TACOMA has two large breweries. The plant of the Pacific Brewing &
Malting Company has been enlarged by the erection of three large cellars,
increasing the capacity of the plant to 150,000 barrels a year. Malt is
manufactured at TACOMA, not only by local brewers for their own use, but
also for the trade. The Puget Sound Malting Company is the only plant on
the Coast north of San Francisco engaged exclusively in the manufacture
of malt, and supplies the trade in Eastern Washington, Oregon and Alaska,
besides the Sound cities. The plant has been doubled in capacity to
240,000 bushels per year since January 1, 1904.
TACOMA has the largest stockyards and slaughtering and meat packing
establishment west of the Missouri River Valley. The new plant of the
Carstens Packing Company on the tideflats is pronounced to be the best
equipped and most complete and up-to-date packing house in the United
States. Its capacity is 250 cattle, 500 sheep and 500 hogs per day. It
will shortly be in full operation employing 300 men. The plant of the
Pacific Cold Storage Company prepares meats for a large trade in Alaska.
TACOMA has also large fish canneries, pickling and preserving works,
bottling establishments, mineral and soda-water works, coffee and spice
mills, flavoring extract and chemical works and candy factories. A large
plant is now being erected for the manufacture of crackers and biscuits.
[Illustration: Views Along the Tacoma Eastern Railroad.
1—Unloading Logs at Tacoma.
2—Sluskin Falls, Paradise River.
3—Lake Kapowsin Station.
4—Mount Tacoma from Paradise Valley.
5—Train Leaving Tacoma.
6—In the Mountains.
]
Among the other lines of industry in TACOMA not already enumerated are
mills or factories for the manufacture of brick and tile; brushes and
brooms; artificial ice; soap; tannery products; shoe uppers; boots and
shoes; buggy-tops; furs and for goods; clothing; shirts; overalls;
stockings; underwear; knit-goods; tents, awnings and sails; paper boxes;
fish baskets; oilskin garments and other goods; cigars; cigar boxes;
metal bedsteads and woven-wire bed springs; cotton felt; carpets and
rugs; excelsior; egg cases; enamels; furnaces and stoves; blank books,
ledgers; stencils; rubber stamps; trunks and traveling bags; paints and
varnish, and many other articles. _TACOMA IS THE LEADING MANUFACTURING
CITY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST._