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218 THE Marine REVIEW June, 1919 CuicaGo, MILWAUKEE AND ST. Paut RatrroAp. DEEP Sea WATER TERMINAL AT operates one of the largest plants of its kind on the coast, including marine cotstruction and the manufacture of logging engines, machinery and motor boats. Its new plant covers ten acres on the tide flat contiguous to the Mil- waukee railroad. The Phoenix Engineering Co. are extensive manufacturers of marine and saw mill machinery with a well ar- ranged plant. Tacoma Ornamental Iron Works are erecting a new plant to be entirely electrically driven and supplied with the best equipment in their line. Griffin Wheel Co. are building a large new car wheel plant and the Tacoma Railway & Power Co. oper- ates large repair shops: besides the railroad shops of the Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Tacoma is visited regularly by steamships plying between this port and all parts of the world carrying both freight and passengers, besides "a great number of "tramp" steamers and steam schooners that are charter- ed for special trips, as freight . car- tiers. A fleet of sailing vessels de- parts annually for South. America, Australia, African and European ports, berian principally in the lumber and wheat carrying trade. Nine hundred vessels eleared. trom Tacoma in 1909, laden with merchandise for deep sea desti- nations. The year past, a new line of steam- ships has been established, operating between Tacoma and the Orient by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, of 'Japan, one of the largest steamship compa- nies on the eastern continent. Six steamers have been constructed for the American trade, three of which are now scheduled on the Tacoma run in connection with the C, M: & P. S. railway, and two more are scheduled tO enter later in the season, This line makes trips from Tacoma to Yo- kohama, Kobe, Hongkong, Keelung, Moji, Shanghai and Manila, and makes connections with its' other lines for all : Japanese, and Si- Tacoma Korean, Chinese ports, sailing from every 25. days. Dodwell & Co., agents for the Ocean Steamship Co.- and China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., operate a fleet of steamships between Tacoma and the ports of Yokohama, Kobe, Hong- kong, Manila, Singapore and Live; pool, in connection with the Northern TAcoMA, WAREHOUSES. TYPICAL OF DEVELOPMENT ON TIDE FLAT AREA. SHOWING DREDGED WATERWAY AND Pacific railway, making one sailing a month, the time from here to Liver- pool being 60 days. The ships of this line are freighters with cargo carry- ing capacity from 9,000 to 12,000 tons each. Through the medium of the Kosmos line, operating a fleet of German steamships between Tacoma and Ham- burg via the West coast ports, an enormous volume of business is being developed with South and _ Central America and Mexico. Geographers refer to Alaska and Hawaii as "detached possessions" of the -United States, treat them very much in the same relation to this nation as foreign countries are treated, but the Puget Sound district and Tacoma are in close connection with these important divisions of our nation's commonwealth, and _ their commercial importance is becoming greater and greater, year by year. The commerce of these countries is included in our coastwise trade. Tacoma has two lines of steamships, owned and operated by Tacoma cap- ital, besides the several other steam- ship companies engaged in this traffic. The Alaska Coast Co. owns and oper- and