There is a large smelter at the point of land between Gardner Bay and the mouth of the Snohomish river, which treats the ores of the Monte Cristo and Silverton mines, and large quantities of custom ores are shipped here for treatment. I made a visit to the smelter and saw the red liquid ore, as it flowed in the large boiling pots, and was then hauled away to cool; and the bright silvery ore, as it flowed into the bullion molds and was conveyed away to the refinery. After the thorough treatment there it is shipped to the mint.
Everett has the western terminal shops of the Great Northern Railroad Company. At Lowell, a suburb of the city, is a large paper mill, producing the finest bond paper from wood pulp. The cottonwood growing in the surrounding country is brought here in
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