From a Traveler's Note Book Observations In and Around Portland and LaFayette Lentz From Oakland Through Written for the The greatest possible harm that environment can do an individual is to lessen his appreciation of To live with the gods often makes one forgetful of the to enjoy the privilege of noble surroundings frequently renders one indifferent to I do not that the mountains of California and through which I passed on my way from Oakland to could ever Completely lose the charm with which they first inspired The whole journey is through a built on a scale for the The irritation provoked by the slowness of the the crookedness of the the multitudinous halts on the is amply counteracted by the myriad vistas of a wild beauty forever greeting the Through Sacramento That ride through the Sacramento with a river on one side that simply snorts as it splashes through the and on the other a mountain that glows with the rich colors of California wild that ride beneath the wings of the two stately mountain-sides which keeps revealing Shasta from nearly every conceivable position ride by Shasta springs where the waters tumble over the mountains through a massy network of that ride later in the day near Montague where rich valleys laugh at the bases of extinct that ride toward sundown when the firs and pines majestically haunt the skies those rides-or all parts' of the one notable are unforgettable visions of defiant glory The many little towns which dol the railway are chiefly agricultural and seem to possess a certain quiescent air of The frequent well-t ranges that bewilder the traveler indicate a certain satisfaction with regard to their future the Rose which graces banks of the Willamette is a city which seems to be in the process of awakening rather than of having fully It has been called the Rose somewhat appropriately partakes of the languor of the But its shipping its strategic its growing railroad are combining to make it realize its latent A line from Browning's will give a slightly exaggerated idea of its was all the by no a too exaggerated I never saw such a profusion of roses of such divers varieties anywhere One at Couch and Eighth is simply massed these blushing while the parks and many private residences are- lost in a rose-laden The wholesale district of the town very naturally is clustered around the while two rather narrow Washing-Ion and typify the shop-Ping From Portland is from this C I ing view of the 3 country n look is simply one may see two cities p JS and the first k second in W 1 iwo the the more renowned c two Oregon and the one with its lIt looming large and nebulous the with ils Adams and and at a ghostly i over a hundred 1 Valley after valley t after farmland after f e and then farmland afi valley after valley after with these varying grees of relative imports make the spectator stand in 1 lost in wonder at their Mi-Old Exposition From Portland heights to old grounds is a but remarkably fine the built entirely out of hauled from the forest o attracts the attention dial The interior is by fir eight feet in and 52 feet high while are exhibits of portions of even greater dimensions Here we can see a representation on which may justly pride herself noble virgin forests rf fir that have well-rewarded discovery of the Lewis and 1 I might go on but my thoughts hare badly jarred by a little year-old who been i annoying me cries of and berry a which is enough to flounder J brightest similes and meek bravest Jw T