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Seattle's foreign and domestic trade, 1919. $750,
--071,907.
Seattle's wharves, 101 acres; spur track capacity
2,000 cars.
Seattle's annual industrial payroll, approximately
$200,000,000.
Seattle is the yongesi metropolitan city in the United
States.
Seattle's annual rainfall is 32.78 inches: New York's
44.0: Boston's 4:U.
Seattle has the lowest death rate of any large city
in the world—(>.B last year.
Seattle's annual average temperature is 52.2 and is
the most equable in the United States.
Over 100 vessels, 400 feet lon<r, can be berthed simul
taneously at Seattle's piers, and 60,000 tons of merchan
dise loaded in 24 hours.
Seattle is the market place for Alaska, which has
more gold than California; more copper than Michigan
and Arizona combined; more coal than Pennsylvania;
ricest fisheries in the world; 60,000 square miles of ag
ricultural land and a total area equal to Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Finland, in same lati
tude, and capable of supoprting an equal population—
27,000,000. Alaska's commerce, 1919—5109,652,339.
Seatle has largest shingle industry in the world.
Seatlte produced 1,423,497 barrels of Hour in 1918.
Seattle's hinterland products over $600,000,000 in
farm products and livestock.
Seattle is the world's leading fisheries port ; value of
product over $50,000,000 yearly.
Seattle's public markets are unequaled in the display
of products of the soil and the sea.
CA YTON 'S YV KE KLY
Washington customs district was second to New York
in 11)18 in value of foreign trade: total $597,180,914.
Seattle built and delivered to government 20 por
cent of all merchant vessels built by the United States
in the war period.
Seattle is home of large fruit distributing organiza
tions, marketing a large portion of Washington's $43,«
()()<),<)()(> apple crop.
Seattle is America's leading port for importation of
vegetable oils, crude rubber and raw silk. Other large
imports, tin. hemp, tea.
Washington customs district, of which Seattle is
headquarters, handled 7r2.X per cent of entire Pacific
Coast foreign commerce for year ending •June •'{(), 191!).
Seattle has the largeHt commercial cargo pier in the
United States and one building "will be the largest in
THE PROGRESSIVE WORKERS' CLUB
Of The Mt. Zion Baptist Church
the world. It will berth eleven 8,800-ton vessels simul
taneously.
January 1, 1918, cost of a 6,000-ton ship in port
ten days discharging and loading cargo: Seattle, $150;
Vancouver, B. C. $180; San Pedro, $525; Portland, $210;
San Diego, $597; San Francisco, $1,472.50.
Seatle is chief railroad center of Pacific Coast.
Trunk-line roads reaching city are: Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chi
ctgo, Burlington & Quincy, Union Pacific, Canadian Pa
cific, Grand Trunk Pacific.
Seatle has no slums —it is a city of homes.
In the pure joy of living no place excels Seattle.
Seattle's bank' deposits, 1919, $186,667,970.
Seattle's fresh water harbor lock is second only in
size to those at Panama.
Seatle has largest condensed milk, lumber, flour,
shoe and jewelry industries on Pacific Coast.
May 22, 1910
