Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-16
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. d. C.-WNu Saryice.

Washington. d. C--WNU Service.
wv nth large groups of men
M returning to lumber mills
" and camps weekly, one of
Washington's leading Industries is
showing signs of new life after 30
months virtual shutdown.
Washington. with only brief mo-
ments of economic setback, has
been forging ahead agriculturally
since November, 1851. when "a
white pioneers-12 adults and IL
children - disembarked from a
schooner In Elliott bay, an arm OF
Puget sound.
Cherries the land looked to
these pioneers as they set about
making their new domestic habita-
BILE. The women and children. dis
consulate, huddled under trees near
the waters edge while the men
scrambled to rescue their belong
ings from the fast incoming tide.
One of the women, clasping her
two-months'- old child, sat on a log
and wept. To her the primeval
evergreen forest, sweeping up from
the gray waste of the, sound to
misted heights of snow-capped
mountains. suggested only nostalgia
longing to go back to the Illinois
prairies.
Had the young mother been able
to envisage what the son she held
In her arms was destined to look
upon, her tears would have been
forgotten In a dream of wonder
and delight; for that son has lived
to see the settlement of "a grew
to a city of nearly 400,OOO-Seattle.
The story of Seattle mirrors
that OF the whole commonwealth
of Washington. In less than n hun
dred years the Evergreen state has
emerged from wilderness to modern
civilization. crowding three centu-
ries of history into one. Spokane,
largest city of eastern Washington,
with a population of more than
$4,000. celebrated In September,
1881, its fiftieth anniversary. The
United States census of 1860 found
in Washington territory fewer than
$4,000 persons; that of 1890 record
ed more than a million and a half
In the state.
Frontier Life Still There.
The Evergreen state is so close
to Its beginnings that In parts of
It frontier life. far from being a
half-forgotten memory. is a thing
of the living present. Within so
miles of Seattle skyscrapers, hardy
pioneers are wrestling their living
from the wilds of the Olympic
peninsula, just as did their fathers
of the Oregon trail. Many of them
must back-pack supplies to their
homes up mountain trails that wind
through well-nigh impenetrable
Businesses Of untouched forest. A
state senator from Jefferson coun-
ty. the o of one of the earliest
peninsula settlers. bought an auto
mobile only a few years ago and
built for 1t as convenient a garage
as possible-35 miles from his
house,
To e Washington for the first
time is to experience the thrill of
discovering a new country. To live
within its borders, then to go away
from 1t and return after O few
years absence is to know that
thrill again.
From islands to mountain heights
is only a step In Washington. The
amazing contrasts of scenery are
k%eynotes of the states perpetual
charm.
Shuksan, 9.03S feet high. geologi-
cally one of the oldest mountains
In North America, thrusts it's rag
ged %pinnacles against a sky Of per-
feet blue, vertical ridges and rug
ged crags Of bare rock showing
black among tatters of Ice gorges
and foaming cataracts. From the
serrated peaks banners of snow
wave in a high, clean wind. while
mists rise like smoke from the for
ests below the Ice line, now wrap
ping a bold promontory In downy
~whiteness. now breaking free to fly
away in clouds.
HOLLAND OF America"
One Of the last of five Washing.
ton volcanoes to fling forth its fires,
Mount Baker still occasionally
breathes smokily from several
craters ear its summit; but its
head. rising to an altitude of TO-
100 feet, Is turbaned with eternal
snow, and vast fields OF Ice send
~ major glaciers %coursIng down It's
sides. :