A Report on Washington Territory

The author presents a field-based survey that combines travel notes with systematic description of the region’s geography, climate, soils, vegetation and vast forests, and evaluates lumber, agriculture and labor resources. A two-part geological treatment outlines structural history and catalogs economic deposits such as coal, iron, building stone and metallic ores. The report then assesses a railroad terminus and its terminal lands, suburban and industrial prospects, and the transport advantages of adjacent timber, coalfields and iron deposits, and supplements the narrative with maps, illustrations and practical observations for development.