The Coolidge examiner., 1933-08-18

From the sublime heights the
road flows down to pastoral low
lands and fertile fields. Whatcom
county is known as "the Holland
OF America" for 1t is the home Of
| Dutch bulb culture in the North
west. For more than 20 years COM
mercial bulb growing, which now
is spreading throughout the entire
Puget sound area. has been an i'm
portant industry there. The little
town of Lynden shipped IA carloads
of bulbs in 1881. When the tulips,
daffodils, hyacinths, and narcissi
are in springtime bloom, it takes
little imagination for visitor to
fancy himself in the Netherlands.
Dutch farmers and their wives and
children. working the gardens, wear
wooden shoes.
Many quaint old customs of the
Netherlands are followed in the
countryside about Lynden, where
hundreds of bulb growers from the
NChhAS hAihC liiCll uOlutS.
A jolly old Gelderlander fashions the
shoes Of alder wood, working with
| knives and chiselS. He can make
six pairs day to his customers
measures. The wooden shoes are
worn only in the fields At night
they are set in orderly rows on the
| back porches-father'S, mothers,
and the children's In graduated
sizes like Goldilocks' bears.
Bellingham, the Tulip city, fourth
in size in Washington and seat of
the largest of the three state nor
! NAL schools, presents a kaleido-
scope. It's Chuckanut Marine drive,
a splendid paved highway hewed
from the high shoulder of noun
famous hills overlooking Belling-
ham bay and the lovely San Juan
islands, is one Of the wonder roads
of the state. Everywhere through
out the city are green lawns and
flowers. They even display their
restful charm along the water front,
among Industrial plants. and about
the entrance of the coal mine that
supplies hundreds of industries I'D
and down the Pacific coast.
Lumber and Agriculture.
Fishing is an important source of
income to many towns and cities
about the sound, but numbering and
agriculture hold the major posi-
tions. Near Bellingham is the gov
ernment experimental farm, where
Dutch bulbs are cultivated and SCI
| entifically improved, and not far
away is a large cooperative poul-
try hatchery devoted to building up
superior chicken breeds.
The poultry station boasts the
champion laying hen of the United
States, whose record of $50 eggs in
365 days is surpassed only by that
Of Canadian hen. Ten years ago
Whatcom county imported most of
its supply of eggs. Today eggs are
among its principal exports.
Dairying is no whit behind poul-
try raising, and sugar-beet culture
is growing by leaps and bounds.
| The striking thing is that such di-
versified resources have been de-
veloped in a country whose great
est wealth has been and still is
in it's forests.
ToonV11o i- sFfhn -
America" a charming, Old-wOrld-
seeming city on Commencement
bay, the famous deep-water harbor
surveyed in 1S41 by Charles Wilkes.
the discOverer of the Antarctic
continent. Ships from many dis
tant ports come to the docks for
cargoes, not only Of lumber and all
sorts of lumber and timber prod
uctS. but of flour, refined ores, and
the abundant produce of the Puy-
allup valley.
Yakima is famous for its apples;
but to visit the Apple Capital Of
the World" one goes to Wenatchee.
the town of $1,000 population that
has shipped 24,3S6 carloads of ap-
pies in single year Together,
Wenatchee and Yakima shipped
1921 carloads of apples in 1880
more than 40 per cent of the coun-
try's commercial apple crop, and,
despite the lowest prices in history,
realized a profit.
Spokane is in the center of a
great playground. Within 30 miles
of it are 56 lakes. The citizen who
emulates Izaak Walton can fish in
a different lake every weekend Of
the year and have some likely an
gler's Edens left for holidays; or,
if he prefers fishing in running wa
ter, he can flick a fly in any one
Of a hundred trout streams.