Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-12-23
MIR. w. G. YOUNG HEARD FROM
Portland, Oregon. Dec.
Editor Clinch Valley News:

II lldS DccE 81 lOilS SllCc nave
written to you, that no doubt you
West" but have only been like
"Brer Rabbit" laying low, and say
ing nothing do not mean that there
has been nothing to say, for theie
/ is so much that really do not know
where to begin, and when | get start
| cd, will know less about when to stol,.
! would like to tell you about the
wonderful fall weather, that people
here said they had never seen Tn.
like before. suppose they must
have been natives, as it was just
about like the average fall in S. w.
Virginia, the smoke from the forest
fires giving it the appearance of liz
dian Summer. and then came the
Multonmah County Fair, that at
tended one day, and | must say that
for County Fair it was the best by
far that ! ever saw. The exhibits Of
blooded cattle mostly of the dairy
breeds. and the different breeds OF
draft horses, would have been hard
o boat any where Then n little lat
er the international Pacific Horse
and Cattle show here in Portland.
with the best of every thing from
fine horses down to rabbits, from
Oregon. Washington, Idaho and CAL
iforlia, was an exhibition that was
,rorth going long way to see, but
| cannot describe it. Old timers, who
came here in the early fifties tell me
Rat the seasons here have changed
wonderfully, that it did not rain hard
then, but just fine drizzlc, called
Oregon Mist that kept up day and
night for about nine months in tn
year. just holding up long enough
IN the summer to let the settlers cut
some grass, and do their harvesting.
but 1t changed the habit, think be-
cause OF the Oregon weather mm,.
having heard so much about the
hard rains in the East, for on the
'9'h OF Nov. it commenced to rain
and five and one half inches Of ran.
,eii mere IN Portland in twenty four
n ,.,.,i IN some parts of the
willamette Valley six inches fell in
that time; and maybe you think ".
didn't have high waters We had :,
sleet that held on one day. lust long
enough TO play havoc with the telc.
"hone service. putting eleven tho,.
sand six hundred and three phones
out of service. but l never saw an.
statement of the number of pole:
that were laid low. Out here slcct
is called "silver thaw," as I sun
pose it sounds nicer. but why thew
saw frcze is thaw, is past INV
comprehension. but then YOU know
some folks will say any thing. The
river here rose seventeen feet in :,
few days and over the most part of
Eastern Oer~on they had snow H.
stead of rain. n hundred and fifty
automobiles We're abandoned on tn,
Columbia highway, to be completely
showed under. and covered by drifts.
fhe railroad bridge at Eagle Creek
was washed out, on the Oregon side
OF the Columbia and the tracks
we're not cleared for two weeks so
inns could come through, all trat
lc had to be detoured over the north
bank road on the Washington side:
and thereby caused one of the worst
railroad wrecks that ever occurred
here, in which eleven pesons were
kiiled Outright and sixty more or les
injured. Taken all over the state II
is said to have been the most disas-
trousc storm to stock and properly
IN twenty five years. / have men.
toned this in n casual way to let
YOU know that when Oregon starts
| out to do something, something is
GOING to be done, and she is going
TO start something, that is going to
be world beater, for she wouldn't
~. on record as having started any
thing less, and invite visitors to
come from the East and foreign
countries to see it.
The Legislature has been ctIled l.,
authorize the people over the state
to vote in the spring to be taxed l.,
fnance-the big, Hydro Electric FIX
position to beNheld here in 1925. |
Portland has already voted on her
quota three millions and it carried
about five to one. Now if the state
votes her quota it will be assured
TOR what ever else is needed TO pu3
it, through, "Uncle Sam" will be ask. !
ed for: and don't you give him out
when it comes to doing things. for
he will do any thing that he wants
TO. if it constitutional, and if he
doesn't do it it's because it is uncon-
sttntional. Now if this show comes
=, life as is confidently expected it
~, he the biggest show on earth.
=" 'ust as soon as the grc,-ni is
broken l am going to turn Rooster
and boost. for all that is in me.
It is not the success of the sho -
that l am. interested in so much. for
really think it might pull through
without my help. Ny greatest IN
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