By Harriet Muhrlein

Last month we wrote about Apple Tree Cove and mentioned the new town of Kingston. We continue:

As in every new town in Washington, the real estate man is busily at work, clearing the land, driving the stakes and unfolding to every listener the most stupendous scheme …

There is no country so peculiarly adapted to fruit, apples, pears, cherries, prunes, and especially plums and all the varieties of berries. Appletree Cove was named from the surrounding orchards and from the fact that this has been for many years their shipping port.

To the south of Appletree Cove or Kingston Bay, as I suppose it will be called hereafter — though I like the former name better — are broad fields, which yield thousands of tons of timothy and clover, and are fast becoming the garden of Western Washington.

There is much uncleared land, however, covered with dense forests of stalwart fir and cedar, which will supply logging camps, shingle mills, etc., with an unlimited amount of work for years to come.

Through the town of Kingston is to be seen the first skid-logging road that was ever built in Washington. This road was constructed over 30 years ago …

The large timber which once occupied the present townsite of Kingston has been logged off years ago, but three miles back, one may ride all day through cedars from 6 to 8 feet in diameter and from 150 to 200 feet in height.

Kingston still contains a logging camp which is in active operation, and will no doubt continue from the fact that this part offers the greatest facility from the lay of the land to transport the logs to tidewater by the easiest possible grade.