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th, is Priest Point Park, of 160 acres. The end of the Oregon trail is marked by a monument in Capitol Park in the heart of the city. Tumwater, a mile away, is the site of the first settlement on Puget Sound. In Olympia the first store was opened for business in the state. The Old New England Inn, formerly the scene of all territorial functions, is marked forever by a brass plate embedded in the sidewalk, and the homes of the first Territorial Governor, Isaac I. Stevens, and General R. H. Milroy are still to be seen. Trips should include: Tumwater, Nisqually River, Tumwater Falls--trolley cars, paved road. Clear Lake, 30 miles; Summit Lake, 13 miles; Black Lake, 5 miles; Long and Patterson Lakes, 5 miles; Talcotts Lake, 8 miles; Bloom's and Hewitt's Lakes, 2 miles. Tenino Stone Quarry and oil prospects; Bordeaux Logging Camps. Hartstine, Quaxin, Stretch and many other small islands. Shelton, Union City, Skokomish River Valley and Lake Cushman, 45 miles distant; Olympic Mountains and Canal always in sight. Grays Harbor and the beach resorts; also all upper Sound points. =ABERDEEN AND HOQUIAM:= Two cities on Grays Harbor, connected by electric interurban. The gateway to the Olympics by the southern route. Combined population about 29,000 (over 18,000 in Aberdeen), an increase of nearly 400 per cent in 14 years, due chiefly to lumbering and fishing industries, but farming and dairying are gaining. Near by are some of the largest trees in the state. Splendid highways, including the Olympic, lead in various directions, while the broad, firm ocean beaches a short distance away offer miles of excellent motor race tracks. Three transcontinental trains serve the district. [Illustration: WRIGHT PARK A ROSE ARBOR POINT DEFIANCE PARK AND PUGET SOUND A SUBURBAN HOME ON AMERICAN LAKE IN AND ABOUT TACOMA.] Suggested trips: Cosmopolis, a pretty city of 1,200 people, just across the Chehalis River. A trolley line connects it with Aberdeen. Cohasset, Westport, Pacific, Sunset and Moclips beaches, by auto, train or boat--ideal summer resorts. Point Grenville and Cape Elizabeth, bold headlands of the Olympics on either side of the Quiniault River; near b
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