The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-18
PITTSBURG TO TACOMA.
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HiSC wa VI SAihioOCs hOWCNCAi oV
this writing, (this being June)
the roses are only beginning to
come out, and many furs and
overcoats are beng worn daily.
However, since becoming some
what acclimated | like the place
very much, find 1t purely a resi-
dental city, and the cleanest and
quietest city | have ever been in;
and perhaps, | may right here
say a word about the roses as
many who read this will no doubt
know the North West is "charac
terlstic of roses" and from what l
see and learn believe there are
only two reasons: 1st, the winters
are not so severe and freeze the
bushes, and End, the evenings
here are so long and cool that one
cannot sit on their porch or a
hammock, hence as they like to
be out, and to keep warm must
keep moving, they naturally give
more attention to their lawns and
roses; however, roses here have
no fragrance, hence will not COM
pare with the roses of the far
East.
When | go back to my younger
days IN Fulton county and think
of the few farmers who believe in
working from daylight until dark,
now sometimes think 1t an un-
wise act of providence that they
were placed in Fulton county,
Pennsylvania, instead of the State
of Washington as had 5hey
only lived out here and followed
the same rule they could have
honestly done a good days work,
as IN the summer it breaks day
light here at two in the morning,
the sun rising at three, and re
naming light until ten at night;
hence, think OF the nice long 20
hour days, But on the reverse L
am told that in the winter you
have to burn your lamps from
four in the evening until nine
next morning; but when you
consider the fact 1t is raining all
the time it is pleasure 10 have
darkness as you can then sleep
and not know it is raining.
l learn from the old resident
ers 1t rains almost constantly
during Decem Der, January, Feb
ruary and March. Ofcourse you
know Tacoma ls located on the
southern end of Puget Sound
and on Commencement Bay It's
principal industries beng lumb-
erlng, shipping, and fisheries. 1t
is wonder full to see the large saw
mills, and to see them handling
logs as much as 8, 10 and even II
feet in diameter, just as though
they were walking canes, and to
see them unload fish is very in
terestng. Only seven minutes
is required from the time the
fish are taken from the boat,
thrown on shore, heads taken off,
weighed and packed with Ice IN
450 pound boxes and placed on
a refrigerator car ready for
Shipment to where ever they may
be assigned.
The price of halibut steak is
cheap here-3 pounds for 25c;
while IN the East the same steak
is zoe. per pound. OF course as
the fish are caught out here, or
near here, they would naturally
be cheap the fishing boats go up
the Sound to the Coast.
The End of the Sound here at
Tacoma presents, as I under
stand, the best Harbor on the
Pacific coast. The large war
vessels that were here sometime
ago with the fleet beng able to
come to within few feet of the
shore, while on some ports on the
Pacific they had to stay three
m les from shore, Now, to one
who never saw anything similar,
the beauty of the feet as the
large Men-of-War lay IN the Har
Dor was sight not soon forgot
ten and especially, so at night
when the vessels wero all illumi-
mated and when they had their
search light parade, there beng
four tremendous search lights on