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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