Excerpt from Seventy Years of Progress in Washington The equable climate of Washington lays a solid foundation for good health and longevity. The absence of extreme heat or cold as shown by the official report to be found in this volume extending over a period of sixty years, abundantly proves this fact. Then it is scientifically proven that a moist atmosphere is a clean atmosphere. That when rain falls, or fog prevails, the air, so to speak, is washed and all impurity, if any. Is removed, of which there is precious little coming from off the wide sweep of the Pacific Ocean and carried inland far beyond the eastern confines of the State by the prevailing winds. We are blessed with pure water. The snows upon the high mountain ranges feed the rivulets and springs, the first forming rivers, the latter bursting out in springs on widely distributed areas, even on the islands of the sound at high elevation and along the fifteen hundred miles of shore line beaches of Puget Sound. Supplies of the precious fluid, as one may say, being found almost everywhere. The cities of the State have taken advantage of the opportunity offered and have safeguarded the watershed from which to draw their supplies and have secured an abundance of this elemental conservator of health pure water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.