The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-04-20
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT WASHINGTON
A Good Thing to Cut Out And Send to
Your Friends in the East.

corner OF the United States; is sou
miles east and west, and 240 north and
south. 1t has a water area Of SO, LIT
square miles-nearly equal to the com
bined area Of New. York, Maryland and
Massachusetts.
Population 1910, 1, 141,990-120.4
per cent. gain over 1900. Estimated
population, 1915, 1,471,043.
East and west sections OF state
divided by Cascads mountain, running
north and south from Columbia river
to British Columbia, their average
altitude, 5000 to 5000 feet. Mt.
Rainier, 14,408 feet: Mt. Adams,
l2,307; Mt Baker, 1o,730; St. Hell
ems, 9,6o7 feet.
Climate, soil, topography and veg
citation Of two sections quite dissimilar.
Other notable mountains Of western
section are the Olympics, on the
peninsula, between Puget Sound and
Pacific ocean.
Puget Sound is an inland sea with
1000 miles of shore line, and, with
the Straits Of Juan de Fuca, running
west and south distance OF about 200
miles, with many arms and bays.
Western Washington is heavily
timbered, has moist and mild climate,
rainfall ranging from 20 to 80 or go
inches annually, according to section,
the average being less than the
precipitation of variovs eastern and
southern states. Temperature OF
Western Washington ranges from 90
above in winter to 10 in summer
seldom colder or warmer. Nights
always cool.
Industries OF Western Washington,
numbering, shipbuilding, fisheries,
salmon canning, dairying, agriculture
and horticulture, etc.
Eastern Washington, dry-8 to 25
inches annual rainfall; "a area prairie,
northern part tlmbered and noun
famous. Traversed by Columbia river
north from Oregon line to British
Columbia, and south and east to Idaho.
Soil decomposed basalt or volcanic
ash, rich in minerals and depth rang
ing from 1 foot to 100 feet; subject to
irrigation. Vast irigating projects
throughout this section.
Industries, agriculture, horticulture,
stock-raising, etc. Apples( $40, 900,
900 annually, peaches, pears, alfalfa.
corn, vegetables, etc.
Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla
Walla valleys, Spokane and Okanogan
counties and along Columbia and Snake
rivers are principal fruit sections.
For berries and soft fruits Western
Washington is probably unexceled in
the world.
Succulent grasses, root crops and
mild winters favor raising OF beef cattle,
hogs, dairy COWS, horses and poultry,
in which no rural enterprise in state
has greater possibilities.
The Homeseekers' Guide for Wash
ington, free on application to Secretary
OF State, Olympia, treats all these sub
jects fully and intelligently.
The state has the largest single
mills in the world.
Annual lumber output more than
four billion board feet.
Estimated available water power, IS,
5000 H. P. $4,000 H. P. de-
veloped for public service corporations,
and $4,000 for commercial purposes.
Shipbuilding rapidly increasing
battleships, etc., at Seattle, other craft
at other ports on Sound, at Grays
Harbor and Willapa Harbor and on
Columbia river.
In mining the annual output OF coal
exceeds 100000 tons-in King,
Pierce, Kititas, Thurston, Lewis and
Whatcom counties, with gold, silver,
copper, lead and zinc.
Salmon packing industry for 1918
amounted to s12,937,006. Other fish
and products Melted $1,815, 64o.
State operates dozen trout
hatcheries and two dozen or more
salmon hatcheries.
Many counties OF the state employ