Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-03
EDITOR
SEEING
SIGHTS
Meets People on the Train and
Talks About Oregon
Editorial Corresnondencel !

httle Ieedlng' Ihere are plenty of ha
stacks scattered along the valleys. The
seems to be abundance Of snow in II
3 mountains, and il was spread fro
solid masses of pure white on the tor
of the mountains to thinner coating
that veiled off into gray on the lowe
slopes. At Missoula there have bee
three billiards. the past winter. The
came roaring down Hellgate canyor
at the entrance of which the city o
Missoula is planted. The billiards. las
three days and are attended by sever
cold, snow and sleet. Above the mout
of the canyons the valley watered b,
the Hellgate river widens out and ther
are many fine farms and stock ranges
In the interior of Montana we miss tn
sagebrush so plentiful in eastern Wash
ington. The streams are thickly grow
with cottonwood. A man from Mil
waukee, Wis, was aboard. He haC
spent a few weeks on the Pacific coast
Got no farther south than Tacoma. Wa,
switched off up north to Seattle. Bel
lingham and the Sound country. Game
away disgpsted. Could not see that the
country had any great resources. I.told
him of Portland and the Willamette
Valley. Was sorry he did not 60 there.
Felt he had missed seeing the best part
of the country and had been bunkoed.
A. r. Kclliher, of Salem. travelled with
us as far as Spokane. He has been in
numbering and timber land business all
his life. Began in Maine, was in the
business in Michigan. in the South, in
Minnesota, and for many years in Ore.
gon. Has located 1900 people in Ore
gon. He has Offices in the First Ma
tional bank building, Chicago. He buys
timber land outright and sells it again.
Has handled 100000 acres in this way.
He is probably the best posted man in
forest values in the west. He owns 500
acres of land at Marshfeld, no timber
on it, and believes that will be city
like Portland in 20 years.
A little studied and wiry man got
on the train with his wife and six
children. The smallest was under six
months and you could have packed
them all into two gunny bags But he
was business, and his wife was hust-
Ier They had subdued a wheat ranch
In the Walla Walla country, rented it,
and were now bound for interior Alas
ka. The children were models for good
quiet behavior, but their numbers
amused the porter very much. He was
4 half white fellow from Kansas where
he said he had a brother. "None of
your children got awayi" he asked
the little man His wife was large
md fat and jolly. She praised the
porter for keeping such nice car.
some of them ~chldren must be
wins" ono they're not, " said the
woman. can just born in the nat.
lral orderi" asked the porter At this
he little wiry man scowled at the mu.
alto and gave his fierce moustaehe /!
wist, The porter came back where
We were, hut not before one Of the /
hildren asked him; ''If one of these
.ars fell in the river would il drownR'
That little fellow with all them kids |
eminds me of brother of mine in
Kansas He had long hair come clear
lown on his shoulders, and was the
ather of 2S children. Had a private
all his own, III Roosevelt
ver heard Of him he'd appoint him
Minister to Utah or the Island of Sulu.
told him once, George, IL / was YOU
md had many more children ia cut
N that hair. Tie was very pious
nan and always said prayers at meals.
Inc morning the bull broke down the
ence and jumped into the yard just
. he finished saying grace, Cd d-m
hat bull,' said George, grabbed his
life and went out and shot the bull. "
The Northern Pacific runs standard
'ullman slccpers but handles its own
me of tourist cars, They are as ele-
antly made as Pullman sleepers were
few years ago, The upper herths
ave spring mattresses There is an
Ntra sheet spread over the blanket 50
hat the coarse wool blankets do not
'ratch tender compilations. You don Z
eel as though YOU we're pulling a door
'at up around your face. The n. p.
'ad has sFlendid equipment OF en-
ines, II has its own coal mines and
splendid equipment throughout.
There is little or no immigration 10
Iontana. An travel Is farther west.
esidcs the Lewis and Clark rates for
'e roand trip there are homeseekers
al eolonists rates in force. Oregon
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