The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-08-25

No 2.
EDITOR INDEPENDENT:

Inc road tnaU branches OH TO tne rlgnC
just below the house of j. Bozarth takes its
way over very broken, billy stretch of
country winding round the side of the high
hills that as far up as | can see are covered
with growth of underbrush with pente-
Gus sprinkling of stately frs, while on my
left hand few hundred yards away, at the
base of the hill, the smashing waters now
covering many hundred acres of the over
flown bottom lands are seen glistening and
dancing in the sunlight. This is the regu-
larly laid out county road from Vancouver
through to Kalama, for the most part in
good condition. The annual overflow has
necessitated a change of road bed, and COM
mencing at Bozarth's hall it has been cut out
of the side hill for distance of % miles,
until you are facing the buildings OF W.
Black, where gradual descent let's you
down into the old track The new survey
for the proposed railroad hugs this trail
pretty closely all the way to Kalama, cross
ing and recrossing it several times, only
leaving it any distance apparently to chase
through some ones chicken-house, barn or
back yard with a perversity of purpose in
applicable to the mind of the average plod-
der.
The close of my first days jaunt found me
and my painting beast standing at gate
| ing only quick, strong push to swing it
backward, cracking noisily on its hinges.
A few steps down the path brings us to the
| porch, where comfortably seated, enjoying
the summers evening quiet, | find my host
and hostess-our arrival already announced
to them by the barking of the faithful shep-
| herd dog, now fawnng at our feet. Dis
posing of hat and other membranes l
grateful accept the protfered chair and sink
exhaustedly into its waiting depths, while
| the "small boy'-a convenient article APP
pended to most households my agile
animal to ''fresher fields and pastures new"
a fact that here mention because we two
are fated to part then and there, never to
resume our trips together, having found
other means of transit. A few hours spent
in pleasant social converse, ard in warding
off the frequent attacks of mosquitoes, rounds
out the measure of my days doings. This
farm was originally the d. L. c. of Mr.
Caples, and passed from his hands into those
of Geo. Love, who lived here while the
country was yet i'll its first newness. He it
was who built the large roomy farm house,
added also and cared for the splendid apple
and plum orchard; fenced, digged, delved
and grubbed till he saw things on an equita-
BILE footing of their own; then sold out, bought
himself another place adjoining this but ly-
ing nearer the Columbia, where he is at
present spending the remainder of his LIES
halcyon days in ease and independence.
The present owner has in good repair the
numerous appurtenances of the place and
keeps the old prestige for hospitality under
its roof-tree unimpaired.
A mile and three-q uarters down the road
is the home OF Hon. j. A. Burke, who also is
entitled to be called an old settler, it lack
ing but three years of quarter century
since he first occupied this piece Of ground,
it being also ID. l.. c., and now after the
lapse OF years he can look around him and
see the evidences of well spent past and a
prosperous present. The only really bad
stroke of i'll fortune he has experienced since
his residence here, was the loss of his house
and its contents. by tire which occurred a
year ago this month-but with character
istc enterprise he had the lumber for new
one on the ground in less than week, and
now covering the ashes OF the former rises
the new structure, built on the same plan.
| He has without doubt one of the finest cher
ry orchards in the country wherein one may
! find any variety of that lucious fruit. This
| year he supplied, in part the kalama mar
| ket, finding ready sale at S to 10 cts. per II.
! The apple orchard is second to none herea
| bouts-also has fine assortment OF plums
but ''Come into the Garden Maud | wish
| you to see and admire the vegetable creation
as here displayed in all its appetizing at
| Effectiveness; behold the row of round headed
cabbages silently suggestive of kegs of krout
in future store; there is the corn patch well
! grown and cared out, enough for present use
and plenty to dry, and also to make that sa-
worry dish known to Nirginans and corn low
ing people generally, as hominy; string beans
and beans unstrung; peas in all their pea
green prettiness OF color; kale and caul-
! flower In abundance; the collie incarnate Gu
cumber; an enormous onion bed filled with
this pungent edible; sizableplat of soil COW
cred with muskmelon vines; radishes run up
to seed; beets by the bushel; vegetable oys-
tiers, carrots, turnips, tomatoes, parsnips,
pumkin or squash vines in the greatest pro-
| fusion and luxuriance OF growth; while just
| beyond these stands of bees, where the ''yel-
low breeched philosophers humble away
their busy existence IN storing up golden
sweets, can be seen the quarter acre OF buck
wheat. Having completed our tour of the
garden. am ready to inspect the dairy which
l find to be cool, airy place, filled with the
needful paraphernalia for butter making
They are now milking "A cows, but am told
the busy season is always in the fall when
they will turn off as much butter in fort
night as they do in all summer. But the
hour of departure draws nigh, aud bidding
adeu to the kind friends who have made my
| stay among them 50 pleasant l step into the
skif that in lieu of my pony will bear me to
kalama, the place OF unrealized expectations
born of frenzcd railroad speculations. A
short call Mt the stnre af (orreovs A Ves4al