The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-21
Second Installment in Ac-
count of Hamilton
Party's Trip
MADE SIDE TRIP
INTO MEXICO
Motored Through Regions of Wonder
ful Scenery, Large Forests and
Mountainous Country - Fished in
Waters Of Crater Lake.

1'AooulaAuouS CounCIy - E1Shed in !
Waters of Crater Lake.
Herewith The Reformer prints the sec
ond installment of the account of the an
tomoblle camping trip made during the
summer months by Dr. and Mrs. Fremont
Hamilton and son, John w. Hamilton,
this article dealing with the trim from
the time they left Seattle until thew ar
rived at Pasadena, Cal, ready to return
home. 1t was coast trip occupying six
| weeks The first installment took the
party from Brattleboro to Seattle, Wash
The third and concluding installment will
lie published soon.
In the account of the first lap of their
trip typographical error made the dis
tance covered in 10 hours in South Dako-
/ Ia li0 miles through rutted roads. the
sand reaching nearly to the hubs This
| should have read 40 miles in 10 hours. or
an average OF four miles an hour for the
entire day
The tourists were joined at Seattle by
Mrs. Ella B. French of Orange, Mass
who accompanied them into Mexico and
return 10 1asddena.
| Alter leaving Seattle they toured the
tlmberlands of Washington. visited Ia
coma, going to the top of Mt. Rainier,
which IS 1880 feet above sea level. Par
adise Valley is as far up as motorists can
go and this is at the top of Glacier noun
tam Here one can look out upon a green
valley and at the same time see snow
banks. One can pick Easter lilies with
one hand and form SNOWFALL with the
| other
Then they motored southwark so miles
through Ballard, where they saw the larg-
est single mills III the world, and to
amp Lewis, the largest permanent army
| nomination and training cantonment.
! which contains 5000 acres. Thence going
through tmberlands where it was sparse
| ly settled they ferried across the CoIum
hla river and passed along poor roads I'M
] tll within Is miles of Portland, whence
beautiful roads took them into the city,
one Of the most beautiful they visited
Leaving Portland, they motored As miles
over the Columbia river highway. the
most picturesque mountain boulevard in
America or Europe. along which there are
numerous waterfalls. cascades, hig and
stately cliffs of wonderful formations. This
lore inaccessible gorge of the Columbia
| river, as it is here through the Cascade
mountains that road was b,slt at an an
proximate cost of Sl,5OO,000 They be-
came acquainted with the Oregon highway
commissioner, under whose supervision
the highway was constructed and who
has had placed at his disposal $50. 600 900
to be expended in the next three years on
highways in Oregon 1t is his anticipa-
ton to bring about, through the highway
departments OF Washington and Califor-
ma. the construction and extension Of
the highway from Vancouver to Mexico
They passed through the Hood River
orchard section, famous the world over for
its Spitzenberg and Yellow Newton ap-
pies Many of the orchards we're located
on hills so steep that New England or-
chardlst would refuse to set the trees
out. yet they have a value as high as
$1,000 an acre. Here they picked their
first apples, loganberries, gooseberries.
hlaekberries, raspberries, Japanese wine
berries, Strawberries and prunes They
returned over the Columbia highway to
Portland.
The capitol was visited as well as oticr
interesting places. The section through
which they passed next comprised lai &c
wheat fields. where a harvesting machine
drawn by IS horses driven by one man
was in operation. Two men managed the
machine, which cut the wheat and doiiv-
cred the grain on the ground sewed ND
in sacks
Thence to Eugene, they passed through
large timber forests Oregon Claims one
sixth of the standing timber OF the Tnir-
ed States and this was readily compre-
hended when it was known that some OF
the trees We're estimated to cut 5000
square feet of lumber This also was the
home of the Douglass highway and the
Hamilton party went up the Mckenzie
pass Timber had grown so near the
road that notches had been cut in some
trees to enable some of the larger cars
to make the trip. That night they
camped near Lost lake and next day they
visited the lake, from which the water
runs out of sight and re-appears about
six miles below in large springs which
make up Mckenzie river. As they passed
up the mountain, for three miles they
went over larva beds with steen grades
and snow banks at the sides Here, too
they got their first idea of what erevice
meant in glaciers, it being almost impos
sible to walk over them.
After descending the east slope they
found themselves in hot. dry, sandy coun
try again with snow capped peaks on botl
sides for miles and miles befole they
reached Bend
The road from Bend to Crater Lake took
them through territory so sparsely set
tied that the nearest place from Bend
where automobile supplies could be
reached was us miles. They saw the Lake
by moonlight and were up before light III
the morning and travelled around the rim
of the lake, which is 1914 miles in circum
ference and is the only mountain rim
4 road in the world. The water level i.
Loco feet below the rim and is 1000 feet
deep. 1t is of a handsome turquoise along
the edge and in the center is deep blue
but when taken ND in the hand is Ms
| clear 40 crystal Tho,r dascandad "a AZ