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CHAPTER XV.

Bellingham and Everett.

New Whatcom, on Bellingham Bay, with Fairhaven, make practically one city, with their immense shingle and saw-mills in continuous operation. They have since been combined and incorporated as the City of Bellingham.

There are large salmon canneries here, as the fisheries of Puget Sound is an extensive and important industry.

The scenery is gorgeous on Puget Sound, with its many islands and Mt. Baker, having an elevation of 10,827 feet for a background.

Anacortes has important fishing industries. Sedro Woolley has large saw and shingle mills, and as I walked up and down the streets, the town presented to me every evidence of industry. Near here are the coal mines of Coke-

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