Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — M. L. Pass is Now in a Lumber Camp in Washington. [ARTICLE]

M. L. Pass is Now in a Lumber Camp in Washington.

Scenic, Wash., June 1, 1913. Editors Republican: I must write you again, as I am getting homesick for news from good old Jasper. This place is about 100 miles from Seattle, and it has a valid right to its name, because it is all scenery. The canon is about 2,000 feet above sea level and the hills rise almost abrupt to from 1,000 to 3,000 feet higher, and the Great Northern railway almost loops the loop in the midst of this beautiful scenery. At this place it passes around the head of the canon (but up hill all the time) about four miles, crosses the gulch on a 140-foot trestle, passes through a horse-shoe shaped tunnel 1,000 feet long, and again ascends the hill it just left and when it reaches Windy Point, opposite the town, is 2,000 feet above it, but not near the top. John J. Hill is spoiling this wonderful scenery just as fast as he can.. From the station around to Windy Point, a distance of between eight and ten miles, will be almost one continuous snow shed by December Ist, and we can hardly blame him, because here the snow is shoveled off one track and it crowds down on the next. Besides having all kinds of trouble with his snow shovels last winter, the foreman told me there was still twelve feet of snow the first part of Apnfl, and right now there are two carloads of the precious white stuff within forty feet of the hoisting engine that I am.firing, and I celebrated Decoration Day by making a few snowballs. I sleep under a pair of blankets and a comfort every night, but from. 9 a. m. to about 4 p. m. it is everlasting hot, and about noon I’d pull my shirt if it wasn’t for getting sunburned. Sincerely yours,

M. L. PASS.