The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-21
TELLSOF HIS TRIP
Mr. J. E. Ryus Describes Places He Visited During His Trip
 Through the States
Berkeley, California,
 27th February, 1908.

| several llUltS uB "o S.'ib The Miner must have a few notes rom us" just when everything was in . .ime for the band to play. string
 would break, or something eiss inst Is fatal would happen to detract our great mind from its intended purpose, SD The Miner has not had the extreme uleasure (?l of giving its readers our views of the sections of country over which we have passed during the last five months.
 Our wife asks just as we are begin- uing What does The Miner want with your stud?n We replied We do not know unless it is hard up aud is willing to use any old thing to fill up with. and if such stuff as we could furnish was satisfactory. we had no kick coming. The Miner ask, d fer
 it. and should have 1T, if we did not break down with nervous prostration producing il. y
 Mrs. Ryus and I left Ketchikan, \ October +th. 1907, to be gone two or three months. Well. we were gone five, aud travelled nearly twelve thou sand miles. three thousand, and the grandest part of it, through Canada. with he exception of the part in | North California and Rogus Valley. | Oregon.
 l The first stop was at Toronto. one and one-half days. It has always been ny impression that Cauaiars were I slow. bat our visit in Toronto showeo differently. Toronto is q second Chi cago for move and push. It is fine ] ..ty. having many very elegant build l ugs a uoug them the King Edward i Hotel. said to be the finest in the l world. How true this is. we do not i know. but if the interior spends with the exterior (the part we saw it must be near the truth. The day Ye were there, an earthquake was l felt, from which tower on one of the public buildings was moved one-half inch. Nothing else WAS reported dis turhed.
 I From Toronto, we went to Ntagra 1 Falls, to Buffalo and to Erie. h tiie 1 latter place We visited Mrs. Ryus's- l lister. and few miles east of Erie a i brother who owns a vineyard Of Con- cord grapes. Just think Of it-eighty tons. unpicked, at our disposal That is, wife and I had the privilege of eating all of them if We could. Well, we wanted to, alright. ard came near doing il. but wife happened to think he crop was her brothers, and told i me that should not have any more :: l hat I should be ashamed, making such hog of myself, just because the chance offered. And l hadn't seen such a Hay out" for tw entythree years. She did'r say a word about stopping eating herself. Well, l was ,atlsfed anyway Had all l wanted.
 On this farm was twent! !-one acres in grapes, which grew eighty tons md sold for tbirty-six dollars ton net. We visited Westfeld, N. r.,
 where Dr. Welch. the great grape l juice manufacturer. conducted us through his plant, and it was a sight
 behold We were a little too late
 o see any pressing done. but the juice was there 10 prove his statement that he had pressed 4G00 tons Of grapes. We saw l00, GOO five gallon hotties full of juice. In this there vas not drop of water or alcohol, aor grain of sugar other than what the grapes contained. There were i've hydraulic presses, which meant i've tons of grapes pressed every time I the lever fell.
 From the press the juice passed into retorts where it was boiled for spec flied time, then drawn off into the five-gallon bottles and let stand to al- low the cream of tartar to settle. It was then drawn off again to retorts, and then to the final bottles-pints and quarts, labelled and boxed. Dr. Welch told US he could not fill near all his orders, his largest demand being from the Pacific Coast states. The Concord grape is the only grape the juice of which can be kept from fermentation, and this grape cannot be successfully grown on the Pacific Coast.
 At Ripley, \. r., had the honor of shaking hands with, and walking beside the great Weston, one and one half miles in his last stand from Bos- ton to Chicago, and had 1 done two and a half miles more of it, The Miner would not have been bothered
 with this article, nor my wife accom-
 panied home by her husband. He
 told me to do the talking. as he could
 not walk and talk too. He was right.
 found it out, but not until l had had
 he wind pumped back into me with a
 flaming mill attached to the fire com
 pany's hose. Well, Weston can walk
 for all care. I had my fll.
 My impression is that the great sue
 cess of the farmers along the route
 we visited as far as the Texas line, i.
 due to trolley lines and natrual gas.
 Tn some instances, gas is piped l5t