This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Packing Plants--Printing and Publishing--Wood Pulp--MUk Products--Many Smaller Industries--Some New Ones--Summary Table--Shakes and Shingles. Western Washington possesses within itself practically all the essential requisites for becoming a great manufacturing district. Its unequalled harbors, its almost inexhaustible ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Packing Plants--Printing and Publishing--Wood Pulp--MUk Products--Many Smaller Industries--Some New Ones--Summary Table--Shakes and Shingles. Western Washington possesses within itself practically all the essential requisites for becoming a great manufacturing district. Its unequalled harbors, its almost inexhaustible timber supply, its unlimited water power, excellent coal mines and last, though not least in importance, its mild and salubrious climate, all combine to make it one of the choicest locations cn the globe for manufacturing enterprises. Nor is it the western portion alone that can claim all the advantages for future industrial activities; the great and prosperous Inland Empire also has many and great advantages for the development of manufacturing. In many portions of that vast territory there is quite an abundance of timber, productive coal mines, ample water, when harnessed, to supply power for any and all kinds of manufacturing plants; and besides it is blest with a fertile soil from which is produced the finest grains and grasses, the most perfect vegetables and most delicious fruits that can be found in the temperate zone. It lacks harbors at its door, but harbors are not absolutely essential for manufacturing establishments, where there is sufficient railway transportation. It is not unlikely that Spokane, with its extensive contributing territory of minerals, timber and agriculture, may some day develop into a famous manufacturing center, a worthy rival of the cities on the Sound. Seventy years ago there practically did not exist in this vast territory now embraced within the confines of our State, either husbandry or manufacture. To be sure, there were a few hundred white men scattered here and there, principally in the vicinity of Puget...
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Illus. 8vo, green cloth, corners bumped, cloth lightly soiled. Seattle, 1921. Signed by Ezra Meeker. Last 52pp. consists of a facsimile of the Olympia, 1870 edition, Meeker, Ezra. Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains, Containing a Description of Puget Sound...This section is on wood-pulp paper.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
B/w Illustrations. Good+ No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Original brown cloth with gilt titling, Signed by author on color dedication page, 8vo, 381pp + Bound in at the rear is "Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains, Containing a description of Puget Sound, and Rivers Emptying into it", by Meeker, 52 pages. (some darkening and wear to cloth; minor darkening to text, browning, name and address to endpaper).
