Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 January 1949 — Skagit River [ARTICLE]

Skagit River

Skagit river has played an important role in development of Mount Vernon, Wash. Fur trader* came up it to establish a post in 1870. Gold seekers came up it looking for pay dirt. Later it brought in the farmers, loggers and other substantial settlers of earlv davs.