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Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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am and lake containing fish,every coppice concealing fowl, and every wood protecting thequarry. That the common species of game .are plentiful is super-fluous to say. On holidays and at week ends, during the openseason, it is a familiar sight to witness the khaki-suited bravelooking sportsmen, with guns or fish baskets and rods, clamber-ing onto the trains or hiking to the nearest point where thewelcome wocds and the realm of habitation meet. It is equallycommon to behold this same army of hunters trailing along atthe close of the holiday, burdened with fish of many species,vari-colored fowl, or the hides of various game animals. Game birds are very prolific. Among the most prominentare the Chinese pheasant, bob white and California quail, Hun-garian partridge, and native prairie chickens; all are foundalong the streams or in the clearings and fields of nearly everypart of the state. Blue grouse are quite plentiful in westernWashington and in the wooded sections of eastern Washington.
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THE ANGLERS REWARD.Photo by B. C. Collier State of Washington 93 Ruffled grouse are plentiful in the Okanogan Highlands and in.several of the western counties. All species of ducks are to befound on Puget Sound and along the rivers and lakes tributarythereto, also along many streams and lakes of the Inland Em-pire; while geese infest the Columbia and Snake river regions ineastern Washington. Perhaps no state in the Union has as many varieties of realfighting trout as Washington; including especially the moun-tain, rainbow, cut throat, beardsley, crawford, lake, steel head,and eastern brook, in all lakes and mountain streams. Black bassand perch are very plentiful in the land-locked lakes; and cer-tain sections produce also many varieties of white fish, sun fish,croppies and cat fish. The waters of Puget Sound, the harborsand the Columbia River contain many species of salmon. The commonest and most hunted large game is the deer,found chiefly in the hills and mountains, although in some

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