The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-03-26

get a glimpse Of that large city. two
DAYS at North Yakima to learn about
the immense profits in fruit raising
and where | had a pleasant visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Benbow. At Seattle !
/ visited about a month with relatives
! and might have stayed longer if | had
found suitable employment, but the
hest financial system on earth was on
the bum, and thousand of unemployed
docked on the streets of that great
METROPOLIS. | therefore shook its mud
from my feet and turned my face to-
wards this delightful place.
Before | left Seattle, however. | had
several pleasant visits with friends
among them S. c. NJ. Sneve, with
whom | met his mother, Mrs. O. S.
| Sneve. who was fast regaining her
health, and with Thos. o. Slime, who
left Brookings about twenty years ago.
also visited with the Bonlke family
and found Charley ,Bohlke doing well
in the hardware and furniture bust
ness and Henry BOhlke i'm the real
estate business, also Art Allen who is
operating a large printing shop. !
also had the pleasure to meet the
Olberg family on their way to Port
Townsend.
It was on my way from Seattle to
his place that | had my experience.
had to foot the last thirty miles on
a muddy cow path through the forest
and along the beach. | left the station
at noon and was told that when | got
half way would find a place where
could get food and shelter. But |
lust missed the place in the darkness
so walked back to a vacant shack for
the night. ! had seen a couple of COWS
there. one Of which ! MIXED and had
the milk for my supper. AS the
shack was worse inside than outside
STAYED mostly outside until morning
when | started to walk back sever
miles to a hotel to get breakfast.
Half way back | met a couple of
Young SwedeS bound for Nehalem, so
| Joined them, for though | was hun
gry. | still firmly believed that if two
SwedeS could accomplish the hercu-
liam task of reaching Nehalem a Nor
wegian could do it also. So we trudg-
ed long all that day along the beach,
where on rounding as ~promontory,
the waves washed in on us. wet us,
and almost carried US off IL feet,
and from the beach on a muddy COW
path, through the forest until We
reached Nehalem, four o'clock p. m.
where | rushed into a hotel and de-
handed something to eat. | was both
tired and hungry and only the fact
that company revived my dropping
spirit gave me strength to complete
the journey without turning back.
Since | came here | have been SUI
preme ruler of a cattle ranch, contain
ing about 100 steers. This is a posi-
ton that requires considerable admin
istrative and executive ability, as the
turbulent spirits among the steers,
had to be tanned, the fear of the timid
had to be allayed and restraint had to
be administered to those who had the
gall to attempt to accumulate to them
selves all the necessities of life, as is
done among the human family. | al
low no monopolists, good or bad,
among the steers. Each must be sat
isied with its share SO there is plenty
for all.
| have enjoyed the rainy seasO
here. When it rains, which it does
about half the time in winter, the
winds blow from the ocean, waiting
in the mildness of the Japan current,
and the wet weather is claimed to be
the healthiest here. People here much
prefer the coast climate to that of
the Willamette valley as they say it
is milder in winter and not so hot
and dry in summer.
This country like the promised land
of the Jews, flows with milk and
honey. Dairying is the principal farm
industry, although apple orchards and
other fruit does quite we'll. In sum-
mer the milk is mostly brought to
cheese factories, and from $50 to $50