Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-01-19
GREAT WEST is PICKING UP
Description of Wonderful Western
Ride Personal Mention

In late personal letter to the Editor
of the CENSOR Captain Jackson Sill
baugh in writing from Seattle says,
among many other things:
The past two years have been hard
ones for the western people, but things
are coming all right now. For twenty
days IN November our port ranked sec
ond only to New York Every avail
able boat is simply swamped with BUSH
ness and freight waiting transportation.
The millions spent in docking facilities
by our county is bearing fruit
Mrs Silbaugh and are well, work.
ing hard and doing our best Wecount
among our friends here, A E Fraser,
formerly of Waukesha. On a Sunday
in November he invited as for a ride in
his auto and the day certainly Impress
ed US with the variety of Washington's
climate and scenery. We left Seattle
at 10 O'Clock and drove to Snoqualmie
Falls for dinner. You have undouoted-
~ read and perhaps seen pictures of
this natural wonder and if not it would
be impossible for me to give you any
idea of the beauty of the scene. The
power is mostly owned by the Puget
Sound Traction Light & Power Com
pany, the great corporation that owns
the street cars here, the interurban
lines, the street cars at Tacoma, Ever
EFT, and other cities and furnishes cleo
trio power for manufacturing and other
uses here and in other Washington
cities. In fact II is one of the .'horrid
examples pointed out by the Roosevelt
conservatlonist of the results of state
ownership of power sites | am get
ting away from my subject however.
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baugh had prepared and continued our
Journey to the summit. By the way,
our lunch was eaten under a tree near
the falls. This by way of emphasizing
the cold wave that struck US before we
had travelled much farther. Our way
followed Sunset highway. The state
completed this magnificent highway
over the mountains about a year ago.
The entire distance is like city street.
Constructed by the best engineers, it
winds up the mountain with the easiest
kind of grades. In some places you
look almost directly upward TO the
great bridges, tunnels and tracks of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul rail-
way In crossing the bridges over the
deep cham you almost gasp in wonder
at the beauty of the innumerable falls
in the little stream that follows the Fa-
vine. A few miles from the summit it
was showing and the trees on the sides
of the mountains were laden with snow.
At the top the snow was three or four
inches deep. We returned about z
O'Clock, having driven little over 100
miles. This road is a favorite drive
for autoists but we had never before
made the trip since the completion OF
the highway There are beautiful drives
every direction but we felt that none
compared with this one.
| Miss Clara Rusk, daughter of Albert
Rusk, holds a responsible position as
stenographer in the office of the Indus
| trial Insurance Commission Ok wash
lington. She has until recently been
employed in the Seattle Office of the
commission but has just been promoted
and after the first OF the year will be
N the head Office at Olympia.
have thought every summer that
you surely would make US a visit soon.
but guess you are a hopeless case.
The latch string is out IL you ever come
this way Mrs Silbaueh is here with
me ED joins me in sending best regards
to the family and friends and best wishes
for Happy New Year.