Why Doesn’t Anyone Write Like This Anymore?

Today we paid a visit to the Skagit County Historical Museum. We had asked about the English Logging Company (owned by one town founder, E. G. English). So the librarian brought out an old publication from September 1, 1921 that contained an extensive article on the logging company. It was a large volume entitled “Skagit County, Washington” and “Published by the Mount Vernon Herald”. It was historical GOLD! There were articles about the Milk Condenseries, the churches, the telephone company, and more. Needless to say we racked up a fair amount of photocopying fees.

But the best, and we mean the BEST part of the whole thing had to be the beginning of the Publisher’s Forward by one M. J. Beaumont. He writes:

"It is approximately forty years since there was started in Skagit county the work of changing arid tidelands and dense forest into beauteous and bountiful farmsteads where today reside the most prosperous and happy people that may be found within the confines of the nation."

Oh man have we got to work that quote into the book!