tvM Wilaon. Another motor
1 t the bead of
MTU,. Tl! greatly ece
TlMJkJI5f Tort TowEd make
.lcfatitickljWlUPW
!, to H' iy it-tooLdtnei. An
jprmrmlnaU.Uthe amendingof
t,l, ilarVfa, Hi t. that Waihirgton 1. to be ft
Wig aide to ritood the city
U i m to Ut!J. tb" ar tll ii properly and
jt artftJJ; j-ut f tl corporation in all iti inter
u will r-aM th city to extend iti improve
fcrtU ail to ami th iCcinc; of amice in ya
rvM hfc'a Tb un ato works plant, which
l Ht.f irtioD of the town from a Tfi
tt ti'l, wtieh, in tern, U died by a pump
is ll ullfj, i to U rep!ac! with an improved
j lttt, to UU sj i !y fcta iirirgi in the interior
(4 li itir.t&!a, at 1 to fortiih wato aerrice to the
iUu tUti u veil aa the boiineu houses of
lU r,iy. A orttjl't ijara f aowerage will be
ki Vl a:J 0"utfflri4. More itrecU will be grad
ti at I UCt U;!t The filling and grading of
i tl nw.A ilrrrU at a ct of 111,(1)0.00 has
UuJ; ta d t, at,l artUr stwt contract of 119,
OMfM u jtt or.srtL IMwoen $10,(0)00
a?J Ui.immu tr tJ ijg fijDdl in building
i!a.'U IW&utidl tcproTfiECLUihowthat
& rJj iuftaat i aririt of enterprise
tiki U tfirjr.rg It toiu rapidly into prominence
aU ruU..;r g f r it j !ac amotj; the lire cities
l tl t-.ttlcl Tii. nidation ia not handicap.
H 1 y at j Uf lrt.a M t lu otly indebtedness
r.ly tall, wLir b tu ittil j talat linco the pur.
la & tUs a aauBti tow oM on it The
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TEE WEST SHORE.
Und, owing to the modifying influence of the
warn
current of the ocean. Very little snow falls in the
winter, and it remains but a short time. The temper,
ature is remarkably equable. The average tempera,
tare for the month of July is about fifty-six degrees,
aDd for December about forty degrees above zero,
Fahrenheit The freedom from excessive moisture at
Port Townsend is a matter of surprise to many, it
being generally supposed that a point so nearly sur.
rounded by large bodies of water, and in a mild tem.
perature, is subject to very heavy rainfall. Port
Townsend is the dryest city on the sound, and there
are many inland towns which annually receive more
moisture than this. The average annual rainfall, as
BBcertained by measurements of the precipitation dur.
iog the past ten years, is a fraction over seventeen
inches. The greatest fall during one year of this pe
riod was nearly twenty-two inches, in 1882, and the
least nearly thirteen inches, in 1887. The topogra
phy of the country about the city shows why the
amount of moisture deposited there is so compara
tively small. It is situated on the northeast extremi.
tyof the large body of land between the waters of
the sound and the ocean. All southwestern winds
which leave the ocean laden with moisture pass over
the Olympic mountains and there precipitate their
load before reaching Port Townsend. The other
winds which reach this point are comparatively dry.
The southwest winds gather a good deal of moisture
merely in crossing the waters of the sound, and pre
cipitate it on coming in contact with the cool timber
and mountains on the east side, so it may readily
be seen why there is such a difference in the amounts
of rainfall beiween the west and the east sides of Pa
get sound. The surrounding waters, with the free
circulation of warm currents, equalizes the tempera
ture, and the mountains extract from the saturated
winds the excess of moisture that otherwise would be
u nil U l.mI w,...,. . . . . " w w ueposuea over the entire area between
"WTU MC hv 1 , . - . - ...
tr.i,, ,L;ri, , f-,,! i , ; UUM MU Abe atmosphere is clear and tonic,
u (, tu.M f,Jf r nut couump. ! and the whole character of Port Townsend's climate
lUrJIjefstriiorwM.. I l remarkably healthful and delightful This feature
wone induces many persons to settle there.
Port Townsend is ninety miles from the ocean and
about one hundred miles from the head of Paget
oaud. It is forty miles northwest of Seattle, and
ixty-six miles from Tacoma, thirty miles southeast
of Victoria, B. C, and eighty miles from Vancouver,
wich is the western terminus of the Canadian Pa
cific railway. In addition to the trade which the city
vJ ....i f-w now etiovn . j. . . m
111 it . . 1 ThnrrV, a uitu in Uoveiopmg ai ft rapii i7
tx mi, LtU t.esa . . 1&0Dgh thereisarrni . . . 6, ...Tmi-L
ii . or uutttJ it -i i . ' Wl w cui a canai inrougu iiw--
ti. l aL?;1 ,U lVl diry to the eastward of the city. at .
& U 1 ar latitat i T hh " arly divided naturally,
' . "to reach the growing settlements on the east side
At lU j -J !JC fstfiiotu-j (,f forpj !
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