Much like its direct contemporary, West Superior, Wisconsin, the boosters of Everett, Washington during the early 1890s had such high hopes for their site on Port Gardner Bay, Puget Sound. Similar to were the efforts to promote the new townsite as in West Superior. In that city, the report of the “City Statistician” Frank Flowers appeared as a promotional brochure entitled “The Eye of the Northwest.” Everett’s in turn touted its industrial foundation, initially hauled around Cape Horn by the whaleback Charles W. Wetmore.

The City of Smokestacks – Everett, Washington