the in america next to the but a very beautiful one with bright green drooping foliage handsome and a shaft exquisitely straight and round and regular forming extensive forests by itself in many places it lifts its tops into the sky close together with as even a growth as a field of grain no ground has been better for wheat than these mountains for trees they were by mighty and and and by the broad streams that flowed from the ice as they were withdrawn at the close of the period in proportion to its weight when dry timber is perhaps stronger than that of any other large in the country and being tough and elastic it is admirably suited for ship building piles and heavy in general but its hardness and to when it is cut into boards render it unfit for fine work in the lumber of it is wild of the west tl called pine when is going on in the best woods especially about sound many of the long slender are saved for and so superior is their quality that they are called for in almost every in the world and it is interesting to follow fortunes and and dragged to tide water they are raised again as yards and for ships given iron roots and canvas foliage decorated with flags and sent to sea where in glad motion they go cheerily over the ocean in every latitude and singing and bowing to the same winds that waved them when they were in the woods after standing in one place for centuries they thus go round the world like meeting many a friend from the old home forest some like themselves some standing head downward in muddy holding up the of and others doing all kinds of hard timber work or hidden this wonderful tree also grows far northward in british and southward along the coast and middle regions of and flourishing with the wherever it can find an opening and with the sugar pine yellow pine and in the it extends into the san san and san mountains of southern it also grows well on the mountains s our national where it is called red pine and on many parts of the rocky mountains and short interior of the great basin but though thus widely distributed only in washington and some parts of british does it reach perfect development to one who looks from some high over its vast breadth the forest on the west side of the seems all one dim dark monotonous field broken only by the white along the summit of the range back in the wilderness a deep carpet of brown and yellow covers the ground like a garment pressing about the feet of the trees and rising in rich softly and kindly over every rock and trunk leaving no spot for and small and the meadows and the banks of streams not seen in general views we find besides the great a considerable number of trees � oak ash wild apple cherry s and in some places chestnut in a few favored spots the broad grows to a height of a hundred feet in forests by itself sending out large limbs in magnificent arches covered with and thus forming lofty sky gardens and rendering the delightfully cool no finer forest ceiling is to be found than these arches while the wild of the west ornamented with tall and vines and cast into by the moss covered roots of the trees matches it well passing from beneath the heavy shadows of the woods almost anywhere one steps into lovely gardens of lilies and wild roses along the lower slopes especially in where the woods are less dense there are miles of making glorious masses of purple in the spring while all about the streams and the lakes and the meadows there is a rich of cherry apple and with of flowers and abundance of other more delicate such as and the lovely of the north beside all these there are wonderful about the many misty some of the ten feet high others the most delicate of their tribe the the rocks within reach of the dust of the spray while the trees on the cliffs above them leaning over look like eager listeners anxious to catch every tone of the restless waters in the autumn of every color and flavor abound enough for birds bears and everybody particularly about the stream sides and meadows where sunshine reaches the ground red blue and black some growing close to the ground others on m our national ten feet high called al by the indians salmon an inch in growing in dense the flowers like wild roses still more beautiful than the fruit and the and meadow are in great part made up of these bushes and vines but in the depths of the woods there is not much of any kind � only a thin growth of and vine notwithstanding the against the last winter in washing n that farms towns and villages were included in them and that all business was threatened or blocked nearly all the mountains in which the lie are still covered with virgin forests though has long been carried on with tremendous energy along their boundaries and home have the woods for available for farms however small one may wander in the heart of the for weeks without meeting a human being indian or white man or any conspicuous trace of one indians used to ascend the main streams on their way to the mountains for wild whose wool furnished them clothing but with food in abundance on the coast there was little to draw them into the woods and the monuments they have left there are scarcely more conspicuous than wild of the west those of birds and far less so than those of the which have streams and made that will endure for centuries nor is 