Burlington, on the Great Northern railway, has 1,800 people, and factories for making various wood products, concrete blocks, lumber, shingles and condensed milk.
La Conner is a great oat and hay shipping point. It is at the mouth of the Skagit river and on tide water, and has 800 people.
Hamilton, at the head of navigation on the Skagit river, is a mining and lumbering town of 300 people.
Bay View, Sammish, Minkler, Prairie, Fir, and Birdsview are other shipping points.
Baker, on a branch of the Great Northern railway, has 400 people, and is a center of cement factories.
SKAMANIA COUNTY.
Skamania county, in the south central part of the state, has its southern boundary on the Columbia river, with Lewis county to the north. It is chiefly within the forest reserve, and includes Mount St. Helens on the west and Mount Adams on its eastern border. Altogether it has an area of 1,636 square miles, chiefly mountainous, and about 3,000 people.
The north fork of the Lewis river drains the most of the mountainous region, while a lot of small streams drain the southern part, emptying into the Columbia river.
The climate is a mean between that of eastern and western Washington, and is very mild and salubrious. The soil of the valleys in the region of the Columbia river is very fertile.