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Show ir ' m 'V x NxxX x x xx N V YM XX N " Vx C I VN X x filJitiC xx ! s ,A X x V x Nx XX X ,x x x I w;.A,x .wv.,v-.....- .. " ilft-yr.;V---;,. m Holland? No, in the State of Washington. .vaul Graphic Society, v '4 D e.-WNU Service. f ;3 lane groups of men -raius to lumber mills t (jjips weekly, one of "I's leading industries is xf new life after 30 - rtssl shutdown. ; .- with only brief mo-! mo-! 'ecoDomlc setback, has . .. ahead agriculturally . -sW, 1S51, when 24 srs12 adults and 12 , disembarked from a :; Elliott bay, an arm of ::-'t ! .5 the land looked to ars as they set about i-.r new homesite habita-itoien habita-itoien and children, dis-iiiMled dis-iiiMled under trees near c'i edge while the men From the sublime, heights Uve road flows down to pastoral lowlands low-lands and fertile fields. Whatcom county Is known as "the Holland of America," for it Is the home of Dutch bulb culture In the Northwest. North-west. For more than 20 years commercial com-mercial bulb growing, which now is spreading throughout the entire Puget sound area, has been an important im-portant Industry there. The little town of Lyndeu 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 Mu , 1 ... . , to rescue their belong-: belong-: ie fast Incoming tide, 'ieffomen, clasping her Mi child, sat on a log : To her the primeval Direst, sweeping up from raste of the sound to E 'ts of snow-capped l suggested only nostalgic ".' : so back to the Illinois prang mother been able s what the son she held w -j was destined to look 11 Mrs would have been i a dream of wonder i,- .:; for that son has lived settlement of 24 grow nearly 400,000 Seattle. 7 of Seattle mirrors : whole commonwealth 'ra. In less than a hun-le hun-le Evergreen state has 'a wilderness to modern '-, crowding three centu-Mrj centu-Mrj Into one. Spokane, 7 of eastern Washington, :?'ilaticn of more than grated in September, -neth anniversary. The ' ' census of 1SG0 found t'n territory fewer than that of 1930 record-.. record-.. "m a million and a half 1 !!r Life Still There. :i"?reen state is so close I t:ngs that in parts of ": Ufe, far from being a memory, is a thing ;15S present. Within 50 "attle skyscrapers, hardy !re westing their living ; "'Ms of the Olympic f-W as did their fathers , trail. Many of them , supplies to their mountain trails that wind ..''fl-Ugh impenetrable ; or untouched forest. A f tom Jefferson coun-J'. coun-J'. '0' one of the earliest - ;,f ,(. bought an auto-M: auto-M: a few years ago and s; convenient a garage 3 miles from his '7aington for the first Plence the thrill of h new country. To live , then to go away return after a few '. ,ce Is to know that ,'s to mountain heights ': n Washington. The of scenery are the date's perpetual :'''ofii? feet h,Sh. geologi-"W geologi-"W 1dest mountains :,t e K thrusts its rag- 5: iaof pef- s f ta gM an,J S- t 'at sr0fCk, ShWlnS ' siS rat, lce gorges bhH h"nnm ' ow 'likel ,e8n Wlnd' whe ne r,efrom thefor- :ClTrry ,n "own, ; Sking free tQ of A h.torT'Ca-" Ytofli! five Washing- .r it, from several to anSUr,,''nIt; but i, v,,' with eternal : cle "e ,'S of Ice send S cou'ng down its .ciiicnuuus are louowea 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, and 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 nor-mal schools, presents a kaleidoscope. kaleido-scope. Its Chuckanut Marine drive, a splendid paved highway hewed from the high shoulder of mountainous moun-tainous hills overlooking Bellingham Belling-ham bay and the lovely San Juan islands. Is one of the wonder roads of the state. Everywhere throughout through-out 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 coast. 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. posi-tions. Near Bellingham is the government gov-ernment experimental farm, where Dutch bulbs are cultivated and scientifically sci-entifically improved, and not far away is a large co-operative poultry poul-try 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 365 days ls surpassed only 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 poul-try raising, and sugar-beet culture is growing by leaps and bounds. The striking thing is that such diversified di-versified resources have been developed de-veloped in a country whose greatest great-est wealth has . been and still is in its forests. Tacoma Is "the lumber capital of America," a charming, Old-world-seeming city on Commencement bay, the famous deep-water harbor surveyed in 1841 by Charles Wilkes, the discoverer of the Antarctic continent. Ships from many distant dis-tant ports come to the docks for cargoes, not only of lumber and all sorts of lumber and timber products, prod-ucts, but of flour, refined ores, and the abundant produce of the Puy-allup Puy-allup valley. Yakima is famous for Its apples; but to visit the "Apple Capital of the World," one goes to Wenatchee, the town of 12,000 population that has shipped 24,386 carloads of apples ap-ples in a single year. Together, Wenatchee and Yakima shipped 45,221 carloads of apples in 1930, more than 40 per cent of the country's coun-try's commercial apple crop, and, despite the lowest prices In history, realized a profit. Spokane ls In the center of a great playground. Within 50 miles of it are 56 lakes. The citizen who emulates Izaak Walton can fish In a different lake every week-end of the year and have some likely angler's an-gler's Edens ieft for holidays; or, If he prefers fishing in running water, wa-ter, he can flick a fly ta any one of a hundred trout streams. |
