in
THE WEST SHORE.
agrrg en'd for the r, including
Uwra to Victoria, one million one hundred
and t n thousand U.ia The total value of export
from 1 Vtnound for the yar 1SS7 was $12,820,513.
M rrhnd) to the value of $1,000,000 was shipped
from th" iMtm l north on the Alaskan steamers, which
hate tiVir terminus at Tacoma. In the amount of
l.m;ag r i juried, Taooma excelled every oth?r point
on Pugt ound, and larked but forty thousand tons
of shipping m much m the combined shipments of
m of the anon ahipping orts on the sound. The
tUl amount of lumU-r bhippod from Puget sound
daring the ywir hS7, waa seventy-one million six
hoij'Irr and niwty.threo thousand three hundred
and oighty.thw foot, valued at $1,003,1 SO. Of the
carp- wr.l to foreign jorU, forty were in American
vi-Mwla, thirty in Uritinh, twentydhreo in Norwegian,
iM-wn in Kedib, aix in Chilian, five in German,
Uo in Hawaiian, and one in Nicaraguan. The freight
money received in tranajiorting the lumber averaged
tl'im -T thousand fwt, amounting to $800,328.00.
Thm hundred and seventy-seven cargoes of lumber
wrro mA in American vessels to coastwise ports,
amounting to two hundred and fifty-seven million six
hundnvl and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and
thirty.eight fH valued at $3.3 1 il.OoT. The freight
money rexvited for transportation averaged $0.00 per
thousand fwt, amounting to $l,2s9,i 13.00. There
ere two hundrrl and fifty-one coal cargoes shipped
during the year from Paget sound to coastwise ports,
amounting to five hundred and twenty thousand five
hundred and twenty tons, valued at $2,002,000.00.
The freight mono; received for translation was
I,l,:kn00. Large shipment were made by boa of
U and other produce from the surrounding country
t Kn 1'rMirisco, valued at $1,301,322.00.
Tan.ma, the chirf shipping rt on Pugot sound,
U UaUd on the w-fttTn shore of Commencement
t"y. In ISsO, it .pulaiion, as shown by the official
couua, a PVrn hundred and twenty jx-op p. To
day it l.M a j.-pulation not !. than fifUen thousand
m 1 u rapidly growing. The location of the city is
J"M for drainage and admirably situated for the
pply of water for all pure The land rises to
the M and .Qth from the bay, in several well de
M terra and the longitudinal streets of the city
I. Mf I MM ft 11. 1
. ... ,uu rtm rererenco to the mn.
th the loMt amount of grade, and place the resi.
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. : 7 fvory one or them
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, .Ul),,CM,hvl 01 TL,IV; BT,01 &b0Qt thW or one-fourth the real
"tt,Ut 0llIiey88ecL Some of the build.
division of the Northern Pacific railroad enters the
city from the south, and the Cascade division, or main
line from the east In front of the city, are several
hundred acres of tide-flat land, which will ultimately
be used for building purposes, when the territory is
admitted as a state, and titles to this land can be ob
tained in fee simple. The growth of the city is now
ranging out toward the north, along the water front,
to the west and the south. The water froLtage on the
bay, which affords a landing for vessels at any stage
of the tide, lies to the north of the main business por
tion of the city. Driving due west from the city, the
sound is sgain reached in a short distance, bo that the
townsite of Tacoma, in truth, is a peninsula. Be
tween the head of Commencement bay and the point
of this peninsula, called Point Defiance, lies the most
valuable portion of the townsite. Its main business
thoroughfare, called Pacific av.nue, is improved with
imposing structures, which give it a metropolitan ap
pearance. In 1SS0, there was less than a mile of
sidewalk in the city, none of the streets were graded,
only two brick structures were to be found in the city,
it had but two public school buildings, but one news
paper, three churches, six hotels, three manufactories
and not a single bank. To-day it has upwards of fifty
miles of sidewalks, twenty-five miles of streets grad
ed, scores of brick buildings, seven public schools
and two private institutions of learning, a univer
sity soon to be constructed, two daily and four weekly
newspapers, twenty-two churches, twenty-four hotels,
fifty manufactories and five banks, four of them
national, with aggregate capital of 8450,000.00, having
deposits of upwards of $2,000,000.00. Then it had
but six regular steamers; now it has upwards of for
ty steamers landing regularly at its wharves, besides
ocean sailing vessels. Then the assessed valuation of
all property within the city limits was about $500,
000.00. Now the assessed valuation of property with
in the city limits is upwards of 85,000,000.00. The
city limits comprise an area of seven thousand acre
In 1880, the amount of money expended in street im
provements was insignificant. In 1887, there was ex-
Pr JW6 dty' in 8treet improvements, upwards
or ,000.00. Nearly $1,000,000.00 was expended in
erecting buildings in the city in 1887. Besides these
amounts there was expended by the Northern Pacific
miiroad Company, in permanent improvements in
side of the city limits, over $250,000.00, an amount
T m M ekrgely iDCrea80d tbis coming year,
m l s o 1 Tn n iD the cit i8 8e d oneialf
P. twenty and one-half mills on the dollar; mak-
iDgatoUl of tvrPntrU :n '
r.i-: -v--b" wins on me dollar, on a