The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-09-05

Inc passengers were here given fifteen
minutes for lunch, which is served on
the ferry enroute.
At SanFranciso we found the con
ditions much worse than we had ever
pictured them, even after the great
quake and fire that visited it q year
ago last April. TIL, activity in this
city is certainly wonderful to behold
the cleaning away of the debris and
the e%xcavating for new buildings put
the streets in such a condi-
ton that it is most impossible to get
through, more SO is this true on
Market street the principal thorough
fare of the city, the side streets are
equally as bad. The old city hall,
costing something like ST. 600, 900 to
erect is still there just as the quake and
fire left it, a of ruins. Owing to
the reconstruction period OF the city
a great number of the inhabitants live
at Oakland. The Southern Pacific
Railway Go. run large ferries across
the bay making the trip every ten
minutes, these boats carry something
like n thousand passengers and it
is said that not less than 60, 900 peo-
pie make the trip over and back from
San Franciso to Oakland every day.
From Frisco to Turlock, the latter the
home OF the sweet potato and famed
for its vegetables, was u next stop.
From this latter place we landed at
LosAngeles, the end of our journey
southwark. We run out from this
place to Pasadena, the home of the
millionaire. This latter city is by far
the most beautiful city we have ever
visited, everything that goes to make
up an"ideal city will be found here.
The finest homes, perhaps, to be found
anywhere may be found nestled back
in some beautiful plot Of ground that
some landscape artist has been paid
big money for simply the designing
of. Here will also be found beautiful
churches, schools and public buildings.
We will not attempt to describe the
many points of interest to be found
in the vicinity of these cities. Our
time we found to be short by at least
half which caused us to cut our visit
short and turn our faces homeward,
with seeing comparatively nothing of
this region, but what little we did see
was we'll worth. the trip.
On our homeward journey we made
but one stop between LosAngeles and
Portland and that was at San Fran
cisco, and that just long enough to
catch the first train north from Oak
land. We spent another day and a
half at Portland and here we met Mr..
John Hanley, a cousin of M. B. Han
ley. who showed us many points of
interest in and around the city.
While here we met our old friend Prof.
Huff, who a few years ago was princi-
pal of the public schools at this place
He is now teaching in the high school
at Portland, where he has been for the
past three years.
After u second visit to Portland
we next visited North Yakima, Wash,
which is without question the greatest
fruit producing section We passed thru
on our trip. Here we met and visited
with a number of former Steele county
friends among them: Osbourne
Russell and family, Wilbur Wood
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Parr,
Mr.. and Mrs. Matsdorf, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Parr, and o. L. Bowen; besides
meeting many other North Dakota
people. Land values are anywhere
from $l75. per acre for the raw land
up to So, 000.O 90 per acre with orchard
and improvements. The facilities for
handling the enormous crops Of fruit
at this point is one of the best to be
found in the country. Here will also
be found a canning establishment,
which is certainly worth ones while to
visit and see the manner in which the
fruit is handled and the process
the fruit goes through, and is at
last sealed in the cans ready for the
eastern markets. The country tri-
butary to North Yakima is fast forg-
ing to the front and with the new
irrigation project which the govern
ment expects to have completed near
this place within the next two years
will give the town a vast amount more
of tillable land. If you should ever
visit the west don't fail to visit the
North Yakima country ''the home of
the big red apple" pear, peach and
grapes.
It was not our intention when we
started this article to go into detail,
but simply mention our visit with old
friends and neighbors, but as the
pictures presented themselves we could
not help mentioning some OF them,
and yet we could devote column after
column had we the time to touch the
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