Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-19
FRoM ORKeON.

EDITOR GAAETTE-l Will Wy ohu 10
deem q promise made to my friends and
your readers. 1t would be impossible to
attempt to give general idea of the
country in one article without going into
lengthy details and trespass on the edl'
tors patience.
Our route WAS over the Santa Fe and
Southern / Pacific. The Spanish Peaks
and needles were grand sight, noun
tains towering bare and sharp and daz-
cling in their glistening white. The Oe-
dar Glade is one magnificent park. The
trees look to be in straight rows. This is
a picture of indescribable splendor like
the Galden of the Gods. The Santa Fe
and Southern Pacific railway system runs
over hundreds OF miles Of an uninhabit-
able desert, hopele.sly barren, doomed To
irredeemable sterility. The Moiave des-
ert is nothing but drifting sands and lava
beds.
We could see Weymouth Of Death val
lev from the train; from the Needles to
Rogers is desert and from there to San
Francisco was pretty fair country. We
stayed two daysa at San Francisco beau
tiful place like the CITY OF Rome built on
the hills. 1t was two days before we
found our trunks. There were said to be
twelve thousand trunks on the wharf
W. .,,,,. a., .i.-.-l -.
gon coast and sailed through the NOrlo
renowned Golden Gate of San Francisco,
delightful ocean voyage. The sight
was lovely as we,sailed out Of the by at
San Francisco on the high, open sea
where one could see nothing but blue
ky and the green pillows rolling higher
than the ship, bursting in white foam.
The massive ship Of one hundred tons
was tossed about like cork. We were
thrown from our feet so we crawled to
our hunks to lay aud heave Jonah for two
days and nights; but the last two days we
made up for lost time in eating and
landed safe in Coos Bay ut Marshteld, Il
beautiful little town Vt two thousand,
built on the bench land aud mountain
slope.
This is "a heavily timtered country, for
ests of fir, red and white cedar, pine,
hemlock, myrtle, and maple growing in
their primitive glory. tits not farming
country but is specially adapted to dairy
ing and numbering. The valleys are
very productive and one needs but few
acres as hay makes from four to five tons
per acre, potatoes from five to six hun
dred bushels per acre, oats from fifty to
aeventy-flve bushels per acre.
In this fair world of calmest skies,
We view both land aud sea,
Here in sight of the restless waters
With gorgeous hills and mystic mountains
Oregon is land Astounding in wild in
digenous fruits; blackberries, raspberries
strawberries, currants, cranberries, and
salal berries, which grows ON beautifua
evergreen shrub, and are excellent fruit
and very plentiful. Coos county is
bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean
with coast line of about fifty miles,
the whole being environed by formida-
BILE mountain ranges, Coos bay is the
best harbor on the Oregon coast below tile
Columbia, but has the same objection to
overcome that is common to Pacific
coasts, sand reefs; but the government
has made appropriations which have
been expended in building ietties that
have made the harbor comparatively safe
The salmon are now beginning to run
and large harvest is looked for. One
can have all the she'll fish he wants in
two hours time. And perhaps the best
feature of the country and climate is to
be found in the fact that one can sleep
under three blankets and wear the same
clothing the year round. Here We can
look out on the bay any time in the day
and see a sail or steamship.
The Klondike excitement is running
high here and hundreds are leaving for
the new fields W. II. MARSHALL.
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