Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — M. L Pass Moves On To State of Washington. [ARTICLE]

M. L Pass Moves On To State of Washington.

Monroe, Wash., May 26, 1913. Editors Republican:

• The haymaker got busy and melted snow so fast as to put the mills at St. Joe, Idaho, out of business for from two to four weeks. That gave me the “wanderlust” fever, so I left there May 22nd bound for this place. Daylight the following morning found us in central Washington at Beverly, a wonderful country, whose soil is cobblestones; sand and boulders, and whose principal crops are jack-rabbits and rattlesnakes, but this condition did not last long and we passed through some fine country at Ellensburg. At Laconia we reached the highest point, being 3,010 feet above sea level, and passed through considerable snow from one to three feet in depth. It is shielded from the sun by a dense growth of pine trees. We passed through miles of trees that would square eight inches from sixty to eighty feet above the ground and not a limb to cut. The western slopes of the Cascades receive so much moisture that there is a heavy growth of shrubbery under the trees, and as fast as the trees are cut grass starts. Not so with the Rocky mountains. I think they will be bald until the judgment day. At Cedar Falls we left the foothills and plunged into a valley, where all is life, beauty and joy. It is a veritable dairy valley, forty miles to this place and during twenty-five miles of the distance we picked up 320 cans of milk, a daily occurrence The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co., has a plant at this place and it gets the milk of the valley. Nor is this all that is going on in this beautiful timber, and several times our ears were treated to the buzz of the circle saw.- Land is cheap, but none for sale, and is held at the remarkably low(?) price of from S2OO to SSOO per acre. I do nit expect to stop here very long, so please hold my papers, as I do not care to miss a single copy. With regards to yourselves and the many friends In good old Jasper, I remain, sincerely yours,

M. L. PASS.