The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-10-13

spend my vacations in the Rocky noun
tRins arr worth a hundred dollars an
acre, now that the irrigation ditch has
brought the water in. One half OF Italy
represents irrigated land : Rome was
supported by wheat that was grown by
irrigation. For forty centuries Egypt
and her civilization has been supported
by irrigation. There are regions OF
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
and Utah, Arizona and Nevada, that
would be ranked among the garden
spots of the world--and will in another
score of years. No man understands
what is going on in this country until
he goes West and studies at first hand
the work being done by this commission
on irrigation.
The most interesting thing? What
shall say OF Victoria and Vancouver,
with their great present and futureY
What shall say OF the Canadian Rock
les, where from one peak | counted
81 snow-clad peaks and 22 gaciersY
What shall I say Of Winnipeg, that has
Ieaped to the third among the cities OF
Canada, with bank clearlngs, surpassed
only by Montreal and Toronto? We
have been thinking that Winnipeg rep
resents the realm Of perpetual snow,
and that God served Canada, as We
serve watermelon, on ics. But YOU may
travel 700 miles northwest of Winnipeg,
and the grass grows richer and the roll
deeper, for the Chinook, the Japanese
trade wind, coming over the low noun
tain pass takes the chill out OF the air. |
Today, thousands and thousands of
immigrants are crowding into the new
provinces of Canada.
All can say lie, next summer when
you buy your ticket to start for Europe,
don't. Buy your ticket and start for
Colorado and make the circle Of thous-
and miles, beginning at Colorado
Springs and returning, visiting all the
mining camps; 20 to Cripple Greek, for
example, where | spent two Of the most
fascinating days of my life visiting the
military court and the deported men,
union miners, the non-union men, etc.
then 20 to the Grand Canon of the Col
orado; see Los Angeles, Santa Barbara,
that marvellous memorial church at
Stanford University; see San Francisco,
Mr.. Burbank, the magician of the orch
ards, one of the most wonderful men
now living; see the Yosemite; visit the
lumber camps, the ranches OF Oregon,
the Ashland peach region, the Hood
River apple country, the salmon indus
try, the lumber mills; go to Seattle and
Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver and
| Alaska, and then come back by way OF
the Canadian Rockies; put in two
weeks there amidst the mountain peaks
and the glaciers; then take horse and
drive for six days through the greatest
cattle ranches in the world and another
six days through 500 miles of wheat
fields, every bushel Of which is ''Num-
Der One Hard" the only standard
wheat of the world.
BY the time you get home your horiz-
ons will all be smashed. Boston will
seem about as big as the dome OF the
state house, and you will be afraid to
play golf in Massachusetts for fear OF
driving out Of bounds. You will also
know what patriotism ls, for the people
of the West and OF the Pacific slope
don't talk their country down; have
never heard OF pessimism; have no fears
for the republic. The flame of patriot.
ism in the West burns like a calcium
light. That is one reason why many of
the men that will control this country
q generation from now are coming from
the boys who are now dwelling in soli-
tude in the Rocky mountain states or
on the Pacific coast.