Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-04-18
Communicated.
CHE;IiAiiNi, WisH1NGroN,
April 9Th. 1901

49, CHELAN,, WiisHlNGToN,
April .5th, 1901.
EDITOR TIMEs:-Here is the dis
cription of this country as / see it.
The beautiful land of Washington
where no storms or tempest ever
come; all the breezes are trained
to sing psalms in Pianissimo style;
the widest billiards are used by
gentlest mothers to lull their little
babies to sleep; the sun shines ev-
er with mellow splendor that
calls to mind the far famed Chap
Ply Valley of Rasselas," and there
is just frost enough to turn the
pear leaves golden; no summer
drouths or winter floods to spread
devastation over the fields to de-
stroy the hope of the Homestead.
ers; no army worms or grasshop-
pars to sweep over these fertile
valleys with nibbling desolation;
no hail storms rattle their musk
etry upon their grain, fruit and
glass windows of this elysien, ex-
cept just enough to furnish bust
ness for the Chelan Falls Hail In
surance Co. Bananas bloom in
December, and young oranges are
dug the day before Christmas; raj
sins and striped stick candy ripen
always just in time for old Santa
Clause, with his wagon and his
Cayuse team. Pine apples and
figs grow spontaneously on sage
brush everywhere from Wenat-
chez to Brewster. Huckelberries
flourish all the year around at Wa
terville, and gooseberries bear
abundantly of large size and fla
yor, around Lakeside and Chelon.
Anamones bloom all the year on
the mountain side "Gentle Annie"
for New Years posies; potatoes
grow as large as beer kegs on all
pine and fir trees; cabbage heads
of Senatorial size give forth the
fragrance of the ,Jessamine and
Honeysuckel; Humming birds as
large as Canvasback ducks, and
clad in all their prismatic glory
of the auroraborealis. We hatch
our own wild geese of such dimen-
sions that they are taken for wing
ed Hippotamis, on lakes of never
freezing rosewater and cologne.
Billiards., tempests, tornadoes,
hurricanes, and rascally political
breezes come to this modern Eden
only as dimly understood wailings
of distant regions, and people who
do not know enough to point their
way to the sole remaining quarter
section Of Paradise in all the wes-
tern world. Here no wave of troub-
Re ever rolls across the peaceful
breast, and the prosperous people
who raise infallibly, twenty-five
bushels of No. l, hard wheat to the
acre, that costs them nothing, and
get Sl.35 per bushel, can calmly
smile at Satan's rage, and face
frowning world" because less for
tunate world, Wenatcheeians.
! Watervillian, Columbia-river
Walley-gons, Brewisters, all SYM
pathize deeply and tenderly with
storm-swept, bleeding and deso]ate
, ones of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
J and with the drouth beggard ones
of Illinois and Indiana; and, had
they power, would never permit a
hurricane or the summer furnace
heat to smite the hopeless suffer-
ers more, but storms and drouths
; will come to those unlucky lands,
and all sympathy of Washington
, and her people cannot help it. She
3 holds out her arms to the stricken
ones and bids them come and be
welcome-come and be safe, come
: and be prosperous and happy-no
storms, no clouds, no sorrow and
no fear, and where the garden spot
of the world is to be had at bit
per acre, and whore one long re-
peated, blissful springtime and
> harvest lasts all the year.
Well, to sum it all up, 1 like the
country very much; Lake Chelan
is fine body of water, 70 miles
long and from 3 to5 miles wide,
y and has been sounded 2,7OO feet
without finding bottom.
Yours, Respectfully,
CHARLES FRAZTER