The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-07-05
0RE6ON AND WASHINGTON
ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY
A Prominent Citizen of Missouri Says
They Are just Awakening to
Possibilities.


From the Macon, Mo-, Times-Demo-
crat, June Is.
Oregon and Washington are yet
infants in long dresses, commercial
h. Kern, who arrived Saturday from
Portland. Judge Kern is chair
man of the commission representing
Missouri at the Lewis and Clark ex-
position. He had journeyed back
home for short while to look after
the drainage work to be inaugurated
on the Charlton bottoms this sum-
mer.
"Out there the farmer can buy
good land for $1.25 an acre." the
tu0ge went on, land 1t is the most
fertile in the world, when properly
irrigated. In some places water
privileges only cost $40 a year. You
can raise three and four crops Of al
falfa a year, worth from Sc to So a
ton. The potatoes and other vege-
tables grow to prodigious size. In
Oregon and Washington 1t is esti-
mated there exists 80 per cent of all
the timber in the United States to-
day.
Portland is the city of roses.
Every lawn is bower of beauty.
While it may not have been the
original Garden of Eden, yet 1t would
take but slight cultivation to make It
such a place. The scenery along the
Columbia river is the grandest ever
saw. 1 say it with a keen appre-
citation of my journeys along the
Danube, the Rhine, the st. Lawrence,
. the Potomac and even the Charlton,
though by and by we intend to have
the latter as fine as the finest-agri-
culturally speaking.
"And the fishing! Here's the real
sportsman's paradise, the ideal Of the
angler. There are no fish in the
world so fine as the chinook salmon
yanked out of Oregon's crystal
streams. They will stop a railroad
train along the good fishing streams
SO as co allow the passengers the
chance Of supplying the larder of the
dining car with fish. That's what
they tell me and the people out west
are SO accommodating that I expect
it Is SO.
, What is the most striking
feature of the exposition? Well. to
one who has seen everything there
was at the worlds fair he would
think that the temple of forestry
was the most wonderful thing on
the grounds. Timber is the leading
industry Of Oregon at present and
this remarkable structure was put
up to represent those tremendous
. forests. The building is $50 feet
long and about 50 feet high: it has
two stories with roof on 1t. 1t Is
built after the model Of Greek tenn
pie. The material used is fir and
pine logs. Some Of those logs are
from 8 to 10 feet in diameter.
Had it not been for the worlds
fair in st. Louis I doubt whether the
Portland exposition would have at
tanned anything like its present pro-
portions. A large number of the
exhibits that were seen at st. Louis
were shipped to Portland and are
now on exhibition there. 1t is es-
timated that fully 80 per cent of the
exhibits we're thus transferred.
Portland is $50 miles from the
ocean, and there you feel the damp
effects of the sea breeze. That is
why you see SO many fine COM
plexions there. It takes a damp
climate to make a smooth skin. i
saw a lady in the Metropole hotel,
London, who was past GO years of
age. who had complexion as smooth
and fair as girl of 16. London,
with all its frogs and dirt and smoke,
has an atmosphere that enhances the
features more than that of any other
city in the world.
the Missourian Is a welcome
guest in Portland. The people of
this state have done more than any
other to develop that country, and
they are still doing it. The trip Is
long one, but If you can afford the
time to make 1t, it is well worth
while. The great thing is not the
exhibition itself, as attractive as that
is, but this vast unexplored country
with its acres and acres of woodland.
its majestic mountain streams, it's
cascades and canyons and beautiful
valleys, unsurpassed in all the
world"