CHAPTER III.

The City of Seattle--A Booming Western Town--Lumbering and Salmon Canning--Extensive Hop Ranches--Rich Coal and Iron Mines--Timber Resources of Puget Sound--Giant Firs and Cedars--A Hollow Tree for a House--Big Timber Shipped to England--A Million Feet of Lumber from an Acre of Land--Novel Method of Logging--No Snow in Theirs--A World's Supply of Timber for a Thousand Years.