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Show ; . Just Glancing At The West I t- .j. .,. .k J Optimistic Railroad Thinks You Can See All Our Mountain Country In 14 Days . i In a high mountain valley in the main range of the Rock- 1 ies a man lived for 2G years, perfectly happy on a forest t claim. Not a day of i the 2C years i has been dull; j t every one has , been full of in- i t e r e s t. The man lias studied stud-ied the birds a n d animals j that are his ' neighbors. lie I has climbed j the . peaks, in- ' I Ci5 vestigated the VS'iC v ' w?Ct rocks, rambled ! IfW ' X1'' m "aS!- amid the trees ' I S-''v8iri always try- i :- LMrit llr ing to find out li okij'i Pi "F- I more about r w ifc, B just one little S SS eon" coast an- i WWplLW ife) other man has rfirfafc& & h o m esteaded siB for 14 years, hardly ever coming to town. vestigated the rocks, rambled amid the trees always trying try-ing to i'ind out more about just one little piece of the west. On the Oregon Ore-gon coast another an-other man has n o m esteaded for 14 years, : lie has been happy, too, merely in looking at his world, finding out about it, making friends with the birds and animals, studying the mighty Pacific and its moods. We think about these two men today because we have ! ' just read a railroad advertisement in a "magazine. The advertisement ia addressed to easterners.. It says: "You can pack all the pleasure of the Far West into' two weaks !" We ars glad the railroad is advising tourists to come west. That means business for both of us and the treat ff their lives for the tourists. Everyone gains. But no one can begin to "pack the pleasures of the west into two weeks" or two years or two centuries. ' Tlir.ro are enough interesting things around one western sr.OAvpeak to keep a life brimming full of interest, thrills :.ncl "'casure. No one can see the west by skimming thru it in a train, over it in an airplane or past it in an automobile. In the old clays the west was so big that the main idea was to got over all of it as fast as possible. To.chy. we have realized that the west is not only big, l.ut, intensely interesting; that almost every tiny patch of it holds thrills and excitement enough to last the average man a long, long time. ' We are glad to welcome our eastern neighbors to our wonderland. But we wish to amend the railroad's rather optimistic ideas about our country. Like this: |