Oak Harbor, further north, is the center of a large farming and logging district. Two canneries are in successful operation.
Utsalady, San de Fuca, Camano, Clinton, and Langley are smaller villages gradually becoming summer resorts for people from the large cities of the sound. Steamboats furnish good transportation from all parts of the county.
Plate No. 53.—An Okanogan County Orchard in Bloom.
Plate No. 54.—A View of the Country Along the Okanogan River in the Vicinity of the Okanogan Irrigation Project.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Jefferson county is the second county south of the entrance of Puget sound, stretching from the Pacific ocean eastward over the peaks of the Olympic mountains to Hood's canal, and turning north gets a long waterfront also on Puget sound, and taps the Straits of Fuca. It has a population of 11,000 people and 2,000 square miles of territory.
RESOURCES.
The resources of this county are largely undeveloped, and yet it is one of the oldest settled counties in the state. Originally its entire area, barring a few small patches, was heavily timbered, and it is estimated that the county still has twenty billion feet of standing timber. Its soil is remarkably fertile, and the products of its farms have long been famous.