Show Little Stories of Travel 11V JOSHIll HUGHES I reached Philadelphia Friday September Sep-tember 24th in safety and good health after a journey of IWO miles across Utah Idaho Oregon Washington puget Sound by steamer Canada from Van couver to Toronto thence to Buffalo Jew York and Philadelphia My trip is fraught with so much interest the country passed over gave evidence of such beauty of grandeur of awe and of the sublime that I would be very pleased if you would give space in your paper for a series of letters describing the same My journey east covers a period of twelve days I left home on Sunday Sept 12th going as far an Salt Lake City spending the day and part of Monday with the folks in the city Monday afternoon I went to Ogden over the D R G and that night I left over the Oregon Short Line for Seattle Washington Tuesday morning I arose from my berth to look out upon an almost limitless limit-less area of unsettled country Millions of acres still remain to come under the i magic wand of Snake River water and of the Idaho husbandman and his fair helpmate 0 my Idaho my Idaho what a great future there is in store for thee I This the Idahoian sings from morning until night from Gov Brady to the mosthumble servant in the state Civilization has always followed the course of rivers of lakes and their great emptying places the seas and the oceans There is no exception to this rule in Idaho The railroad follows the entire course of the Snake River and then continues its way along the Columbia On each side of these mighty streams are dotted here and there villages towns and cities and all slow manifestations of thrift industry and prosperity To tell adequately the story of such II country one would have to discuss extendedly the fullest results of vine culture and the products of practically every type of fruit tree known in this latitude tho great annual rush of mil ions Of bushels of grain to scores of warehouses the picture of well stocked modern homes the rangingof mammoth herds on many hills the resounding Blasts from many minesIt would be the same story as told of Utah The overcoming of the waste places of the earth and making them fruitful It would be a story of railroads and allied enterprise of the great impending contest con-test between the water and 1 the rail haul it would be a story of power development de-velopment of new manufacturies and of every condition commercially and otherwise that makes the home beautiful beauti-ful and the people therein happy and contented Such thoughts occur to a person as tie looks out on the checkered picture before him I leave Idaho now and ask you dear readers to visit with me in Oregon and its great city Portland to be continued |