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PAGE The Advantages of Travel--Introductory 3 The Development of the Northwest--St. Paul and Minneapolis 7, 8 Minnesota Lakes and their Attractions for the Angler 8-10 Brainerd, Duluth, Superior and Ashland 10 Red River Valley 12 The Changes of a Half Century 13 Great Wheat Farms of Dakota, and the Capital of the Territory 14 "Bad Lands" of the Little Missouri 15, 16 Yellowstone River 16-19 Yellowstone National Park 20-22 Helena and the Romance of Mining 23-26 Main Range of the Rocky Mountains 26, 27 Butte City, the greatest Mining Camp in the World 27-30 The Flathead Country 30, 31 Clark's Fork and Lake Pend d'Oreille 31-34 Spokane Falls 35 Palouse and Walla Walla Wheat Countries 36, 37 The Columbia River 37-40 Portland 40, 41 The Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon 42, 43 The Lower Columbia and City of Astoria, with Fisheries 43-46 Western Washington: its Scenery and Resources 46 The Sovereign Mountain: Tacoma 47 Puget Sound 48-54 Victoria, British Columbia 55, 56 Discovery Passage 58 Queen Charlotte Sound 60 Varieties of Fish found in Inland Passage 62 Wrangell, Alaska 63, 64 Indian Life, Facilities for Studying 67-71 Sitka, Alaska 73-77 Hot Springs Bay, Alaska 77 Climate of Sitka 79 Land of the Chilkats 81-84 Juneau, Alaska, and the Mines of Douglas Island 84-86 Glacier Bay 86-92 Glaciers of Alaska 93-95 Mount St. Elias 95, 96
PAGE Alaska's Thousand Islands, as seen from Sitka 78 An Alaska Indian House, with Totem Poles 66 Chancel of the Greek Church, Sitka 75 Chilkat Blanket 81 Columbia River, looking Eastward from Rock Bluff Frontispiece Detroit Lake and Hotel Minnesota, Detroit, Minn. 11 Falls of the Gibbon River, National Park 29 Floating Fish Wheel, Columbia River 42 Hotel Tacoma, Tacoma, W. T. 47 Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho 33 Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, National Park 21 Mount Hood, from the Head of the Dalles, Columbia River 38 Mount Tacoma, W. T. 44 Old Faithful Geyser, National Park 18 Scenes among the Alaskan Glaciers 89 Scenes in the Inland Passage 59 Sitka, Alaska 72 T'linket Basket Work 68 T'linket Carved Spoons 85 T'linket War Canoe 83 Yellowstone River, National Park 25
FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO PUGET SOUND.
It is there, at St. Paul and Minneapolis, that the traveler's journey to Wonderland may be said to begin. And what could be more fitting? for are they not wonders in themselves, presenting, as they do, the most astonishing picture of rapid expansion the world has ever seen?
But it is not their magnitude that excites the greatest surprise. If there is a single newspaper reader in ignorance of the fact that the State census of 1885 found them with a population of 240,597? or that the 23,994 buildings erected within their limits since the beginning of 1882, represent a frontage of over 100 miles and an expenditure of ,895,390, or that their banking capital considerably exceeds that of either San Francisco, New Orleans, Cincinnati or St. Louis, it is through no fault of the cities themselves. But the visitor may bring with him a just appreciation of their size and commercial importance, and yet have had no conception of their beauty, nor of the abounding evidences of public spirit and private enterprise that will confront him at every turn.
The position of St. Paul, at the head of navigation, and as the focus of the railway activity of the Northwest, commands for it an extensive wholesale trade, its sales aggregating, in 1885, the large sum of ,420,000. The surprise with which the visitor views the stately piles that are the outward and visible signs of the vast commercial and financial interests of the city, the creation of a few brief seasons, is no greater than the astonishment with which he realizes the absence of all appearance of immaturity. In no city in the Union are the business quarters more solid and substantial; in none is the domestic architecture more attractive. Nothing is crude, nothing tentative, nothing transitional.
Clustered around the great Falls of St. Anthony, stand those colossal flouring mills that have been more than ever the pride and glory of Minneapolis, since they enabled her to pluck from Chicago's crown one of the brightest of its jewels. It is a startling commentary upon the much vaunted supremacy of the great metropolis of the West, that, while the wheat attracted to its market fell gradually from 34,106,109 bushels in 1879, to 13,265,223 bushels in 1885, the amount handled by the millers of Minneapolis increased, within the same period, from 7,514,364 bushels to 32,112,840 bushels. The mills have a total flour-manufacturing capacity of 33,973 barrels per day, an amount equal to the necessities of the three most populous States of the Union, or of one-half the population of Great Britain.
But to turn from the romance of figures to that of song and story. Should the traveler have any desire to visit t
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