The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
ruEIR UNIQUE TRIP.
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ioOA"s .ooss THE CONTINENT


y.v 90 the Pacific and Back.
frsds' .,,,,, seven Dollars and isstarn''
s'' ','' :. Equal Amoun'--Mr'' '''''
of Their Travels
mort F Tyler and his vile ss ,ser,"s
AlDs 70 their home IN the ne'enoo,
rsturns' kingston, y. H., after uniqao
town OIL .he continent They made the
"trip acro's ~ omen wagon drawn by one
Journey ~ a. ~ the way and by two Tor
horse TOT , pas starting out with only ~
'ne ~ pocket Mr.. Tyler re, ,a ~, his ex-
IN DIS amount, having paid al , m'S
'qua, while away from hoino ~ s - .-ss
pensS,tion to paying all MS p.''1 ~ az ,~,ss
In aau rsturn from Seattle Win NE W.
able % U,,,Iman car, besides sendine non'e
ma ~ month to DO deposi'eu III wig
go ea0 rro-onerative bank. The TRIP across
Exeter ,,nent was made In loo days anu
che co"od through 10 states anu NOW
they p and Arizona. Sometimes .hcy
Mexico a few miles in day, ana on
MADE o"S I'D many. Mrs. Tyler tells the
others the trip from the notes she inaoe
story =. a., On her diary, in q round anu
saO W. oirlish handwriting: 600, =
nlnTi ,aft kingston on June 20, isso' in
we 'e runabout wagon drawn by
spncu'ha" arse Peter, Vermont Morgan,
young I'm an Exeter of j. w. Locke lie
purcnsoos the toughest little horses that
w@ vr cav When we came to Des MONIES,
lever oa that II would be too hard for one
We lo' md so purchased another but
noiso' .oyod the best of them all, as DeIore
fe'e, through we had had eight diner
We 80 buyine them one after another
en' no as one got tired out. When we
SUI "a Seattle. we turned Peter and the
rea. oas ,orse ont to pasture. Peter Is there
elgn.n us 90 conn as we can afford 1t we
ye1, puS 80 him sent on here He was In
s.oellent condition when he arrived al
Saottle. and SO were Mr.. Tyler ana my
."T not having had one sick day wniie On
the journey A.. s.o, Ar Tyler
houobt IS worth of stationery, which ne
Ia IN Hartford to such good advantage
.S" s ha not only paid our board bill while
. .a. az we'll as that of the horse, but ne
ue Ss,a IN cash when we left. We went
.~s New York state to Niagara Falls,
here we made short stay, and then went
,hrouoh Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Chi
.sco where we staid month.
sTben we went to Des Moines. Here
-. purchased another horse and two
.oa,od democrat wagon, leaving our othel
80 hehind there Leaving Des Moinei
go followed the river Platte as soon as WI
s,ruck It.. and finally came to Denver
vhere we spent over month looking q
tho mines and other points OF interest.
"Ieayine Denver we followed the hi'
Grande for some distance and came q
phenix A. T.. and went thence by tn
aid Butterfeld route to Yuma, going D.
the way of the ella river instead of by tn
railroad That was the dreariest part
the whole trip, rs during the 221 miles w
travelled we did not see one white lace
From Yuma we went to Los Angeles, iol
lowing the line of the Southern Pacin
railroad, arriving just $50 days after
left Kingston.
1--WE staid in Los Angeles two months
stopping at 2l5 West Second street, an
then went on to San Francisco, where W
staid ten days. We were in southern Cal
fornia in the orange season, and you ma
be sure that we enjoyed ourselves.
were lust nine days in crossing the Gref
American desert, and during that time
got out of water just once, and as we ha
none for "a hours we were obliged TO hol
up freight train just east OF the FLOW
Ing Wells station and get some. We wei
well provisioned when we started to cro
the desert. as we had five bales of hay an
two bags of grain for the horses, ana
quarter of beef, 90 pounds each OF nou
dried fruit and potatoes, 20 pounds
beans. 10 pounds of figs and gallon
honey for ourselves. We ran out of su
plies and had to stop at Salton, Cal. to
penish them.
Except when we were crossing Il
desert we slept each night in some hous
Our first night in the desert was passed
aden Of rattlosnakes. We cut cactus plan
and placed them all around us and
snake crossed them. We could hear 6
snakes all night Kissing around us al
shaking their rattles, but we were
troubled by them. Did you know that
rattlesnake will not cross o rope or an
thing that looks like oneH
After leaving San Francisco we we
10 the big trees and thence to Salem, q
and Seattle, Wash We arrived in Seat
on Sept %, and we left there Nov
coming east In Pullman car and arr
Ing in Kingston Nov. 20.
We liked our trip SO we'll that nc
year we are going on another. This til
We shall go to California by another rou
and shall make the journey on bicycles
Mrs Tyler has a number Of curiosit
secured on the trip, consisting largely
petriied objects from the Great Americ
desert.-New York sun