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LI MHUIUNC, which is characteristically illustrated" by"the engravings shown on "tin's page, has always
been the chief industrial enterprise of that section of Oregon nnd Washington lying west of the Cascade
mountains. There i hardly a community in this extensive region that is without a saw mill or a shingle,
mill, and a practically inexhaustible supply of timber to work upon. The forest belt of which Western
'Oregon and Washington are part extends from Southern Alaska, through British Columbia, and southward
'to Santa Barbara, in California. According to an estimate of Henry Gannett, of the United States Geo-i1
'graphical Survey, Western Washington has 103,304,378,000 feet of standing timber. This is distributed
throughout the counties of Pacific, Mason, Thurston, Pierce, Chebalis, Clark, Wahkiakum, Lewis, Cow-i
litr, .Snohomish, Island. Skagit, Clallam, King, Kitsap, Whatcom, Jefferson and Skamania, Chchalis lead
ing with 18,379,058,000 feet. Fir is the leading growth, comprising about three-fifths of the total1
Statistics as to the several varieties are? Fir; 68,308.801,000 feet; spruce, 0,403,403,000 feet; cedar,.
16,192,370,000 feet; hemlock, l,B99,83,O00 feet. Western Oregon contains approximately about thel
piirn; amount of standing timber as Western Washington, and the distribution of the snecies is. in about the
-(same proportion. Western Oregon and 'Washington together comprise the largest belt of merchantable:
3easr reach of a transportation route. 1
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(JPaciCc coast. Its mills cat in 1893 a. little more than 150,000,000 feet' Sales, foreign, domestic and!
'local, were 129.900.000 feet. Shipment! to foreign ports along were B.glB, 000 feet. -- 'I
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