Show I 1 I 1 i 41 12 1 i C 4 P I 1 17 PI 0 4 1 4 N I 1 4 4 A ft V N 10 4 in holland no in the state of washington by national G x ahlo A society ity Wan hington 1 D 0 0 Ll ervice large groups of men WITH W returning to lumber mills and camps canitis one ot of lending industries Is showing signs of new life after 30 months virtual shutdown washington with only brief mo ments menta of economic setback has been forging ahead agriculturally since november 1851 when A lien 24 white pioneers 12 adults and 12 children dis embarked from a B schooner hooner in lott bay an arm of puget bound cheerless tile the land lochel to these Plo pioneers as they set about milking making their new honie site habata ble hie ahe women and children disconsolate huddled under tinder trees near the ibe waters edge while the men scrambled to rescue their belong lugs from the fast incoming tide one of the women omen clasping her two months old child sat on a log an and d wept to tier her the primeval evergreen forest sweeping up from the gray wiste of the sound to in s ted heights of snow cal cai ped mountain taeng suggested only nostalgic longing to go back to the illinois prairie 1 had the young mother been able to envisage what the srn arn she hell in tier her arms was destined to look upon tier tears would have been forgotten in a dream of wonder and delight for that son has lived to see the settlement of it 21 grow to a city of nearly WO seattle the atry of seattle mirrors that of tile the whole commonwealth commons enath of washington in fesq than a R hundred bundred sears the 1 IN ver green state has ahna arg emerged from wilderness to io mol modern erril civilization croAd crowding ing three cantu hog of history into one largest city of ea eastern tern washington a fill a population of more than 11 00 d in september IW 10 M its fiftieth anniversary 11 ahe he united states stater census of 1800 found in washington territory fewer than 12 00 per persons na that of WO 1910 feord ed more inore than a million and a half in the frontier life still there the 1 ia evergreen vcr ver green state la is so close to its beginnings in il parts of it frontier lire life far from being a half forgotten nit amory mory Is a thing of the living pre present ent within 1 0 miles of qt ittle skyscrapers hardy pioneer plo neeri are wresting their living flying from froin tile the wilds aids of the olympic peninsula just a as dl III 1 their fathers of the gorfon trail many of them must backpack sin plies to ta clr ir banies mos up tip mountain trolls that wind antl chri through illah well nigh impenetrable fastnesses fast nesses les of forest A state senator from Jeff erscin coain ty the son of one tit t tile the earliest peninsula settlers nought nn nuart only a few beirs ago and hullt for it ns ag romen convenient lent a garage us as nil miles JOS fir from 0 m his hoube I 1 10 lo sep see washington for the fl st at time li N to t experience tile the thrill of a now country toi to live within its I 1 orders then to go away from it and return after n few absence Is to know that thrill fl nin I 1 rom islands to heights Is orly a step in washington the n I 1 lg of scenery are n e of the states perpetual chirm hul win ain T POS 0 13 feet hah gerlo gl rally one of the ol of lost jest mountains in north america thrusts it its 9 rag ged against t a sky of per feet blue vert vertical len riders and rug eed ings of hire bire roel rock Lh choing i alief among tatters of ire ice gorges rind and fol cataract I 1 roni the serrated vv peaks aka bannehr han nersi of snow wae in a high clerin clean wind ind while ml mists tg rl rasp like kivini e from th hi for arsts tr bel adow the lee ice line now wrapping ralp a toll promontory in dox downy ny ehlt whiteness n now bren breaking hing free to fly away in clouds holland of at america one nf f the list of ive n v I 1 in ill i s q to forth its lins aunt i n t I 1 ali r hlll ie c ronah s q si ali fr n m several ant rs n ir silian it hut but it its id ad r n to nn an of I 1 I 1 0 f t I 1 Is turn ml alth ith et ebertin ertin ow INN and mist vt flow nelds of nf lc ice p t d ni tit r courI cour aln nj down its ita dm froia I 1 roin the sublime heights the tha th a road flows to pastoral low lands and fertile fields What coni county la known au aa the holland of america for it Is vie the home of dutch bulb culture in the northwest for more than 20 years corn com erceal bulb growing which now la Is sp spreading rendIng throughout the entire sound area has been an im portent industry there the little town of lynden shipped 14 ca loads of bulbs in 1931 nhen hen the tulips datTo daffodils dils hyacinths and narcissi are in bloo bloom 1 springtime m 1 it takes little imagination for a visitor to fancy himself in the N netherlands ther lands dutch farmers and their wives and children working the gardens wear ades shoes many quaint old Lu customs of the are followed in the countryside about lynden where hundreds of bulb growers from the tae mother country make their homes A jolly old Geld erlander fashions the shoos shoe q of alder aider wood work ng with knives and calsel ch seli lie ile can make sly sir valra a 11 day to his cust customers mers men measures the wooden shoes are worn only in the fields t night they are set in orderly tows lows on the bach porches porch es catheri fat fa th heri eri mothers mother a and the childrens children s in graduated shea like Coldi goldilocks locks bears bellingham the tulip city fourth in alze in and seat of the of the three state nor m mal al schools presents presed presen ts a score its marine drive a 1 I splendid paved hewed from the high shoulder of moun hills overlooking belling ham bay and the lovely san juan Isla islands rids I 1 one of the wonder roads of the state through out the city are green lawns and flower they even display their restful charm along the water front amona ainone industrial flints and about the entrance of the coal mine that s hundreds of industries up and down doan the pacific const coast lumber and agriculture fishing Is an important source of income to many towns and cities about the sound but lumber lumbering hig ani and agriculture hold the major post eions near bellingham Is the gov experimental farm where dutch bulbs are and en improved find not far away Is a large co operative cooperative poul try hatchery hatch erv devoted denoted to building up superior chicken breeds breed the poultry station boasts the champion champl nn laying hen of the united states tn whose A hoge record of 1350 eggs in W artis Is cuipa isad only by that of a cana llan ilan lien ten sears ago county imported most of its of eggs roday eggs are among aming its princ principal exports tano whit behind poul try raising find culture is growing by leaps and bounds the striking thing Is that such dl versifier versified versi fied resources have bare been de eloid in a country whose great est wealth has been and still la Is in its forests ingoma Is the lumber capital 0 america a charming seeming city on oommen ement tiny bay the famous deep water ater harbor surd surveyed pied in 1841 by diaries charles es the discoverer coverer of the An antarctic tartie continent ships from many dig tant ports come to the docks for cargoes not only of lumber and all sorts of lumber and timber prod nets bets but of flour refined ores and the abundant product produce of the puy allup valley Is famous for its apples but to isalt irit the apple aple capital or of the i orid one goes ft to 0 NN en the town of 00 PoPi population lation that hiis has shipped 24 aro W carloads of rl apples in it a single year rocc ther and inginia tabloids tarl of apples in io 1 0 o more than 40 per cent of the coun arys try a commercial apple crop an anc despite the lowest prices in history a profit akine li in the center of a trtat ireat pl ground lilliin athin no 50 iroles of it are rt le takes inkes the h bank ean can fesh I 1 in n I 1 it lake labe enera week weekend end of nf the lip anil ahne some nt nr alers idena lett for boll driva or ir if he flying in running wn ter hi can ellk fi IY in n any one of a hundred trout st streams reims |