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Iron Works j : cca in Imeryville, and in the Puget
Sound Tron Company , a cor poration engaged in
iron manuracturing and mining, about six
miles from Port Townsend, in the state of
Washington,
Anthony “Chabot was the first man to
grow cranberries on the Pacific coast, A
men went to hin ane day and asked for work.
Mr. Chebct, being of a cis eaatonl did not
turn him. away, . ae
"Wha t worl: can you do?" asked Mr, Gna
nT understand the growing of cranberries",
‘replied the nan,
“nTf you can find a place suitable for the
“eulture of cranberries,
I will start you -in
%
business", Mr. Chabot then suid.:—
oa. ee “St
4 Whe man, Lecling very lwuch cncourarcd, set out to find the land where
U ‘y bf ; .
eranborzies might be crown. After traveling
ulonz the coast for days he found the land
tor which he wes SENS On the coast of
Washington on a peninsule, petweern Long
RSE earl
Beach and Oystervi i ILILE . and. a short cistance
from the town of Ilwaco, was @ tract of vow,
rad
sVvanpy lané , very much like the bogs of
Melis Sa. chi usetts, wher Ne felts suse this erop
could be raised successfully. Thet was the
berinning of ey) culture of wich
pPashington now voretoe
While living at his home which was
located at what is now First and Second
Avenues, ond East Fifteenth Street, Mr.
Chabot entertained a Japunese prince fcr a