The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-03-24
BEAUTIES OF WEST
Described by Mrs. Sinclair, Who
Tells of Meeting Former
HiIISbOrO Citizens.
TERLToN, OKLA,

inc for moment you were forgotten.
No doubt you've heard ere this of
my visit i'm the west. ! left home I'm
June. went to Portland, Ore, visited
my daughter there and some old school
mates on the way which was treat.
Portland is fine city of 2lO,0O0 pop
ulation, covering As square miles.
Ocean steamers come up the Villa
mette river. The draw bridge there
is said to be the largest I'm the world.
The finest specimen of roses grow
there that | ever saw, they certainly
are perfection. The fruit, apples, es-
pecially, are the finest looking of any
ever saw. but lack flavor, rather
tasteless.
July Is a party Of us went out into
the country, the gentlemen wore their
overcoats and we girls" wore our
heavy wraps. Itwas so cool and pleas
ant while the people Of Oklahoma were
sweltering i'm the heat.
On August | went to Seattle, took
i'm the A. Y. p. Fair. pronounced it
fine. yes grand, but there were those
who had attended others, who criti-
cized it as not very good.
The climate is admirable and the
scenery beyond description, a lovely
place for people to live, rich people
for instance, but think the common
people would have to work for live
lihood there same as any where.
Seattle is on Puget Sound and there
are al so fresh water lakes. There are
excursions every day on them. went
one dly across the bay, 80 miles. That
was fine trip, so cool on the water,
ami - it is all the time.
did wish for my boy, CliiI who is
II years Of age, but he was i'm school.
There was so much for him to see and
learn about the battle ships and navy
yard.
| saw the old Pacific, had a fine ride
on it and it was just as grand as had
anticipated.
saw mountains with snow on 'em,
first a great distance away, soon we
were up on the mountain sides where
snow was abundant.
! travelled over lovely roads and
beautiful meadows untouched by
houses. There were rocky bottomed
rivers, clear and sparkling, sometimes
running through the timber, no sound
but the birds twittering in its depths,
such beautiful loving sound-they
always seem to be telling their mates,
81 love you" Then again the road
came out into clearing and the
guarding hills loomed up, the sky now
clear with that moist blue which is so
deep; then it would suddenly fill with
clouds and the earth grow dark, then
they would break and spots of sun
chase the shadows over the distant
hills.
One can walk out before breakfast
in the dew, eat berries with the birds |
and look across from mountain pas
tures to distant hills lying streaked in |
mist, sometimes the sun beating down |
on a sea Of mist, which looks like |
stormy, thunderous clouds; more Of
ten the mist shines in white splendor
and wraps even the near trees i'm a
trembling yapor.
Some Of those mountains are 50 very
high that ones feet are level with the
tallest tree tops and more also. In
every direction rolling fields, hills and
blue with mist, lie in the
sunlight.
/ wish you, sister, would write to
dear, old daddy to cheer him up while
l m away. He is learning TO do the
at home act. He can't con-
ceive why want to see the West. He
thinks there is nothing equal to the
East, and says not day passes that |
he doesn't think Of the good time he
had at the Home Coming in Hillsboro,
and thence TO Jamestown. The art |
of man is great, but the works Of ma
ture exceed everything else. Having
been brought up in prairie country,
the timber looked grand to me. o,
the delight of spending time in the
woods, neither thinking nor feeling,
just existing. / used both eyes we'll,
wished for more. You know Steven
sons verse
Wealth l ask not hope nor love
Nor friend to know me,
All / ask-the heavens above
And the road below me.
Well, had it, and it was glorious.
There are few pretty little towns
tucked away in the mountains and
the people are not backwoodsy, as one
might expect to find them. People
out there do not carry their ciyiliza-
tion on their backs, not by any means.
/ found real crude, genuine folks
among the mountains kind and gen
tie In their manner toward strangers.
Couldn't you look at hill always
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