence. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS Page .IiisiiU- I'l-niit Cover ACME MILLS CO.. Cereals. Flmir iind I'Ved.. ALBERS BEOS. MILLING CO. . Cereals and Feeds BLODGETT-MILLER CO.. Home Builders, Real Estate BEHTELSON, B. & CO.. Heal Estate BOGLE. J. 8. & CO.. Real Estate BANK OF CALIFORNIA CHURCH. EUGENE CO.. R.ul Estate COMMONWEALTH TITLE TRUST CO., Abstracts COOK, D, B,. Real Estate CYCLONE FENCE CO., Plain and Ornamental Woven Wife Fencing COLUMBIA BREWING CO T2 CROWE. F. T. & CO Inside Hack Cover fi,-> 63 71 71 NICHOLSON. L. A.. Civil Engineer and Surveyor NORTON & HILL, Insurance. Loans and Real Estate. DEFIANCE LUMBER CO DEMPSEY MILL CO DOLSON, J. E. Real Estate. Insurance and Rentals DARLING. J. E., Seal Estate ELLIOTT, R. I. . Solicitor of Patants ESHELMAN INVESTMENT CO.. Insurance, Rial Estate. Loans and Investments FOSTER LUMBER CO FIDELITY TRUST CO. BANK FOWLER, GEO. W.. Real Estate and Insurance GILKEY PAPER BOX CO GRANT, G, D, & CO,, Real Estate, Insurance GUNSTON, M. E, CO,, Real Estate GRAHAM, W, C, & C, GRAHAM INVESTMENT CO., City rrop- erty. Timber and Farm Lands aaiLI. THE PEERLESS GREGORY, E. F,, Real Estate HEATH. FREDERICK H., Arebitect HAVERKAMP. BEN. cigar Manufacturer HOME TELEPHONE CO KELLY & CHAPMAN. Civil and Mining Knginei-rs LINDSTBOM & BERG. Cabinet Maliers MEATH. EDWARD. Real Estate. Loans, Insurance MYERS, H. W. & CO., Hardware, Furniture, PlumbiuK and Tliinin.g METCALF SHINGLE CO McRAE-SHERMAN ELECTRIC CO.. Electric Engineers and ex- tractors McCABE & HAMILTON, Stevedores McGregor. DANIEL, Real Estate MATTINGLY, F. I,, & CO,, Real Estate. Insurance. Investm-lits and Surety Bonds McPHERSON, G. J, & CO.. Real Estate. Loans aud Insnraicc NORTHWEST CONSERVING CO NORTH END LUMBER CO NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE NEW CITY DYE WORKS OS 68 8 70 C 6 69 60 OLSON. BEN CO.. Plumbing, etc PACIFIC BREWING & MALTING CO Inside Front PEOPLE'S STORE. THE Inside Back PUGET SOUND FLOURING MILLS CO PACIFIC COLD STORAGE CO.. Meats. Fish and Produce PINCUS & SON. IT. ips PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK PAUL. H. ROBERT & CO., Real Estate PETERS. W. G. & CO.. Real Estate and Insurance PHILIPS, CALVIN & CO., Real Estate Outside Back RICHARDSON & ELMER. Sash. Doors and Lumber ROBERTS. GEORGE W.. Marble Works RELIABLE AUTO CO ROEDER. OTTO B.. Real Estate RYDER-GOUGAR CO. Real Estate and Investments EIST-JONES CO.. Real Estate RITZ. H. B. & CO.. Real Estate RICHMOND. H. N.. PAPER CO., Wholesale Paper RICHARDS. A. M. & CO., Real Estate, Insurance and Investments. RUSSELL. GEO. . & CO. . Heal Estate. Insurance SHERMAN-CLAY & CO Inside Back ST. PAUL & TACOMA LUMBER CO STAYTON. L. Y., Paving Contractor SCANDINAVIANiAMERICAN BANK , SCHWINN. H. G. & CO., Insurance. Real Estate and Loans SPARLING BROS., Real Estate SHUTT. R. D.. Real Estate SNYDER. FRANK. Contractor and Builder SCHMIDT. M.. Merchant Tailor SPROULE. JAS. A.. C.w Butter Store STEPHENS-MULLINS ELECTRIC CO TACOMA LAND & IMPROVEMENT CO Outside Back TACOMA STEAM LAUNDRY TACOMA CARRIAGE & BAGGAGE TRANSFER CO TACOMA TRUNK FACTORY TACOMA MILL CO TOLLEFSON. A. D., Real Estate and Insurance TACOMA ORNAMENTAL IRON AND WIRE WORKS TACOMA EASTERN RAILROAD Page e 67 Cover Cover 1 4 a 8 67 68 Cover 2 i fl 63 Cover 2 r> 8 fifl 67 67 70 70 70 72 Cover 4 65 71 71 UNITED REALTY CO.. Real Estate. Insurance. Stocks and Invest- iits VIENNA CAFE; Robert Suki'r, Proprietor WYERH AEUSER TIMBER CO WHEELER. OSGOOD CO.. .Sash. Doors. Blinds. Mouldings, etc. WADSWORTH & CO., Real Estate and Insurance WALTER. H. B. & CO.. Rral Estate. Loans, Investments WIEGEL CANDY CO 1 2 6S 70 71 \xxi"\i. \r.Miii-:k. kjo-. J. E. DO LSON REAL ESTATE 11 .\..u :,!■.■ iiit-ii.liij;,- !•■ \u\i-M in T;m-..iii!1 ill- iIi'slH' Impnivoil nr uiiiniprovcd city or i-..iiiiiry imt|nTfy. it will I..- t(» your mlvun- t;i;:r tii iilll i»r \\ riti* tn IIH'. 1 and 2 Iciicnil Real Estate and Mortgage Loan Business. J. E. DOLSON Columbia BIdg.. over Postal Tel. Co. Main 311 TACOIVIA THE METROPOLIS OF SEAPORTS With four more Transcontinental Railroads under construction as fast as men and money can build them, heading: for her unex- celled harbor. Tacoma will be indeed the Mecca for Investors in Tacoma Real Estate in 1907. Fortunes have been made in 1906. but 1907 will eclipse it many times. Are you going to be among the fortunate ones ! Come, see, help Tacoma and your money grow — but you've got to hurry. For furtlH-r iiir<>nii:ilioii, sc-c or adtlross Otto B. Roeder REAL ESTATE BROKER OIFICES: 1201 PACIFIC AVENUE TACOMA. U. S. A. Tin- iiiljoiniiif; cut shows ono of I ho niiiiiy iH-iiulifuI homi-s wlih-li «»' have for snlo in Taconin. It him Ihmm) built K*s^ than two yt'nrs. It I'oininiMids n nia^ntti- iHMit vU'W of the h.'iy and th- Olymph- ami Cascndo Mountains, mill of MiiunI Tacoma. Is situat- I'd on thr Iwst car lino In tin- city. r«uir ill* eleven lots po with Hh- place, at a piiee much h'-ss than It i'(U)li| ttc iluplirated for at pri'Sc?ir lu-lrc?* tif matcrinl ami 5i.;.'» r:n-|i, Mii.'-ii:iil d-iwn. Imys liiKh- level lots. Host of »ail. Within walkhif: ilislauce «>f X. P. viw rtliopx. No one will deny that thi>st> same lilts will luin;; four liim-s the price witliin r-'ir years RESIDENCES G. D. GRANT & CO. 504 Chamber of Commerce BIdg.. Tacoma. Wash. liiic-ihlnl down, balance five years. Five lots and olRhteen- roniii residence, finished hi hard- wood. lecatLMl three Idneks beyond the retail district, on C street. ICrinps 912.*; per month rent. Buy now. Clet benefit of five years* luerease in value. Sell iM'fnre tinal payntetil. INVESTMENTS \';iliiaiilc business corner. Xh soliiiely the Itost buy for the money on the street. Tidcinnds for factory and mill sites. F'lve lots, with trackace. cIo-jc lit business center. All kinds of Improved and nn- inipnivcd nal csstatc In ;irid m-iir 'I'acnina. In luaklni: invcsinit*itt<« one nf the most vital imints is to Imy rtirht. and this Is particniaily tn f Wcsleni Iti-sil Kstate I'ur- ehiises. The nugenc Chnreh t'onipany, TiOl Kipiltable Ilnlldlng:. Tacotua, WHshingion. have earned i|'iilc an enviable reputation dnrlns the l>ast few yciirs on accniinl nf their success In mana.cing snnilry Investment synillcales. for whom thev are bnvers and managers. These syndicates are always hamlled hi eorporalbm form iiiid lerilficjitcs ».r siiK'k Issued let the various itartles Interested. IhirhiK 111"' year llMMi several of these vcrv siieeessfnl Investment com|uiiiii-s have lM>en nr^rantzeil by the Kngene Church Company, niiiotifr which are the fidlowhif;: The Lakewixxl Land Company, capital paid up, j:;n.(Hm: Tierce County Land Company, capital paid up, $;:o.(Xnt: Tolter Laud Company, capitalized rr»r 5:2.'.no<> III |K>r cent, paid: Suburliau I.anrI Company, with a capttiil of $1.(h)0. due of these i-omi>anles has already pnhl dividends of "lk) p-r eeiit.: but, of eiiurse. It Is not usual to earn such dividends In so hhort a tlin'*. ev(*u In the far West. A nuuilM>r of syndicates eom- iHksed of local Imslr.ess nn-n do their buying and aelling through I he agency of this concern. Mr. Kugene Church comes from New York ami has lM»en en- gaged In handling City and Snbnrban real esiiite In Tacoma for (he lust ten years, and has assoelnttsl with him Mr. \V. M. Wilson, fiirnicr buslneKH mniiager of the Taeoma Dully News, and Mr. J. W. MiHirc, a f.inncr banker ..f Nebrnskn. If you hnvc any nioiiev to ninee in Western Investments, you ulll nnike IK. mistake In defiling with the Chnreh roneern. iii:ni;v c. criKsioHKOT'cir. rresirtetii. Wir.IJAM II. HANSON. Viee-I*rosidenl. .lUlIN W. CLASSKN. Seoretary. niAULKS K. TIILL. Kesidenr ^Iiltiaser. San I'vnnclseo Offlee : 2^4 (•aliforiiia Si. Cable .Vddres.s : ".Mnhanson." Annual Capacity, 150,000,000 Feet r:si;»i.!ish.,( REAL ESTATE Acreage and Timber Lands a Specialty itKKMS 311 Axn ."irj Aiii-.Mii; i-.i ii.iuno mli.. iripnlioiin, Mnin .-.2r,1 TACOMA. WASH. vf ^f nntf nr }v }}! nr vf v.f }v }V Vf }V !?f n' vr JOS. SPARLING. JOHN SPARLING, SPARLING BROS. HKAL ESTATE, LOANS, INSURANCE. RENTALS AND COLLECTIONS rroiNTty BoiiKlit. Sold nnd rm-ort K.-r f'-r Ni'?ilt«'s(d»»iilfl. 213 Arcade BIdg.. TACOMA. WASH. ill iu iu Hi ma ill ill ill ill ill iUiUiUiii uiiii '«:s t^^ .\^^ J> ^Q % yj FOR SALE 201-2 BERLIN BLDG. ^e -4^ ^sr. ir^ \r^ fe^^ s^^^ Jr^' S^ I'lloNKS: Offtcr. .T:inips T. Sfi: R..sltll-llro. R.-.l 50-.-. /^\ R. D. Shutt Real Estate Insurance Collections MONEY TO LOAN ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE. Special attention g^iven to care and sale of property for non-residents. 320 BERLIN BUILDING. TACOMA. WASHINGTON. !!!nf !t! Vf nf 1!! Vf rr ITf Vf }V ^!f nf ^f !Tf !Tf W i;sT.\i!i.isiii:i) i.s'io. Malcolm E. Gunston Co. REAL ESTATE, LOANS INSURANCE i:siM'flal cnii' K'veii In properllfs of luin-rostdotUs and . siiilos. \Vp rrpieseiit a minibor of Investors and rnn get \iiu offers for ynnr real estate. ICasIern and local references. Second Floor Bernice BIdg. TACOMA. WASH. iiiiUiUiUiitiUiUiiiiUiUiUiUiiUUiUiUiii 68 THE TACOMA XFAV HERALD EsHELMAN Investment Company Real Estate and Insurance Insum Your Property in the CASCADE MUTUAL FIRE ASSOCIATION Deposit Your Savings in NORTWESTERN BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION l''iiri !■! Cily l'i..|.ril,\ I'ur s;^ il.-ms. U.-iils ('..lie.,'!.'.! s I'ai.l I..I- l-ri'Si. N.';.-"lhili- 'J'iiconiu Rt'JiU.v. and if yti an- a noii-nsiilciit wi- will gladly fur- nish ynu with any inforuiaiion wv- can nn your •■^inK-st rolatiug to Tarnina or ^iirntnmltng cnuntry. T.ist vnm- property with us fur GEORGE RUSSELE & CO CALIFORNIA BUILDING TACOMA, WASHINGTON INSURANCE FIRE HEALTH ACCIBENT REAL ESTATE RENTALS LOANS INVESTMENTS Correspondence Solicited Commonwealth Title Trust Company 109 SOUTH TENTH STREET ABSTRACTS OF TITLE II. II. UOVE. Picsidcnt. I'UANKI.l.N KOGO. Vice Pics. .NniAKV rur.Lic Fiia: iNsruANTi: J. E. DARLING REAL ESTATE DEALER I'rlnitc Money lu L'ltin. Yvit I'ini Utul: in f><:r^ii^^. L; _ (;alvanb..Ml. Will T JR ' R > \RRRR a4''Haa7 lint nisr. Fi'iiri's , I.nilt on slHtrt no- tice at iiricfs thnf ' win ii s t <• n i s h ' you f*»r rlicjiinu's-i- ' Fi'nri- wi'jiviiif: nia ■ rhinrry. r«'ii<'»' fi.r pur|...sfs. Win- .liinp.Ml |»i.k.'ts. st.-i-I t-aMi-. ft*'., at wtml.- M«-]isur4'mfnts takfu. Kstliunti's niailf. I.awn Cutis. <■! nnti Wooil I'lists, Kails, sliari'il li> any part of th" city. 1019 PACIFIC AVENUE. TACOMA. WASH. Telephone 116 72 THE TACONFA NEW HERALD E. F. GREGORY CO., '"c REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INVESTMENTS Cart- of Property for Non-residents a Specialty 120 Twelfth Street TACOMA, WASH. tKI.EPHGNH. Main 22!i P. O. BOX sori COLUMBIA BREWING COMPANY Brewers and Bottlers of LAGER BEER AND PORTER Try Our "GOLDEN DROP" Bottled Beer For Family and Table Use. THE BEST ON THE MARKET Nos. 2120-32 SOUTH C STREET "SEE AMERICA FIRST" MT. TACo;.: ■ VLiERLAND OF THE CASCADES.' TACOMA EASTERN RAILROAD VISITORS TO THE NORTHWEST slmnld i.ot fail to sco this iiHl.-^^crihabl.' n-- j,'i(pu. with its grand vt)k-anic. glucial p^-aU, 14,ri2s feet high. 32.500 acres of porpetvial ieo and snow, 15 separate distinct glaciers, with yawning crevassos hnndrods of feet deep, rngged canyons, beantiful waterfalls, magnificent forests and entruncing mountain parks, containing nearly 500 varieties of wild flowers that in season blimni witliiii a step nf perpetual SHOW. Good hotels and accommodations; reasonable rates. For fifi- il- lustrated deseiiptive nnitter address General Freight and Passenger Dept.. Tacoma, Wash. Electrical Supplies Let us quote you in any quantity on anything in our line. We make prompt shipments and our goods are the best on the market. We are in position to make immediate shipment on gas and electric fixtures at almost any price. Stephens-Mullins Electric Co. 102 SOUTH TENTH ST., TACOMA, WASH. "HIGH-GRADE LAMPS." G. J. Mcpherson A. A. McAULAY REAL ESTATE LOANS AND INSURANCE We can show the best Opiiortimities and Results for Investments of any City on the Coast. WE BUY OF THOSE WHO WISH TO SELL WE SELL TO THOSE WHO WISH TO MAKE MONEY CALL OR WRITE FOR INFORMATION Mcpherson and company (iiiH Provident Bldg. J,.„..„.,..„.,............,........™„................™.„..„.....................„....„.„..„.^ I The 'People' 4; Store Under yVctf Management \ Tacoma^^ LiO.rgC'Si Department Store HpjinrininiFif' Thirty departments under one roof — each department a complete store in itself. With our mammoth Dasemcnt Bazaar we hax'c five immense fioors containing over 65,000 sc|uare leet of Hoor space. "The Brightest Corner in Tacoma" — so called from the hundreds of Xearnst lamps re- 'cntly installed, both on the inside and outside i>f the l)uilding, making it the lightest and brightest store on the Pacific Coast. The interior of the building is now being refitted — new show cases and fi.xturcs are being added, and the public will find here everything to please the eye and add to their comfort while buving or visiting. Corner of Pacific Jivenue and llth Sts. TACOMA, WASH. fcrt T TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTT1TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTr~~ ***■*-*■>»■-■■■-*■-»■ -*■■*■-*■-*■-* ■■»-^-*"«--»--*-^-» ■■»--^-^-*-'*-»"«-'»- ■*■■»■-«■■«■■*-*-*-*■ «««'«'«'*«<-<'<-«<>«'«<>«'«<>*»«<-<-<>«««««<-<>»«<>»««<-c>««€'<>««<'<-<>«<>«««<>ms <-««<><>««^«> «■«'««««<■«'<■<•€■<•<•««<> <-4>A<'«<-«^<>«^«' <•<■<• <-<'^ •>•>■><■«■«•<■ I 1105 A Street Tacoma. 411-415 Globe Bldg. Seattle. \. T. Crowe 4 Co. Wholesale Dealers and Agents in all kinds of Building Material ALSEN'S PORTIAND CEMENT I. S. OYPSIM COMPANY'S IVORY WOOD TIBER PLASTER rouiinsrnxDKNCK .soi.iciTKn. Miinroe Street Spokane. 252 Oak Street Portland. Expanded Metal System of Fireproof Constniolion a Specialty. .Johnson Hars for Reinforcing Concrete. The Strongest. Finest Ground and Most Uniform Cement Made in the World. ^^♦♦♦♦•♦♦««*« >uk 2? SHERMAN=CLAY & Co. ■THE HOUSE OF QUALITY" And the SUPREME - UNAPPROACHABLE Steinway Piano have for nearly half a century been closely identi- •led one with the other. We are proud to concede to this artistic piano thb grreatest credit for our success and standing among musical people and in the business world. Our convenient new store is the outcome of a des*re to give those who wish the Steinway. oppor- tunity to see and test EACH AND EVERY STYLE OF UPRIGHT. MINIATURE AND BABY GRAND IN OUR TACOMA STORE Tacoma's growing population will support such an effort, and we note a musical atmosphere here thai demands it and we have mot the need. The Steinway is highest in price and most eco- nomical to buy. because years and years of contin- ual use has proved its wonderful durability and terfcctness of tone. BESIDES THE STEINWAY WE HAVE MANY OTHER MAKES TACOMA STORE. 936 C STREET SAN FRANCISCO For 35 years — Corner Kearney and Sutter Sts. PORTLAND SEATTLE OAKLAND SPOKANE EVERETT BELLINGHAM >AA <>. \ FIVE INEW RAILROADS FOR TACOJMA ! \ GATEWAY to the ORIENT Remember, we have been telling you for the past four years that Tacoma REAL ESTATE is the SAFEST and BEST INVESTMENT in the Northwest. You have missed handsome profits if you failed to take our advice. But it isn't too late. TACOMA LAND AND IMPROVEMENT CO. % iiq ELEVENTH STREET, TACOMA, U. S. A. « » » « « Ml ^ Tacoma 'Tteal Estate Value4: Are lower than those of any other city in the United States of the same size. With the new railroads now building to Tacc a, it is fair to estimate a general advance of 25 per cent, to 50 per cent during the vear 1907. $1000 to $1200 Per front foot will buy property fronting on C and Commerce streets (two of the leading retail business streets of the city) within a block of Eleventh street (the principal "East and West" street of the city). Just across the street from the Postoffice, one property now being ofTered can be improved to net 6 per cent, to 8 per cent. $200 to $300 Per front foot buvs property on D street, within a block of Eleventh street. D street is the first street west of C street, and should be the ne.xt street to be improved for retail business. $60 to $100 Per front foot buys property on paved streets, only five to ten minutes' walk from retail busi- ness section, suitable for apartment houses. This class of property, when improved, pays 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, net, and the demand is much greater than the supply. We have for sale a large list of business and resi- dence properties, acreage tracts of all sizes, manu- facturing sites and tide lands, and solicit correspond- ence with parties comtemplating investing. We also handle mortgages, warrants, bonds, write fire insurance and take entire charge of property for non-residents, rendering statements monthly or quar- terly, as desired. Business established in 1891. REEEREXCES — Any bank in Tacoma. Also, individuals and corporations in Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago ami other Eastern cities. A MAP OF THE CITY Mailed Free to Any Address CALVIN PHILIPS & CO. 211 California Bidg. TACOMA, WASH. fcJ-'»-*-'*"*--T--T-T-^-r-Tt-T-T-T-ff T TTI-T-TirTit-Tl-^-Hr-t f>-TiT1t (tt't'»1"tfr-t ft-TT-rT-T-TT-T-rT-rT-T--r-*--^-*^-'*'*^*"'*'*'*'*^'*^'^^'*'**^'^'*****^''**'*^*''*'*^"^'* 4'>4« ♦^^X^^^^A I uk '07 I' LI BRARY OF CONGRESS III nil 017 373 286 7,