The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-05-09
Fine Advertisement
of San Juan Scenery

The Seattle Times of last Sunday
contained almost full page of illus
trations of striking scenes in this
county from photographs taken by j.
A. Mccormick. the we'll known scenic
and portrait photographer. who has
been spending the past week here.
The pictures and the accompanying
descriptive matter constitute one oi
the best advertisements that the beau
ties of this county have ever he'd.
The Times says:
"From the most northwesterly
point of the state which bears the
name of Washington. itself the most
northwesterly in the Union, a likeness
of the Father of his Country. chiseled
by nature through a multitude OF
years, looks out across the water to
British territory. q silent warder of
the nations outpost. This great
sculptured ruck upon the beach is
such replica of the profile of Wash
ington that it might have been the
work Of n Gilbert Stuart. But nature
as the sculptress. using as her tools
the tapping waves of ages. has set up
this monument to the greatest Amer
ican. in honor of the country. and the
state which bears his name.
"Had the international boundary
line been moved FIVE miles to the
eastward. as it passes among the isl
ands that form the archipelago Lying
between Vancouver Island and the
mainland, this statue of Washington
would have been on British soil. But
evidently nature had the boundary
dispute between Great Britain and
America settled long before the ques
tion nearly involved the two nations
in war half century ago. Washing
ton Rock lies at the waters edge on
Waldron Island. the most nol thwester
ly of the San Juan group of islands
to the northward of Puget Sound.
s'Not far from Waldron Island ma
ture has become shipbuilder and
has raised an island out of the water
that looks like modern battIeship.
even to the fighting tops. that passing
vessels. not knowing it to be of earth
and rock, have been known to ealute
with their whistles what they supposed
was majestic representative of the
American navy. Battleship Island,
or as it is sometimes called. More's
Island, is located at the entrance of
the Strait de Haro, the main channel
between Vancouver Island and the San
Juan group.
s'The tides have performed another
queer feat in converting an immense
boulder on the beach of Sucia Island
into the likeness of a Chinese. with a
grass hat like an immense bowl
over his head. The size of ''The
Chink," as the rock is called. may
be realized by comparing it with the
sheep that stand beside it. and which
look little larger than rats.
''Still another freak of nature
among the San Juan Islands is Turtle
Back Mourtain, which gains its
name without much stretch of the
Imagination. AS boats glide among
the islands on the smooth water. this
mountain seems to creep and crawl
like monster tortoise.
'sThe island in front OF the summer
resort of East Sound looks as If il
might have been brought across . the
Pacific from a Japanese lake. Its
stunted trees are Oriental, its build
ings look like pagodas. and it seems
to rest in q summer sea for all the
world like the Flowery Kingdom.
Between the island and the beach il
the favorite resort of bathers.
s'These islands of San Juan are
becoming known far and wide for theil
beauty, and each year more and more
people visit their summer resorts OF
run their yachts into the sheltered
harbors and coves that are almost al
numerous as the pebbles upon ths
beach,
ssThe photographs are from the col
lection of J. A. McC Cormick. who spend.
the summers in the San Juan group. :
Jas. Tulloch. the we'll known Orcas
.cpnra ovnhor1iue waa ovar froyn h;<
fine home near East Sound the first
Of the week to visit his sons and theil
families. He reports the prospect FOL
the steady and even rapid growth oi