The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-10-13
SEES WONDERS
In THE WEST.

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ton:
The scenic wonders Of our own Rock
les, of California, Washington and Alas
ka, seem to me unique and unapproach
able. Incidentally 1t is a land where
size in everything compels readiust
ment OF ones ideas. A mountain IN
Alaska, rising 20,0O0 feet out OF the sea-
reduces the Swiss mountains TO foot.
hills. The Grand Canyon OF Arizona
1000 feet deep and 20 miles across, with
one side festooned with million rain
bowe, makes the other valleys seem
contemplate, while the cathedral built
OF LAYERS Of marble standing In the
center Of the canyen, ten miles around
at the base, and with its final tower ~
times as big as the dome OF Co
logne and far more beautiful, reduces
the st. Peters to the dimensions OF a
mole hill.
In California, even the vegetation is
on the same scale. Near Santa Barbara
is grapevene 54 inches in circumfer-
ence that produces by weight ten tons
OF grapes. Upat Stockton one is shown
a potato ranch OF several thousand
acres, that required for the removing OF
its crops seven carloads day for 365
days. Upin Oregon in the Hood River
country, in the Sears & Porter orchard,
| saw q young apple tree nine years old
that produced Is boxes Of apples, each
one of which sold for t2.l0 q box. In
Washington, on the edge Of the forest ~
a cedar Tree, lying pFostrate. On top Of
the tsas with fopts growing over It and
around il. 10 y FIR fiVe feet in diameter
and the stump Of the fir shows 20OO
rings, showing that this RED cedar, on
top OF which the fir grew, went down
about the time Socrates drank the cup
OF poison and the heart of that cedar
shows purple red yet.
Down in Pasadena / found things
still more wonderful--living men. A
banker there told me there we're l42
millionairea and 30 millionairesses liv-
ing In that garden Of beauty and cultnre
and wealth and delight. II all rich
men and women join Dives, there are
more men and women who have start
cd for that tropic cline here than in any
other region on earth. Nevertheless,
these people In Pasadena sud Los An.
geles represent the very best form Ol
manhood and delightful Christian wo.
manhood. Indeed, ] was 30 enchanted
with Pasadena and Los Angeles, that II
seems to me perilous thing for any
man who lives In New York or Boston
10 spend month In that region. Any
man who has lived on ambrosia and the
nectar of the gods for four weeks will
find II difficult ever afterwards TO II
happy on corn bread and bacon, not To
say beans.
The one outstanding characteristic ID
their optimsin their ba0yancy and hope
iulness, their energy, enthusiasm, their
confidence In their country and its re-
sources. Given a family of half doz-
en- sons in the East, and the strong
and energetic one will 10 far, impelled
by his ambition. The people of the
Pacific slope represent picked men and
women. Witness their newspapers~-in
Los Angeles and San Franciaco, Ia Port
land aud Seattle. Witness the wonderful
growth oftheir universities and colleges !
Witness the growth of their churches
out OF 80 Methodist churches In los
Angeles l think fully Is have grown up
in the last six years under Bishop Ham.
ilton.
There Il ererything in the climate
that makes for art, and beauty and lit-
erature. There isone point in Pasade-
ma where 1t 10 all but impossible not to
believe that enc 10 not In Florence-the
same hills and mountains eneircling the
city, the same intense blue sky, the
same rich luxuriant vegetation, colors
OF crimson and orange and purple and
gold and olive, laid en In rich profusion.
Coniessedly, am an enthusiast on the
Pacific slope. The life has gone TO any
head. The reDurces Of the great Nerth-
west have scarcely been touched. They
have fruit enough to feed the world, oil
enough to light II, grain enough to sup
port, lumber enough to house 1t, wool
enough to clothe it; such wonders in
valley and mountain, In land and sea
and sky as would keep the artists of the
world busy for century.
To stand on the steps OF the hotel
Washington at Seattle and look down at
that wonderful harbor, or in the other
direction upon the fresh water lake be-
hind the city, TO look out upon the snow
capped range that rises to the west, APP
parently right out OF the sea, or to the
east toward the great mountain, rising
1900 feet out out OF the forest, and
and covered with snoW, dnsnched now
in amethyst, and nov In rose color, and
now in tender turquoise--well, all /
have to say is this; when geld was dis
covered in California, sc, ,000 men rushed
over the Rocky mountains and around
the cape within single year. If the
people on the Atlantic slope had any
conception OF the undeveloped resources
OF California, Oregon and Washington,
there would be million people cross
the Rocky mountains within the next
five years.
In Oregon / went into the peach
country, and 10 the apple county at
Hood River and saw some 80 or 40 or
chards, and tried TO master every detail
from the planting and grating and
and spraying 10 the new varieties. Then
| went into the forests OF fir and pine
and cedar, and saw the lumber
ioated In the river, drawn by oxen and
md horses, carried In fumes, drawn by
little dummy engines, and at last saw q
og carried on q steel cable 1000 feet
above the earth from one side of the
acroas 10 the othei then /
watched the log journey on to the saw
mill, until it vas landed in car, ready
Tor the Chicago and New York market.
One OF the most Interesting industries
that had q chance to study was the
salmon industry. From Portland
went down to Astoria, hnnansd miles
away, and saw the fishermen go out for
the salmon; saw the boate coming in
loaded down with their living cargo. and
watched the great fish pass through 40
hands until at the other end of the can
merry the box, flied with 100 cans OF sal
mon that was cooked, seasoned and
ready for serving.
Twenty years ago / was In Colorado
and Yoming and Idaho and Montana.
At that time drove 1853 miles over
Wyoming, Greene River to Fort
Washikee and back again, from Fort
Steel through TO the extreme southern
line and back, from Laramie City into
South Park, and 10 years ago saw
most of Colorado as we'll Certain val.
leys, 70 years ago, were sage brush, mol
worth q penny an acre, What was my
surprise, therefore, TO lind that watel
had been led down cut OF the mountain
and / found these valleys covered with