The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-02-09

ficulty. Well we felt rested when we
had dined and this being Saturday we
decided to make late start the next
morning, and the forenoon drive took
us out OF the state of Oregon and into
the state of California, we eating din
ner at Eureka just across the line in
California and the afternoon took us
right past the base Of Mt. Hood, a
high mountain but with no particular
beauty as it is bare without vegetation
and only thing Of particular interest
was the glaciers which we could
plainly distinguish. That night we
arrived at Dunsmuir, situated in II
valley with high mountains on either
side.
The next day we drove through
mountains to Orland where we spent
the night. During all this day we
could look back and see Mt. Shasta
very plainly. Lumber mills along
road until toward evening we dropped
into valley with large fruit ranches.
We got good start out of Orland
next morning. This city has tempera-
ture ranging around ia in shade in
summer time. We then traversed
Yosemite Valley where olive orchards
predominant and we proceeded to pick
same and of all i'll tasting things,
these are the worst. You know there
is some process they have to put these
through before they are edible. This
days drive was entirely on paved road
with exception of 20 mile detour. Ar
rived at Oakland that night after
ferrying across San Joaquin river.
The following morning we drove
around Oakland seeing places of in
terest including Berkeley and then on
to San Jose where we ate dinner, then
on to Santa Cruz, our destination, ar
rlVlng here at p. m. and on schedule
time, as we had written Mrs. Miller's
parents that we would be here that
day.
Now as to things of interest on our
trip and since we got here. Well the
trip through Montana was not of
much interest as there is not any
change Of scenery and it becomes very
monotonous and one tires of it and the
first real scenery we had was when
we reached the Rocky mountains and
where we spent nearly day and a
half in Glacier Park. There is Lake
st. Mary, Lake Mcdonald and other
smaller lakes tucked away in the
mountain valleys with their ice cold
water, they being fed from springs in
mountain sides. This is govern
ment owned park and of late years
has become quite noted and l found
much improvement over what it was
when | had visited same some 8 years
before.
On our trip out here we crossed the
following mountain ranges, Rocky,
Bitter Root, Cascade, Coast range and
Santa Cruz, however the most beau
tiful and picturesque is the Santa
Cruz range which stands right at our
front door and our house is within a
short distance of the ocean.
Western Washington shows signs Of
prosperity but eastern Washington is
very much like North Dakota and
Montana from appearance stand
point.
AS a matter of fact you do not get
the real scenery and climate until you
have penetrated California for 400
miles or l would say from San Fran
cisco on south. Here we have paved
highways stretching out in every di-
rection through this state, through
mountains, valleys and along ocean
shore. You can travel hundreds of
miles without getting off of pavement
and the scenery is simply wonderful
Santa Cruz is located right on the
ocean shore and our house is within 6
blocks Of the ocean and about like
distance from the mountains. This
country is wonderfully prosperous and
hard times complained of in the east
,n{ 10 IL
state.
For instance last year this state
produced $12O,OOO,OOO.O of petrole-
UNI, $4,000, 100000 Of apples, $SO,0OO,-
10000 OF eggs besides millions of dol
lars of other fruit and vegetables.
Now just stop and compare this with
North Dakota for instance where the
main crop is wheat and when that
fails there is no other source of reve-
nue. to fall back upon and even with a
crop of say 100,0OO,0OO, which is an
unusually large crop, and say at $1.OO
per bushel, it will not any where near
equal in value crops raised here.
Poultry industry is carried on quite
extensively and it seems to be the
easiest thing to do here as all they do
is to get brooder and put 500 eggs
in it and build smudge under it and
in due course of time out comes 500
chickens and commence to lay eggs,
and all the owner has to do is to push
some feed in their pens and pick the
eggs. A hen will net her owner $500
per year hence most Of them have
about thousand hens and get a net
profit from them of 100000. How
ever some that want to get rich quick
have more hens as one man can take
care of any number Of them if he
wants to work picking up the eggs
but presume it becomes monotonous to
pick up too many eggs day.
Yesterday we were up to the State
Red Wood forest consisting of 10000
acres of land filled with these stately
monarchs Of the forest raising their
heads 300 or more feet in the air and
20 and sometimes more feet in diam
eter and more than 5000 years old.