Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-06-10

4 also Lincoln, Wheatland, the scene
of the riots in the hop yards in 1912;
also Marysville, Yuba City, to Live
! Oak, where we spent one month in
an auto camp. We spent part of our
time picking cotton We made from
1890 to $3.50 per day. Live Oak is
the heart Of quite a thriving fruit
district, especially grapes.
Feb. IL, we started for Portland,
! Ore The first day we passed through
( Gridley, Chico, the home of the Dia-
mond Match factory, on through
Red Bluff, to Redding, where we
! staid over night in an auto camp
/ line Is mostly gravel road and
through mountainous country, yet
| there are only few steep grades.
! The scenery is grand and beautiful.
lGoing from Redding we passed
through Dunsmuir, Mt. Shasta City,
| Weed, to Yreka, where we again
staid in an auto camp. Yreka is rs
miles from the California-Oregon
| line-the last town of Importance in
California. Yreka is an Indian
name meaning "big mountain" The
big mountain seen from there is Mt
! Shasta. This part of the road is
! still mountainous. Five miles in
Oregon we reached the summit of
the Siskyon mountains, elevation
4516 feet. From here we began the
| descent by way of Ashland, Med
ford, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Grants
Pass These cities are located on a
plateau from 1000 to $500 feet high.
| From Grants Pass, elevation 957
! feet, we went through Wolf Creek
on the head of Canyon Creek, where
the elevation again is 2098 feet
| Again we descended very rapidly to
near the village. of Canyonville,
where we again stopped for the
night in very enjoyable camp
cabin.
Feb. Is, we passed through Myr-
tie Creek, .Roseburg, Cottage Grove,
Eugene. Corvallis, Monmouth, Nc
Minnville, where we once had our
home and where we met many old
! friends and acquaintances, thence
on to Portland on the evening of
Feb. Is. In Portland we visited
Thomas Philip Dye and his sisters,
! Mrs. Mary Dement, and Mrs. Ella
Hastings. Their father, VIM. Dye,
was one of the Dyes of Renrock and
moved from there in 1863 to Miss
ouri From Portland, Ore, we con-
tinued over the Pacific highway,
crossing the Columbia river to Van
couver, Wash, where we visited
Mrs. Browns cousins the Sodens.
From Vancouver, we passed through
j Kalama, Kelso, Castle Rock, Toledo,
Chehalis, Centralia, Olympia-the
! capital of Washington; Tacoma, a
great manufacturing and commercial
| city, on Puget Sound; thence on to
Seattle, the metropolis of the north
west.
We visited Mrs. Browns sister,
sister-in-law and nephews, for a
week, then continued our trip over
the great Pacific highway by the way
! of Everett, Marysville, Mount Yer
non, Burlington, Bellingham, to
Ferndale, where We visited Otho
! Wilson, at one time a resident of
Ohio. He formerly worked near
| Cumberland; his mother was q sis
ter of Henry Combs, his father a
brother of Henry Wilson. He is a
! prosperous farmer and has fine
home. From Mr. Wilson's We con-
tinued on the Pacific highway to
Blaine, Wash, where we visited
with Mrs. Minnie (Rex) Kaylor. She
went to school to me the first term
| ever taught. They have beauti-
ful home. Blaine is the Location of
; the great Peace Arch also the
! United States and Canadian custom
offices are located there. AS it is
only 33 miles from Blaine to Van
couver, B. c., we went up there one
day. This is a beautiful drive
! through a rich agricultural country.
We returned to Seattle and staid
another week, after which we came
back to Mr.. Wilson's at Ferndale.
We are now camping II miles from
Mr.. Wilson's near Lynden, the
home of one of the great dairy and
poultry cooperative associations of
the great northwest We are now
located in sight of the great snow
capped mountain Mt Baker and the
snow covered range of Canada. This
is the great Puget Sound country.
We can drive in 80 minutes to the
Sound, where there are fish and
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