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THE Marine REVIEW June, 1919 GENERAL VIEW oF St. Paut & Tacoma LuMBER Co.'s Mitts LooKING Towarps THE Bay. The Belfour-Guthrie, Alaska Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul complete the list. The Milwau- kee has done what. must. be done eventually to the whole mud flat dis- trict to make it available for shipping. The freight terminal facilities of the Milwaukee on the Tacoma. tideflats are unexcelled and cover 185 acres of water front, which is reached by a right-of-way two miles long. The land was filled in by dredging the waterway and carried 22 ft. above the waterway. The Milwaukee waterway is 275 ft. wide and adjoins the govern- ment waterway 500 ft. wide. Connect- ing with the waterfront terminal, tracks have been built back through the manufacturing and wholesale dis- trict. A car ferry is used to connect the terminal yards with the tracks near the smelter located farther down the south shore. Warehouses and docks costing half a million dollars have been built on the east side on th Milwaukee waterway fronting the inner harbor line. The grain ware- houses are used by Balfour, Guthrie & Co. and have a floor capacity of 17,000 tons of wheat and an elevator storage of 100,000 bus. The. double warehouse consists of two elevators 175 x 60 ft. by 100 feet high. The Milwaukee has car building and repair shops on the tide lands. While wheat and flour rank first in total value of exports, the largest. man- ufacturing industry for many years past has been lumber and_ shingles. Formerly every hamlet had its logging industry and saw mill, but increased facilities of transportation by.land and water have concentrated the saw mill industry at points along Puget Sound. Tacoma is one of these saw mill centers: The Old Town Mill was established in 1868 and has an annual output of 150,000,000 ft. of lumber. In 1888 was established the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., now the largest lumber manufacturing plant in the world. For 1909, its product was 115,000,000 ft. of lumber and 70,000,000 shingles valued at $2,500 000. The exports of flour, wheat and lumber for 1909 and 1910 are: Flour exports-- 199 1910. Borelen ses 601,499 bbl. 556,970 bbl. $2,441,641 $2,350 833 Ccastwise i. 159 067 bbl. 221,531 bbl. $650,404 $1,093,978 Wheat exports-- Horeten: 25 0. 8,591,109 bu. 3 479,343 bu. $6,900.200 $3,221.965 Coastwise: 2... ; 955.328 bu. 1,577.769 bu. $1,225,316 $701,161 Lumber experts-- Baneiene (ec. 67,369.426 ft. 71,348,073 ft $945,534 $963,905 4 Coastwise §...... 46,429,154 ft... 75,138,315 ft. $542,448 $932,990 Exports, value $24,428,846 $21,298,876 Imports, value ... , $18,926,456 $19,356,563 In 1890 the Tacoma or Ryan smelter Was started by Mr. Rust and. de- veloped into the largest of its kind on the Pacific coast. Located on deep water, cheap transportation is provided for ore from along the coast, Alaska, British Columbia, South America and the Orient. Nearby are the coking coals in' the Wilkeson and Fairfax districts, limestone is delivered in barges, ores are brought by railroads from mining districts of the interior, and Tacoma's location on deep water permits ovean going ships docking at the smelter's own wharves. The pres- ent plant's: furnaces havea capacity of 1,000 tons of ore daily. During 1909 the smelter's output of gold, silver, copper and lead was $10,210,000. The Tacoma smelter has its own wharves and docks located on the south shore of Commencement Bay. The question of available fuel both for manufacturing and future develop- None cf the Washington coal is as good as ment in coaling vessels is vital. the fair grades of Pennsylvania bitu- minous coal, but there is a heavy and constantly increasing demand for it. Not only the quality, but the quantity