Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-11-20
Exposition Notes.
On the Way.

not )nous tone and intonation, drop
ping the voice as the sentence was
finished, admonishirg us of the ne
es,iiy of bestirriug ourselves if we
expected to get anything to eat.
l say "us,' meaning the party of
three low on the way to the New
OrIe'ns Exposition in charge Of the
Wnsl lIgton Territory Exhibit which
is to lrnish the theme for much that
will appear in these notes. The
personnel of the party to figure in
these notes for the next five months,
it would be as well to enumerate in
the start in order that the reader
My know oil about the exhibit,
thy being an integral part thereof.
he writer, it will be assumed,
has made sufficient acquaintance
with the readers of the tifty-three
jou. nails to whom these notes are
seLt, without further introduction,
than as being "the commissioner"
an I'D settler,"" a crank" on beet
sugar, ga hop grower" restless
spirit" az "anti-Chinese agitator,
aid the writer of those letters from
London"
The second person Of the party
who lii pleasantly was mentioned as
" commissioners" and who later
became in fact the lady commissioner
for the Territory by appointment
from the Governor, has by her long
residence become identified with the
best interests of the Territory, and
with the people in it. No person
could reside for thi1ty-three years in
single county, see all of the mater
ial interests there developed and un-
folded; see the wild unimproved
lands turned into beautiful farms;
see cities and villages spring into ex-
istence on spots where solitude had
reisned supreme; see paved streets
where within ones recollection wild
b. asts had roamed undisturbed: see
graded roadways where before had
been winding trails or corduroy
country roads; see floating palaces
take the place of the Indian canoe
or the open row-boat; see the COM
Portable parlor railway cars instead
of the lumber wagon or stage coach
the daily instead of the monthly
mail; the telegraph instead of the
pony express; in a word see the vast
change that has taken place i'll our
midst; no one could reside go long
see such developments, take part in
bringing about the change, wlthou,
taking a deep interest in all that con
Germs the further speedy develop.
ment of the Territory.
The third person, whom when We
called her mother the commissioner
ess, we named her as the commits
sionerling, is the genuine d" Wash
ington product" and, as the Mis-
souii woman said, was "born anG
raised here all her life," is destined
to be first on the list of exhibits il
the Washington Territory space; te
be an active and efficient co.workel
in the labors before us; who vii
copy and mail these notes to tn.
6fty.three journals; receive ant
place on file those papers as re
ceived; arrange and care for those
expected flowers from the ladies; ar
range and care for the many work.
of art entrusted to our care; receive
and answer the many letters sure te
come, and many, many other thing.
the necessity of which will becom,
apparent as the time moves on.
Could I write half that we see j
would Gecome as q cumbersom,
book, never to be read; if even .
tenth would not become burdensome
The trip from Portland to St. Pau
is a constant source of surprises
The first day out from Portland i
the wonderful freak of nature, tn,
Multnomah falls. These vary il
height according to popular repor
as much as they do in volume of wa
ter varying with the season. On,
said they were twelve hundred fee
high; another said seven hundred
another eight; another u thousand
Whatever their height it is a dizz,
sight to look up to. The train stop
twenty minutes for passengers /,
alight to ego and see the falls.
One can go to the rustic brids,
where q part of tho falls is below
him, where the upper great fails i
so near that he catches the spra,
and mist floating off from the dis
turbed waters. One never tire
watching the falling mass of waters
} dividing into faky sheets and dis
solving as light clouds, almost los
and dissipated into mist befor
reaching the great depths below
The falls could not be much highe
or the water would all disappear il
mist; in other places near the rail
road, small water falls are seen higl
up on the mountain, but they neve
reach tie depths below, the waite
having foated off into space. VIVA
the scenery is further up the Colum
bia, through the cut of the Cascad
mountains, one cannot now say, TO
the trip is made ut night, and whel
We awake and are called to break
fast, we are far out into the opel
country, past The Dalles, Umatill,
junction, Wallula junction, the ia
nous Snake river bridge and out OF
the great Northern Pacific highway
Here the track leads up through al
ancient river bed leaving the i'm
preston upon ones mind that tn
country is barren, as indeed it doe
look desolate. On either side of til,
track is the noted wheat land of tn,
great Columbia basin, where, con
trary to the usual order of things
the higher the land the more pro
ductive it is, and where, thirty
forty or even fifty bushels of whea
per acre for great fields are produce,
J as verified by numerous reliable wit
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