The Goliah and a Fata Morgana on Juan de Fuca
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Even when this randomly found article in the July 29, 1911 issue of The Irondale News was published, the Jefferson County town was already declining. In the 1880s-1890s Irondale seemed destined to become the steel center for the Pacific Northwest, but it was not to be. In between all the columns of news coverage about the metal industry, I found this odd little piece. It…