Federal Building and Collections.
The federal government has purchased a site for a much needed public building at Tacoma, which will shortly be erected. Tacoma is the headquarters of the new Internal Revenue Collection District of Washington and Alaska. Federal collections at Tacoma for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, were as follows: Internal revenue, $688,696.50; customs, $301,039.32; postoffice receipts, $113,598.66; total, $1,103,334.48. Postoffice receipts have increased at the rate of 132.1 per cent. in seven years.
- 1—Mason Library, Whitworth College.
- 2—Annie Wright Seminary from Wright Park.
- 3—Administrative Building, University of Puget Sound.
- 4—Residence and Boys’ Dormitory, Whitworth College.