Growth of Cities

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Across
  1. 4. Railroads were one of the reasons Tacoma built the world's largest _____
  2. 5. The ___ of Seattle quit his job and headed to the gold fields
  3. 6. After the RR came through, Spokane became a transportation ___ between timber, mining and agricultural areas
  4. 10. Seattle was cut from the interior by these mountains
  5. 12. Seattle built a _____ system big enough for a much larger city
  6. 13. Seattle merchants sold ____ to people heading to the gold fields
  7. 14. People who rushed to the Klondike
  8. 16. by 1910, Seattle was the ___ city in the PNW
  9. 17. Spokane benefited from ___ being discovered in Idaho
  10. 18. Promoted Seattle as the gateway to the Klondike
Down
  1. 1. Started a shoe store with the money he made in the Klondike
  2. 2. The _______ Pacific RR was Seattle's second RR.
  3. 3. Seattle boosters convinced him to build a train station in Seattle
  4. 4. The river here provided power for a sawmill and flour mill
  5. 7. _____ was sped up in Washington as a result of the railroads and the Klondike Gold Rush
  6. 8. Original site of the West terminal of the Northern Pacific RR
  7. 9. Seattle was advertised in magazines and ___ as the place to gear up and head to the gold fields
  8. 11. Miners had to take about one ___ of supplies
  9. 15. Seattle had the closest ____ to the Klondike
  10. 16. Seattle spent a lot of money on engineering projects such as _____ its hills