Mountain advocate., 1921-01-14
INTERESTING LETTER
Yakima, Washington.
December 25, 1920.

come card and my thoughts go back
easily to old Knox at this Christ
mas time. just feel Hike writing a
letter to someone there occasional
ly so will infict this one on you.
Cerena is upstairs dolling up fer
big dinner we are going to have
with Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. Hargis. of
Breathitt County. Ky. Hargis is
son of Senator Alex Hargis OF Jack
son, and his wife is a daughter o.
John c. Eversole (Judge). They
came here in the summer of 1913
and bought a fine forty acre orchard
right between two Of my orchards
paid $45,OOO.OO cash for it and
bought a house in the city for SIS,
10000. Mrs. Hargis is a fine cook
SO you have an idea what We are OK
pecting.
We are enjoying good health aud
all the Kentucky people here. arc
getting along all right. Eversole has
been the cause of a number Of fam
lilies coming here from Ouslcy Co.
most of them with very small cap
Iital---but they are all getting along
and lettering their condition.
| have, like a. w. formed the
habit of staying close to my business
every day in the year and don't get
away from here often. We went over
to Seattle in September. 1t is surely
one of the finest drives on the Amer
lean. continent. The first ten miles
is thru the highly developed orchard
district with fine homes, bungalow
style. on every ten acre tract. Fine
big school buildings and everything
that goes to make up an exceedingly
rich community Then we cross into
the broad and prosperous Wenas
Valley. But it is a different country
altogether. The farms are large.
$50 to Gao acres with big farm
houses of plain architecture, and big
barns and silos. Herds of HolsteiL
dairy cows and other herds of beef
cattle. Big meadows, corn fields
and wheat fields, oats etc. No or
chords only few neglected old mp.
pie trees about tho houses same as
In Kentucky. As we SO up thru the
Wenas Valley the farms set larger
and We get more out of the good
farming district as the altitude In
creases till II becomes a strictly
stock country with houses far apart.
At about SO miles we cross a high
divide and go down a long but easy
grade in the Kittitas Valley which
is a very rich and prosperous valley
something like the Wenas. and then
we start up Cascade Mountains pro-
per. We have been climbing up all
the way and we are soon in the big
timber A fine road winds around
thru the timber up to where we
leave the Kittitas Valley. We arc
going thru what was desert country
where nothing but sage bush AMI
bunch grass grew without irrigation.
When We start up the mountain we
are in Il rainy country with snow led
mountain streams roaring down and
many beautiful falls. Way up on
the mountain side there are some
fairly prosperous farmers with big
level fields of oats and timothy il
being too high up for alfalfa or corn
Farther on up the mountain the tim
Der is bigger and thicker and nearly
at the top at an elevation of over
1900 feet there is a fine lake five
miles long There is summer re-
sort here and we stayed over night.
They serve a chicken dinner for 50
and it's worth it.
. Next morning we were soon at
the summit of SuOqualimc pass and
when we start down on the west
side Of the Cascades it is another
cOCntry-more rain, more under
growth in the timber and lots us
ferns of different kinds. some six
or eight feet high. AS We get down
Il ways we come to Cuoqualime Falls
where the river plunges over Il pro
cipiCc about 100 fest. Here there
is big hydro-electric plant that fur
nishes power for Seattle. From here
on there are lots Of wild blackber-
reS but they are different from our
southern berry. They are on ever
green briars--that is the leaves are
the berries look and
taste about the same as our berries.
Before we reached the summit there
were some buckle berries.
When we get down the mountain
on the west side there is fiat
country covered with timber un-
dergrowth and briars and the farm
ers are not very prosperous, but Gne
roads, 4 fine drive of several miles
around Lake Union brings us into
Seattle--Or one can ferry across.