Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-23

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good country which seems to bs
largely stockraising country.
{ Portland, my next stop, Is a city
doing great deal Of business.
was particularly amazed at the long
high draw bridge that they have
there. It Is the biggest OF the kind
that I have ever seen. The city lies
on both sides Of the Columbia river
and Is very pretty. Work on the
fair buildings is progressing very
well and the Oregon state building
Is about completed. This building is
situated about hundred rods from
the Union depot. I pitied the men
who were working on the fair
grounds as 1t was the wettest and
most muddy place I have ever seen.
They will have South American
gravel there for the streets Of the
fair when 1t is opened up so that this
feature will not hinder sight seers.
I then visited Seattle and Everett.
At the later place I met Glineburg.
Granquist Larson and Formoe. They
are all doing we'll and seem to feel
satisfied. O. Sandberg, a brother of
Mrs. Wolf Of Naughton, lives about
thirty-five miles north of Everett and
has been there for about fifteen
years in which time he has cleared
about ten acres, it requiring a man
with good muscle and endurance to
do that and make a living at the
same time. They have to use fire to
get rid t the trees and dynamite for
stumps and logs. There Is no pas
turage for their stock unless they
make a clearing and I cannot see
why person wants live in such a
country. ..s g..
went back to Seattle from there
and bought ticket for Lumas on
the boundary line between Washing
ton and British Columbia. It was
heavily timbered country all the way
with now and then a clearing where
they had been logging or. where a
fire had been through and the coun-
try was all black stumps and very
dreary looking. Every little village
had their saw mill for the purpose Of
making lumber and shingles. At the
boundary line the Canadian officials
came in and inspected our baggage
and Canadian train crew took
charge of the train taking US to Mis-
sion Junction where we connected
with the main line of the Canadian
Pacific. The train was due there at
1925 Canadian Pacific time. They
compute their time from midnighth
to midnight or from one to twenty.
four.
The mountain scenery from here
for about five hundred miles is very
wild as the entire road bed seems tc
be cut out of the solid rock on the
side of the muntain. In one place
it makes loop like the letter "S'
to ascend mountain to the hightl
Of 1926 feet. At this altitude two
streams have their starting point
one flowing east to the Hudson bay
and the other west to the Pacific
ocean. From Calgary to Moosejaw
the land has much the same appear
ance as that of North Dakota.
North Dakota is the place for me
and is the best land that 1 have seer
in my six thousand miles of travel
1 am satisfied to spend the rest oil
my life on the Missouri Slope because
l think that a man can do more with
the same amount of money and labor
than anywhere else either in the east
or west.
The fruit business in the west Is
a risky business and I heard of
many who came here with money and
went back broke. It takes at least
five thousand dollars to get twenty
acre tract to bearing fruit and the
man that can sell his fruit for cash
counts himself lucky. This after
waiting for four or five years for the
first fruits of his labors.
Here on the Missouri slope we can
break up and seed to flax and the
very first year get enough out of it
to pay for the land and have it broke
up again for the wheat to be put in
the next year. We have a crop that
does not spoil in transportation
either. heard of many men in
California who shipped their fruit
and did not get enough out of it to
pay the freight as the stuff spoiled
before it got to its destination.
On the road and when you first ar
rive there the climate seems fine but
after you have been there a little
while and the mercury drops to
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