The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11


Where Rolls the Columbia.
with the recnforct ment OF the Sec
America First campaign by tho cut
ting Off of European travel in war
times "a bourgeoning Of Western liter
ature is in order. The sun hines
kindly upon the hayinaking activities
of the press agents of tn" Coast.
bockadcd Europe works for the suc-
cess of the Panama exposition, though
comparatively few of those who press
through it's turnstilcs may have
reached the goal by way of the canal
whose completion ,absit omen Of
Culcbra) IL celebrates. The healthy
rivalry Of the Coast States becomes
little lopsidcd with the boom for the
South. but the Northwcs, is vocal.
GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM parades its
attractions in series OF "glimpses
of the modern West in the making. :
IN the oregon COuRtrH uutnams) !:
the mountains. plains. rivers. farms,
towns and outlying hardy settlers of
! the Mort Invest where men may stll
taste the hardships and triumphs Of
pioneering. even though they enter
I the wild aboard motor car.
/ The valley Of tho Willamette "a
name which Orcgoniars rhyme. in de-
fianCe Of the law of the double conso-
! nant, with a profane eXplctive) is a
{ remarkably diversified landscap', with
I timber land and trout stream, hill
and dale and their bigger brothers
mountain and valley; here the calm
ness of rural retreat In Suf-
folk. and near 10y the rugged pictur
csQueness OF the Scottish Hollands
\ valley Of content; the extreme OF
contrast to bald. bold Shasta and
Hood and the rolling. turbulent food
of the Columbia cleaVing in a gorge
three thousand feet deep the mountain
wall tina; struts off the coastal region
from eastern oregon and Washing
ton. Where the rivers meet, gentle
Willamette and bury Columbia. there
only seventy years out of the wilder
ness. stands prosperous, proud Port
land. Statistics do not belong in out
door books. but Portland is addlns
t,iphcrs AT the east end Of hers tina
match in bigness the spirit OF thu
land and there is Romance back o
the figures. as they know who scan
half IA dozen years ago pulled stump
Of the forest primeval on the very spo
where now "A million dollar hotel doe
business or swapped for a bag Of nou
lots now priced IN siN figures.
Central oregon occupied an cdI
in the stream ~ Western progress.
The channels Of migration. draw
first by the Watercourscs and the
, by the railroads. in both cases ".g
norcd the uninvitine portals" In t.
. odd times" half a dozen years age
the author traversed the region D.
stage coach. now the traveller owe
his progress to gas" power instea
, Of horse power. Sow in the heart q
, this 10000. goo acre 'empire'-ho
much more imperial are figures /
, acres instead of square mllcs-is
, whole nest" OF the un-idle ric
ranchlng. raising alfalfa and hetwce
, times flashing cross country IN
$1,000 AUTOMOBILES.
, MarNcls Of agriculture are pei
, formed 10y the homcsteadcrs by mean
| OF irrigation: first, parchcd lands
= sage; then tho plough. Water in
% master ditch. and countless man mac
/, riNulcts between the furroVs
| New England writer saw the hom'
. stcadcrs' life with other eyes: | haN
: seen many sorts Of desperation lat
= none like that of tho men who attcm'
Ia make e. home out of $50 acres
9 High Desert sage. y man ploughii
= the sage--his woman keeping y
4 shack-a patch OF dust against II
= dust, shadow within the shadow