Identifier: seeingamericafir418colb (find matches)
Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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r littlefish children are starting out to see the world as their parents did before them. The salmon are caught with traps, nets, and water wheels, and ninety thousand fish have beencaught at once in one of the large netted traps while one wheel has caught fifteen thousand fish ina day. These wheels are covered with netting and are turned by the swift current of the river,which raises the fish into the air and tosses them into the boat. When the boat is full, it is unloaded at the canning factory at the edge of the river. TheChinese men who kill the fish are very swift, and the machines which clean the salmon can handleabout forty-five a minute. They are then cut into pieces by machinery before being packed intocans, and in these cans the salmon is steamed till thoroughly cooked. We went through the warehouse of a great canning factory, and it seemed as though therecould not be enough people to eat all that fish, but Columbia river salmon always finds a market.It is famous everywhere.
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There is no country in the world which has kept for its people such playgrounds as we have inthe United States. Probably that is because we are the only people who have an Uncle Sam. Aking or an emperor would never dream of putting great tracts of land aside for his subjects to enjoywithout paying a cent of toll or a penny of taxes, but our Uncle Sam has given his nephews andnieces hundreds of miles of the most wonderful land in the world and these huge parks belong toyou and to us just as much as they do to the Astors and Vanderbilts. The Yosemite Park is one of the finest of our National Parks. It is nearly in the center ofthe state of California. Here you would almost forget whether it is summer or winter for up onthe mountains you are in the land of perpetual snow, while down in the valley it is like the finestsummer day and birds and flowers are as plentiful as on a June morning. There are all sorts oftrees, too. Some of them are giant redwood trees, cousins of the big sequoias.

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