File:Port Blakely mill, 1904 - DPLA - f98bef98b3f0509d66d9e3d34845c1e9 (page 1).jpg

Transcribed from front of photograph: "Port Blakely Mills - Largest in World, near Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington, U.S.A." Transcribed from back of photograph: "13618 - Port Blakely Mills - Largest in the Wold, Near Seattle, Puget Sound. The wooded area of Washington equals the entire area of the state of New York, a little less than 50,000 square miles. By recent official reports of the Department of the Interior, the forests of western Washington are the densestm heaviest, and most continuous in the United States - with the exception if the redwood area in California. The trees are large, many of them from twelve to fifteen feet in diameter and 250 feet high. Professor Henry Gannett, chief of the Forestry department, estimated the standing timner of Washington as follows: Fir, 68,362,971,000 feet; cedar, 16,309,453,000; hemlock, 14,848,259,000; pine, 6,586,520,000; spruce, 6, 419,215,000; larch, 2,780,601,000; oak, 3,700,000; total, 115,310,719,000 feet. A later estimate by the Department of the Interior in 1902 gives a total of 195,237,000,000 feet. One almost needs a cart to carry the figures! A single mill manufactures 250,000 feet of lumber in a day. The saw and shingle mills of Everet [sic] have a daily capacity of one and one-quarter million feet of lumber and one and three-quarter million shingles. Copyright by the Keystone View Company."; 216

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