Tacoma, ta-ko'mah, a city and seaport of the state of Washington, and the capital of Pierce co., is situated at the head of navigation on Puget Sound, about 100 miles from the Pacific coast. It is the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, also the port of the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, making direct connections with China and Japan. Tacoma has 67 churches, 17 public schools, a boys' college, a ladies' seminary, 20 banks, 2 theatres, fine hotels, and is the seat of a Methodist university. Three daily and 10 weekly newspapers are published here. Its manufacturing appliances consist of saw-mills, shingle-mills, woollen-mills, flour-mills, a dry dock, a smelter, and car-shops which cost $1,250,000,-the capital invested in these enterprises in 1893 aggregating $9,215, 500, and the output $10,426,500. The jobbing trade in 1893 was $15,164,000. Tacoma has superior facilities for transacting and handling shipping business. The docks and wharves in front of the city are nearly 2% miles in extent, and ships load here with wheat, lumber, and coal for all parts of the world. Pop, in 1880, 1098; in 1890, 36,006; estimated population in 1894, 50,000.
Tacoma, ta-ko'mah, a city and seaport of the state of Washington, and the capital of Pierce co., is situated at the head of navigation on Puget Sound, about 100 miles from the Pacific coast. It is the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, also the port of the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, making direct connections with China and Japan. Tacoma has 67 churches, 17 public schools, a boys' college, a ladies' seminary, 20 banks, 2 theatres, fine hotels, and is the seat of a Methodist university. Three daily and 10 weekly newspapers are published here. Its manufacturing appliances consist of saw-mills, shingle-mills, woollen-mills, flour-mills, a dry dock, a smelter, and car-shops which cost $1,250,000,-the capital invested in these enterprises in 1893 aggregating $9,215, 500, and the output $10,426,500. The jobbing trade in 1893 was $15,164,000. Tacoma has superior facilities for transacting and handling shipping business. The docks and wharves in front of the city are nearly 2% miles in extent, and ships load here with wheat, lumber, and coal for all parts of the world. Pop, in 1880, 1098; in 1890, 36,006; estimated population in 1894, 50,000.
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