Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This great mountain has an immense sheet of white granular ice divided up by the general jutting up of the rock masses or shoulders of the mountain into the Nisqually, Cowlitz, and White River glaciers, falling in distinct ice cascades for about 3000 feet at very steep angles which sometimes approach the perpendicular."
Tacoma enjoys the national distinction of being the lumber capital of America. It is located on the Commencement Bay of Puget Sound. It is one of the more important seaports of western America. (Excellent photographs may be found in the folder "The Evergreen Playground of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia" put out by Foster Travel Service.)
