Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-09-03


turned to the editorial desk Of the
Sheaf. During our absence we found
that "Our boys" were getting out a
better paper than we could have done
if at home, and that fact encouraged us
to stay away longer than we intended
when we started on the long trip.
An account of our travels since we
left the Glacier National Park may pos
sibly interest the readers of the Sheaf.
We left the Park on the evening Of
July q, with memories Of the vast and
wonderfully grand mountain scenery
still surging in our brain We had seen
Gods marvellous handiwork in nature
and now we were to see some Of the
| works of man. Our next stop was at
Spokane, great man-made city, the
! metropolis of Eastern Washington and
also of Northeastern Oregon, where we
spent a day seeing some of the many
| beautiful parks and other points of in
terest. The city is situated on the Spo-
kane river, sixty miles above it's juno
ton with the Columbia, and is an i'm
pOrtant railroad center. How rapid
has been its growth may be inferred
from the fact that in 1880, the year
before the Northern Pacific railroad
was constructed to the town from the
west, the population was only 800, while
now it claims 10000 inhabitants It
is a great manufacturing city and be-
sides is the distributing point for a
large territory. The city covers an area
of nearly 40 square miles on both sides
of the river which has descent of $50
miles within the city limits and forms
two great waterfalls, one of which is
20 feet in height and located in the very
heart of the business section. The i'm
mense power furnished by these falls
is used for operating the street cars,
electric lights and factories in the city
and is also transmitted to all the nearby
towns and to the Occur d-Alene silver
mines 100 miles distant Spokane has
% parks containing total area Of near
~ 1000 acres and boasts of having more
park, area in comparison to population
than any other city in the United States.
1t has also many fine public buildings,
among which the Davenport Hotel, the
Court House. Old National Bank build
I ing, Masonic Temple and Paulsen Block
are notable structures. When we were
walking around in one OF the parks in
the evening we acc0sted a citizen who
stood admiring the pretty scenery as
we did, and entering into conversation
with him we learned he was Mr..
NOrdenmalm, formerly of HallOck,
Mimi, where his father conducted a
general merchandise store in the early
pioneer days Of that town. He kindly
took us around to see the strange ami
mails and other objects of interest in
1 the park. Mr.. Nordenmalm is engaged
in railway Office work and has lived in
Spokane the past two years. a.. .>.
We. left Spokane on Wednesday morn
ing, July %, on the Great Northern
railway, and after an interesting trip
through Central Washington and across
the Cascade Mountains arrived in Seat
tie at about nine O'Clock in the evening.
Central Washington, vast, mostly tree
less plain, looked parched on account
of lack of rain, the same as Montana.
At Wilson Greek, to which place ROsen-
berg, Nicholson and other families, who
lived in the vicinity of Warren in the
early days had moved many years ago,
we stepped from the train to inquire
about these people. We learned that
Mr.. Rosenberg still lives there, also some
Of the Nicholson children, the old folks
having died years ago. When our train
iipulled into Wenatchee on the Columbia
river, we got into fruit district and
for many miles we passed thru orchards
Of apples, peaches,s pears, plums, cher
ries and other fruit. After leaving the
1 Columbia river we soon enter the Cas-
cade mountain region through which
the railroad winds it's way through
densely wooded canyons and mountain
tpasses, with here and there a short
tunnel, climbing all the while until il
|emerges ION the other side of the noun
|tainss and then descends rapidly until
Puget Sound is reached. The region
is heavily timbered, the lumber industry
ibeing one Of the principal sources OF
wealth in the State OF Washington
presently we get glimpse of the placid
\ waters Of Puget Sound at Everett, s.
miles north Of Seattle, and in a little
i while our trains rolled into the Grea1
Northern station at Seattle, where W.
had scheduled another stop in our jour
q ney. We secured accommodations fol
the night in a hotel and on the follow
ing day, Thursday, July. "a, we boarded
I a Puget Sound steamer for Waterman
Ia place on the sound IL miles distan
4 from Seattle, by water, where we wer'
to visit John 3. Ostrom and family, ou7
= good friends from the pioneer days o
Warren. We found them without diff
8 Guilty and we certainly were very gla,
to meet these old friends. The few day
I'VE spent together with them in thei
hOspitable home were among the re,
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