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saw mills, twelve shingle mills, and foundries, ship yards, planing mills, brick yards, etc., to approximate.

Tacoma is a great exporting point. It has coal bunkers, for loading vessels, having a capacity of 20,000 tons, and warehouses along its water front capable of holding 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. It has ninety miles of electric and cable railways. Its lumber shipments in 1903 aggregated 361,000,000 feet and its bank clearings were $100,000,000.

Seattle has 120 churches, a United States assay office, the Washington State University, and a public library that contains 50,000 volumes. It does an enormous export and import business and its storage capacity on its

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