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EVERETT

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EVERETT  , a See also:

city, a sub-See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of Snohomish county, See also:Washington, U.S.A., on See also:Puget See also:Sound, at the mouth of the Snohomish See also:river, about 35 M . N. of See also:Seattle. pop . (1900) 7838; (1910 U . S. See also:census) 24,814 . The city is served by the See also:Northern Pacific and the See also:Great Northern See also:railways, being the western See also:terminus of the latter's See also:main transcontinental See also:line, by interurban electric railway, and by several lines of Sound and See also:coasting See also:freight and passenger steamboats . Everett has a See also:fine See also:harbour with several large See also:iron piers . Among its See also:principal buildings are a See also:Carnegie library, a Y.M.C.A. See also:building and two hospitals . The buildings of the Pacific See also:College were erected here by the See also:United See also:Norwegian Lutheran See also:Church in 1908 . The city is in a See also:rich lumbering, gardening, farming, and See also:copper-, See also:gold- and See also:silver-See also:mining See also:district . There is a U.S. assayer's See also:office here, and there are extensive shipyards, a large See also:paper See also:mill, iron See also:works, and, just outside the city limits, the smelters of the See also:American Smelters Securities See also:Company, in connexion with which is one of the two See also:plants in the United States for saving See also:arsenic from smelter fumes . See also:Lumber interests, however, are of most importance, and here are some of the largest lumber plants in the Pacific Northwest . Red-See also:cedar shingles are an important product .

Everett was settled in 1891 and was incorporated in 1893 . Its rapid growth is due to its favourable situation as acommercial port, its transportation facilities, and its nearness to extensive forests whence the material for its See also:

chief See also:industries is obtained .

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