The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-08-24

N M skies OF California beulnu,
NY and looking through the
huge pines on the left, the
valley OF Oregon presents a
marvellous panorama to which the
LIQUIDS hanging over the mountains add
N atmosphere effect which no words
IAN portray We are passing through
orchards of luscious apples. and as we
eagerly buy and grCcdily dcrour them
He feel far removed from the land Of
oranges and angels.
As we follow the Willamette river
~ through Washington we pass many
pretty places The houses are rude,
but there is a "homely" aspect about
hem and at intervals all along the
toad one notices modest little
MISUNDERSTANDING solution Of the
content that seems to reign every.
where.
We crossed the sound from Tacoma
70 Seattle on a boat with a record Of
$1,000 miles a ycLr-the highest
known The principal bone of conten-
ton between the river cities Of
Washington is Mount Rainier" or
Mount Tacoma" as you favor Seattle
or Tacoma.
Even with seasIckness ahead of
one there is certain fascination
about vessel as she glides forth into
the ocean We are under the British
flag at Vancouver. but one would not
know II except that the British walk
to the left and the Americans to the
right and accidentally embrace In a
Eoodnatured way. The street cars
run on the left track, and n courteous
this in auto driving The outlook
across tho bay Is picture, but the
town "a sleepy old place; wide
enough awake, however TO charge
American prices for everything Here.
for the first time. We meet the Alas.
kan Indian. a party is bound for the
hop pickinEs They look deplorable
enough to be bound for any old
place. penned In their miserable quar-
ters. Along with them we have taken
on n small farmyarG, shipped In re-
Spouse TO an order from an Indian,
reading: Send me five women chick.
ems. one man chicken"
Bitter Creek, the scene of the re.
cent gold find. is in the Skeena divi-
sion OF the Cassiar mining district,
which. despite the fact that It has
yielded rich finds OF gold, was not
looked upon as one of the hest.placed
mining districts in British Columbia
until the recent discovery. Gold was
first found there in 1884 The first
descriptions n the find spoke of a
mountain of g,ld and of reef al
least 20 miles in length. The noun
tain has diminished" in view of later
news. 1t is said also that It will not
be as easy to obtain the gold as was
anticipated, for very little Of It, Il
any. is free milling gold. Stewart
which was practically unknown year
ago, is growing rapidly, a state OF
things brought about in great part by
the announcement Of the gold find al
Bitter Creek The camp Is as peace
/ full and law-abiding as any country
town. there being only two policemen
/ in the district. whose sole duty Is &c
smoke the pipe of good fellowship.
Ketchikan, our first stop in Alaska
quaint little place, | noticed some
/ neat little churches and few
/ good houses. and everywhere ever
about the humblest shack. cultivated
flowers. am told that there are
more than 1000 different varieties o.
moses and wild flowers found OIL
J these hills. We walked for a mil,
along the broad walk by the river
then crossed on logs TO the other side
1t is the spawning season, and the
river is simply alive with salmon.
WranGle. as q military post. has nov