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WAITSBURG is an important agricultural town of about 1,600 people, in the western part of the county, having both railroad systems, and ships great quantities of grain. It has large flouring mills, warehouses, fine schools and churches, and is a prosperous, thriving town.
A large number of shipping points on both systems of railroads are growing commercial centers.
WHATCOM COUNTY
Whatcom county lies on the boundary of British Columbia, stretching from the Straits of Georgia to the peaks of the Cascade mountains—24 miles wide and 100 miles long, The eastern half or more of the county is included in the national forest reserve, with Mount Baker, 10,827 feet high, in the center of the county. It is one of the important counties on tide water, and has an area of 2,226 square miles and a population of about 70,000.
[Page 88] The climate is not different from the general Puget sound climate being mild and healthful. There are no severe storms, no sultry heat and no severe cold.
RESOURCES.
It is estimated that Whatcom county has three billion feet of standing timber. This is its greatest source of wealth. The western half of the county, outside of the lumbering, etc., is blessed with a wealth of soil responding to the farmer's labor generously.
The eastern half of the county is essentially a mountainous, forest-covered mining region, and has in store many veins of nearly all the metals.
Game of great variety of animals and fowls and fish are abundant.
INDUSTRIES.
The people of Whatcom county are engaged in lumbering and running saw-mills, one of the largest of the state being in this county; manufacturing of various kinds from the raw products in the county, including shingle mills and shingle machinery factory, salmon canneries, planing mills, barrel factories, Portland cement factory, and many others. Of no small importance is farming, fruit-growing and dairying. Prospecting and mining engage the attention and labor of a large number of citizens.
TRANSPORTATION.
Aside from having a long salt-water coast, open to traffic from the ocean, with splendid harbors, the county is traversed in all its agricultural half by a network of railroads, by the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, B. B. and B. C. railroads. These furnish exceptional means of traffic to all industries excepting the mining. The county has also an admirable system of wagon roads, some planked, some graveled and some graded and drained, covering about 700 miles.
PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS.
BELLINGHAM, on a salt-water bay of the same name, is the county seat, and commercial metropolis not only for this county but much other territory. It has a population of about 40,000 people. Into it all the railroads center, while the harbor is one of the best in Washington. It is largely a manufacturing town, having plants for the production of sash, doors, columns, tin cans, boilers, engines, flour and feed, canned fish, condensed milk, and many others. It is a substantial, live business community of wide-awake people, and growing rapidly. It has a gravity water system, electric lights, and gas plant.
BLAINE is a city of about 3,000 inhabitants, situated close to the Canadian line and on the Great Northern railway. Timber and lumber manufactures are the chief sources of its prosperity. Fishing and the canning of salmon are also important industries. The railroad [Page 89] company has recently expended considerable sums in improving its facilities. Blaine is a growing community.
SUMAS, on the Canadian border, is a lumbering town of 1,100 people.
LYNDEN is an agricultural center of 1,200 citizens.
FERNDALE is a lumber center of 1,000 people. Besides, there are a dozen smaller business centers in the county, growing and prosperous.
WHITMAN COUNTY
Whitman county is one of the chief agricultural counties of the state, lying immediately south of Spokane county and on the Idaho state line, having the Snake river for its southern boundary. The county is a plateau of rolling prairie lands, a large portion of which is farmed, watered by a number of streams, which are utilized for irrigation purposes in some of the bottom lands—although the rainfall is sufficient to mature crops, and no irrigation is had on the great bulk of the farms. The area is about 2,000 square miles. The population is about 40,000. The soil is a strong mixture of volcanic ash and clay of great fertility and permanence. Twenty years of wheat-growing still leaves the soil able to produce from 25 to 50 bushels per acre.
RESOURCES.
All the resources of the county originate in this splendid soil. For growing all the cereals and fruits and vegetables it has no superior. The county is well settled, and probably no county can excel Whitman county in the per capita wealth of its farmers. The products of the county are varied, and include wheat, oats, barley and hay, all giving splendid yields—wheat from 30 to 50 bushels, oats 60 to 100 bushels, barley from 50 to 80 bushels, and hay from 4 to 6 tons per acre. Potatoes, sugar beets and other vegetables produce fine crops.
The hardier fruits, such as apples, pears, plums and cherries, are successfully raised in all parts of the county, while on the bottom lands, along the Snake river, peaches, melons, etc., are produced in abundance. Seventy-five carloads of fruit go out annually from one orchard.
Wheat gives up five and one-half million bushels to the farmers each year. Oats one and three-fourths million and barley about one-half million bushels. Whitman county has more banks than any county in eastern Washington besides Spokane.
TRANSPORTATION.
Whitman county is as well, or better, provided with railroads than any agricultural county in the state. The Northern Pacific, O. R. & N., Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the S. & I. railroads are all interlaced about its grain-fields. These all connect with Spokane, and give access to all eastern and western markets.
[Page 90] PRINCIPAL TOWNS.
COLFAX, the county seat, situated near the center of the county, on the railroads and Palouse river, is the largest town in the county, with about 3,600 population. The town owns its own water system, has electric lights, fine court-house, banks, mills, warehouses, etc.
PULLMAN is a town of 3,000 people, near which is located the Washington State College, a large educational institution supported by the state, having about 1,000 students. It is an important grain-shipping point. It has a public water system, electric lights, and is a thriving and growing commercial center.
PALOUSE is a railroad center of 2,500 people, a large shipping point for grain, live stock, fruits and pottery.
OAKESDALE is a town of 1,500 people, having three railroads, and is an important shipping point.
TEKOA has a population of about 1,400, is a railroad center, and is a large shipper of fruits and grain.
GARFIELD has a population of 1,000, and ships much grain and other produce.
ROSALIA has 1,000 population, and is an important grain center.
This county has a dozen other shipping points where from 300 to 700 people are supported by the business originating on the tributary farms.
YAKIMA COUNTY
Yakima county is one of the large and important counties in the state, having the Yakima Indian reservation included within its boundaries. Its area is 3,222 square miles and it has a population of about 38,000. It is watered by the Yakima river and its tributaries, and through its valleys the railroads from the east find their easiest grade toward the Cascade passes. It is a county of level valleys and plateaus, having a soil made up chiefly of volcanic ash and disintegrated basaltic rocks, of great depth, which yields fabulously in cereal and grass crops, fruits and vegetables with the magic touch of irrigation. Artificial watering is 30 years old in this valley, and yet only a very small area was thus treated until the matter was taken up by the national government. But now vast areas are being provided with water, and the consequent growth and development of the county is wonderful.
A series of lakes in the mountains are being utilized as reservoirs, and from these lakes the waters are being distributed in many directions in the large irrigating canals. When the projects now under way are completed, more than 200,000 acres will be under ditches.
RESOURCES.
Yakima's wealth consists in the combination of its soil and water and climate. The county, lying east of the Cascade mountains, in [Page 91] large part at a low elevation, receives somewhat severe heat in the summer, which gives the opportunity successfully to ripen the less hardy fruits—peaches, apricots, grapes, etc. The county has half a million bearing trees and two and one-half million young trees growing in its orchards.
INDUSTRIES.
Naturally the industries of the county consist in exploiting its natural resources, and so we find Yakima citizens busy in raising fruits, hay, grain, and garden vegetables, to supply the big cities of the Sound. Its last year's contribution will probably exceed ten million dollars in value.
Of the items which compose this large sum, fruit is probably chief in importance. Alfalfa and grain-hay is an important item, as is also the crop of melons and potatoes. The combined fields of alfalfa and orchards make ideal bee pasturage, and Yakima honey is a constant factor of barter in the Sound cities. The upland farms produce quantities of all grains—wheat, oats, and barley—and some field corn is successfully raised in the warmer parts. Sheep, cattle and horses are also exported. Hops are a large crop.
PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS.
NORTH YAKIMA is at once the county seat and chief metropolis of the entire Yakima valley, having a population of about 12,000. It is situated on the Northern Pacific railway and Yakima river, and is the distributing center for both merchandise and farm products for a large surrounding territory.
The State Fair, supported by the state, holds annual exhibits here. It has extensive fruit canneries, flour mills, lumber mills, other woodworking factories, large warehouses, paved streets, big business blocks, fine churches, schools, banks, newspapers, etc.
SUNNYSIDE, a town built up among the irrigated farms, has a population of 1,500. Here are a cannery, pulp mill, creameries, etc.
TOPPENISH and MABTON are commercial centers of importance of about 700 inhabitants each, and growing.
[Page 92] STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
STATISTICS OF THE INCORPORATED CITIES AND TOWNS OF WASHINGTON.
======================================================================= NAME. County. Mayor. Clerk. - - Aberdeen Chehalis E. B. Benn P. F. Clarke Almira Lincoln J. C. Johnson Peter Wallerich Anacortes Skagit W. V. Wells M. C. Baker Arlington Snohomish Peter Larson Homer L. Huddle ASOTIN Asotin J. B. Jones J. P. Fulton Auburn King L. C. Smith Geo. C. Meade BELLINGHAM Whatcom J. P. De Mattos F. B. Graves Blaine Whatcom T. J. Quirt J. W. G. Merritt Bremerton Kitsap L. E. Mallette Paul Mehner Buckley Pierce D. S. Morris W. B. Osbourn Burlington Skagit P. M. Moody I. A. Marchant Camas Clarke John Cowan F. B. Barnes Cashmere Chelan C. A. Huston A. J. Amos Castle Rock Cowlitz T. W. Robin G. F. McClane CATHLAMET Wahkiakum J. T. Nassa T. M. Nassa Centralia Lewis J. P. Guerrier W. H. Hodge Charleston Kitsap N. A. Palmer M. M. Bausman CHEHALIS Lewis Wm. West W. A. Westover Chelan Chelan C. C. Jackson W. M. Emerson Cheney Spokane L. Walter J. W. Minnick Chewelah Stevens W. H. Brownlow T. L. Montgomery Clarkston Asotin D. B. Parks E. A. Bass Cle Elum Kittitas L. R. Thomas S. E. Willis COLFAX Whitman Wm. Lippitt H. Bramwell Colton Whitman W. H Renfro L. F. Gibbs COLVILLE Stevens L. B Harvey A. B. Sansburn CONCONNULLY Okanogan C. H. Lovejoy Wm. Baines Cosmopolis Chehalis L. B. Hogan W. S. McLaughlin Coulee City Grant F. W. McCann A. Kirkpatrick Creston Lincoln F. A. Duncan D. F. Peffley Cunningham Adams F. W. Parker A. J. Haile DAVENPORT Lincoln W. C. Graham Lee Odgers DAYTON Columbia H. C. Benbow R. O. Dyer Deer Park Spokane W. D. Phillips R. G. Cole Edmonds Snohomish Jas Brady G. M. Leyda Elberton Whitman R. A. Cox J. W. Berkstresser ELLENSBURG Kittitas W. J. Peed J. J. Poyser Elma Chehalis C. E. Gouty E. S. Avey Endicott Whitman C. L. Wakefield M. A. Sherman, Jr. EPHRATA Grant Dr. Chaffee Lee Tolliver EVERETT Snohomish Newton Jones C. C. Gilman Fairfield Spokane C. A. Loy M. Walser Farmington Whitman E. E. Paddock C. H. Bass Ferndale Whatcom J. B. Wilson C. Kelley Garfield Whitman H. S. McClure J. L. Rogers Georgetown King John Mueller John Beek GOLDENDALE Klickitat Allen Bonebrake J. R. Putman Granite Falls Snohomish C. E. Willoughby C. T. Smith Hamilton Skagit H. I. Bratlie S. H. Sprinkle Harrington Lincoln A. G. Mitchum W. W. Gwinn Hartline Grant E. A. Whitney T. E. Jenkins Hatton Adams J. M. Batten W. C. Sallee Hillyard Spokane M. H. Gordon J. L. Cramer Hoquiam Chehalis Dr. T. C. Frary Z. T. Wllson Ilwaco Pacific W. P. Rowe J. A. Howerton Index Snohomish H. L. Bartlett H. F. Wilcox Kahlotus Franklin E. R. Doughty E. L. Chittenden KALAMA Cowlitz A. L. Watson E. N. Howe Kelso Cowlitz M. J. Lord Max Whittlesey Kennewick Benton L. E. Johnson G. N. Calhoun Kent King M. M. Morrill L. E. Price Kettle Falls Stevens H. L. Childs A. R. Squire Kirkland King R. H. Collins J. S. Courtright LaConner Skagit J. F. Dwelley J. S. Church Lakeside Chelan Jos. Darnell S. B. Russell Latah Spokane W. H. Taylor Chas. White Leavenworth Chelan Lewis J. Nelson G. A. Hamilton Lind Adams J. T. Dirstine Day Imus Little Falls Lewis E. C. Brown G. E. Grow Lynden Whatcom Walter Elder F. W. Bixby Mabton Yakima T. W. Howell W. H. Ashton Marysville Snohomish W. H. Roberts B. D. Curtiss Medical Lake Spokane M. J. Grady R. R. McCorkell Milton Pierce C. H. Weekes W. J. Keller Monroe Snohomish J. H. Campbell Arthur Root MONTESANO Chehalis Geo. W. Winemire R. H. Fleet MT. VERNON Skagit Wm. Dale J. S. Bowen Newport Stevens E. S. Appel Ed Beitton NORTH YAKIMA Yakima P. M. Armbruster J. G. Brooker
========================================================= Sec'y Commercial Pop. U. S. Est. Pop. NAME. Organization. Cens. 1900 1909 - - Aberdeen E. Beinfohr 3,747 15,000 Almira 500 Anacortes Gus Hensler 1,476 6,000 Arlington Lot Davis 2,400 ASOTIN E. H. Dammarell 470 1,500 Auburn Geo. C. Meade 489 1,500 BELLINGHAM L. Baldrey 11,062 41,000 Blaine J. J. Pinckney 1,592 3,500 Bremerton R. S. Hayward 4,000 Buckley W. B. Osbourn 1,014 1,500 Burlington I. A. Marchant 1,800 Camas 1,200 Cashmere C. M. Banker 1,000 Castle Rock G. F. McClane. 750 1,300 CATHLAMET 500 Centralia F. W. Thomas 1,600 7,000 Charleston A. F. Shepherd 1,000 CHEHALIS H. C. Coffman 1,775 5,000 Chelan C. E. Rusk 900 Cheney L. R. Houck 781 1,600 Chewelah E. D. Germain 1,500 Clarkston R. B. Hooper 2,500 Cle Elum 2,500 COLFAX C. R. Lorne 2,121 3,500 Colton J. B. Ellsworth 251 500 COLVILLE L. E. Jesseph 594 2,000 CONCONNULLY W. S. McClure 500 Cosmopolis 1,004 1,200 Coulee City G. T. Walter 300 Creston 500 Cunningham A. J. Haile 350 DAVENPORT F. W. Anderson 1,000 2,800 DAYTON F. W. Guernsy 2,216 3,500 Deer Park W. D. Phillips 1,100 Edmonds E. M. Allen 474 2,000 Elberton A. B. Metz 297 600 ELLENSBURG Wayne Murray 1,737 5,500 Elma E. S. Avey 894 2,700 Endicott 600 EPHRATA EVERETT E. E. Johnston 7,838 35,000 Fairfield O. H. Loe 500 Farmington C. H. Bass 434 780 Ferndale Percy Hood Garfield F. H. Michaelson 697 1,350 Georgetown C. A. Thorndyke 5,500 GOLDENDALE C. W. Ramsay 788 1,200 Granite Falls W. R. Moore 800 Hamilton Thos. Conby 392 500 Harrington 1,200 Hartline 300 Hatton 600 Hillyard J. L. Cramer 2,500 Hoquiam W. C. Gregg 2,608 11,000 Ilwaco A. A. Seaborg 584 900 Index 500 Kahlotus 300 KALAMA E. N. Howe 554 1,250 Kelso W. M. Signor 694 2,500 Kennewick S. Z. Hendersen 1,500 Kent B. A. Bowen 755 3,000 Kettle Falls E. A. Blakeley 600 Kirkland W. R. Stevens 750 LaConner W. E. Schreeker 564 800 Lakeside 400 Latah Chas. White 253 500 Leavenworth 1,500 Lind R. S. Hamilton 1,400 Little Falls W. A. Willis 800 Lynden R. W. Green 365 1,500 Mabton G. T. Morgan 1,200 Marysville P. E. Coffin 728 1,500 Medical Lake W. H. Mills 516 1,400 Milton J. S. Williams 650 Monroe L. P. Tallman 2,500 MONTESANO 1,194 3,500 MT. VERNON Frank Pickering 1,120 4,000 Newport R. S. Anderson 1,500 NORTH YAKIMA H. P. James 3,124 12,000
==================================================== NAME. Transportation Lines. - Aberdeen N. P. Ry. and steamship lines. Almira Northern Pacific railway. Anacortes G. N. Ry. and two lines of steamers. Arlington Northern Pacific railway. ASOTIN River steamers. Auburn N. P. and Mil. Rys.; P. S. Elec. Ry. BELLINGHAM G. N., N. P., B. B. & B. C. railways; steamers to all Sound ports. Blaine Great Northern railway. Bremerton Steamers to Seattle and Tacoma. Buckley Northern Pacific railway. Burlington Great Northern railway. Camas Portland & Seattle Ry.; river st'rs. Cashmere Great Northern railway. Castle Rock Northern Pacific railway. CATHLAMET Steamboats. Centralia Northern Pacific railway. Charleston Steamers to Seattle. CHEHALIS Northern Pacific railway. Chelan Steamers on river and lake. Cheney N. P. Ry.; Spokane Electric Ry. Chewelah S. F. & N. branch G. N. Ry. Clarkston O. R. & N. and N. P. Rys.; steamers. Cle Elum Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Ris. COLFAX O. R. & N.; S. & I. Electricity. Colton Branch Northern Pacific railway. COLVILLE Spokane Falls & Northern railway. CONCONNULLY Stage. Cosmopolis N. P. Ry. and steamship lines. Coulee City Northern Pacific railway. Creston W. C. branch N. P. Ry. Cunningham Northern Pacific railway. DAVENPORT Central Washington railway. DAYTON N. P. and O. R. & N. railways. Deer Park Great Northern railway. Edmonds Great Northern Ry. and steamers Elberton Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co.'s Ry. ELLENSBURG Northern Pac. and Milwaukee Rys. Elma N. P. Ry., two branches. Endicott Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co.'s Ry. EPHRATA Great Northern railway. EVERETT N. P. and G. N. Rys. and steamers. Fairfield Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co.'s Ry. Farmington O. R. & N. and N. P. railways. Ferndale Great Northern railway. Garfield O. R. & N., N. P. and S. & I. Rys. Georgetown One Interurban, 3 steam railways. GOLDENDALE Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. Granite Falls Branch of Northern Pacific railway. Hamilton G. N. Ry.; Skagit river steamers. Harrington Great Northern railway. Hartline Northern Pacific railway. Hatton Northern Pacific railway. Hillyard Elec. interurb.; G. N. and S. F. & N. Hoquiam Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. Ilwaco O. R. & N. railway and steamers. Index Great Northern railway. Kahlotus O. R. & N. and S. P. & S. railways. KALAMA Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. Kelso Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. Kennewick N. P. Ry.; P. & S. Ry. and steamers. Kent N. P. and Mil. Rys.; P. S. Elec. Ry. Kettle Falls N. P. and O. R. & N. railways. Kirkland N. P. Ry. and ferry to Seattle. LaConner Boat and stage. Lakeside Stage and steamer. Latah Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. Leavenworth Great Northern railway. Lind Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. Little Falls Northern Pacific railway. Lynden B. B. & B. C. railway. Mabton Northern Pacific railway. Marysville Great Northern Ry. and steamers. Medical Lake N. P. and W. W. P. Electric Rys. Milton Puget Sound Electric railway. Monroe Great Northern railway. MONTESANO Northern Pacific railway. MT. VERNON Great Northern railway. Newport Great Northern Ry. and steamers. NORTH YAKIMA Northern Pacific railway.
NOTE 1.—County seats in black face type.
NOTE 2.—Population estimates for 1909 were supplied by local authorities, the school census, upon which the estimates of this Bureau are usually based, not being available at the time this publication was compiled.
[Page 94] ======================================================================= NAME. County. Mayor. Clerk. - - Oakesdale Whitman R. J. Neergaard F. S. Baer Oakville Chehalis J. E. Fitzgerald J. W. Scott Ocosta Chehalis C. C. Flowers Andrew Wallace Odessa Lincoln F. J. Guth W. M. Nevins Okanogan Okanogan H. J. Kerr T. B. Collins OLYMPIA Thurston Mitchell Harris J. R. Dever Oroville Okanogan E. A. McMahon C. S. Taylor Orting Pierce Frank Lotz C. W. Van Scoyoc Palouse City Whitman C. H. Farnsworth G. D. Kincaid PASCO Franklin C. S. O'Brien L. D. Conrad Pataha Garfield D. Evens Chas. Ward Paulsbo Kitsap A. B. Moe Paul Paulson Pe Ell Lewis August Mayer C. W. Boynton POMEROY Garfield H. C. Krouse H. St. George PORT ANGELES Clallam E. E. Seevers C. W. Fields PT. ORCHARD Kitsap R. E. Bucklin Wm. C. Bading PT. TOWNSEND Jefferson Max Gerson Geo. Anderson Prescott Walla Walla Jos. Utter R. B. Smith PROSSER Benton Albert Smith Lon Boyle Pullman Whitman H. V. Carpenter Geo. N. Henry Puyallup Pierce J. P. Melrose J. L. La Plante Quincy Grant F. T. Campbell R. C. Wightmar Raymond Pacific A. C. Little J. H. Callahan Reardan Lincoln W. S. Bliss W. H. Padley Renton King Benj. Ticknor A. W. Ticknor REPUBLIC Ferry Jno. Stack M. H. Joseph RITZVILLE Adams W. R. Peters J. L. Cross Rockford Spokane J. Kindschuh A. B. McDaniel Rosalia Whitman R. P. Turnley F. S. Chetal Roslyn Kittitas J. G. Green Thos. Ray Roy Pierce A. W. Wert C. W. Elder Ruston Pierce J. P. Garrison V. D. Goss SEATTLE King Jno. F. Miller H. W. Carroll Sedro-Woolley Skagit C. E. Bingham T. J. Morrow SHELTON Mason G. W. Draham F. C. Mathewson Snohomish Snohomish C. H. Lamprey E. Thistlewaite Snoqualmie King Otto Reinig SOUTH BEND Pacific W. P. Cressy C. H. Mills Spangle Spokane J. H. Gruenwald M. H. Sullivan SPOKANE Spokane C. H. Moore C. A. Fleming Sprague Lincoln J. W. Shearer J. V. Muzzy Springdale Stevens Jacob Keller A. E. Bidgood Stanwood Snohomish A. B. Klaeboe G. M. Mitchell Starbuck Columbia H. A. Johnson B. A. Whiting Steilacoom Pierce E. Church M. P. Potter STEVENSON Skamania A. Fleischhauer R. C. Sly St. John Whitman W. S. Ridenour W. S. Mott Sultan Snohomish W. W. Morgan T. W. Musgrove Sumas Whatcom R. S. Lambert L. Van Valkenburg Sumner Pierce R. R. White E. D. Swezey Sunnyside Yakima H. W. Turner H. F. Wright TACOMA Pierce J. W. Linck L. W. Roys Tekoa Whitman T. H. Follett J. S. Woods Tenino Thurston L. J. Miller S. M. Peterson Toledo Lewis J. H. Douge W. H. Carpenter Toppenish Yakima C. W. Grant T. W. Johnston Tukwila King Joel Shomaker E. F. Greene Tumwuter Thurston A. Whitemarsh A. J. Colby Uniontown Whitman Peter Friesoh J. J. Gans VANCOUVER Clarke J. P. Kiggins F. W. Bier Waitsburg Walla Walla R. M. Breeze J. B. Lowndagin WALLA WALLA Walla Walla Eugene Tausick T. D. S. Hart Wuputo Yakima J. F. Douglas H. E. Trimble Washtucna Adams G. W. Bassett C. E. Wilson WATERVILLE Douglas J. M. Hunter J. E. Walker Waverley Spokane Fred Dashiell A. L. Robinson WENATCHEE Chelan J. A. Gellatly S. R. Sumner White Salmon Klickitat G. F. Jewett W. C. Manly Wilbur Lincoln W. W. Foley T. W. Maxwell Wilson Creek Grant W. H. O'Larey F. E. Snedicor Winlock Lewis H. A. Baldwin C. E. Leonard Woodland Cowlitz L. M. Love D. W. Whitlow Yacolt Clarke W. J. Hoag Wm. W. Eaton
========================================================= Sec'y Commercial Pop. U. S. Est. Pop. NAME. Organization. Cens. 1900 1909 - - Oakesdale 928 1,200 Oakville O. H. Fry 600 Ocosta 150 Odessa H. L. Cole 1,200 Okanogan T. B. Collins 600 OLYMPIA John M. Wilson 4,082 12,000 Oroville F. A. De Vos 800 Orting M. C. Hopkins 728 1,000 Palouse City G. D. Kincaid 929 3,000 PASCO W. D. Fales 254 1,800 Pataha 250 Paulsbo Paul Paulson 800 Pe Ell P. M. Watson 1,000 POMEROY 953 1,800 PORT ANGELES J. M. Davis 2,321 2,500 PT. ORCHARD 754 900 PT. TOWNSEND P. C. Peterson 3,443 5,000 Prescott T. B. Grumwell 650 PROSSER H. W. Carnahan 229 2,000 Pullman B. F. Campbell 1,308 3,000 Puyallup J. P. Leavitt 1,884 7,000 Quincy Geo. W. Downer 400 Raymond W. R. Struble 2,500 Reardan H. G. Burns 800 Renton P. W. Houser 3,000 REPUBLIC M. H. Joseph 2,500 1,250 RITZVILLE J. L. Cross 761 2,600 Rockford J. W. Lowe 433 1,200 Rosalla A. A. Wonnell 379 1,400 Roslyn 2,786 4,500 Roy 400 Ruston 800 SEATTLE C. B. Yandell 80,671 275,000 Geo. E. Boos Sedro-Woolley M. B. Holbrook 885 3,450 SHELTON G. C. Angle 883 1,200 Snohomish W. W. Reed 2,101 4,000 Snoqualmie 400 SOUTH BEND F. G. McIntosh 711 3,000 Spangle E. C. Rohweder 431 450 SPOKANE L. G. Monroe 36,848 120,000 A. W. Jones Sprague J. S. Freese 695 1,500 Springdale 500 Stanwood L. Livingstone 1,000 Starbuck J. B. Atkinson 750 Steilacoom Mr. Annis 1,000 STEVENSON R. C. Sly 400 St. John G. W. Case, Jr 700 Sultan T. W. Musgrove 500 Sumas Lars Barbo 319 1,500 Sumner R. R. White 531 1,000 Sunnyside J. A. Vince 1,600 TACOMA P. L. Sinclair 37,714 125,000 O. F. Cosper Tekoa J. P. Burson 717 1,200 Tenino 1,000 Toledo H. H. Hurst 285 500 Toppenish J. G. Hillyer 2,000 Tukwila E. F. Greene 700 Tumwuter 270 1,500 Uniontown W. H. Oyler 404 500 VANCOUVER H. S. Bartow 4,006 8,000 Waitsburg W. S. Guntle 1,011 1,600 WALLA WALLA A. C. Moore 10,049 22,000 Wuputo 500 Washtucna 400 WATERVILLE Jas. G. Tuttle 482 1,200 Waverley Jno. Reycraft 500 WENATCHEE D. N. Gellatly 451 5,000 White Salmon J. M. Lewis 600 Wilbur T. W. Maxwell 1,500 Wilson Creek F. E. Snedicor 500 Winlock C. E. Leonard 1,600 Woodland E. F. Bryant 800 Yacolt C. J. Dorsey 500
==================================================== NAME. Transportation Lines. - Oakesdale N. P. and O. R. & N. railways. Oakville Northern Pacific railway. Ocosta Steamers and railway. Odessa Great Northern railway. Okanogan River steamers. OLYMPIA N. P. Ry.; P. T. & S. Ry.; steamers. Oroville Great Northern railway. Orting Northern Pacific railway. Palouse City Four railroads. PASCO N. P. Ry.: P. & S. Ry.; steamers. Pataha Oregon Railway & Nav. Co's Ry. Paulsbo Steamers to Seattle. Pe Ell Northern Pacific railway. POMEROY Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. PORT ANGELES Steamer and stage lines. PT. ORCHARD Steamers, Seattle and Tacoma. PT. TOWNSEND P. T. & S. Ry. and Sound steamer. Prescott Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. PROSSER Northern Pacific railway. Pullman N. P. and O. R. & N. railways. Puyallup N. P. and Mil. Rys.; Elec. line Tac. Quincy Great Northern railway. Raymond Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. Reardan Central Washington railway. Renton Steam and electric railways. REPUBLIC Great Northern branch line. RITZVILLE Northern Pacific railway. Rockford Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. Rosalla Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Rys. Roslyn Northern Pacific railway. Roy Northern Pacific and Tac. East. Rys. Ruston Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. SEATTLE N. P.; G. N.; Mil.; C. P. R.; Bur.; C. & P. S.; P. S. E. Rys.; S. S. lines. Sedro-Woolley N. P. and G. N. Rys. and steamers. SHELTON Steamers to Olympia. Snohomish G. N., N. P. and C. P. Rys.; steamers. Snoqualmie Northern Pacific railway. SOUTH BEND Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers. Spangle Branch Northern Pacific railway. SPOKANE N. P.; G. N.; O. R. & N.; P. & S.; Spok. Int.; W. W. P. and S. & I. Rys. Sprague Northern Pacific railway. Springdale Spokane Falls & Northern railway. Stanwood Rail and steamer. Starbuck Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. Steilacoom Electric railway and steamers. STEVENSON Portland & Seattle railway. St. John Oregon Railroad & Nav. Co's Ry. Sultan Great Northern railway. Sumas C. P. Ry.; N. P. Ry. G. N. Ry. Sumner Northern Pacific railway. Sunnyside Northern Pacific railway. TACOMA N. P.; Mil.; T. & E.; U. P. and G. N. Rys.; Electric and S. S. lines. Tekoa O. R. & N. and Milwaukee Rys. Tenino Northern Pacific and P. T. & S. Rys. Toledo Northern Pacific Ry.; River steamer. Toppenish Northern Pacific railway. Tukwila Puget Sound Electric railway. Tumwuter Port Townsend & Southern railway. Uniontown Northern Pacific railway. VANCOUVER N. P., P. & S. Rys. and steamers. Waitsburg O. R. & N. and N. P. railways. WALLA WALLA N. P. and O. R. & N. railways. Wuputo Northern Pacific railway. Washtucna O. R. & N.; S., P. & S. railways. WATERVILLE Stage and steamer. Waverley O. R. & N. and Electric railways. WENATCHEE Great Northern Ry.; Col. river strs. White Salmon S. P. & S. Ry., and river steamer. Wilbur Northern Pacific railway. Wilson Creek Great Northern railway. Winlock Northern Pacific railway. Woodland Northern Pacific Ry. and steamers Yacolt Northern Pacific railway.
[Page 96] STATE OFFICERS, COMMISIONS, BOARDS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF WASHINGTON. =========================================================================== OFFICE. Name. P. O. Address. - Governor M. E. Hay Olympia. Governor's Private Secretary Frank M. Dallam, Jr Olympia. Secretary of State I. M. Howell Olympia. Assistant Secretary of State Ben R. Fish Olympia. Auditor C. W. Clausen Olympia. Deputy Auditor F. P. Jameson Olympia. Treasurer John G. Lewis Olympia. Deputy Treasurer W. W. Sherman Olympia. Attorney General W. P. Bell Olympia. Assistant Attorney General W. V. Tanner Olympia. " " " W. F. McGill Olympia. " " " Geo. A. Lee Spokane. Commissioner of Public Lands E. W. Ross Olympia. Assistant Comm'r of Public Frank C. Morse Olympia. Lands Insurance Commissioner John H. Shively Olympia. Deputy Insurance Commissioner S. A. Madge Olympia. Superintendent Public Henry B. Dewey Olympia. Instruction Assistant Supt. Public J. M. Layhue Olympia. Instruction Deputy Supt. Public F. F. Nalder Olympia. Instruction Adjutant General Geo. B. Lamping Seattle. Commissioner of Labor Chas. F. Hubbard Olympia. State Librarian J. M. Hitt Olympia. Law Librarian C. W. Shaffer Olympia. Traveling Library Mrs. Lou J. Diven, Supt. Olympia. Board of Control Eugene Lorton Walla Walla. H. T. Jones Olympia. H. E. Gilham Olympia. State Grain Inspector E. C. Armstrong Colfax. Dairy and Food Commissioner L. Davies Davenport. State Fish Commissioner Jno. L. Riseland Bellingham. Commissioner of Statistics I. M. Howell, Ex-Officio Olympia. Deputy Commissioner of Geo. M. Allen Seattle. Statistics Horticultural Commissioner F. A. Huntley Tacoma. Coal Mine Inspector D. C. Botting Seattle. Inspector of Oils F. A. Clark Seattle. Public Printer E. L. Boardman Olympia. Bank Examiner J. L. Mohundro Seattle. Hotel Inspector J. H. Munger Seattle. A.-Y.-P. E. Commission Geo. E. Dickson. Ellensburg. Chairman L. P. Hornberger, Sec. Seattle. W. A. Halteman, Seattle. Exec. Commis. M. M. Godman Seattle. R. W. Condon Port Gamble. J. W. Slayden Steilacoom. L. H. Burnett Aberdeen. Railway Commission H. A. Fairchild, Chairman Olympia. Tax Commission T. D. Rockwell, Chairman Olympia. Fire Warden and Forester J. R. Welty Olympia. Highway Commissioner J. M. Snow Olympia. Board of Accountancy Alfred Lister, Sec'y Tacoma. Bureau Inspection Public C. W. Clausen, Olympia. Offices Ex-officio Chief Board of Health E. E. Hegg, Sec'y Seattle. Board of Barber Examiners Chas. W. Whisler Seattle. Board of Medical Examiners Dr. J. Clinton McFadden, Seattle. Secy. Board of Pharmacy P. Jensen, Sec'y Tacoma. Board of Dental Examiners E. B. Edgars Seattle. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. University of Washington Thomas Franklin Kane, Seattle. Pres. State College E. A. Bryan, Pres. Pullman. State Normal School H. C. Sampson, Principal Cheney. State Normal School E. C. Mathes, Principal Bellingham. State Normal School W. E. Wilson, Principal Ellensburg. School for Deaf Thos. P. Clark, Vancouver. Superintendent School for Blind Geo. H. Mullin, Principal Vancouver. State Training School C. C. Aspinwall Chehalis. OTHER STATE INSTITUTIONS. Soldiers' Home Gen. Geo. W. T. Orting. Tibbetts, Com. " " Willis L. Ames, Com. Port Orchard. Insane Asylum A. P. Calhoun. Supt. Fort Steilacoom. " " J. M. Semple, Supt. Medical Lake. State Penitentiary C. S. Reed, Warden Walla Walla. State Reformatory Cleon B. Roe, Supt. Monroe. Institution for Feeble Minded S. C. Woodruff, Supt. Medical Lake.
[Page 97] STATEMENT SHOWING AREA OF STATE SCHOOL AND GRANTED LANDS IN EACH COUNTY. AREA SOLD BY DEEDS AND CONTRACTS OF SALE. COMPILED FOR PERIOD UP TO AND INCLUDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1908. ========================================================================== Total Total area Total Area area sold Remaining COUNTIES. of school area under by deed area and granted deeded. contract and under unsold. lands. of sale. contract. - - - Adams 85,632.25 1,063.30 12,320.00 13,383.30 72,248.95 Asotin 26,906.56 161.90 1,360.00 1,521.90 25,384.66 Benton 92,937.68 1,626.75 8,629.90 10,256.65 82,681.03 Chehalis 77,064.41 7,883.93 1,823.85 9,707.78 67,356.63 Chelan 52,526.50 212.34 1,074.70 1,287.04 51,239.46 Clallam 77,514.28 2,914.42 320.00 3,234.42 74,279.86 Clarke 36,972.16 3,694.27 1,585.85 5,280.12 31,692.04 Columbia 24,640.00 5,084.00 1,620.00 6,704.00 17,936.00 Cowlitz 85,373.80 6,364.43 1,063.73 7,428.16 77,945.00 Douglas 313,235.66 3,416.62 64,211.62 67,628.52 245,607.14 Ferry 21,219.51 21,219.51 Franklin 40,731.85 101.83 3,720.00 3,821.83 36,910.02 Garfield 21,298.47 2,179.21 1,760.00 3,939.21 17,359.26 Island 16,202.70 4,679.93 1,350.25 6,030.18 10,172.52 Jefferson 87,358.34 12,760.91 1,306.77 14,067.68 73,290.66 King 86,020.13 15,667.80 5,195.95 20,863.75 65,156.38 Kitsap 27,157.40 12,178.10 1,794.70 13,972.80 13,184.60 Kittitas 129,590.97 4,648.01 1,840.00 6,488.01 123,102.96 Klickitat 77,280.86 2,340.84 4,143.17 6,484.01 70,796.85 Lewis 86,566.86 4,328.31 2,106.01 6,434.32 80,132.54 Lincoln 84,088.45 4,818.00 12,620.00 17,438.00 66,650.45 Mason 48,057.72 4,750.53 651.98 5,402.51 42,655.21 Okanogan 90,517.34 399.55 12,487.62 12,887.17 77,630.17 Pacific 60,529.29 2,187.81 1,401.90 3,589.71 56,939.58 Pierce 62,118.55 8,899.98 2,056.82 10,956.80 51,161.75 San Juan 4,765.63 366.35 205.25 571.60 4,194.03 Skagit 92,191.75 4,551.83 1,718.17 6,270.00 85,921.75 Skamania 44,699.55 5,690.08 988.50 6,678.58 38,020.97 Snohomish 47,937.99 7,545.13 5,392.45 12,927.58 35,000.41 Spokane 67,457.64 6,943.59 15,360.20 22,303.79 45,153.85 Stevens 164,063.72 561.19 4,748.50 5,309.69 158,754.03 Thurston 33,443.79 4,286.82 1,636.87 5,923.69 27,520.10 Wahkiakum 26,053.26 1,795.95 451.55 2,257.50 23,795.76 Walla Walla 50,536.97 6,785.98 7,219.46 14,005.44 36,531.53 Whatcom 41,196.49 2,729.50 4,591.52 7,321.02 33,875.47 Whitman 80,351.82 14,583.47 21,322.96 35,906.43 44,445.39 Yakima 143,102.97 3,927.59 5,169.50 9,097.09 134,005.88 - - - Totals 2,607,343.32 172,130.53 215,259.75 387,390.28 2,219,953.04
NOTE:—The statement of total area of school and granted lands by counties includes only approved indemnity selected, approved granted lands, and school sections 16 and 36 in place.
[Page 98] UNAPPROPRIATED FEDERAL LANDS OF WASHINGTON. =========================================================================== Area unappropriated LAND and unreserved Brief description of DISTRICT - character of unappropriated AND Unsur- and unreserved land. COUNTRY. Surveyed. veyed. Total. - - - - - North Yakima: Acres. Acres. Acres. Benton 27,062 27,062 Rolling prairie, hilly, grazing. Douglas 15,003 15,003 Grazing, prairie, hilly, and timber. Kittitas 149,351 245,967 395,318 Grazing, arid prairie, and timber. Yakima 126,072 274,500 400,572 - - - Total 317,488 520,467 837,955 ========= ======== ======== Olympia: Chehalis 1,491 1,491 Mountainous timbered lands. Jefferson 860 860 Do. King 560 560 Do. Kitsap 40 40 Do. Lewis 40 40 Do. Mason 2,537 2,537 Do. Pacific 80 80 Do. Pierce 571 571 Do. Thurston 207 207 Do. - - - Total 6,886 6,386 ======== ======== ======== Seattle: Clallam 1,240 1,840 3,080 Mountainous and broken; good supply of excellent timber. King 680 11,680 12,360 Broken and mountainous. San Juan 324 324 Broken, with little timber. Skagit 2,475 25,540 28,015 Broken, heavily timbered, and mountainous. Snohomish 320 5,484 5,804 Do. Whatcom 840 8,923 9,768 Do. - - - Total 5,879 53,467 59,346 ======== ======== ======== Spokane: Adams 26,512 26,512 Arid lands, valuable for fruit and grain. Douglas l,500 l,500 Arid lands. Ferry 165,526 379,732 545,258 Farming, grazing, timber, and mineral. Lincoln 35,632 4,448 40,080 Farming and grazing. Okanogan 13,343 114,756 128,099 Farming, grazing, and mineral. Spokane 2,896 3,094 5,990 Do. Stevens 409,093 711,981 1,121,044 Mountainous, farming, and mineral. Whitman 2,053 2,053 Grazing lands. - - - Total 655,055 1,215,511 1,870,566 ======== ======== ======== Vancouver: Clarke 4,787 4,787 Timbered and agricultural. Cowlitz 16,703 7,080 23,783 Do. Klickitat 61,553 2,600 64,153 Timbered, agricultural, grazing Lewis 8,013 4,995 13,008 Timbered and agricultural. Pacific 1,981 1,981 Do. Skamania 7,418 7,418 Do. Wahkiakum 316 316 Timbered. - - - Total 100,771 14,675 115,446 ======== ======== ======== Walla Walla: Adams 15,188 15,188 Prairie, farming, and grazing lands. Asotin 83,631 13,293 96,924 Mountainous, some timber, and prairie. Benton 40,395 40,395 Desert, grazing, some timber, prairie, and farming. Columbia 15,203 152,279 167,482 Mountainous, some timber, and prairie. Franklin 42,363 42,368 Prairie, grazing lands; no timber. Garfield 45,468 44,539 90,007 Farming, grazing, and timber. Klickitat 24,926 24,926 Grazing and farming; some timber. Walla Walla 15,522 15,522 Do. Whitman 15,835 15,835 Prairie, farming, and grazing lands. - - - Total 298,531 210,111 508,642 ======== ======== ======== [Page 99] Waterville: Chelan 321,518 9,880 331,398 Mountainous, timber, farming. Douglas 435,207 44,890 480,097 Prairie, farming, and grazing. Okanogan 206,990 218,175 425,165 Mountainous, timber, and farming. - - - Total 963,715 272,945 1,236,660 ======== ======== ======== State total 2,347,825 2,287,176 4,635,001
CLIMATIC SUMMARY FOR WASHINGTON.
PREPARED BY GEO. N. SALISBURY,
Of the Weather Bureau at Seattle.
The following tables represent averages of observations, covering ten years or more. The stations included in the list are so distributed as to indicate the climatic conditions in every portion of the state.
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON. STATION: ABERDEEN.
======================================================================== Number of Precip- days Temperature itation - in degrees in With Pre- MONTH. Fahrenheit inches. cipitation Cloudy - Partly Prevailing Highest Lowest Snowfall Cloudy direction - - Clear of the Mean Date Date Total wind - - - - January 39.9 61 1900 10 1893 10.56 4.8 3 13 15 19 W February 40.6 73 1905 13 1899 10.43 3.5 3 11 14 20 SW March 43.7 82 1905 22 1896 7.89 1.6 5 19 7 20 W April 48.2 88 1905 28 1899 7.66 T 6 16 8 17 W May 53.0 91 1897 29 1901 4.58 0 6 17 8 15 W June 56.8 100 1903 34 1901 3.72 0 6 15 9 13 W July 60.8 105 1891 37 1901 1.02 0 9 17 5 7 W August 62.1 96 1898 40 1902 1.06 0 11 17 3 5 W September 57.5 88 1894 30 1901 4.98 0 9 15 6 9 W October 52.3 85 1891 29 1893 6.71 0 6 14 10 14 W November 45.1 73 1904 22 1900 15.28 0.5 2 10 18 22 W December 40.9 60 1892 20 1901 14.66 0.5 4 11 16 20 SW & W - - - - Sums 88.55 10.9 6 14 10 15 Means or 50.0 105 July, 10 Jan. Extremes/ 1891 1893
[Page 100] PUGET SOUND DISTRICT. STATION: TACOMA AND ASHFORD.
======================================================================== Number of Precip- days Temperature itation - in degrees in With Pre- MONTH. Fahrenheit inches. cipitation Cloudy - Partly Prevailing Highest Lowest Snowfall Cloudy direction - - Clear of the Mean Date Date Total wind - - - - January 38.0 64 1891 0 1888 7.20 11.0 4 6 21 20 SW February 38.9 66 1905 5 1887 6.68 12.4 4 7 18 17 SW March 44.4 74 1900 16 1897 4.82 8.0 6 8 17 18 SW April 48.9 84 1897 28 1896 4.40 2.8 6 12 12 14 SW May 54.1 90 1892 33 1894 4.11 0.2 6 12 13 14 SW June 58.2 97 1903 39 1895 2.62 T 8 10 12 11 N July 62.0 99 1891 42 1894 1.20 0 15 9 7 6 N August 61.6 92 1898 40 1895 1.28 0 15 8 8 5 N September 56.2 87 1894 36 1902 2.74 0 12 8 10 10 N October 50.6 82 1892 25 1893 4.51 0 8 8 15 12 SW November 44.2 70 1892 8 1896 9.11 5.2 2 5 23 21 SW December 40.9 61 1900 19 1894 9.55 4.4 4 7 20 18 SW - - - - Sums 58.22 44.0 7 8 15 14 Means or 49.8 99 July, 0 Jan. Extremes/ 1891 1888
EASTERN WASHINGTON. STATION: SPOKANE.
======================================================================== Number of Precip- days Temperature itation - in degrees in With Pre- MONTH. Fahrenheit inches. cipitation Cloudy - Partly Prevailing Highest Lowest Snowfall Cloudy direction - - Clear of the Mean Date Date Total wind - - - - January 24.5 55 1893 -30 1888 2.54 9.4 4 4 23 14 S February 28.5 59 1896 -23 1890 2.02 8.1 4 7 17 13 E & SW March 39.7 72 1889 -10 1891 1.40 3.0 7 8 16 12 S April 48.0 86 1890 22 1890 1.38 0.2 6 10 14 9 S & SW May 57.0 95 1897 29 1905 1.39 T 6 10 15 10 S June 62.4 96 1896 34 1891 1.67 T 9 12 10 9 SW July 69.0 102 1890 39 1893 0.71 0 15 8 8 5 SW August 69.0 104 1898 40 1902 0.46 0 17 8 6 5 S September 58.1 98 1888 26 1889 1.04 0 12 7 11 7 NE October 48.0 86 1892 12 1887 1.39 T 8 9 14 7 NE November 37.8 70 1903 -13 1896 1.67 2.9 1 5 24 15 S December 31.3 57 1886 -18 1884 2.56 4.9 3 4 24 13 SW - - - - Sums 18.23 29.4 7 8 15 10 Means or 47.8 104 Aug. -30 Jan. Extremes/ 1898 1888
[Page 101] SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON. STATION: WALLA WALLA.
======================================================================== Number of Precip- days Temperature itation - in degrees in With Pre- MONTH. Fahrenheit inches. cipitation Cloudy - Partly Prevailing Highest Lowest Snowfall Cloudy direction - - Clear of the Mean Date Date Total wind - - - - January 32.6 67 1902 -17 1888 2.17 6.1 3 11 17 12 S February 37.0 69 1896 -15 1893 1.55 5.1 6 13 9 12 S March 45.2 74 1905 2 1891 1.73 2.7 8 16 7 13 S April 52.6 89 1890 29 1890 1.76 2 10 17 3 9 S May 60.1 100 1897 34 1905 1.72 0 12 16 3 11 S June 65.8 105 1896 40 1901 1.13 0 15 14 1 8 S July 73.8 108 1891 45 1891 0.37 0 24 6 1 4 S August 73.8 113 1898 47 1899 0.43 0 23 7 1 4 S September 63.6 100 1888 36 1900 0.97 0 17 9 4 7 S October 54.4 87 1904 24 1887 1.50 T 15 12 4 8 S November 42.8 76 1891 -9 1896 2.17 2.0 4 13 3 13 S December 37.3 65 1890 -2 1898 2.07 3.5 3 11 17 14 S - - - - Sums 17.58 19.6 12 12 6 10 Means or 53.2 113 Aug. -17 Jan. Extremes/ 1898 1888
THE IRRIGATED WASHINGTON. STATION: NORTH YAKIMA, SUNNYSIDE, FT. SIMCOE.
======================================================================== Number of Precip- days Temperature itation - in degrees in With Pre- MONTH. Fahrenheit inches. cipitation Cloudy - Partly Prevailing Highest Lowest Snowfall Cloudy direction - - Clear of the Mean Date Date Total wind - - - - January 30.4 62 1899 -16 1899 1.82 9.2 7 13 11 7 W February 35.2 71 1901 -22 1893 1.14 5.6 8 12 9 6 W March 42.5 78 1895 2 1896 0.57 0.4 12 14 5 3 W April 51.1 90 1897 18 1896 0.47 T 12 13 5 3 W May 59.1 101 1897 24 1896 0.74 0 11 14 6 5 W June 65.4 106 1896 30 1901 0.32 0 15 10 5 4 W July 71.6 112 1896 36 1905 0.11 0 24 5 2 2 W August 71.1 109 1897 35 1895 0.21 0 19 9 3 3 W September 61.1 98 1896 24 1891 0.44 0 17 8 5 4 W October 51.0 89 1891 13 1893 0.50 0 15 10 6 4 W November 39.4 73 1897 -23 1896 1.56 4.4 4 12 14 9 W December 32.3 67 1898 -8 1895 1.47 6.2 7 10 14 7 SW - - - - Sums 9.35 25.8 12 11 7 5 Means or 50.9 112 July, -23 Nov. Extremes/ 1896 1896
[Page 102] TOTAL ASSESSMENT OF ALL PROPERTY IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AS EQUALIZED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1908. ============================================================== Total Real and Personal Property, - Ratio Assessed assessed COUNTIES. value Actual to *Exemp- returned value. actual tions. by county. value. - Adams $12,934,270 $32,730,750 $39.51 * $347,380 Asotin 3,186,570 6,346,110 50.21 73,600 Benton 5,900,630 13,967,229 42.24 201,105 Chehalis 14,832,671 63,320,298 23.42 * 897,053 Chelan 7,510,825 17,903,363 41.95 317,510 Clallam 7,045,161 14,294,907 49.28 148,017 Clarke 9,548,965 22,951,958 41.60 * 552,000 Columbia 6,677,175 12,916,674 51.69 164,855 Cowlitz 7,506,911 18,774,621 39.98 * 258,305 Douglas 13,714,378 32,623,076 42.03 * 792,735 Ferry 1,323,524 2,205,873 60.00 * 132,674 Franklin 4,029,979 12,053,842 33.43 * 121,309 Garfield 4,230,446 9,466,437 44.68 123,027 Island 1,296,572 3,706,168 34.98 100,545 Jefferson 4,566,042 9,932,771 45.96 92,864 King *204,852,223 437,905,564 46.78 5,011,716 Kitsap 4,145,045 9,133,183 45.38 * 271,777 Kittitas 8,853,102 20,145,643 43.98 421,605 Klickitat 5,869,515 14,199,834 41.33 366,835 Lewis 17,959,730 39,028,152 46.01 673,137 Lincoln 18,046,865 44,933,712 40.16 * 844,061 Mason 3,030,375 10,744,059 28.20 97,386 Okanogan 3,750,417 6,540,821 57.33 421,615 Pacific 7,036,354 22,947,129 30.66 95,700 Pierce 76,828,090 181,499,746 42.33 2,903,450 San Juan 1,553,856 3,789,892 41.00 * 126,818 Skagit 10,867,150 38,346,941 28.33 297,600 Skamania 4,063,188 6,375,330 63.73 66,300 Snohomish * 25,699,461 54,494,192 47.16 1,221,570 Spokane 80,038,409 154,967,786 51.64 2,956,265 Stevens 6,675,908 17,811,897 37.48 * 654,238 Thurston 8,325,065 23,882,038 34.85 518,971 Wahkiakum 1,668,376 4,319,197 38.62 69,616 Walla Walla 19,434,380 45,866,287 42.37 369,000 Whatcom 19,853,046 48,038,017 41.32 * 1,460,250 Whitman 19,098,175 60,560,413 31.53 1,160,290 Yakima 23,625,355 48,428,184 48.78 * 1,517,390 - Totals $675,578,199 $1,567,152,094 $43.11 $25,902,569
======================================== Exclusive of Railroad and Telegraph. - Aggregate Aggregate value of tax- value as COUNTIES. able property equalized as returned by state by county. board. - Adams $12,586,890 $13,762,846 Asotin 3,112,970 2,662,208 Benton 5,699,525 5,820,167 Chehalis 13,935,618 26,400,327 Chelan 7,193,315 7,400,630 Clallam 6,897,144 6,014,517 Clarke 8,996,965 9,342,589 Columbia 6,512,320 5,403,523 Cowlitz 7,248,606 7,835,434 Douglas 12,921,643 13,271,073 Ferry 1,190,850 818,278 Franklin 3,908,670 5,075,102 Garfield 4,107,419 3,957,954 Island 1,196,027 1,497,184 Jefferson 4,473,178 4,189,154 King 199,840,507 183,769,507 Kitsap 3,873,268 3,665,538 Kittitas 8,431,497 8,263,182 Klickitat 5,502,680 5,754,713 Lewis 17,286,593 16,151,899 Lincoln 17,202,804 18,526,862 Mason 2,932,989 4,534,378 Okanogan 3,328,802 2,398,133 Pacific 6,940,654 9,796,807 Pierce 73,924,640 75,341,091 San Juan 1,427,038 1,507,004 Skagit 10,569,550 16,233,766 Skamania 3,996,883 2,682,105 Snohomish 24,477,891 22,270,886 Spokane 77,082,144 63,850,348 Stevens 6,021,670 7,024,471 Thurston 7,806,094 9,776,576 Wahkiakum 1,598,760 1,792,390 Walla Walla 19,065,380 19,403,957 Whatcom 18,392,796 19,248,939 Whitman 17,937,885 24,947,304 Yakima 22,053,965 19,306,001 - Totals $649,675,630 $649,696,709
================================================================== Railroads. Electric Telegraph. TOTAL. Rys. Aggregate Value as Value as Value as value as real corrected, corrected, corrected, and personal COUNTIES. revised and revised and revised and property as equalized by equalized by equalized by equalized by state board. state board. state board. state board. - Adams $2,445,703 $10,499 $16,219,048 Asotin 2,662,208 Benton 2,595,331 5,477 8,420,975 Chehalis 798,828 165,258 2,212 27,366,625 Chelan 2,860,892 9,058 10,270,580 Clallam 4,073 6,018,590 Clarke 891,275 87 10,233,951 Columbia 908,202 6,775 6,318,500 Cowlitz 1,363,089 11,016 9,209,539 Douglas 3,703,546 9,650 16,984,269 Ferry 1,359,278 2,177,641 Franklin 1,852,025 7,975 6,935,102 Garfield 144,067 555 4,102,576 Island 1,497,184 Jefferson 417,464 3,695 4,610,313 King 11,882,802 7,477,860 38,645 203,168,680 Kitsap 2,325 3,667,863 Kittitas 3,674,706 10,194 11,948,082 Klickitat 1,108,683 6,863,396 Lewis 2,050,492 12,186 18,214,576 Lincoln 4,456,845 12,648 22,996,355 Mason 7,791 4,542,169 Okanogan 834,844 3,232,977 Pacific 418,310 1,438 10,216,555 Pierce 4,589,415 1,900,370 22,077 81,852,953 San Juan 1,507,004 Skagit 2,177,605 7,518 18,418,889 Skamania 332,926 3,015,031 Snohomish 8,064,368 910,195 18,950 31,264,399 Spokane 8,402,563 2,131,611 31,075 74,415,597 Stevens 1,994,897 6,353 9,025,721 Thurston 1,561,390 76,530 10,096 11,424,592 Wahkiakum 1,792,390 Walla Walla 3,797,744 131,082 14,574 23,347,357 Whatcom 3,372,306 630,373 7,457 23,259,075 Whitman 3,296,322 528,248 19,897 28,791,771 Yakima 3,278,556 10,000 6,852 22,601,409 - Totals $84,642,349 $13,961,527 $293,357 $748,593,942
*Exception includes the amount returned by these counties under the item "Moneys on hand" allowed by the Board.
[Page 103] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Distribution of this publication at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition has been made possible through financial assistance extended by the State A.-Y.-P. E. Commission. An edition of a few thousand copies only was originally contemplated, but funds provided by the State Commission have enabled us to increase the quantity to 25,000. This help thus given in extending the field of usefulness of this report is herewith gratefully acknowledged.
STATE BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND IMMIGRATION.
I. M. HOWELL, Secretary of State, Ex-Officio Commissioner.
GEO. M. ALLEN, Deputy Commissioner.
[Page 104] INDEX TO DESCRIPTIVE MATTER.
Acknowledgment 103 Adams County 46 Agriculture 22 Asotin County 47 Bee Culture 26 Benton County 48 Coal Fields 10 Coal Mining 19 Chehalis County 49 Chelan County 50 Clallam County 51 Clarke County 52 Columbia County 53 Cowlitz County 54 Dairying 25 Douglas County 55 Educational System 32-33 Ferry County 56 Forests 9 Fisheries 12 Franklin County 57 Game 16 Garfield County 58 Government Lands 14 Grant County 59 Horticulture 24 Indian Lands 14 Industries of Washington 18-28 Introduction 3-4 Irrigation 40-41 Island County 60 Jefferson County 61 King County 62 Kitsap County 64 Kittitas County 65 Klickitat County 66 Lands 14 Letter of Transmittal 2 Lewis County 67 Lincoln County 69 Logged-off Lands 33-39 Lumbering 18 Manufacturing 26 Mason County 70 Mineral Ores 11 Natural Division 5 Okanogan County 71 Opportunities in Washington 29-31 Pacific County 72 Pierce County 74 Poultry 26 Resources of Washington 8-17 San Juan County 76 Scenery 16 Skagit County 77 Skamania County 79 Snohomish County 80 Soils 13 Spokane County 81 State Lands 14 Stevens County 83 Stock Raising 24 Thurston County 85 Title Page 1 Transportation 27 Wahkiakum County 86 Walla Walla County 87 Water Power 15 Whatcom County 87 Whitman County 89 Yakima County 90
INDEX TO STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
Assessed valuations by counties 102 Climatic tables 99-101 Federal lands, distribution by counties 98-99 State officers, boards and commissions 96 State lands, distribution by counties 97 Statistics of incorporated cities and towns 92-95 |
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