Seattle Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ~ Paperback ~ Unknown Author

Excerpt from Seattle Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Being the Meat of the Question, or the Facts and Statistics Showing the Growth in the Past, the Might in the Present and the Promise in the Future of Seattle, the Seaport of Success The Electric City will be another name for the Seattle of the future. Nature has done much to provide the raw material, the unequalled geographical location, the sources of unlimited power, and the city has captains of industry, backed by capital, who foresee its great opportunities and are taking time by the forelock. Seattle has advantages over Niagara in power possibilities, over Pittsburg in its facilities for shipment, and over New York in its nearness to countries in the market for articles it can supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.