News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-20
Concerning Kettle Falls.
KETTLE FALLS, Wash, /
Inlv II 1901 4

July 81, 1891.
To the Editor:-
The male sex predominates by
large majority. Those that do not
have families, some board Mt the res
taurant but the most shack il, which
means living i'm n small one rooted
shed, 10x12, with one door and win
dow. tits furnished with a sheet-iron
stove, chairs made by mailing a board
on a nail keg for back, table an old
dry goods box and bed by mailing "A
bunk to one side Of the cabin. The
dishes will be those actually needed
TO cook coffee, beef-steak and pota-
toes and can eat from for one meal.
Wages by the day without board are
viz: Common laborer 81. so to $500,
carpenters $500 TO $3.50, plumbers
$500, plasterers $500, Brick-layers
5000. BY the month laborers get
from $25 to $40 with board or from
$50 to SO without board. These
are the wages here; in other places
wages are higher. But at present it
is almost impossible to get work at
any price except on the ranches.
1t is very warm here now, the ther-
mometer registers from 95o TO 10Go
in the shade. The nights are cool
and delightful. One does not suffer
from the heat here as much as east.
A case Of sun-stroke is rarely heard
of. The seasons are as follows: Win
ter commences the middle OF January
and lasts till the middle OF March
with very little snow. Spring opens
early: when ceme- l,ers-tl, he FIRST ~
1pril, M0y-iiOwers had been I'm bios
Z som two weeks, there was only one
frost nitcr that and that not hard
enough to do any harm. In fact we
don't have any frosts TO do the ten
derest fruit trees the least harm.
Summer opens up with n rainy sea-
son which lasts until about the 10th
of July, after thatwe have fair wealth
err broken by an occasional shower
until the late autumn.
There is no money under nickels in
circulation. When n trade is made
and exact change can't be made they
do the same as you do i'm regard TO
pennies. Twelve and one-half cents
is n bit. 10 cents a short bit and 10
cents n long bit. Thus, one speaking
of $1.75 would say a dollar and six
bits. People don't set the value on
money here that they do east, their
motto is easy come, easy CO." IL
one meets another hard up he will
help him to his last cent. have
seen people come into business places
and say "here, want some money"
and they would get il TO, and no
questions asked. have had people
who / had done a slight favor tell me
il | ever got hard up TO come and see
them and what they had was mine.
The land company built the church
and the congregation wanted TO get
the furniture, etc. They got together
and subscribed enough in fifteen min
utes to get chairs, pulpit, organ, car
pet, etc; all paid for and the church
has a small congregation at that.
This is IA literal sportsman paradise.
One can get anything he wants from
a trout to a cinnamon bear. Deer
are seen every day in the city limits
and bears can be found within three
hours ride. Grouse, prairie chickens
and pheasants are very abundant. A
man with handful of stone can kill
a dozen in the afternoon with ease.
Trout are very plentiful, two TO three
hundred being a frequent catch.
Some of them tip the scales at three
pounds.
Parties go out from here every
week for a fortnight's vacation on
the mountains. They take along the
necessary camping outfit, ammuni-
ton, etc, all packed on the back OF
cayuse. They go back 20 to 80
miles and form a camp for head-quar-
ters and proceed to enjoy life. A per-
son can sleep on the ground here
= without theleast danger as TO a cold.
n. g. W.