Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-16

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 1891. When the tulips.
daffodils, hyacinths, and narcissi
are In springtime bloom, II takes
little Imagination for a 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
mother country make their homes.
A Jolly old Gelderlander fashions the
shoes of alder wood, working with
knives and chisels. He can make
six pairs a 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 C%huckanut Marine drive,
q splendid paved highway hewed
from the high shoulder OF noun
famous hills overlooking Belllng-
ham bay and the lovely San Juan
Islands. Is n 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 up
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-
lions. Near Bellingham Is the gov
eminent experimental farm, where
Dutch bulbs are cultivated and sci
enti1cally 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
1868 days is surpassed only by that
Of a 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 its forests.
Tacoma Is "the lumber capital of
America a charming, Old-world-
seeming city on Commencement
bay. the famous deep-water harbor
surveyed In lS41 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 -four, refined ores, and
the abundant produce of the Puy-
allup valley.
Yakima is famous for It's apples
but to visit the Apple Capital OF
the World" one goes to Wenatchee.
the town OF 10000 population that
has shipped 24,388 carloads of ap-
pies In a single year. Together,
Wenatchee and Yakima shipped
1921 carloads of apples In 1890,
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 so miles
Of Ii are SO lakes. The citizen who
emulates Tzaak Walton a 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 fy In any one
Of a hundred trout streams.