Excerpt from An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties: Their People, Their Commerce and Their Resources; With an Outline of the Early History of the State of Washington We, the undersigned, pioneer citizens of Snohomish county, hereby certify that we have gone over the manuscript history of said county, prepared and to be published by the Inter state Publishing Company, and have called the attention of its editor to such errors and omission-s as our knowledge of events enabled us to discover. Having been active participants in, or vigilant Observers Of, almost everything that has happened in the county from the early days to the present, we believe ourselves well qualified to judge of the merits of said history, and we have no hesitancy in stating that so far as we know it is a full and comprehensive record of events, impartial in its treatment Of the various interests and sections and in all respects a meritorious and authentic wor'k. E. C. Ferguson, of Snohomish. E. D. Smith, of Lamott. Peter leque, of Stanwood. 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.