SEATTLE

county seat of King Co., Wash., located on Puget Sound, 865 miles. N. of San Francisco, and 185 m. N. of Portland, Ore. It is served by the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Southern Pacific, Canadian Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads. It is the largest city of the Pacific Northwest and a great commercial seaport. Steamer lines are in operation to all countries of the Orient, Australia, South America, Europe and Alaska. The annual net tonnage entering the harbor is more than 20,000,000 tons. Its principal exports are wheat, flour, lumber, coal, fish, hay, fruit, livestock and dairy products, while its leading imports are silk, sugar, tea, coffee, rice, spices, indigo and other Oriental products. Owing to cheap water power and hydroelectric power, the city has become one of the most important manufacturing centers of the northwest. There are over 2,000 industrial plants, of which the most important are those dealing with flour, lumber, canned salmon, preserved fish and ship building. The city is handsomely laid out and has an elaborate park system comprising more than 1,800 acres. It abounds with handsome and imposing buildings, hotels, theatres, hospitals, and busine structures. There are 300 churches, 72 grammar schools, six high schools, a Carnegie Library with nine branches and 314,000 volumes, numerous busine colleges, many charitable institutions, 65 newspapers and periodicals and 68 banks, including private banks and building and loan a ociations, The University of Washington, with 6,000 students, is located in Seattle. The water supply system is valued at $11,000,000 and has a daily capacity of 62,500,000 galions. The city government is vested in a mayor, treasurer, comptroiler, corporation counsel and a council of nine, cooperating with various city departments. The city was settled in 1852, incorporated in 1865 and reincorporated as a city in 1869. It was first reached by a railway in 1884. It was the scene of a disastrous fire in 1889 that swept away a large part of the busine district. Pop. 1920, 315,312. SEA - UNICORN, the Narwhal. See under DourHINn FAMILY.