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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH Highway Without a Rival ri .ii.muuna.i.-- . . - f pi l,ih ?" V - , , f . ; 3 ! : -- m - V - r: ,- . ? travel along their Deaeeful ri But they are fewer than they Caesar ruled Rome. For the redwood begins life violently, then takes tree Is as iU time. A eastern an veteran; after Its big as second century the redwood grows Traveler in California Can Journey for Many Miles Beneath slowly, an-- the tree which may be twenty live hundred years old today Majestic Redwood Trees That Have nourished seems little vaster from the base than a tree a thousand years its for Thousands of Years. junior. The tall ferns, the oxalis and the colI doubt if there Is any highway in even along the Klamath liver, where little star flower, and the flesh rhodo and azalea western pink ored the world to match the beauty of the the mountain walls are solid with begreat Redwood highway which Call redwood and the river is full of dead dendron which peek out from Klathe trees the along neath big I fornla has built through the moun- redwood sn:igs. could hardly bring tains and along the sea, up towar I myself to feel that the Indians, using math river cannot be much different from the ferns and foreft flowers and her Oregon frontier. For two bun redwood for fuel, were less than dred miles you travel, most of the At d the national hunk and shrubs which have been openin to time, beneath redwoods which have "movie" house at Scotia, built as Imi- the morning dews of California from the vertical majesty of the Empire tation Greek temples with solid red time immemorial. P.ut beyond their State building's columns und a tow- wood logs for columns seemer a cruel own shade the big trees look out on Yurok In ering green dignity and simplicity waste. The Scot inns, of course, had a changer" prospect. The redwood to make the cut still dians e riwhich no most can and used the building cheapest merely val They are Immense; the eye abundant wood of their neighbor- dugout canoes by which they still takes time to adjust to their height. hood. Sometimes the rujrged trunks A few of the best groves even di stretch skyward for two hundred feet rectly beside the Redwood rlgnway Freak Thunder Storm without a branch ; sometimes the are still In Made Weird Spectacle private hands, ind somt-dabranches almost touch the ground. be to fhe sacrificed may yet And they are abundant ; these are value of boerd feet of lumher. Bu In the log of the British steamer no lone trees, relics of bygone age, most of these Moravian. Capt A Simpson described are state groves parks but whole forests of giants, with few saved, unless from tire, forever. You a thunder storm on December 30. trees but redwood saplings In their pass through the Lane grove, the 1!M)2. just within range of Cape shade. The "Founders' Tree" on the Mather grove, the Williams grove, Verde lighthouse. At 1 :30 a. m., a wind came Dyerville flats, 304 feet high, labeled and other groves dedicated io heroes warm puff of "the world's tallest known tree," of the long fight, and finally even off the African shore. Lightning, nt seems little taller than its neighbors. through the California State Feder first distant on the northeast horizon, That "Founders' Tree," dedicated became almost continuous, with loud and the to the founders of the itroves. dedl thunder. league Madison Grant, John cated to other groups of warriors. All the stars were visible; only C. Merriam and Henry Fairfield Os Such names at first seem ludicrous ; upper clouds, no cumulus. In the sky. born, two of them New Yorkers and they are. of course, no sillier than Captain Simpson bad never before one a citizen of Washington, D. C the Moblloil bay which Sir Hubert experienced a severe thunder storm hints part of the romance behind the Wilklns dedicated to a patron of his without cloud Charles Fitzhugh chain of state redwood parks. Driv- Antarctic flights or the Charles V Talman. who describes this freak ing today through that chain of giant Bob mountains which Admiral Byrd thunder storm in his Science Service groves, you have t o sense of a first dedicated to a doubtful bene- feature "Why the Weather?" goes on : mighty race In peril of destruction; factor, then erased from his maps. "For fully an hour the sky was you feel only that redwoods have They are close kin to Virginia. Caro- one blaze of lightning, and wire flourished her for thousands of years lina and Georgia names of our At- ropes, mastheads, yardarms. derrick and still flourish. But there was a lantic coast. Age lends dignity to ends. etc. were lighted up. All the time when logging was proceeding nt the most violent eccentricities of stays seemed to have glow lamps such a pace that it seemed doubtful grateful nomenclature when it does three to four feet apart, and the whether coming generations would not simply forget them. mastheads and yardarms a bright ever know what California's and The big trees lead the mind back light at their extremities. America's biggest living tilings had Into the prehistoric past of Califor"The most remarkable part of the been. nia. The giants were giants before phenomenon was the extraordinary It was, The league Columbus sighled American land; sound emitted throughout. roused the nn"on so thoroughly that some of them were titans when says the log, exactly like the noise were-an- r. man-mad- of the sparks from the carbons of an arc lamp; or as If several thousands of cicadas had taken up their quarters in the rigging; or the crackling of burning grass or twigs. "This noise was not local near the bridge, hut the officers reported it all over the ship, even in the neighborhood of the noisy steering gear." Literary Digest y dust-lade- tfp,::,,...; 1 ,. t In Holland? No, in Washington PrauarM br National Qeoirraphlc Society, Waahlnfton. U. C. YVNU 8rvic. large groupi of men WITH to lumber mills and weekly, one of Washington's leading Industries is .showing signs of new life after thirty months' rirtual shutdown. Washington, with only brief moments of economic setback, has been forging ahead agriculturally since 1851, when 24 white pioneers 12 adults and 12 children disembarked from a schooner in Elliott bay, an arm of Puget sound. Cheerless (be land looked to these pioneers as they set about making their new homeslte habitable. The women and children, disconsolate, huddled under trees near the water's edge while the men scrambled to rescue their belongings from the fast Incoming tide. One of the women, clasping her 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 mountains, suggested only nostalgic 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 24 grow to a city ef nearly 400.00O Seattle. He can say truthfully that from the ery beginning he lived oft the country. Because the colonists had brought no cattle with them, there was no milk to give the baby that winter of 1851, and he was fed the broth of clnms dug from the beach. The diet must have been nourishing; for todny, a hale octogenarian, he still takes active part In the affairs of the city that he hns watched spring from nothing to magnificence In the span of his years. The story of Seattle mirrors that of the whole commonwealth of Washington. In less than a hundred years the Evergreen state has emerged from to modern civilization, wilderness crowding three centuries of history Into one. Spokane, largest city of east ern Washington, with a population of more than 115,000, celebrated in September, 1931, Its fiftieth anniversary. The United States census of 1S0O found In Washington territory fewer than 12,000 persons; that of 19110 recorded more than a million and a half in the state. Frontier Life Still There. I The Evergreen state Is so close to Its beginnings that In parts of It frontier life, far from being a memory, is a thing of the living present Within 50 miles of Seattle skyscrapers, hardy pioneers are wresting their living from the wilds of the Olympic peninsula. Just as did their fathers of the Oregon trail. Many of them must back-pacsupplies to their homes up mountain trails that wind Impenetrable fastthrough well-nignesses of untouched forest. A state senator from Jefferson county, the son of one of the earliest peninsula settlers, bought an automobile only a few years ago and built for it as convenient a garage as possible 35 miles from his house I To see 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 it and return after a few years' absence la to know that thrill again. Prom Islands to mountain heights Is only a step In Washington. The amazing contrasts of scenery are keynotes of the state's perpetual charm. Shuksan, 9,038 feet high, geologically one of the oldest mountains In North America, thrusts Its ragged pinnacles against a sky of perfect blue, vertical ridges and rugged crags of bare rock showing black among fatten 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 forests below the Ice line, now wrapping a bold promontory in downy whiteness, now breaking free to fly away in clouds.. - . ."Holland of America." One of the last of five Washington volcanoes to fling forth its fires, Mount Baker still occasionally breathes smok-llfrom several craters near its summit; but Its head, rising to an altitude of 10,750 feet. Is turbaned with eter- er two-mont- snow-cappe- d n h y Stat. nal snow, and vast fields of Ice send coursing down Its sides. From the sublime heights the road flows down to pastoral lowlands and fertile fields. Whatcom county Is known as "the Holland of America," for It Is the home of Dutch bulb culture In the Northwest. For more than 20 years commercial bulb growing, which now Is spreading throughout the entire Puget Sound area, has been an Important Industry there. The little town of Lynden shipped 14 carloads of bulbs In 1931. When the tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and narcissi are In springtime bloom, It 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, mother's, ard 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 normal schools, presents a kaleidoscope. Its Chuckanut Marino drive, a splendid paved highway hewed from the high shoulder of mountainous hills overlooking Bellingham bay and the lovely San Juan Islands, Is one of the wonder roads of the state. Everywhere throughout 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 const. Bellingham has one salmon cannery where, in the fishing season, more than a half million pound cans are prepared for the market each day. Lumber and Agriculture. Fishing is an Important source of income to many towns and cities about the sound, but lumbering and agriculture hold the major positions. Near Bellingham Is the government experimental farm, where Dutch bulbs are cultivated and scientifically Improved, and not far away Is a large poultry hatchery devoted to building up superior chicken breeds. The poultry station boasts the champion laying hen of the United States, whose record of 350 eggs In 3(V days is surpassed oilly 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 poultry culture Is raising, and sugar-bee- t growing by leaps and bounds. The striking thing Is that such diversified resources have been developed in a country whose greatest wealth has been and still is In its forests. Taconia Is "the lumber capital of America," a charming, city on Commencement bay, the far harbor surveyed In mous 1841 by Charles Wilkes, the discoverer of the Antarctic continent Ships from many distant ports come to the docks for cargoes, not only of lumber and all sorts of lumber and timber products, but of flour, refined ores, und the abundant produce of the Puy-allu-p valley. Yakima is finous for Its apples; but to visit the "Apple Capital of the World," one goes north, "over Uie hump." to Wenatchee, the town of population that has shipped 24,380 carloads of apples in a single year. Wenatchee and Yakima Together, shipped 45,221 carloads of apples in 1930, more than 40 per cent of the country's commercial apple crop, and, despite the lowest prices In history, realized a profit. Spokane Is In the center of a great playground. Within 50 miles of It are 50 lakes. The citizen who emulates Izatlk' Walton can fish In a different of the year and lake every week-enhave some likely angler's Edens left for holidays; or, If he prefers fishing In running water, he can flick a lly In any one of a hundred trout streams. 12 major glaciers ( d Doomsday The end of the world Is in sight, according to the Inhabitants of island, and they are making no provision forthe future, says the Montreal Herald. They are not planting young coconuts this year nor storinf up anything for the futr e. The 19( people of the Island are the descendants of English sailors who mutinied on the warship Bounty la 1790 and Because of tnelr Tahitian women. Isolation In the Islanders are Coconuts and other fruits brought to the Island by the crew of the Bounty are still growing there. Some of the agricultural Implements still nsed were made from the Iron of the Bounty. Visitors are not allowed to smoke there. Neither are they permitted to drink nlcohol or wear shorts. 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Low Eocfc SENTINEL TYPE Ford ...A PlTm-h- deep-wate- 12,-00- 0 n y? lsyss d the chug chug of white men's niotorboats begins to be heard, even In fishing season. Every year the craze for good roads sends the long white fingers of machine civilization further and further Into what has remained deep Into the Twentieth century, the wild country of northern California Sometimes I think that those groves of redwoods, dedicated to the founders and the money-raiseras thev look down on the long streams of motor cars that wind along the new Redwood highway, must feel lost and lonely. Where does a redwood fit in a world of stream lined cars and managed currencies and international balances of trade? Lewis Gannett, In the New York Herald nfty-year-ol- d li |