Printed on back: Business Section--Tacoma---Mt. Rainier in background. Towering man-made mountains, the skyscrapers in the foreground, provide dramatic contrast to nature's mountain looming in the background. Dominating a harbor listed by the United State as one of the five best in the world, Tacoma is the lumber capitol of America, railroad, steamship and highway center, famous for its efficient municipal government, low cost of living, pure soft water supplied from artesian wells and mountain rivers. Since 1841 when the region was first explored, the peacetime population of the Tacoma metropolitan area has grown to 156,000.