The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-03-07

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Following are some extracts
from a private letter received
from j. F. Corskie, who recently
left for the Pacific coast, and
which will be of interest to his
many friends here:
Ballard. WASH, Feb. %, 1902.
1 am here in Ballard, Wash, feel
ing real we'll and healthy. have not
done any work yet but expect to have
a hand in some building business
soon, as there is plenty of It. Houses
are going up in all directions and the
prospect for building was never better
here and in Seattle. There are so
many additions to Seattle proper, that
Seattle is virtually all around Bal
lard, although six miles away. Last
Saturday afternoon my son James,
who is professor of science in the
high school here, took a street car to
Seattle, got transfers, went to Union
Lake, then to Fremont and Green
Lake, a distance of about eighteen
miles, all for SC each. Houses and
stores everywhere, and buildings in
every part going up eve o when
the rainy eason is not yet ver
l had a very pleasant journey out
here to Washington coast. with Mr..
and Mrs. N. Randall and Edith Kauf-
man, their grand daughter. We went
together in q section of the tourist car
on the Northern Pacific North Coast
Limited train, January 28th, at 1910
o'clock in the morning and arrived in
Seattle on time two days and ten hours
later. OF course that train does not
stop at every station but we had a
splendid and fast ride. 1t was very
enjoyable to see the mountains clad
in pines and a little snow. Coming to
Livingstone and almost in sight of the
Yellowstone national park, the scene
of SO much that is grand and glorious,
where l spent one whole summer about
eleven years ago, l became homesick
to walk again among it's mountains.
cascades, canyons and geysers. Oh,
SO great and grand are all these and
awe inspiring. DR.. Talmage, the ia
nous divine, onc said of the park,
"JehOvah seems to have surpassed
himself. It seems q great gulch let
down into the eternities. Here hung
up and let down, and spread abroad,
r all colors of land, sea and sky;
upholstering of the Lord God Al
mighty" We passed through two
tunnels, one about two miles long,
and after dark arrived in Seattle.
After staying all night at the Bruns-
wick, / helped my fellow travellers,
the Randall family, on the train
bound for New Wheaton, their daugh-
ter's home, about one hundred miles
north. I then surveyed Seattle q lit
tie; taking the Ballard street car 1
was at my sons for dinner, finding
the family we'll.
/ like the coast and cities and be-
speak for this great country q mag
n~ificent future. There is lots of water
front and everything for ocean COM
merce. l have been through some of
the many great shingle mills, also the
great saw mills. Lumber is cheap
here but advancing in price. There
was q little snow here when we arrived
in Seattle but it was raining then and
it soon all disappeared and the green
grass seemed strange to me in mid
winter. We have lad some lovely
days but the rainy season is not quite
over yet, but everyone here seems to
or going around outside. Getting wet
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in this country.
I will enclose some sprigs Of trees
and shrubs to show you that we have
spring. The daisies are lovely in
some front yards. Some people are
now making garden and planting
potatoes. We have ship and boat
building yards here and other large
industries. Also more coming in.
The ocean steamers come into the har-
bors here. One of the U. S. military
transports is in Seattle at present.
She is a large vessel and it looks like
old days when in old Scotland, I
could see SO many ocean steamers and
walk the floors of navy ships. The
lakes, bays and mountains here are
grand.