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Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s, and inspired the first serious efforts at colonization. THE COLUMBIA RIVER. All waters of eastern Washington reach the ocean throughthe Columbia river, uniting the entire region in one spirit of fra-ternity. The grandest and most reaching scenic feature of theregion, it supplies unlimited water for successful irrigation andpower purposes, and in places still provides the principal modeof transportation. Between Kettle Falls and the Snake river area number of important rapids, chief of which is Priest Rapids,just below Saddle Gap, ten miles long with a descent of seventyfeet and a possible horse power of half a million. Just above the mouth of the Snake river are the cities ofKennewick and Pasco, ready to profit by direct navigation tothe sea as soon as the Celilo locks are completed. At the lowestelevation in the Inland Empire and surrounded by a large areaof irrigable land, they are served by three transcontinental rail-roads, permitting rapid transit to any part of the northwest.
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Oe CO UR SCENIC niGWk£X& y jliney iyioicL and toil, eackroacL a^aervous wecLkelo .new away where seats/ox empire -wart ,ii,i The state of Washington is rapidly developing a system ofroads which, finally consummated, will rival in skillful engineer-ing and commercial importance the French highways, and inscenic grandeur the mountain passes of Switzerland. Easy ap-proaches are being constructed to every town and hamlet andinto every farming community. So vigorously has the workbeen pushed that Washington now outranks every other state,except Colorado, in the facility and directness with which itsmountain recesses may be reached. Upwards of 50,000 mileshave been already completed, presenting altogether a labyrinthof broad thorofares, boulevards, and country highways. Themost important highways built and maintained at state expenseare the Pacific, the Sunset, the Inland Empire, the Olympic andthe National Park. THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY. The Pacifi

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