The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-09-20

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ciated. They perpetually harbor the
deep SHOWS Of winter (snow falls deep
on them when no where else) that in
summer are turned into rushing,
gushing, crystal streams of pure cold
water. They harbor dense forests OF
the most magnificent timber in the
whole world, forming a picture of
evergreen Of SURPRISING loneliness;
they harbOr exhaustless numbers Of
all kinds of the finest wild game, and in
addition are continual source of
ever varying grandeur and sublimity,
no pen will ever correctly portray
The fine streams are numerous all
over the State, and besides many fine
lakes and bays, affording the finest
facilities for commercial transporta-
ton as well as endless diversion for
the sportsman. While the western
section is low and moist the climate
is, on an average, delightfully."- mild
and equable the year round.
So great is the humidity of the at
mosphere that all kinds Of flowers,
fruits and especially strawberries at
tain degree of perfection found no
where else in the world. Washing
ton is at once vantage ground for
man in all his phases and relations Of
life, yet there are numerous cranks
who go there and without patience to
wait and see come away dissatisfied.
All nature seems to have given vent
to it's productive powers. Nowhere
on earth is there sucn a profusion
Of rank vegetation in every form.
The country, as have said before, is
the very embodiment of everything,
animate and inanimate, perfect and
imperfect, terrestrial and aquatic.
Even the heavens glow with visions
before which you stand, dazed and
bewildered with awe. One Of the
gorgeous sunsets on Puget Sound is
alone worth trip a hundred miles
to see. l have stood in the misty
falling rains on the docks at Olympia
and Outreaching with umbrella, the
other end could twirl and play in
the purple, crimson and golden tints
of the most dazzlingly brilliant rain
bow mortal eyes ever beheld. This
is a phenomenon common only to
such conditions and localities. Their
exceeding brilliancy is due to the
same cause that makes the distant
apparently so near, viz:
The rarified condition of the air.
Thenews flashed over the country
last spsiateey4 stating that there had
been an unprecedented fall of snow
there and that not less than two
thousand cattle herding had been
caught and persisted. While this was
true, perhaps at the same time in
1ncc thov,
five or ten thousand sheep killed by
worthless ours. Nothing was said of
the inestimable value Of the deep
SHOWS on the mountains, which sum-
mer turns into beautiful flush
streams, imparting new life to all ma
ture and multiplying the gamers and
Of the farmer, to say moth
ing of the advantages derived in
other ways.
Titles to public lands are acquired
under the presumption and homestead
laws, and as the q. 8. authorities are
slow about surveying them, one-half
of the State not yet having been sur
veyed, it is, for the time being,
slow and tedious process to obtain
them. Like the miller grinding corn,
first come first served, and each set
tier has to watch his chances like q
hawk his prey.
One of the greatest contrasts be-
tween the east and west sections as
to products is the fact that on the
east side corn, sweet potatoes, water
melons, peaches and grapes are raised
to perfection, while on the west side
the nights are, all through the sum-
mer, too cool for these crops to ma ,
ture, especially corn, but 1 have seen
as fine Delaware grapes grown in
Olympia as anywhere.
1t must be borne in mind that the
northern extremity or boundary line
between Washington and British Co
lumbia is over q hundred miles high
er latitude than Quebec, Canada, for
this fact lends additional interest and
wonder to it's endless attractions.
The navigable water front, including
ocean, straits of San Juan De Fuca,
Puget Sound, rivers and large lakes,
is som ething amazing and doubtless
will foe up not less than 5000 miles.
Lake Concunully is the most noted Of
Ill it's famous lakes. 1t Is 80 miles
ong and nowhere over three miles
wide nor less than one, and the water
hundreds of feet deep, but the most
singular part of it Is, it's surface Is
like 200 feet above the CO.
umbia river, into which it empties,
The distance between the two being