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valued at $38,000,000. Imports of ores, concentrates and copper blisters for refining in 1928 amounted to 427,000 tons valued at $25,817,000. Lumber, the port’s out- standing commodity, was exported during 1928 in the amount of 671,461,678 board feet valued at $13,000,000. These figures are for waterborne shipments and do not_ include large quantities sent inland by rail. The fig- ures do include manu- factured lumber such as box shook and lath practically all produced in Tacoma plants. However, tthe Tacoma output of 4,142,279 wooden doors, plywood, millwork and furniture factory products are not included. Grain and grain products shipped from Tacoma harbor in the first nine months of 1929 amounted to 225,972 tons valued at $13,771,000. The Ta- coma flour mills, which grind more flour than any American cities except Minneapolis and Kansas City, produce chiefly for the export trade; China, the West coast of South America and the United Kingdom being the big foreign buyers. They took more than 1,000,000 barrels of Tacoma flour during 1928. Although lumber and its products. grain milling and ore refining are the outstanding industries, Tacoma does not lack diversity in its 600 manufac- turing enterprises. The port’s exports of home products include for example, packing house products, metal prod- ucts such as car wheels, boilers, ma- chinery, iron and steel; book and wax paper; matches; eggs, explosives, marble, food products including canned fruits and vegetables and confection- ery; hops and malt syrup, soap, pulp and pulp stones. : The city has an industrial payroll REGULAR SEAPLANE PASSENGER SERVICE IS MAINTAINED BETWEEN TA- COMA AND SEATTLE, 26 MILES NORTH, BY ALASKA-WASHINGTON AIRWAYS of approximately $28,000,000 annually, not including more than $1,000,000 a year paid for waterfront labor, and $3,150,000 a year paid to building trades workers. There are no port or harbormaster’s charges imposed in the harbor of Tacoma and there are practically no restrictions of any kind except the rule against the pumping of bilge oil. Due to the great depth and area of the open harbor ballast may be dumped overboard from ships scheduled to load at the local terminals. Tacoma’s advantages for diversified manufacturing on a big scale, apart from those varied raw materials read- ily available in quantity, may be enumerated simply in the following points: 1. An abundance of electric power at the lowest rate in the United States. 2. An abundance of _ industrial water at as little as $20 per 1,000,000 gallons, which is exceptionally low. 3. Industrial sites at as low as $1500 per acre, improved. 4. Belt line railroad serving all terminals equitably, 5. Labor supply adequate for all de- mands. 6. Very mild li- mate for continuous year-around production, 7. Low general liv- ing costs. In its ma- rine services, Tacoma is a regular port of call for seven British lines to the United Kingdom, and Europe; nine European lines to Europe; three British lines to the Orient; three American lines to the Orient and Phil- ippine Islands, inelud- ing one Tacoma-owned line of seven vessels; one American line, two foreign lines to the West coast of South America; two foreign lines to the East coast of South America; one American and two foreign lines to Australia; one foreign line to the East Indies; one foreign line to the Mediterranean; one American and one foreign line to South Africa; seven foreign lines to Japan and the Orient; eleven coast- wise lines; fifteen lines operating to North Atlantic ports, three of them calling at Gulf ports, one to the United Kingdom; six lines to Gulf ports only; five lines to Alaska and one to the Hawaiian Islands. No less than 67 lines provide the above regular serv- ices. Tacoma is located only 26 miles from Seattle and while its foreign and intercoastal export tonnage is greater, marine repairs requiring the use of a drydock are done in ship- yards at Seattle or Vancouver, B. C. TACOMA’S NEW $180,000 ALL STEEL FIREBOAT— BEAM 21 24 , MARINE REVIEW—March, 1930 BUILT IN TACOMA YARDS OF COAST LINE SHIPBU EET FEET, DRAFT 6 FEET, SPEED, 20 MILES PER HOUR—A MODERN EFFICIENT FIRE FIGHTING UNIT do : «