The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1914-02-06
tonites" because they brought their
home town name with them, and when
they arrived in California they arranged

they arrived in California they arranged
that they should still be from "On tario.
They came from Drayton, Ontario, to
Drayton. North Dakota, and to a land
flowing with milk and honey, but while
they took the cream from the milk, and
strained the honey from the comb, they
now only remember that the old
COW had crumpled horn and the bees
had stings attached to their tails.
They culled the flowers from the gard
en- spot of the world, and, looking back.
wards, find they only left thorns. They
have no good word for the bridge that
carried them safely over, and yet none
OF these would now be able to live in
California 1t they had not first come to
North Dakota, and the "eats" as well as
the "adornments' of that banquet table
were literally. as we'll as tiguratively, at
the expense of North Dakota.
In the details of the Exhibits" there
also seem some incongruities. In a
land where the only hay brought to
market is either oat or wheat straw
where did they get the ''sod" with which
to build even a miniature stable? Any.
way real "sod" building of any kind
might be pleasant change for the eyes
which see nothing but a. dull, dirty
brown landscape for ten months in the
year.
Then the "alkali well' might have
seemed supeltiuous in land within
whose borders soda lies IN square mile
quantities and boraX T. snuvrlicd IN
from the surface of the earth in twenty
mule team loads
Then why did these people 90 So far
apace for "valley" ex,iN,s: Mry SO far
Tor IA skeleton at T.. + s.a,t: Just
over in the next co:i,y j famous
"DeaIh Valley" whcrs aunlun end al l.
NAL bones lie birarl.lii-. a. r!,.n.liuIy ns
such "REMINISCENCES l>sl 10 be ON the
plains of North Dakota. ih remains of
the extinct buffalo. la the nutu. ,ous
'Dra;n Valley" mtn aua h,.a~., ,yr,sh
for want of -, KAl ". - and their
BONES cuu'd have % ). Wuy.u INTO ian.
Vas, I'' "'Il".n"n : i" -a., th' lanquet
ers .;ple and Gr,D !j:ant
Bat ilr onr,~t.f.}"., .o i ol nature
Was the ropv iron ,nr. .ou 10 the STA
be. n lhlng cout,i 4uj,ia ;ht observers
Imagination to Il realization of the ter
r"rs u! tn" Nn.t.} Dakota blizzards like
rs Now while we are
! "''l n"Im tf.t Nor! Dakota has
h'!z% rA i, s. II as some other states
We Mai. I'a" ii,n attention Of the peo
/ pie f'uln Ontario" hat for Some un-
known reason, perhaps thu Lord knows.
thai since Lhry lri. \ urth Dakota there
have been very few ,f l.p o!d fashioned
o'lzZard~, whIie AS curious coincidence,
Just about the same Time Tho y got settled
IN the new "Ont"rin' the whole state Of
California VIA, shaken by IA terrible earth
quake and the CITY of San Francisco de.
stroyed, and that state has had a subter.
ranean trembles regularly ever since-on-
ly last week friends write they were
awakened by dishes falling from shelves
and that people fled for safety
But that brings another comparison.
In North Dakota the rope, if used, woul,l
certainly mean safety, because the user
could find resting place for his feet,
but will some California immigrant
please tell US how he would get from
the house to the stable across yawning
chasm made by an earthquake? Would
he walk the rope?
We also admit it to be cold at times in
the state of North Dakota bnt we never
had our orange and lemon trees frozen
solid as they were in California only two
years ago.
California is great state in miles.
1t is somewhere about $50 miles long.
2oO broad and from valley to mountain
top about five miles thick. '.They have
The finest climate in the world" Sure,
for they have all tho climates of the
world. Snow and oranges are near
neigh bors in that state. At the top of
the mountains it is like the banqueters
representation of North Dakota while
the deeper the valley the more like Ha.
des, and some valleys are two hundred
feet below sea level.
For all its vast extent in miles, Cali
fornia is for the most part barren ,unin.
habitable waste. and we doubt If it has
as much arabic land as Rhode Island.
Vast mountain ranges traverse it north
and south, and the state is divided into
wet" and ''dry" without tn. benefit Of
local option. A narrow strip on the west
of the mountains along the seashore IS
"wet" for part of the year, (last week.
Los Angeles had a 800, 600. food dam.
age) while east of the mountains no land
produces crops without irrigation, which
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