Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tacoma and Vicinity
Great republic has the finger of destiny so unerringly pointed to the location of a large com mercial and manufacturing metropolis as it did to the shores of Commencement bay when the North ern Pacific located here the terminus of its main line on Puget sound. In its history, years have witnessed more life and growth, more progress in business and wealth, and the creation of more per manent values of property, than decades in the history of older and admittedly prosperous cities of the eastern states. Eight years ago, at the be ginning ot the present decade, Tacoma had a pop ulation of but seven hundred and twenty souls, its streets were ungraded and full of stumps, and its business blocks were few and of but the cheapest of frame structures. What mighty things have been wrought in the brief time which has since elapsed! Now it has many miles of graded streets.
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