Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-02

VI Gil v z nave IT now eS ana l
am wearing at my work a heavy. coat
that washed in one day. The stand
We have our water pail on, is one OF
those combination stools and life
preservers found on the ocean boats
Nearly all Of the steamers going up
and down the coast from Vancouver,
Seattle and San Francisco to Alaska
and intermediate points. pass close
to Cracroft Island
We are twenty-six hours ride from
Vancouver via the slow boats, but the
big liners make it in much less time.
Sunday and Monday being very wind
the boats were kept below but today
there were quite a number of them
passing on their way north One in
particular would interest most of the
young folks Wis: a small steamer tow
ing barge, a large flat topped boat,
loaded with freight and passenger
cars on their way to Prince Rupert
for the Grand Trunk Railway.
Logging in this mountainous coun-
try is of course done in a far diff
ferent manner than back in Wiscon-
sin. Altho there are two or three
logging camps on the island | be-
lieve Uncle Billy's Maud is the only
horse that ever set foot on the is
land, unless there are some wild ones
that may have swan over from Japan
However, | have seen none so far.
All moving of logs from where they
fall until they are in the water is
done by donkey engines winding up
long steel cables to which the logs
are attached When enough logs are
in the water to make a boom they
are fastened together and towed a.
way to Vancouver to the saw mills.
To be more definite about how the
donkey does the work would make a
story in itself which I'll leave for the
present.
Uncle Billy happens to be in Van
| couver these last eight weeks on
| business and | have been acting in
the capacity of superintendent, gen
eral manager, chief cook and bottle
washer to their highnesses, the pigs,
| chickens, dog, horse and cats
Mrs. j., her mother and our little
son are expected on every boat from
| Burton, B. c., where we were before
l came here. They are with 'Uncle
Jimmy" Uncle Billy's brother, both
brothers of Mrs. Us, mother, who has
not seen either of the boys for over
thirty years, and thereby is explain
| ed why we are away up in this
| this neck of the woods, viz:-on a
visit.
Is it cold here? No, not very. We
| had two slight frosts before Christ
mas and between Christmas and New
Years, it froze two or three times.
Then ten days ago, four inches of
snow fell and it froze up for week
Cabbages are still growing in the
garden and l saw daisies and salmon
| berries in bloom less than two weeks
ago. [ believe it has never been down
to zero here in winter.
My thinking cap has played out
but no doubt there are other things
that could be added
II this is of sufficient interest I
will, at another time tell something
OF Montana (our home) or eastern
! British Columbia where we spent sew
eral months among the Selkirks men
| toned by Ralph Conner in his books
| would say as a side step that |
| attended the Great Canadian National
Apple Show in Vancouver the first of
November and saw more apples than
| ever expected to see during the re
mainder of my life And right here
| let me tell you that there is nothing
slow about Vancouver.
TWentysix years ago it wasn't on
the map and now its population ex-
ceeds the combined populations of
| Madison, La Crosse, Superior, Green
| Bay and Oshkosh. And the Vancou-
yer World, the leading daily, can hon
estly boast of a greater volume Of
| paid advertising matter for a four
months period than any other
paper in the world During the first
four months of 1910 she carried more
advertising in her six issues a week
than the New York Herald in it's
morning, evening and Sunday edi-
lions combined for the same four
| months.
Apologizing to you for the nonsense
herein contained and rendering you
the information likewise contained
1 am,
Yours respectfully,
Clark w. Jenkins