Evening star., 1931-04-19

from travel although I've visited all the coun-
ties AS soon some one mentions a county
the diagram of it pops into my mind and I
know whether it is rectangular or l. shaped or
whatever shape it is, and the remainder comes
easy. It is simply case of making memory
of geography my hobby"
Swift was young when he first determined to
"see America first" and his first sight Of coun-
ties outside Of his own State came in the 9Os
when he accompanied carload of horses to
Iowa. In 1906 he made his first extensive trip
by train and since that time has Travelled nearly
1000 900 miles by train and auto.
Counties are just as important and interesting
to him as an ancient stamp Is to stamp col
lector or the discovery of rib OF dinoSaur
Is to an archeologist
Counties" he says certainly vary In the
different parts of the country. The last county
visited, Loving County, Tex, hasn't county
seat, while Bristol and Essex Counties, Mass,
and Woodruff County, Ark, each have three.
I'm fact there isn't much of anything in Low
ing County The main building when visited
there, was little shack that was post ONCE,
store and service station combined. And TO
top everything of, the fellow in charge was
cripple. Until such a county has $50 voters it
Is not entitled to organize Counties Of this
nature generally attach themselves to . neigh
boring county for judicial purposes.
Counties with three county seats generally
have them located in the populated areas and
move their county court and other officials to
accommodate the people. You'll flnd as a rule,
that in counties with more than one county
seat, township government IS stronger than
that Of the county, marked exception to the
general rule"
Many counties are nameSakeS of former Pres
idents Swift has found in his travels.
There are 80 Washington, 26 Jefferson, IS
Franklin, and "a Lincoln and Jackson counties,
he points out. Delaware has the smallest num-
Der of counties with three, while Texas with
254 heads the list.
"The largest and smallest counties are 10
Gated in the East and West coasts. San Bernar-
dino County, Calf is the largest, while New
York County Is the smallest.
/" A BBEvnLE COUNTY S. c., is first alpha
betically, and ziebach County, S. D.,
is last
"Cle Elum County, Wash, Is the f&rtheSt
west; Lake Of the Woods County, Minn- Is
northernmost; Washington County, Me- Is
most easterly and Morrow County, Fla. extends
farthest south"
Seven deer, a railway locomotive and an ex-
cited train crew form the background for the
most interesting incident OF all encountered by
Mr. Swift in his travels It's an event. he says.
he'll never forget.
zone Sunday, few years ago." he says, 'I
was riding on mixed train on new railroad
in the Everglades in Florida. 1t was weekly
train through newly-opened section OF the
State, and contained many freight cars in addi-
ton to the one passenger coach. I happened
to be the only passenger.
"The right of way was all newly fenced. with
barbed wire on the top. Suddenly the train
started to slow down and when looked ahead
I saw seven deer grazing along the tracks. Six
jumped and cleared the fence. But one big.
antlered buck just couldn't make 1t. He tried
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