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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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