The San Francisco call., 1904-07-01
TWO TYPES OF PIONEERS.

IT HI pioneers of the State of Washington have just
met at Seattle and celebrated the twenty-frst an
niversary of the formation of their association.
Last week the Fresno County pioneers held Fresno
their first annual reunion To be member of the
Fresno County organization it is necessary have
sided in Fresno County twenty years There sixty
pioneers OF Fresno at banquet. The Washington pio-
neers had several hundred members their gathering.
Among the Washington pioneers are the Rev. Myron
Neels, who first Washington in I848 and Mrs
Nancy Bogart of Renton. who settled in Washington
the same year Many influential persons belong to the
Washington pioneer association The Fresno society
includes the leading people of the county Both bodies
are, therefore, representative.
The two gatherings must suggest the reflective the
wide divergence between the past and present and the
existence of two types of poneers the veins of both
of which good American blood and in the brains of
whom the American characteristics of pluck enter
PRISE and persistence The pioneers of the State of
Washington like the pioneers of California came to
new country. Theirs was the mission to found new
commonwealth and to add to the Union an imperial
State. They began primtvely depending upon the nat
ral resources in gold and other products which the
Pacific slope abounded Those who were not miners
were farmers or traders to large degree. They came
to land of possibilities of which they had little early
conception. knowledge slowly. ushering in "a
with deliberaton.
Dreaming the away under soft skies; the lands
of the Mediterranean reveed in their centuries old her
i
dwelers the Pacific Coast of the United States seemed
and territory as much terra incoenta az
was the great Northwest when the poet wrote his
sonorous line about he VOLTS long howl from Oonoo
aska's shore"
1t fell to the lot of the earliest pioneers Of the Pacific
Coast tell the world that here they had found an
empire in extent and auence 1t the destiny of the
later pioneers. those Fresno County whose member.
ship needs to back only twenty years for its gene:
sis, and of their fellow workers in MANY places to MO
the way for new industries that should amaze
France Spain and Italy by planting greater vineyards
and extensive ORCHARDS, competitive with foreign
lands.
Which type of pioneer performs the greater service
to mankindthe one that dares all seek gold or a
new home across deserts and mountain ranges, or bv
voyagng stormy and founds State or the
one that, finding unpromsing in which all agrcu
ural endeaver would to be experimental leads the
way to make arid blossom the rose and scat
ters plenty smiling land! The answer will prob
ably be that their abors complementary-tha one
follows the other sequence and that the events were
equally inherent in American character.
The of Washington talked at their reunion Of
the days of so and 90; those of Fresno spoke of
what has been accomplished in comparatively few
years majority of the Fresno speakers were when
pioneers poor, willing their living by any hon
orable means at hand present judge told how he
had worked a threshng machine Another recalled
that every laughed in dersion the bold man who
ventured the first grape vines, orerunners of
the great vineyards that have given Fresno the prnacy
as raisn center
Since 1883, was set forth by of the speakers
the population Of Fresno County has grown from oooo
$4,000; its raisn production has risen from 500
pounds year to 100000 pounds; its wine annually
amounts to 100000 gallons and its brandy to 100000
gallons; it has become the home of the Smyrna fg: in
all directions it has advanced and. as claimed truly by
one speaker it has BEEN demonstrated that there is no
twenty mile square surface anywhere that more pro-
ductive.
The earlier pioneers have aectionate regard and
history will award to them great praise They have
been succeeded by another crop of poneerponeers of
industry-whose labors equally beneficial
The splendid labor of the Pacific Commercial Museum