A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell
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it wise to restrict the time and place within which its game can
be taken and the amount a single individual shall kill. These regulations suffice partly to preserve the game from extinction and help replenish the state's treasury, and are considered wise and reasonable. SCENERY. If Washington is mighty in forest possession, provided with fuel for centuries in its coal beds, rich in precious metals, with great open waterways full of fish roads from the ocean and millions of fishes in its inland waters, with game upon its thousand hills and its vast plains loaded with waving grains and red with luscious fruits, still its crowning glory is its matchless scenery. Towering above the clouds, with its head crowned with eternal snows, its sides forever glistening with icy glaciers till their feet touch the green tops of its foothills, near the center of the state, stands in imposing grandeur the highest mountain of the states--grand, old Mount Rainier. [Illustration: Plate No. 11.--Fish Cannery at Port Angeles, Clallam County.] [Illustration: Plate No. 12.--A Forest Scene in Clallam County.] [Illustration: Plate No. 13.--North Bank Bridge Over the Columbia River at Vancouver, Clarke County.] |
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