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    The WPA Guide to Washington: The Evergreen State
    The WPA Guide to Washington: The Evergreen State
    The WPA Guide to Washington: The Evergreen State
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    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authorsmany of whom would later become celebrated literary figureswere commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor.

    The WPA Guide to Washington exhibits the beauty and individuality found in the Pacific Northwest. The guide takes the reader on a journey across the Evergreen State, from Seattle to Spokane with the Cascades in between. Essays on the state’s large lumber industry and its role in the westward expansion are included.
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    PublisherTrinity University Press
    Release dateOct 31, 2013
    ISBN9781595342454
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      The WPA Guide to Washington - Federal Writers' Project

      Published in 2014 by Trinity University Press

      San Antonio, Texas 78212

      www.tupress.org

      This book was first published as part of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project, a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. It has been published in various editions, but this edition replicates the original. Trinity University Press is proud to make these books available through the WPA Guides to America Digital Library.

      978-1-59534-245-4 ebook

      Foreword

      THIS GUIDE, written by the Washington Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration, has had a succession of sponsors. Next to the last of these, the Washington State Planning Council, withdrew because it lacked trained personnel to handle the manuscript. The Washington State Historical Society, after much urging, finally accepted the sponsorship. The Society, therefore, has not been concerned with planning the work, nor with compiling and writing. There was before the Society only the question of accuracy and inclusiveness. The members of the Project had written well, but errors are inevitable in a work of this magnitude.

      The final sponsor, the Washington State Historical Society, has had to do in four or five months what other historical societies serving as sponsors—as Virginia, Nebraska, Iowa, and Nevada—had three or four years to do: namely to put to rights any faulty passages and, more happily, to verify the large amount of excellent and interesting material. There was the additional chore of bringing some parts up to date; for more than a year—and that a census year—had elapsed between the closing of the Project and the time of the manuscript’s going to press.

      It is not claimed that the Society has caught all errors; in fact, it would be virtually impossible for any State guide—and we have studied thirty-six—to be wholly free from error. We have done this work for Washington as a labor of love, in addition to our regular job.

      Mr. T. C. Elliott of Walla Walla, Mr. Lancaster Pollard of Seattle, and Mr. W. P. Bonney of Tacoma, though frequently called on, have always given most valuable and most enthusiastic help. Mr. W. L. McCormick, newly elected President of the Society, has given constant encouragement. To Miss Charlotte Shackleford, a new and enthusiastic member of the Society, we give credit for the excellent index. She was assisted by Miss Elizabeth Shackleford and Mrs. Bessie S. Matthews.

      O. B. SPERLIN, Acting President

      Washington State Historical Society

      Preface

      WASHINGTON: a Guide to the Evergreen State is the result of the collaboration of many minds. Working as a group, the staff of the Washington Writers’ Project gathered, checked, re-checked, and assembled a multitude of facts gleaned from many and varied sources. Of inestimable value in the compilation of these data was the assistance received from hundreds of consultants—historians, pioneers, newspaper men, scientists, teachers, business men—who gave generously of their time, and from the many unselfish and friendly persons who assisted the field workers and the tour checkers, as they traveled from town to town along the thousands of miles of highways and byways that were covered. Without exaggeration, this book may be said to represent a community endeavor and a community interest.

      Each day, as the staff worked, the mass of interesting material grew so that when the time came for final selection of what could be included in a book, much had to be omitted; so much, in fact, that this volume, comprehensive as it is, may be looked upon simply as an introduction to other volumes still to be written about the State—its people, its history, its resources, its cities and towns, its industries, its culture, its recreational areas and scenic wonderlands.

      As one of the volumes of the American Guide Series, this book is a integral part of a dynamic and vibrant picture of these United States Basically, it is a guide for the use of tourists, both those from other State; and those within the State’s borders. For them, in addition to a fund of practical information, there is a mass of interesting material about the State and its people, information which will add to the pleasure and understanding of all those who travel in Washington. The appeal of the book, however, does not end here—nor does its value. Many are destined to be armchair travelers, and for these the book, with its fragments of history, short biographies, thumbnail pictures of people and places, with its many colorful pictures and carefully drawn maps, will afford hours of recreation, less exciting than actual travel but enjoyable, nevertheless, and far less strenuous; it will be sure to bring a feeling of the closebonds that tie the State of Washington to the other States of the Union. Against the panorama of the past, the reader will be able to see the moving picture of the present.

      The staff gratefully acknowledges the aid of Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and of civic, commercial, and sports associations. Particular appreciation is due the University of Washington and the Washington State College, to the staffs of the Seattle Public and of the University of Washington Libraries, to the State Planning Council, to the State Progress Commission, to the Federal and State parks departments, to the State Bureau of Fisheries, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and to the Forest Service. Appreciation is also due to postmasters, to chambers of commerce, to pioneer societies, and to newspaper editors throughout the State for the assistance given in many phases of the work. In addition, we are indebted to the Oregon Writers’ Project for the completion of the maps. The final manuscript was edited by Mary Barrett and Harold Rosenberg, of the Washington, D.C., Office of the Writers’ Program.

      Among the many to whom the editors wish to express their gratitude for generous aid in special fields are: R. B. Inverarity, State Supervisor, Washington Art Project, who helped with the photo collection and designed the jacket; Professor Melville Jacobs, University of Washington, who read the Indian material; Paul Ashford, who volunteered his services on the tours; Marian R. Jenkins, who worked on the Literature essay; Professor J. B. Harrison; C. Frank Mahon, for assistance on Architecture; Kenneth Callahan; Dr. Garland Ethel; James F. O’Brien; John Guerin, who did much work on the maps; Professor G. E. Goodspeed; C. F. Pautzke; Dr. Viola Garfield; Professor Harry Burns; Dr. Harold Eby; Dr. Elton Guthrie; John Sproule; Robert Camozzi; and, finally, the sponsor, Washington State Historical Society, whose Acting President, O. B. Sperlin, worked through the entire manuscript twice, supplying many vital corrections, and read both galley and page proofs.

      ANNE E. WINDHUSEN

      State Supervisor

      Contents

      FOREWORD By O. B. Sperlin, Acting President of Washington State Historical Society

      PREFACE

      GENERAL INFORMATION

      RECREATIONAL AREAS

      CALENDAR OF EVENTS

      Part I. Washington: Past and Present

      FROM SAGEBRUSH TO SEACOAST

      NATURAL SETTING

      INDIANS

      HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT

      TRANSPORTATION

      AGRICULTURE

      INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AND LABOR

      EDUCATION

      RELIGION

      SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

      SPORTS AND RECREATION

      NEWSPAPERS AND RADIO

      LITERATURE

      ARTS AND CRAFTS

      MUSIC

      THE THEATER

      ARCHITECTURE

      Part II. Cities

      ABERDEEN-HOQUIAM

      BELLINGHAM

      EVERETT

      OLYMPIA

      SEATTLE

      SPOKANE

      TACOMA

      VANCOUVER

      WALLA WALLA

      WENATCHEE

      YAKIMA

      Part III. Tours

      TOUR 1: (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho)—Teanaway—Seattle [US 10]

      Section a. Idaho Line to Teanaway

      Section b. Teanaway to Seattle

      TOUR 1A: Davenport—Ginkgo Petrified Forest—Ellensburg [State 7]

      TOUR 1B: Junction with US 10—Coulee Dam—Mason City [State 2]

      TOUR 1C: Junction with US 10—Scenic—Everett [State 15]

      TOUR 1D: Renton—Mowich Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park [State 5]

      TOUR 2: (Lewiston, Idaho)—Yakima—Olympia—Hoquiam [US 410]

      Section a. Idaho Line to Pasco

      Section b. Pasco to Yakima

      Section c. Yakima to Olympia

      Section d. Olympia to Aberdeen-Hoquiam

      TOUR 3: Maryhill Junction—Vancouver—Johnson’s Landing [US 830]

      Section a. Maryhill Junction to Vancouver

      Section b. Vancouver to Johnson’s Landing

      TOUR 4: (Priest River, Idaho)—Spokane—(Lewiston, Idaho) [US 195]

      Section a. Idaho Line to Spokane

      Section b. Spokane to Idaho Line

      TOUR 4A: Newport—Canadian Line [State 6]

      TOUR 5: Davenport—Kettle Falls—Canadian Line [State 22]

      TOUR 6: (Cascade, B.C.)—Spokane—Pasco [US 395]

      Section a. Canadian Line to Spokane

      Section b. Spokane to Pasco

      TOUR 7: (Osoyoos, B.C.)—Teanaway—(Biggs, Oregon) [US 97]

      Section a. Canadian Line to Teanaway

      Section b. Teanaway to Oregon Line

      TOUR 8: (Vancouver, B.C.)—Mount Vernon—Everett—Seattle—Olympia—Marys Corner—(Portland, Oregon) [US 99]

      Section a. Canadian Line to Mount Vernon

      Section b. Mount Vernon to Seattle

      Section c. Seattle to Olympia

      Section d. Olympia to Marys Corner

      Section e. Marys Corner to the Oregon Line

      TOUR 8A: Bellingham—Mount Baker Lodge—Kulshan Ridge [State 1]

      TOUR 8B: Burlington—Rockport—Ross Dam [State 17A]

      TOUR 8C: Mount Vernon—Oak Harbor—Columbia Beach [State 1 and 1D]

      TOUR 8D: Tacoma—Nisqually Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park [State 5]

      TOUR 8E: Marys Corner—Ohanapecosh Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park [State 5]

      TOUR 9: Junction with US 410—Port Angeles—Hoquiam-Aberdeen—Megler—(Astoria, Oregon) [US 101]

      Section a. Junction with US 410 to Sequim

      Section b. Sequim to Forks

      Section c. Forks to Aberdeen

      Section d. Aberdeen to Megler

      TOUR 9A: Junction with US 101—Gig Harbor [State 14]

      MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK

      PARK TOUR 1. Nisqually Entrance to Paradise Valley

      PARK TOUR 1A. Nisqually Road to the North Puyallup River

      PARK TOUR 2. White River Entrance to Yakima (Sunrise) Park

      PARK TOUR 3. Carbon River Entrance to Junction with the Wonderland Trail

      PARK TOUR 4. Ohanapecosh Entrance to (US 410) Cayuse Pass

      SUMMIT CLIMB. Paradise Inn to Summit of Mount Rainier

      WONDERLAND TRAIL. Circuit of Mount Rainier from Longmire

      OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK

      PUGET SOUND TOURS

      CROSS-SOUND TOUR 1. Seattle to Suquamish

      CROSS-SOUND TOUR 2. Seattle to Bremerton

      CROSS-SOUND TOUR 3. Edmonds to Port Ludlow

      ISLAND TOURS

      ISLAND TOUR 1. Seattle to Vashon Island and around the Island

      ISLAND TOUR 2. Seattle to Bainbridge Island and around the Island

      ISLAND TOUR 3. Chuckanut (mainland)—Orcas Island—San Juan Island—Anacortes (mainland)—Mount Vernon

      Part IV. Appendices

      CHRONOLOGY

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

      Illustrations

      THE COAST

      View of the Olympic Mountains from Seattle

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Mount Baker from Mount Constitution in San Juan Islands

      Washington State Progress Commission

      North Head Lighthouse at Entrance to Columbia River

      Sunset over the Pacific as Seen from the Olympic Peninsula

      Milwaukee Road

      Airview, Deception Pass Bridge

      Halibut Fleet in Seattle Harbor

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Fishermen Repairing Nets on Open Docks at Salmon Bay Terminal

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Purse Seining, Puget Sound

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Purse Seining, Puget Sound

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Surf Fishing

      R. B. Inverarity

      Digging for Clams

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Indian Crews Bring Their Craft near the Finish Line in the International War Canoe Sweepstakes

      Otto M. Jones

      Sailboats Racing on Puget Sound

      A. N. Nickols

      Bachelor’s Hall Takes to the Air

      Harry A. Kirwin

      A Catch of Salmon from Puget Sound Waters

      HISTORY: THE INDIANS

      State Capitol, Olympia

      Olympia Chamber of Commerce

      Crowd Assembled at the Capitol for Inauguration of Elisha P. Ferry as Governor in 1889, the first year of Statehood

      Olympia Chamber of Commerce

      Fort Walla Walla

      U. S. Army Signal Corps

      Chemakane Mission

      U. S. Army Signal Corps

      Alexander’s Blockhouse, Coupeville

      Stuart B. Hertz

      Officers Club, Vancouver Barracks

      Camera Shop, Vancouver

      Freeport, a Typical Western Town

      Riverside Avenue, Spokane, after the fire of 1889

      S. S. Beaver, first steamship on the Pacific Coast

      Hudson’s Bay Company

      Seattle Wharves (1878)

      Petroglyph, near Rock Island

      Coast Indians Weaving Baskets

      Makah Indian

      R. B. Inverarity

      Nez Perce War Parade (July 4, 1901)

      Indian Village—Nespelem

      R. B. Inverarity

      THE DAMS

      Night View of Coulee Dam Under Construction

      Department of Interior

      Riggers Riding a Hoisting Cable High Above Waters During Dam Construction

      Workmen on the Downstream Face of Dam in the Spillway Section

      Department of Interior

      General View of Coulee Dam, Showing Contractor’s Town in Foreground and Engineer’s Town in Background

      Department of Interior

      Upstream Face and Reservoir, Coulee Dam

      Department of Interior

      Grand Coulee Country

      Department of Interior

      Downstream Face and Power House Under Construction, Coulee Dam

      Department of Interior

      Bonneville Dam

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Rock Island Dam near Wenatchee

      Puget Sound Power & Light Company

      Diablo Dam

      Seattle City Light Company

      Salmon Entering Elevator at Rock Island Dam

      Department of Interior

      View of Fishway and Control Gate Spillway for Migration of Salmon by Side of Rock Island Dam

      Department of Interior

      AGRICULTURE

      The Old and the New

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Cattle Roundup

      Asahel Curtis

      Sheep on the Range

      Department of Interior

      Dairy Farm Scene on Yakima Project

      Department of Interior

      To Gather the Harvest Fruit Picker

      Department of Interior

      Wife of Farm Migrant

      Farm Security Administration

      Migratory Farm Workers Picking Hops

      Department of Interior

      Chinese Laborer in Potato Field

      Farm Security Administration

      Clearing the Land

      Farm Security Administration

      Reclamation

      Department of Interior

      Stacking Alfalfa

      Farm Security Administration

      A Farmstead in the Yakima Valley (Hops in Foreground)

      Farm Security Administration

      IN THE CITIES AND TOWNS

      Tacoma (Mount Rainier in Background)

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Business District, Seattle

      Frank Jacobs

      Bellingham

      Bert Huntoon

      Airview, Spokane

      Spokane Chamber of Commerce

      The Pioneer Mother

      Statue by Avard Fairbanks, Vancouver Camera Shop, Vancouver

      Japanese Girls Dance in a Fourth of July Celebration in Seattle

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Youngsters Taking a Ride in a WPA Nursery School

      Works Progress Administration

      The First Home of the University of Washington

      Built in the early 1860’s

      Covington House, Vancouver

      Vancouver Chamber of Commerce

      Campus, Washington State College, Pullman

      Hutchison Photo Service

      Entrance to Fort Lewis, Tacoma

      Main Street of a Typical Boom Construction Town

      Farm Security Administration

      Mill Workers’ Cottages

      Farm Security Administration

      INDUSTRY, COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION

      Lumber Mills, Everett

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Columbia River

      Farm Security Administration

      Lake Union—Puget Sound Ship Canal

      Airview, Seattle Waterfront (Mount Baker in Background)

      Charles R. Laidlaw

      Port of Longview

      Longview Chamber of Commerce

      Ampere—Bonneville Dam Transformer

      Howard J. Burnham

      Holden Mine

      (Lake Chelan, from which comes half the gold and half the copper mined in the state)

      Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle

      Interstate Bridge, Longview

      Longview Chamber of Commerce

      Power House, Diablo Dam

      Seattle City Light Company

      A Forty-two Ton Clipper

      Made in Boeing Plant for Pan-American Airways, takes off at Seattle

      Wind Tunnel, University of Washington

      Vancouver Waterfront, Showing Port Terminal and Grain Elevator

      Camera Shop, Vancouver

      Wrapping and Packing Apples in a Yakima Plant

      Jerry Dwyer

      LUMBERING

      Undercutting a Fir

      Logging Operations at a Loading Station on the Olympic Peninsula

      Simpson Logging Company

      Tractors Are Used for Hauling Logs Through the Forest

      Western Tractor and Equipment Company

      Washington Logs Before Sawing in a Longview Mill

      Farm Security Administration

      Airview, Lumber Mill at Longview

      Longview Chamber of Commerce

      Airview of Lumber Plant Along Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle

      Frank Jacobs

      In a Seattle Lumberyard

      Sawmill in the Forest

      Caterpillar Tractor Company

      Oxen Dragging Log Over Skid Road Through Forest

      Yarding Donkey

      U. S. Forest Service

      A Forest Homestead (1910)

      U. S. Forest Service

      Main Street, Monte Cristo (1897)

      Gifford Pinchot

      Trainload of Logs on Wooden Trestle

      Gifford and Prentiss

      Cutover Land

      Caterpillar Tractor Company

      CCC Boys Weeding a Forest Nursery

      Civilian Conservation Corps

      IN THE MOUNTAINS

      Mount Baker

      U. S. Forest Service

      Skiers Resting on Slopes of Mount Rainier

      Orville Borgersen

      Skagit Basin

      Seattle City Light Company

      Crevasse on Mount Baker

      Stuart B. Hertz

      Mountain Climbers Scaling Ice Walls Near Summit of Mount Rainier

      Rainier National Park Co.

      Trout Rearing Ponds at Seward Park Hatchery

      Frank Jacobs

      On Diablo Lake (Excursion)

      Seattle City Light Company

      Trout Fishing

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Mount St. Helens

      Washington State Progress Commission

      Along the Highway to Mount Baker Ski Field

      Bert Huntoon

      Mountain Goats, Chelan National Forest

      Oliver T. Edwards

      Flowers Bloom at the Edge of Receding Snow Drifts on Mount Rainier

      Rainier National Park Co.

      Mother Bear and Cubs

      In Rainier National Park

      Maps

      ABERDEEN-HOQUIAM

      BELLINGHAM

      EVERETT

      OLYMPIA

      DOWN TOWN SEATTLE

      SEATTLE

      SPOKANE

      TACOMA

      VANCOUVER

      MOUNT ADAMS RECREATIONAL AREA

      NOOKSACK RECREATIONAL AREA

      MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL FOREST

      OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST

      SAN JUAN ISLANDS

      General Information

      Railroads: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R.R. (Milwaukee), Great Northern R.R. (G.N.), Northern Pacific R. R. (N.P.), Union Pacific R.R. (U.P.). Intrastate: Spokane, Portland and Seattle R.R. (S.P.&S.). Milwaukee, G.N., and N.P. cross the Cascades; U.P. and S.P.&S. parallel the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon.

      Highways: 9 Federal highways, 7 with interstate connections; 22 State highways. Highways through the three passes of the Cascade Range: Stevens, Snoqualmie, Chinook; only Snoqualmie open during winter. Satus Pass through the Horse Heaven Hills gives access to the Columbia River Gorge. Inspection only at the Canadian Border. State highways policed by State patrol. Water and gasoline stations somewhat scarce in eastern Washington off main highways. Gasoline tax 6c.

      Bus Lines: Interstate: Washington Motor Coach System to the East from the Puget Sound area; Union Pacific Stages to the East and South from southeastern Washington; Priest River Stage Line to Idaho from Spokane; North Coast Lines to Canada and Oregon; Pacific Stages, Ltd., to Canada; Spokane-Butte Motor Stage Co. to Idaho and Montana; Independent Stages, Inc., Consolidated Transportation Co., and Benjamin Franklin Lines along the Coast. Intrastate: Numerous lines connecting cities and towns.

      Air Lines: Trans-Canada Air Lines, Ltd., between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seattle; Northwest Airlines between Chicago and Seattle via Spokane, Wenatchee, Yakima; United Air Lines between New York and Seattle and Vancouver, B. C., and between Spokane and Pendleton Oregon, via Walla Walla; Pan-American Airways between Seattle and Alaska.

      Water Transportation: Trans-Pacific from Seattle: Pacific Northwest Oriental Steamship Co., Inc., and Nippon Yusen Kaisya. Coastwise from Seattle: Canadian Pacific Steamship, Ltd., boats to British Columbia ports; Alaska Steamship Co., Alaska Transportation Co., and Northland Transportation Co., to Alaska. Puget Sound: Black Ball Ferry Lines, Ballard-Ludlow Ferry Co., and Kitsap Transportation Co. connect important ports. Auto ferries and steamers, operating on the inland waters of the State, serve most shore-side towns.

      Motor Vehicle Laws (digest.): Maximum speed, 50 m.p.h.; on curves and intersections and past schoolhouses and crossings between hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., 15 m.p.h. Nonresident license good for 90 days. Minimum age for drivers, 16 years. Speed limit through towns usually 25 m.p.h. Uniform signs mark State highways: diamond indicates slow; square, caution; Octagonal, stop; and round, railroad crossing. Hand signals must be used. Spotlights permitted, provided beam is directed to right while on main-traveled routes. Windshield wipers and rear-vision mirrors required. Personal injury or property damage must be reported to local authority within 24 hours. Complete State motor vehicle laws available at all towns and cities.

      Prohibited: Coasting in neutral; parking on highway or with less than 16 feet clearance from main-traveled road; use of stickers (except certificates required by law); use of sirens; passing to right on highways; passing loading or unloading streetcars except at safety islands.

      Accommodations: Except in urban centers, accommodations are limited to numerous auto camps; facilities generally good. Provisions and supplies available at auto camps on main highways and roads. Accommodations are limited at Mount Rainier from October 15 to June 20, except at Paradise Valley (open all winter). Island resorts on Puget Sound usually closed during winter; accommodations scarce on Olympic Peninsula.

      Climate and Equipment: In coastal regions, climate is temperate, with heavy seasonal rainfall; in eastern Washington, hot, dry summers and fairly cold winters. Snowfall heavy in mountain areas. Average-weight clothing, including topcoats, is suitable. Special equipment for hunting, fishing, or mountain climbing available locally (see Tours). Some mountain passes closed by snow in midwinter; information available from weather reports and State highway bulletins. Most springs and streams in mountain and forest regions are safe for drinking purposes, but care should be taken in settled and farming areas.

      Associations: Washington State Sportsmen’s Council, 1001 Fourth and Pike Bldg., Seattle, comprising 132 clubs, supplies information on 90 per cent of State associations and recreational clubs. The Mountaineers, 214 Rialto Bldg., Seattle. Olympicans, Henderson Bldg., Bremerton. Ski and yacht clubs at various cities (see Cities).

      Forest Fire Season: April 15 to October 15. During season, some forest sections entirely closed. Campers in State and National Forest areas, except at designated campgrounds, must be equipped with shovel, bucket, and axe; permits must be obtained for campfires. Fires must be extinguished before camp is abandoned.

      Forest Headquarters: Snoqualmie National Forest, Federal Bldg., Seattle; ranger stations, North Bend, Skykomish, Mineral, Parkway, Naches. Wenatchee National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Wenatchee; ranger stations, Entiat and Leavenworth. Chelan National Forest, Okanogan; ranger stations, Winthrop, Conconully, Twisp, Mazama, Chelan, and Stehekin. Columbia National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Vancouver; ranger stations, Carson, Randle, Spirit Lake, Trout Lake, and Packwood. Colville National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Republic; ranger stations, Tonasket, Republic, Kettle Falls. Mount Baker National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Bellingham; ranger stations, Darrington, Glacier, Sauk, Marblemount, Granite Falls, and Concrete. Olympic National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Olympia; ranger stations, Port Angeles, Quilcene, Hoodsport, and Quinault. Kaniksu National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Sand Point, Idaho; ranger stations, lone, Newport, and Colville, Washington. Umatilla National Forest, P.O. Bldg., Pendleton, Oregon; ranger stations, Walla Walla, Pomeroy, Dayton, and Ukiah, Washington. Information, regulations, and fire permits available at forest headquarters and ranger stations.

      Fish and Game Laws: Laws filed by State Fish and Game Commission annually; open season and bag limits vary. (Pamphlet of laws, obtainable at all sporting goods stores, includes open seasons, bag limits, and exceptions).

      License Fees: Hunting and fishing: resident $3 (State), $1.50 (county); nonresident, $25 (State); alien, $25 (State). Fishing: resident, $5 (State); nonresident, $5 (State), $3 (county); alien, $5 (county). Nonresident must hold permit to carry firearms in order to obtain license. License obtainable at most sporting goods stores and from county auditors.

      Liquor Laws: Wines and distilled liquors for sale at State liquor stores, found in most cities and towns, to persons with permits. Permit granted to person 21 years of age; fee 50c per year. Beer and wine are sold by the drink in restaurants and bars; by the bottle, in grocery and drugstores; no permit required. No restrictions on bringing liquor into State for private consumption.

      Poisonous Snakes, Plants, Insects: The rattlesnake, only venomous reptile in the State, is restricted almost entirely to arid sections of eastern Washington. Hikers there should be equipped with heavy leather boots or puttees and simple snake-bite kit, obtainable at drugstores. Wood ticks infest some sagebrush areas of eastern Washington during early summer. They may be carriers of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but the disease is not common; inoculation unnecessary. Wood ticks should not be pulled off, but saturated with turpentine or kerosene. Numerous species of poisonous mushrooms are common; edible varieties should be positively identified. Black widow spiders infrequent; bites should receive immediate treatment. Poison oak and poison ivy, native to Washington, are found on both sides of the Cascades

      Flowers and Trees: Picking, cutting, or destruction of plants within 300 feet of State or county roads, or on street or highway, or in any State or city park is prohibited by law.

      Recreational Areas

      LEAVENWORTH (see Tour 1C), Wenatchee National Forest. Winter Sports area with numerous forest camps, lakes, and trails. Tumwater Canyon, Drury Falls; Wenatchee River; Icicle River. Abundant wild life; berrying.

      SKYKOMISH (see Tour 1C), Snoqualmie National Forest. Hundreds of lakes, rivers, and creeks and numerous trails. Certain sections along North Bank of the Skykomish River, Foss River, Beckler River and Index Creek, closed during fire season except under special weather conditions. Popular fishing points at Lake Isabel, North Fork of the Skykomish River, Silver Creek, Silver Lake, Twin Lakes, Troublesome Creek, Trout Creek in North Fork of the Skykomish section; South Fork of the Skykomish and Money Creek in same section; both forks of Miller River and Lake Dorothy, Bear Lake, Deer Lake, Snoqualmie Lake, Beckler River, and Rapid River in Miller River section; Foss River, Trout Lake, Delta Lake, Copper Lake, and Angeline Lake in Foss River section; Tye River and Martin Creek, Deception Creek, Surprise Creek and Lake, Glacier Lake, and Lake Josephine in Tye River section. Winter sports in Stevens Pass; ski development under way.

      LAKE WENATCHEE (see Wenatchee and Tour 1C), Wenatchee National Forest. Lake Wenatchee and Fish Lake, on highway; swimming, camping, picnicking, fishing, boating. Winter sports in season at Stevens Pass, State 15. Forest roads 18 m. up little Wenatchee River from Lake Wenatchee; 14 m. up White River; about 35 m. up Chiwawa River.

      CLE ELUM (see Tour 2c), Snoqualmie National Forest. Salmon LaSac Guard Station and Camp, 18 miles from Cle Elum; Salmon LaSac to Cooper Lake, 5 m. to Jolly Mountain Lookout, 6 m. by trail; to Lake Waptus, 11 m.; to Fish Lake, 16 m. Trails well developed. Trout fishing; deer and bear hunting. Heavy snows in winter. Tobogganing and skiing area, 21 m. W. of Cle Elum near US 10. Highway open all winter.

      WHITE RIVER AND NACHES (see Tour 2c), Snoqualmie National Forest. Bumping Lake: fishing, outboard racing, skiing, American River; Rattlesnake Camp Preserve; Mather Memorial Parkway; Greenwater River; Naches River; lakes on Cascade Crest Trail. Summer forest homesites; numerous trails; berrying.

      TIETON (see Tour 2c), Snoqualmie National Forest. Tieton River; Rimrock Lake. Deer, elk, bear, blue grouse hunting; fishing and boating.

      WIND RIVER (see Tour 3a), Columbia National Forest. Governmental Mineral Springs Camp, one-day hiking trips; Little Soda Springs camp; Trout Creek Camp; Wind River; Wind River Nursery. Huckleberrying. Indian horse racing, deer hunting, steelhead fishing.

      TWIN BUTTES (see Tour 3a), Columbia National Forest. Race Track Guard Station, 22 m. NE. of Carson. Goose Lake, 5 m.; fishing, forest camp, lava beds. Peterson Registration Station, 36 m. NE. of Carson, forest road fair; starting point to Mount Adams huckleberry fields (reserved for Indians) and numerous Indian camp grounds. Guler and Ranger Station, 25 m. NW. of White Salmon; starting point for ice cave explorations, 5 m. W.; headquarters for fishing at Trout Lake; hotel accommodations.

      KETTLE FALLS (see Tour 5), Colville National Forest. Game preserve W. of highway between South Fork of Deadman Creek and Boulder Creek. Area sparsely settled, bordered by Kettle River.

      CARIBOU TRAIL (see Tour 7a). Colville National Forest. Bonaparte Lake, 21 m. E. of Tonasket; good fishing, camping; no hunting.

      REPUBLIC (see Tour 7a), Colville National Forest. Trout fishing at Swan, Fish, and Long lakes, reached by new branch road, 10 m. S. of Republic; camp-grounds.

      LAKE CHELAN (see Tour 7a), Chelan and Wenatchee national forests. Domke Lake and return, 5 m., fine fishing; Rainbow Falls, 3 m. up Stehekin River; Lyman Lake Trail via Glacier Trail, 11 m. up Stehekin River, L. 19 m. along Agnes Creek, to Lyman Lake. Lower Horseshoe and Upper Horseshoe basins near Cascade Pass. Horses, guides, equipment available at Lucerne and Stehekin.

      MOUNT ADAMS (see Tour 7b), Columbia National Forest. Alpining and mountaineering.

      NOOKSACK (see Tour 8A), Mount Baker National Forest. Lakes frozen in winter; summer fishing; alpining; skiing; trail trips; public camp accommodations.

      HEATHER MEADOWS (see Tour 8A), Mount Baker National Forest (area usually called Mount Baker). Road open to Mount Baker Lodge; downhill, slalom, cross-country skiing, escalator, hotel, cabin accommodations; first-aid stations. Winter sports from November to June; meadow flowers, alpining, and hiking in summer.

      BAKER RIVER (see Tour 8B), Mount Baker National Forest. Forest road through area from Concrete to Baker Lodge, 22 m. Eleven trail trips; to Dock Butte, 6.5 m.; Mazama Park, 9 m.; Wanlick Creek to Elbow Lake, 14 m.; Upper Creek Park to Martin Lake, 5 m.; Baker Hot Springs, 2.5 m., swimming; Swift Creek Trail, through Austin Pass, about 11 m.; Upper Baker Trail to Eagle Creek, 13 m., trout fishing; Baker Lake Lookout, 2.5 m.; Shuksan Lake, 11 m. (3 miles rough walking), good fishing in late summer; Anderson Butte, 6.5 m., forest lookout station.

      RANDLE (see Tour 8E), Columbia National Forest. North Fork Forest Camp, 10 m. S. of Randle; Chain of Lakes District 30 m. Excellent camping, fishing, huckleberrying, hiking. Area between North Fork and Registration Station, 16 m., closed to camping July 1-Sept. 30. Varied views of Mount Adams.

      PACKWOOD (see Tour 8E), Columbia National Forest. Packwood Lake; Soda Springs; Cowlitz River. Fishing, forest camps and trails; hiking and alpining.

      GOAT ROCKS RECREATION AREA (see Tour 8E), Columbia National Forest. Accessible only by trail; no developed campgrounds; fishing limited; goat hunting not allowed. Lost Lake Trail; Purcell Creek Trail, Clear Fork Trail. Guides and horses available at Packwood.

      SPIRIT LAKE (see Tour 8e), Columbia National Forest. Mount St. Helens (9,671 alt.), active volcano as late as November 23, 1842; alpining. Spirit Lake: boating, fishing, swimming, camping, hiking. Smith Creek Butte Lookout, 8 m. SE. of Spirit Lake; St. Helens Lake 3 m., fishing; good road.

      HOOD CANAL (see Tour 9a), Olympic National Forest. Lake Cushman: Skokomish Primitive Area; Olympic National Park; Mount Ellinor; Duckabush River; Mount Olympus; Mount Constance. Elk and deer hunting; salt-water fishing; trout fishing.

      SNOW PEAKS (see Tour 9b), Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park. Quilcene River, Elwha River, Dungeness River, Dosewallips River; lake and river fishing. Mount Angeles; Deer Park skiing area; forest camps; horse and foot trail trips. Olympic Hot Springs.

      LAKE CRESCENT (see Tour 9b), Olympic National Forest. Lake Crescent, Lake Sutherland; Beardslee trout at Crescent. Sol Duc Hot Springs, Bogachiel, Calawah, Soleduck, and Hoh Rivers. Olympic National Park; few trails in western section, several in eastern; logging operations.

      QUINAULT LAKE (see Tour 9c), Olympic National Forest. Trail riders’ trip, 13 days by horseback; start and finish at Graves Creek Inn, near Lake Quinault; guides necessary; fishing, alpining, photographing; hike over Anderson Glacier, climb to summit of Mount Christie, Olympic National Park. Season: mid-June to mid-September.

      Calendar of Events

      PART I

      Washington: Past and Present

      From Sagebrush to Seacoast

      DESPITE the multiplicity of means of communication today, many people still conceive of the State of Washington as virtually a frontier wilderness, accessible only to the rugged and the adventurous. This impression derives in part no doubt from the State’s geographic location, in part from its historical association with an Indian war, and in part also from frontier fiction, which usually offers an exaggerated, romantic account of pioneers, cowboys, lumberjacks, and desperadoes.

      One hundred years ago, this region was largely unexplored. The eastern section was a semiarid plateau of rolling hills covered with sagebrush and bunchgrass, the habitat of prairie dogs, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Here Indians roamed, hunted, and fished. Through these sun-drenched barrens, the majestic Columbia River cut its way to the Pacific Ocean. Forests of lodgepole and ponderosa pine, fir, and tamarack ascended the northern highlands and the eastern slope of the Cascades. On the more humid western side of the range, another dense forest of spruce, Douglas fir, cedar, and hemlock swept down to the coast, unbroken except for Indian trails and occasional prairies and lowland valleys, and somber save when brightened by pink rhododendrons, the shimmering white of dogwood trees in flower, the golden catkins of maple and alder, or in some localities the flame of autumn leaves.

      Within these forests, bear, deer, elk, and cougar were plentiful, and the many lakes and rivers, abounding in fish, were frequented by beaver, mink, and otter. Grouse and ptarmigan whirred across the uplands, ducks sought the sheltered waters of inland lakes, and geese honked along the rivers and lowland marshes. Coastal waters and the larger streams teemed with salmon; blackfish and porpoise sported in the Sound and Strait, and whale spouted offshore.

      Something of this primitive condition remains today. The visitor to the Evergreen State can still find magnificent virgin forests, vocal with the songs of many birds. He can follow miles of woodland trails and enjoy the beauty of mountain summits, deep gorges, turbulent streams with cascading waterfalls, and clear alpine lakes, mirroring snowcapped peaks and tree-lined shores. He can scale rugged mountains or traverse blue-white glaciers, made dangerous by deep crevasses. He can find many a secluded lake or stream or saltwater channel, where he can test his skill with rod and reel; he can try his luck at bagging a deer, a bear, or a cougar in the pathless wilds. He can drive through deep canyons or along surf-pounded beaches; he can pilot his motorboat through the maze of channels of Puget Sound, or sail before a spanking breeze among hundreds of enchanting islands.

      Interesting, too, are the historic relics of the conquest of this wilderness: early mission houses, forts, blockhouses, and other pioneer buildings; the crumbling tombstones in lonely prairie cemeteries; markers on old trails; war canoes, tomahawks, arrowheads, feathered headdresses, and other mementos of the culture of the Indians, whose descendants now live on reservations. All these are a part of the great epic of the march of the pioneer. To see them is to gain a clearer understanding of the history of the Nation.

      In the course of the rapid development of the State, the country has been greatly altered. Forests have been cut, leaving vast scarred and denuded areas; grasslands have been broken and planted to wheat; and the arid range, now the feeding ground of cattle and sheep, has been enclosed with barbed-wire fences. Desert lands have been converted by means of irrigation into productive gardens, orchards, and alfalfa tracts. Trains and automobiles now speed where native trails once ran, steamships and ferries ply waters formerly crossed only by primitive dugouts, and airplanes hum overhead. Factories and mills stand where Indians set their weirs; and on the sites of communal Indian villages, large modern cities, with clean, well-lighted streets and tree-lined boulevards, have been built.

      On every side lies tangible evidence of the toll that this general and haphazard development of the country has taken; but works designed for the conservation and reclamation of depleted resources are also to be met with everywhere. Selective logging methods have supplanted to a considerable extent the wasteful methods of former years, and a carefully planned system of reforestation of logged-off and burned-over lands, in conjunction with the establishing of extensive national forests, bears promise of the intelligent utilization of existing stands of timber and the partial replacement of those that have been removed. The mighty Grand Coulee Dam and other major power developments, such as the Bonneville, the Skagit, and the Cushman projects, are near completion or already in service. At Bonneville Dam, ingenious fish ladders have been constructed to facilitate the migration of salmon upstream to spawn. And many national and State parks spread over lands withdrawn from commercial use and dedicated to the enjoyment and inspirational needs of man. All of these measures are expressive of a people with broad vision and with the capacity for significant, long-range planning.

      The people of the State came from many sources. Attracted by timber, free lands, minerals, railroad construction, the fish industry, irrigation, and power developments, successive waves of settlers have come to Washington: dissatisfied and restless folk from the older States; Southerners, ruined and uprooted by the Civil War; immigrants from Europe and from the Orient; and discouraged farmers from eroded, worn-out lands of the Middle West. Each group has brought its distinctive folkways, which have modified and enriched the cultural life of its new homeland.

      Natural Setting

      WASHINGTON, the Evergreen State, occupies the northwest corner of the United States, with the Pacific Ocean on the west, Canada on the north, Idaho on the east, and Oregon on the south. Although its northwest corner is chewed out by the sea, and its southern border is determined by the meanderings of the Columbia River from the point where it swings westward, the State is roughly rectangular, measuring 360 miles east to west and 240 miles north to south With a water area of 1,721 square miles and a land area of 66,836 square miles, Washington is larger than all New England, but its population is only 1,736,191 or 25.9 persons to the square mile.

      The State, consisting of seven distinct physiographic areas—the Olympic Mountains, Willapa Hills, Puget Sound Basin, Cascade Mountains, Okanogan Highlands, Columbia Basin, and Blue Mountains—represents virtually every topographic variation known in the United States.

      The Olympic Mountains, a part of the coastal range, lie between Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca Strait, and the Pacific Ocean, and are separated from the Willapa Hills by the valley of the Chehalis River. The region presents a labyrinth of peaks—Mount Olympus (8,150 alt.), Mount Fitzhenry (8,098 alt.), and Mount Constance (7,717 alt.), outstanding-—and serrated ridges, broken and eroded. Alpine valleys lakes, and torrential rivers are numerous.

      South of the Olympic Mountains are the Willapa Hills, a region of sedimentary and igneous rocks of the Tertiary period. Relatively low, rarely approaching 3,000 feet in elevation, this area receives less rainfall than the northern region, yet vegetation is rank, and there are many streams draining into the Columbia River and Willapa Harbor. Only along the bank of the Columbia River do the hills become abrupt.

      The Puget Sound Basin lies between the Olympic and Cascade Mountains in the form of a broad trough, extending from Juan de Fuca Strait, which connects Puget Sound with the Pacific, half way to the Columbia River. It averages 100 feet in elevation in its central portion, while its flanks rise to join the mountains. Based upon rugged folds of sedimentary rocks, rock beds, glaciation, and lava flows, the erosion of innumerable streams has made it relatively uniform. At its southern end are extended plains, reaching almost to the Columbia River. Puget Sound, for which the basin is the trough, is 80 miles long, 8 miles wide at the broadest point, and has depths of 900 feet: a body of water flanked by forested bluffs and low dikelands, with extensive bays, inlets, and passages between the 300 islands that lie within its shores. Of these, the 172 inhabitable islands of the San Juan group (see Island Tour 3) and Whidbey Island, second largest in continental United States, are most noteworthy.

      Extending across the State from north to south at its approximate middle longitude is the great barrier of the Cascade Mountains—shaped somewhat like an hour-glass—a range, 100 miles wide at the Canadian and Oregon boundaries, and 50 miles at its middle. The numerous peaks average from 6,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation, while the volcanic cones of Mounts Rainier, St. Helens, Baker, Adams, and Glacier Peak rise much higher. Of these peaks, only one, Mount Adams, is on the range axis; the others, St. Helens, Baker, Glacier Peak, and Rainier are on the western flank. Because of their origin, the northern and southern Cascades are quite dissimilar. The rugged southern portion resulted from great igneous activity due to volcanoes, while the northern portion, seemingly a great raised plateau at one time, is more uniform; whatever ruggedness it possesses has resulted from erosion rather than from volcanic action. The streams of the range, as a whole, are strong and deeply bedded. Mountain valleys, once the beds of great glaciers, have been deeply eroded—leaving grand cirques and amphitheaters, such as the water-filled gorge of Lake Chelan, that are among the great attractions of the range. Only the Columbia River crosses the Cascade Mountains. Three tunnels—the Cascade, the Rockdale, and the Stampede—pierce the Cascades for rail transportation; and the Chinook, Stevens, and Snoqualmie passes make them surmountable by highways.

      North of the Big Bend of the Columbia River and north of the Spokane River, and merging into the Cascades on the west and the Rockies on the east, are the Okanogan Highlands: beautifully rounded, broad, low hills sloping gently from watersheds to the river beds, with divides—often 6,000 feet in elevation—never sharp or abrupt. The Highlands, unlike the heavily wooded Cascades, are largely open and park-like, with a minimum of undergrowth.

      South of the Okanogan Highlands almost to the Oregon boundary and extending east of the Cascades almost to the Idaho boundary, is the Columbia Basin, an area of approximately 1,500,000 acres of sage and scabland. From an elevation of 500 feet at the Columbia River, lowest point in the region, the basin rises rapidly westward toward the foothills of the Cascades; eastward, the rise is more gradual to an elevation of approximately 2,000 feet at the Idaho Line. Ridges, extending east and west through the basin and marking the eroded course of past ice sheets, once rose across streams, but the latter in time have cut through them. The area of the Big Bend is scarred by great, ancient, long-dry river courses, of which Moses Coulee and Grand Coulee are excellent examples. Some of the coulees, however, still hold chains of lakes, strongly alkaline. From the region of the deep canyons of the Snake River and its tributaries, rolling plateaus—the Palouse Country—extend north and east, a fertile region of wind-borne soil deposits.

      In the southeastern corner of the State are the Blue Mountains, a prominent uplift of some 7,000 feet in the lava plain. The rounded domes, rising 2,000 to 4,000 feet above the surrounding basin lands, receive, in contrast to the contiguous country, enough rainfall to support forest growth. The streams, in deep valleys, have affected general contours very little.

      CLIMATE

      Washington’s topography, together with warm sea currents, strongly affects the climate, which varies greatly in different areas. Rainfall ranges from extremes of 6 inches in the eastern part to 160 inches in the western. East of the Cascades summer temperatures are often above 100° F. Not uncommonly, eastern Washington winters drop to —20° F. and —30° F., and crop seasons in the northern and higher portions are sometimes less than 100 days, increasing to 200 days towards the south. The average annual precipitation of 16 ½ inches in this section ranges from 60 inches in the mountains to 6 inches on the plains. The westerly prevailing wind’s average velocity is low—between 5 and 6 miles per hour—but occasional sand or dust storms visit the arid areas.

      In western Washington, the heaviest rainfall in the United States occurs on the southwestern slope of the Olympics, at Wynooche, where the average is 141 inches. On the northern side of the Olympics, Sequim has the lightest rainfall, averaging 17 inches, and requires irrigation. The average in the western section, however, is 36 inches. The rainiest month is likely to be December, and the driest, July. Winter temperatures average 40° F., with a daily average minimum of 35°. Summers average 61° F. with a daily average maximum of 74°. Yearly snowfall varies widely, averaging less than 13 inches at Seattle, while Snoqualmie Pass has had 400.

      Puget Sound area crop seasons average 207 days, diminishing to 185 in the valleys south. First frosts usually occur in November, and the last frosts in March. Wind velocities vary from a yearly average of greater than 12 ½ miles on the coast, with occasional seasonal bursts of hurricane intensity, to 6 miles per hour in the interior.

      Washington is a region where nature, on the whole, has been kind, barring it from catastrophic earthquakes, cyclones, drouths, and extensive floods, and endowing it with a climate assumed by scientists to be highly favorable for physical and mental exertion.

      GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY

      When western Washington experienced the most severe earthquake in its recent history in November 1939, the relevance of geologic history to present-day life was made dramatically clear. During the period of gigantic mountain building millions of years ago, the ancient peak Mount Si was covered by the Cascades, but never has there been real conformity between the hard primeval rock and the younger volcanic formation. The younger rock slips from time to time, as some earth movement takes place, and the resultant tremendous jar is felt throughout the region. (This explanation may be superseded by another differing in detail, but the general theory is substantially correct, according to authorities.)

      In the Proterozoic era, the earliest of the four geologic divisions of time, long before the Cascades had risen, an embayment of the primeval sea covered most of the Pacific Northwest region. The Blue Mountains, in the extreme southeastern corner of the present State, have been described by some geologists as a rocky promontory extending into this arm of the sea. Some 300 or more miles to the west of the old coastline, south from what is now Washington, lay an island, or islands, the existence of which has led to the erroneous belief that another continent lay to the west of this one in prehistoric ages.

      After hundreds of millions of years, with alternating periods of submersion and dry land, the region was invaded by the sea from the north, in the Paleozoic era. The depositing of silt from adjacent land areas and other natural processes resulted in the filling up of the original embayment to a maximum depth of 30,000 feet. Present deposits of quartz, slate, marble, and schist represent these ancient ones, but greatly altered in structure and recrystallized. Paleozoic rocks found in various places across northern Washington contain valuable fossil specimens of marine life of that period.

      During the Mesozoic era, which probably lasted for more than 100,000,000 years, the essential features marking the existing topography were formed. It was during the latter part of this era (Jurassic period), according to John Hodgdon Bradley, that the original uplift of the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range, the Cascades, and the Klamath Mountains occurred. Also in this period, another great inundation laid down beds of mud and sand that gradually were transformed into the bedrock of the San Juan Islands. Large deposits of magnesite, especially in Stevens County, probably originated at this time. With the making of mountains, great masses of molten rock pressed upward through the earth’s crust, and gold, silver and other metals were fused with the rock while in this liquid state. As the Cascades first, and later the Coast Range, were formed, successively they made new coastlines, low-lying barriers to the ocean. The Mesozoic era, the age of reptiles, gave to the world some of its most curious life forms, including the giant dinosaurs; many of these have been unearthed on the San Juan Islands and in other parts of the State. Many marine specimens have been found in the shales and limestones of Stevens County.

      The latest era, the Cenozoic, was marked by some of the most dynamic changes of all, including the greatest lava flow in geologic history and the age of ice; it also gave to the region some of its most productive natural resources—rich soil left by extensive lava flows, the great rivers and bays taking shape during this period, and the rich deposits of coal and other minerals being laid down. Of this era, the last 2,000,000 years constitute the recent epoch, within which came great volcanic eruptions and the period of glaciation. The Tertiary period, enduring for more than 50,000,000 years, was marked by long periods of sedimentation, erosion, and vegetation, alternating with periods of immense volcanic activity.

      The western part of the State, except for the highest, or central, part of the Olympic Mountains, was covered with water, and great swampy flats extended along the edge of the present Puget Sound Basin. From these were derived the shales and sandstones, the gold-bearing gravel of Sauk River, the commercial coal deposits. Gradually the sea floor was raised, and the Olympics were united with the mainland. Volcanic action, accompanying the building of the Columbian Plateau, brought forth great streams of lava, covering more than 200,000 square miles (estimates vary) in present Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. The weight of hot plastic rock tended to wear away all but the highest hills and to force streams to seek new outlets, with the changing of the watershed. The Columbia River was forced from its old channel into its present one, cut through granitic slopes at the edge of the lava plain.

      With the cessation of volcanic activity, in the long periods of sedimentation and erosion, many forms of animal and reptile life inhabited the region. Immense forests arose; petrified logs remain to indicate something of the size and type of these ancient trees. Gingko Petrified Forest was formed by the flow of lava over fallen gingko trees; ground water creeping through the rock brought quantities of silica which, in the form of quartz, gradually took the place of the wood. Whole stone logs are found, some wonderfully and delicately colored, in the shape of the Asiatic gingko tree.

      Toward the close of the Tertiary period, various plateaus and hills were formed—the Badger Mountains and Waterville Plateau, prominent folds of the Frenchman Hills, and the Spokane Divide. Large basins were created, and the Yakima River cut its way through ridge after ridge, as each in turn arose.

      The Quaternary (later Cenozoic) period was one of discordant events that completely changed the topography, producing marked climatic differences between eastern and western Washington. From a chain of vents along the line of the Cascade Mountains, volcanoes discharged great quantities of cinders and ash and exuded molten rock. Temporary cessations of the latter allowed incrusting materials, chiefly andesite, to build up great cones to form such peaks as Baker, St. Helens, Adams, and Rainier. The largest of these was the truncated mass of Mount Rainier. Active as late as the early part of this century and still steaming and emitting gases, this mountain once attained a height of more than 16,000 feet, only to lose 2,000 feet of its peak in an explosion. Other unrelated lava flows occurred at this time throughout the Cascade Mountains.

      Later, as the climate turned colder, enormous glaciers slid down from the north to cover the upper part of the State. Elevations were greater than now. Puget Sound was dry. On the lofty Cascade Mountains and the major volcanic peaks, constant snows packed into glaciers that plowed down the slopes.

      With a reversion to comparative warmth, melting ice sent debris-laden floods roaming over the Columbian plain, seeking or creating new channels as they rushed down the gradients caused by an earlier tilting. The abandoned rock-walled channels are today known as coulees. The Columbia River, much greater in volume than it is today, was blocked by the Okanogan Ice Lobe at the present site of Coulee Dam. The powerful stream, augmented by the run-off from adjacent and distant glaciers and the sudden draining of large lakes as far east as Montana, excavated a new channel. Abandoned when the retreating glacier allowed it to resume its former course, the old channel is now known as the Grand Coulee. A waterfall, one of the greatest in earth’s history, thundered over the cliffs in what is today Dry Falls State Park.

      A great lake, named by geologists Lewis Lake, and many minor bodies of water covered large areas of central and eastern Washington. The White Bluffs, 600 feet high and 30 miles long, on the Columbia River in Franklin, Grant, and Benton Counties, were created at this time. The force of the streams stripped sediments from the underlying lava, and these, transported southward, fill the fertile farming areas today. The denuded regions are the Channeled Scablands, more than 2,500 square miles of bare lava intricately channeled by ancient streams, now dry.

      The shallow edges of the glaciers in the Puget Sound region, reaching as far south as Tenino, melted quickly, forming mystery mounds—the hundreds of little hummocks and hills of that mound prairie region. Vast clay deposits, characteristic of Puget Sound topography south of Admiralty Inlet and Deception Pass, indicate a damming of the melting waters at these points. With the disappearance of the ice dams, the quick run off carved numerous valleys out of the sea bed. When the sea level rose again these became deep harbors and channels bordered by high cliffs.

      Fossils found in central Washington beds tell of lush vegetation and abundant animal life — temperate zone and subtropical flora and fauna — maintained by the rich lava-formed soil. Fossilized leaves of fig, oak, cypress, elm, and gingko (the Sacred Tree of China) have been uncovered. Sequoia trees grew in several parts of the State.

      Rocks along the margins of Puget Sound have revealed marine forms of the recent, or Cenozoic, era. Bones of mammals of this period, including the mammoth, the horse, and the bison, may be seen in the Whitman College Museum at Walla Walla. A skeleton of the mastodon (Elephas Columbi), built up from remains uncovered in the vicinity of Latah near Spokane in 1878, is a highly valued exhibit in the Field Museum in Chicago.

      ANIMAL LIFE

      It was the rich animal life of Washington that drew to the territory its first white inhabitants—hunters, trappers, fishermen, and traders. Today, too, the State is renowned for its native fauna, especially for its game fish. The coastal waters contain five famous varieties of salmon: Chinook (king, tyee, or spring), large and game, which predominates in the Columbia River and its tributaries; sockeye (blue-back), found in the Sound and the Strait and fresh water lakes; chum (dog), a lower grade fish; pink (humpback), and silver (coho). The quinnat salmon, noted for its delicacy and size, and of leading importance commercially, is a member of the king family.

      Besides the salmon, several other migratory fish ascend Washington’s rivers from the sea in breeding season; chief among these is the fighting steelhead, a large-sized rainbow trout. Two cutthroat trout are favorites of sportsmen: the coastal variety and the so-called Montana black-spotted trout. The blueback trout (salmo beardsleei) is found only in Lake Crescent, on the Olympic Peninsula. Also much sought are the silver trout, a fresh-water variety of sockeye, and the western spotted char, called the Dolly Varden trout. The squawfish, a predatory pike, is frequently found in lakes and streams; and the white sturgeon, of the Columbia, Snake, and Pend Oreille Rivers, largest fresh-water fish in North America, was once such a nuisance that an attempt was made to exterminate it. Species planted in Washington waters include the gamy largemouthed and smallmouthed bass, the eastern brook trout (comparatively rare), and the mackinaw trout found in Spokane, Pend Oreille, and Stevens counties. Other importations now distributed on both sides of the Cascades are the spiny-rayed fish: perch, crappie, catfish, and sunfish.

      Native salt-water fish are the halibut, now increasing in numbers; the albacore tuna, which have been taken in great numbers since 1936, when fishermen first went far out off the banks to catch them; the herring and the pilchard, used largely for oil, meal, and bait; the flounder; the red snapper; and the ling, the rock, and the black cod. Two varieties of eulachon are common: the Columbia River smelt, the heavy spring run of which draws hundreds of people to the Cowlitz River near Kelso; and the candlefish of Puget Sound, so called because the Indians used to dry it and burn it for light. The devilfish, or octopus, is also found in coastal waters; and the eel frequents some rivers, especially the Columbia.

      These are some of Washington’s food and game fish, but the list scarcely suggests the extent and variety of the State’s marine fauna. Near the shore in shallow waters, tiny sponges and mussels cling to rocks and pilings, jellyfish pulse their way in search of food, starfish sometimes grow to unusual size, and sea anemones open and close at the slightest prod. Other forms inhabiting these grounds are sea urchins, limpets, chitons, whelks, segmented and flat worms, tube worms, periwinkles, and shell-less bronze and rose sea slugs. Among the shellfish are butter clams, the staple food of Puget Sound Indians, and still abundant today; razor clams of the ocean beaches, sought by tourists; the small Olympia oyster, famous for its flavor, and the rock oyster, both native to Washington waters, and the large Japanese oyster introduced here a few years ago, scallops with exquisitely fluted rose-tinted shells; and the geoduck, elusive and comparatively rare. Crabs of different sizes thrive in the sheltered pods and rocky coves along the many miles of coastal waters; and shrimp, small, firm, and flavorful, occur in considerable numbers in Hood Canal. Not to be overlooked are the common barnacles, which cling tenaciously to rocks, logs, and sea-going vessels.

      Among oddities of the sea are the opalescent squid and the sea squirt, the latter a cylindrical, bag-like creature, tapering slightly at both ends, which attaches itself to rocks or shells and squirts water like a clam. The porpoise is not infrequently seen sporting in schools; and the hair seal, sometimes accompanied by the sea lion, also visits Puget Sound. The shark family is represented here by the mud shark, the more common dogfish not being a true shark. Even the whale leaves the deep waters now and then and detours into the blind alley of Puget Sound.

      Land animal life is also unusually abundant here. Insects and bugs are relatively few in kind, although the State has its quota of the usual varieties. Outstanding among the invertebrates of eastern Washington are the warrior grasshopper, the coulee cricket, and the locust, and in the coastal regions the various pine-borers. The red ant, with its domelike hill, is common in dry pinewood areas. Most noteworthy of the butterflies is the swallowtail, largest of the western species, with double tails on each hind wing. Among the imported pests are the codling moth and the earwig. The tent caterpillar (larval stage of the moth) is often a destructive nuisance in western Washington. Except for the black widow spider, which is found now and then, and the wood tick, carrier in some instances of Rocky Mountain fever, there are no poisonous or disease-bearing insects. Among amphibians, the most numerous are the tree frog and the western wood frog. There are several varieties of the lizard, the salamander, and the toad; the horned toad, however, is rare. Turtles are represented west of the Cascades by the terrapin, and east of the mountains by the western painted turtle. Snakes of various kinds are fairly numerous, notably the garter snake, the bull snake of the pine woods, and, in some parts of eastern Washington, the poisonous rattlesnake.

      In the forests and mountains elk, deer, and bear are plentiful, and are frequently seen from the highways traversing timbered areas. Of especial interest is the Roosevelt elk, named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, which is found within the State only in the Olympic Mountains and the Tatoosh Range. Largest of all wapiti, it is identified by its light color and massive spread of antlers. The mule deer and the Columbian black-tailed deer — distinguished by its broad flat tail — are familiar to sportsmen. Though more rare, the mountain goat is increasing in number under protective laws.

      Larger predatory animals have been almost exterminated by hunters seeking State bounties. The Canadian lynx, red western bobcat, timber wolf, and red fox are seldom seen. The coyote, once widely prevalent, has retreated into the foothills in depleted numbers. Strangely enough, it is the mountain lion or cougar, upon whose head there has long been a price, that remains numerous, though he is encountered only in remote places.

      Among lesser native mammals are several species of the shrew, mole, bat, western fisher, and weasel; and racoon, skunk, badger, marten, and mink are plentiful. The beaver, almost exterminated, is now returning. The Washington and Cascade varying hares, the white-tailed rabbit, and that little cave dweller, the cony or rock rabbit, belong to a family of rodents. Strangest of the lesser mammals is the shrew mole, who, combining the features of both shrew and mole but related to neither, has an ancestry going back to some remote Asiatic strain. Other common rodents are the squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, porcupine, and gophers. Several are of special interest: the mantled ground squirrel, the Cascade flying squirrel, the strange mountain beaver (not a beaver), who burrows in wet hillsides and is found only in the western part of Washington and Oregon; and the largest of the rodents, the marmot, noted for his whistling.

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