Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-06
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WRITES OF INT,EsRsE eTdNG;
EVENTS TO FoRMER5BuRLEIeH
COUNTY FOLKS IN cALIFoRNIA
Claremont, Calf. Feb. %.

famous worker DR.. Grenfell. He might
be called a missionary to- the deep
sea fishermen of Labrador, but when
a man is a sort of special Providence
to over 1000 miles Of storm-swept
coast it takes more than one conven-
tional word to describe him. He has
imported reindeer to furnish food and
motive power on land; has estab-
lished cooperative stores which con-
serve the earnings of the fishermen;
one of these with a capital of 1900
doing business Of $1,000 last year!
He has built mills, hospitals and
boats, being master of his own so
that he can put to sea in spite OF
any weather, to aid the sick in soul
or body. When he swept his points
along the map of Labrador and re-
marked "This is all frozen up solid
now as far south as St. Johns" I
realized for an instant what the tenn
perature probably was around Bis
marck. #$s
We have had snow in sight, loom
ing above the orange trees. since Oc-
tober, and after everv rain the near
bv foothills are whitehead TO within
three or four miles Of us. When the
wind sweeps down over them It
brings an icy chill that.makes coal
fire and the warmest furs acceptable:
Yet there are many winter5days with
no rain or wind and warm sun that
makes white suits quite the proper
thing for dress occasions. the year
round. Bouquets of ferns and mign-
onette with geraniums, yiolets, YER
benas and Shasta daisies are always
in evidence; while the gorgeous GRIM
sons of the Towering ounce and the
yellow blooms. of the acacia trees
light up the lawns. Most of the IA
miliar trees are always green so
there is little difference In our land
scape the year round except that the
hills are green in winter. The palms
peppers, accacias, cinnamon and CAM
phor trees, orange and lemon orch:
ards, all are evergreen as are the
eucalyptus, which however, shed
their bark once year and stand out
with smooth, naked trunks among the
fiuttering brown fragmentsx There
are deciduous fruit trees like the
apricot and nectarine. with plum,
peach and pear, in many back yards.
which let yus know when autumn
comes, and 5the hgs. walnuts md UNI
brella trees afford us shade during
the winter months, but 80 many other
green things spring into luxuriance
with the first rains, these are hardly
missed. This winter has been q rec
ord breaker for rains. many Of them
so severe that all + commun1cation,
even by wire, between Los Angeles
and San Francisco was cut on for
days. We had q. sample, nearby OF
what two inches Of rain in 10 few
hours, over mountainous region.
might mean. A culvert was dlled
with stones brought down and Q
path S feet deep and 40 feet wide cut
across the avenue while many ada
cent ranches lost heavily in soil.
During the Christmas vacation we
had many delightful picnics In the
one, especially, would
need elaborate paintings to assist the
pen in giving those from a prairie
country any definite idea of its pleas
ures.
We wound up, and up, and up.
through the canyon that was cleft
long ago through the mountains by
the roaring torrents from their melt
ing SHOWS. The orange orchards
creep daringly up the mount ain sides,
defended on the north by massive
wind breaks of evergreen trees many
rows deep and often sixty feet high.
But at last we are far above these,
among live oaks and scyamores. the
latter often draped with mistletoe,
and then we reached the native haunt
of pines and frs, which are Snort.
lived In the valley. @
We camped at the foot ofssHog
Back" built q roaring fire from dry
drift cast up by the neighboring
brook, and after dinner proceeded TO-
explore, on foot s5
An automobile road has been blast
ed out from the side and sweep In q
heavy grade around the bold hill so
appropriately named. From FAR be-
low us, In the slopes OF the ravine,
the giant pines which have stood
guard above the foaming waters since
Columbus started on his ventnresome
quest, stretch up above our level and
the wind brings to our feet u offer
Ing Of fragrant cones. The rosd was
made by q power and water eompany
from down the valley which utilizes
the torrents to turn electric motors