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Show . " ) - t , . j I ' - ' ' i ' h - ' ' V, -; ' v - IS x " ' ' - ' ' s . C fv' ! - ' f, i ''- - In Holland? No, in Washington State. p Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, L). C. WNU Service. WITH large groups of men returning re-turning to lumber mills and camps weekly, one of Washington's Wash-ington's leading industries is showing signs of new life after thirty months' virtual shutdown. Washington, with only brief moments mo-ments of economic setback, has been forging ahead agriculturally since November No-vember 1851, when 24 white pioneers 12 adults and 12 children disembarked disem-barked from a schooner in Elliott bay, an arm of Puget sound. Cheerless the land looked to these pioneers as they set about making their new homesite habitable. The women and children, disconsolate,' huddled hud-dled under trees near the water's edge while the men scrambled to rescue res-cue their belongings from the fast incoming in-coming tide. One of the women, clasping her two-months-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 snow-capped 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 settle-ment of 24 grow to a city of nearly 400,000 Seattle. He can say truthfully that from the very beginning he lived off the country. coun-try. 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 clams dug from the beach. The diet must have been nourishing ; for today, a hale octogenarian, oc-togenarian, he still takes active part in the affairs of the city that he has watched spring from nothing to magnificence mag-nificence in the span of his years. The story of Seattle mirrors that of the whole commonwealth of Washington. Wash-ington. In less than a hundred years the Evergreen state has emerged from wilderness to modern civilization, crowding three centuries of history in- , to one. Spokane, largest city of eastern east-ern Washington, with a population of more than 115,000, celebrated in September, Sep-tember, 1031, its fiftieth anniversary. The United States census of 1SG0 found in Washington territory fewer than 12,000 persons; that of 1930 recorded re-corded more than a million and a half in the state.- Frontier Life Still There. The Evergreen state is so close to Its beginnings that In parts of it frontier fron-tier life, far from being a half-forgotten memory, is a thing of the living present. Within 50 miles of Seattle skyscrapers, hardy pioneers are wresting wrest-ing their living from the wilds of the Olympic peninsula, Just as did their fathers of the Oregon trail. Many of them must back-pack supplies to their homes up mountain trails that wind through well-nigh Impenetrable fastnesses fast-nesses of untouched forest. A state senator from Jefferson county, the son of one of the earliest peninsula settlers, set-tlers, bought an automobile only a few years ago and built for It as convenient conveni-ent a garage as possible 35 miles from his house ! To see Washington for the first time is to experience the thrill of discovering discov-ering a new country. To live within its borders, then to go away from it and return after a few years' absence is to know that thrill again. From Islands to mountain heights Is only a step In Washington. The amazing amaz-ing contrasts of scenery are keynotes of the state's perpetual charm. Shuksan, 9.03S feet high, geologically geological-ly one of the oldest mountains in North America, thrusts Its ragged pinnacles pin-nacles against a sky of perfect blue, vertical ridges and rugged crags of bare rock showing black among tatters tat-ters of Ice gorges and foaming cataracts. catar-acts. From the serrated peaks banners ban-ners 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 lly away in vlouds. "Holland of America." One of (he last of live Washington volcanoes to Ming forth Its tires, Mount Baker still occasionally breathes siuok-ily siuok-ily from several craters near its summit; sum-mit; but Its head, rising to an altitude of 10,750 feet. Is turbaned with eter nal snow, and vast fields of ice sen! -12 major glaciers coursing down its sides. From the sublime heights the roai flows down to pastoral lowlands ani fertile fields. Whatcom county 1; known as "the Holland of America.' s. for it is the home of Dutch bulb cut ture in the Northwest. For more that -20 years commercial bulb growin. 5 which now is spreading throughout tl 2 entire Puget Sound area, has been ai v important industry there. The littt town of Lynden shipped 14 carloads c: bulbs in 1931. When the tulips, da: fodils, hyacinths, and narcissi are i: springtime bloom, it takes little it: -agination for a visitor to fancy Wl-self Wl-self in the Netherlands. T Dutch farmers and their wives at: children, working the gardens, wei: V wooden shoes. Many quaint old customs of tti Netherlands are followed in the countryside coun-tryside about Lynden, where hundred of bulb growers from the mother cou: try make their homes. A Jolly 0! Gelderlander fashions the shoes of a! der wood, working with knives at chisels. He can make six pairs a d; -to his customers' measures. The woo: h en shoes are worn only in the field: At night they are set in orderly ro-on ro-on the back porches father's, mot er's, and the children's in graduat; sizes like Goldilocks' bears. Bellingham, the Tulip city, four in size in Washington and seat of t y largest of the three state nom schools, presents a kaleidoscope. I: s" Chuckanut Marine drive, a spleni paved highway hewed from the hi: ft shoulder of mountainous hills ore looking Bellingham bay and the love San Juan islands, is one of the worn! roads of the state. Everywhe: throughout the city are green Inn: and flowers. They even display uV. restful charm along the water fro: among industrial plants, and about t: entrance of the coal mine that supp! hundreds of industries up and (0 the Pacific coast. Bellingham has one salmon cannf -h-where, in the fishing season, u' I than a half million pound cans s j prepared for the market each day. J Lumber and Agriculture. j i Fishing is an important - source j income to many towns and cities at ' the sound, but lumbering and agric ', ture hold the major positions. '? Bellingham is the government expc mental farm, where Dutch bulbs s pjj cultivated and scientifically Improve I and not far away is a large co-op tive poultry hatchery devoted to bu: ing up superior chicken breeds. TI The poultry station boasts the eh: pion laying hen of the United Sta: whose1 record of 350 eggs in 3G5 i- l Is surpassed only by that of a O' j dian hen. Ten years ago Wlwti Jjl county imported most of its supp1.1 eggs. Today eggs are among its ': cipal exports. Dairying Is no whit behind pou-raising, pou-raising, and sugar-beet culture growing by leaps and bounds, striking thing is that such divers: resources have been developed it country whose greatest wealth : been and still Is lu its forests. Tnconia is "the lumber capita' ' America," a charming, Old-world' ing city ou Commencement bay, thf JTO mous deep-water harbor surveyed 1 j,s 1841 by Charles Wilkes, the disco .-' er of the Antarctic continent. S- ' from many distant ports come to -docks for cargoes, not only of U,,; and all sorts of lumber and tit" products, but of Hour, refined ' and the abundant produce of Uu' ' allup valley. 1'aklma is famous for Its apples to visit the "Apple Capital 0' World," one goes north, "over hump," to Wonutchoe, the town of CXK) population that has shipped carloads of apples In a singh' Together, Wenatehee and Ya shipped 45,221 carloads of aiH'''1' 1930, more than 40 per cent "( country's commercial apple civl1-despite civl1-despite the lowest prices In hi' realized a profit. Spokane Is In the center of - playground. Within 50 miles of : z' 50 lakes. The vlll7.cn who eii'" I; 1aak Walton can fish In n tltff' ).) lake every week-end of the have some likely angler's luli'"s Woj for holidays; or, If he prefers In running water, he can IlleU ' any one of a hundred trout sti'1 |