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Tacoma and Olympia
coma's proud snow-capped peak, towering 14,532 feet above the sea level.
Near the city is Steilacoom, where is located the State Western Insane Asylum, the Eastern State Asylum being at Medical Lake, near Spokane.
At the head of Puget Sound, with its 2,000 miles of shore line, is Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington.
Gate City is the junction of the road from here and the one branching off from Centralia on the main line of the Northern Pacific going to Gray's Harbor.
A short distance further west is the lumbering town of Elma, which I take a great pride in, on account of its name, being, as you see, the same as my own. It is a busy little city with important railway connections, in addition to its thriving lumbering trade.
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