The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-06-04
EXPOSITION NOTES.

Siai HuuuTeu mlleS through the wa
tiers of Puget Sound including visi
to the largest salmon canneries In tn
world, great Alaska Goldfish curin
! plants, lumber and single mills to
, gether with a near view OF MI
Rainier and the snow-clad Olympic
have been arranged for members o
Newspaper contest parties visiting
Seattle this summer.
& Puget Sound is the greatest bod,
of water In the world and with Iii
bays, inlets and other attractions Of
fers more of the real beauties OF ma
ture than might be found anywher,
I on travelled highways.
i Fast steamships will carry thu
sightseers to Tacoma, to the Puge
Sound Navy yard, to Anacortes, P0rI
4 Townsend and to Bellingham, cover
4 Ing every point Of interest on thi,
great inland sea. Visitors to thu
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition will
4 marvel at the wonders Of nature, a,
the mountains, the rivers, the forests
i Surely 1t is rare combination oil
beautiful things, an inspiring high
nay Tor the pilgrims Of pleasure
/ Two days will be required to make
the side trips already arranged. In
one day Tacoma, the metropolis OF
Pierce County, and the Puget Sound
Navy yard may be visited. AT Brem-
ertOn Uncle Sam has on display some
of the largest battle ships In the navy,
besides submarines, torpedo boats,
training ships and the largest dry
docks In the world.
The Navy yard is situated fifteen
miles from Seattle and is reached by
| the Port Orchard Routes new steel
steamship II. B. Kennedy, the latest
addition to the feet OF magnificent
passenger boats on the Pacific, and
built especially for summer tourist
travel.
An afternoon can be profitably
spent in Tacoma, city Of 10000.
Surrounding Tacoma Is perhaps the
most natural scenery In the world.
The city boasts of many attractive
public parks, automobile and carriage
drives, beautiful residence districts
and long rows OF warehouses where
vessels load cargoes for coastwise,
Alaska and foreign ports. Arrange
ments have been made to carry the
contest parties on the steel steam
ship Indianapolis, the cost Of the
trip to be included In special rate
offered for the three outings.
The second day Is voyage to Port
Townsend, Bellingham and Anacor-
ties. This trip will be made on the
steamship Chippewa, and
will require a full day. Several hours
will be spent on shore at Anacortes.
Leaving Seattle the Chippewa will
steam out of the harbor giving a fine
panoramic view of Greater Seattle
with its ten miles Of waterfront
through quiet bodies of water. Port
Townsend, the seat of government ac-
tivity on the Sound, is reached in
three hours Near at hand are Forts
Casey, Worden and Flagler. At Port
Townsend are headquarters of the
customs service, immigration service,
quarantine station, revenue cutter
service and many other branches Of
the government work.
On Port Townsend Bay is situated
the immense plant of the Hadlock
lumber mills, and the Irondale iron
smelter and coke ovens. The sardine
canneries at Port Townsend are alone
an attractive feature. Arrangements
have been made by the Puget Sound
Navigation company, operating the
steamship Chippewa, whereby contest
parties will be admitted to mills, can
neries and other places of interest.
Anacortes is rightly called the
Gloucester of the Pacific" and here
it is no unusual sight to see more
than 100000 salmon in a single can
merry ready for packing. later to be
shipped all over the world. Here the
various canneries have daily ca
pacity of 10000 48-pound cases. This
is the cycle year in the salmon can
ming business. Every fourth year the
sockeye, the great commercial food |
fish appear In great numbers from the
depths OF the ocean and this is an
opportunity seldom offered tourists to
gain knowledge of just how the sal
mon are caught, cured and packed for
shipment.
The canning season lasts from May
to November and every part of the
big plants will be open for inspection.
In Ancortes are two Goldfish packing |
concerns where the fish from Alaska
are cured and packed The by-pro-
ducts Of the various canneries go to
make glue, and at Anacortes Is an
enormous cement plant.
The trip for the day concludes with |
a visit to Bellingham and cruise
through the San Juan islands, the
pearls of Puget Sound, rival of the
Thousand Islands of the st. Law
renee. Here an entire county, San
Juan by name, consists entirely OF
islands. For more than twelve years
both American and British troops oc-
cupied San Juan island, until the
boundary question was settled and
the sites OF the old military camps
are places of much historic interest,
now marked BY granite monuments.
The total land and water area Of
The islands Is about 500 miles.
Thousands Of tourists take this
voyage every year and combined as it
mas been with the Tacoma and Navy
yard trips will enable the contest par
lies to visit all parts Of Puget Sound
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