Tacoma, Wash. Oct, All records for drought broken in western Washingto the area between the Cascade mot and the Pacific Ocean, in the ther year ending September 1 Thix region gen rally is associated heavy rainfall, but in the lust only 22.70 inches of rain were measured by the weather here, Records dating {rom 1884 make the average annual moisture 40.79. The banner year, for was. 1897, when th fall was 82, Old-timers commonly assert that the rainfall ix diminishing ax the forests that once covered western Washington like a mat are being
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