Excerpt from Agricultural, Manufacturing and Commercial Resources and Capabilities of Washington, 1903 To the Public: In submitting to you the 1903 report of the Bureau of Statistics, Agriculture and Immigration it affords us pleasure to state that from all the information at hand the efforts of this Bureau have been the means of disseminating throughout the country a knowledge of the varied resources and opportunities offered to energetic people in this state, and as a result of this information large numbers of desirable immigrants have been induced to come to Washington. We are of the opinion that the work of the Bureau has been of great benefit to the people of the various sections of the state, as the state's history and its resources have been but slightly known to a great many of her citizens. We have attempted to make it reasonably full and minute so far as the circumstances attending its preparation would permit. It is unnecessary to call attention to the inefficiencies of the law which was designed to secure assistance to this Bureau in the gathering of valuable statistics and to subserve the general purpose of the Bureau, for it is well known that officials will not put themselves out to accommodate any other department of the government without special compensation. 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.