The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-12-21
From Utah to New Orleans.
DA FUNIAK, SPRINGS, FLORIDA,
Dec. 10, A399.
EDITOR ACANrHA:

Dec. 10, As99.
EDITOR ACANTHA:
In my last letter | closed with
Utah. Now | will write of our trip up
Grand river into Colorado, there we saw
quite a number of fruit farms along the
river. The ground was well cultivated,
and the trees were short and stocly.
After travelling UP Grand river half a day,
we came TO Tennessee pass lO.4O0
feet altitude. We passed through
Leadville 10000 feet altitude, here is the
head of the Ark ansas river. 1t is a small
leaping stream by our side as we come
down the Royal gorge" which seems
too narrow for a r, r. to work it's way
through with the towering mountains,
SC wonderfully tossedu up, at the ic~rucifix
ion, as a mormon Elder expressed it
One extinct volcano presented it's black
ened relics to view as we passed. After
one night and most of the day PASSING
through mountains, we emerged in
to the valley of the Arkansas and soon
found ourselves in the depot at Pueblo.
Col. a city eff 10000 people, well lighted
by electricity, in fact is not excelled bv
any city in the Union. There is a very
fine r. r. depot which cost 100000
Seventy-fve passenger trains leave this
depot every q hours. The Bessemer
Steel works here EMPLOY 800 men, | visit
ed one of the smelters here, which Curn-
ed out in 80 minutes 48 bars of silver ore.
90 pounds each,-think of it 2,40O
pounds, each half hour, day and night! /
visited n school here, in which were Is
teachers, and 800 pupils. The school
was dismissed at noon with music, each
grade by classes passed out beginning
with the Kindergarten; each and all
kept step to the music and as they pas
sed out the hall the order was worthy of
imitation. Rocky Ford, Col. 50 miles
south is d business little town, in a good
agricultural country, noted for it's mel
ons. 1t is now about ready to close a
contract with q sugar beet factory for 5
years. The factory people want a lease
on eight thousand acres for five years.
the farmers to furnish the beets at $3.50
per ton. Seven thousand &C es have al
ready been secured, 81 they are sure to
have the factory. We next passed
through the central part of Kansas on
our way to Kansas City and were sur
prised to see so much timber, which be
CANT to show w as we approached the city.
The first we saw $50 miles west and it
got heavier until We reached the city.
One day here and VIC left for S~priurdale.
Ark, a town OF 1000 population. Straw
berries were shipped from this place by
the train load and here are apple and
peach orchards in abundance. The
scene, goes down on no Good folk
'hear." | visited Fayetteville, ten miles
south. Here is the State University.
IS teachers and 700 students. There is
a fine Museum here, an a~erolite about
two and a half feet square or nearly SO,
on exhibition. Along the border of the
Indian Territory we passed some good
stock country, AM soon We found our
selves in Paris, Texas, a town OF 1900
people. Here We saw for the first time
the street cars lrawn by a couple OF lit
tie mules. This is d cotton county,
and from here we went to Texarkana and
on to Shreveport but it being Dark L
could not discover the changes that lave
occurred since | was there forty years
ago. At day light we reached the sugar
plantations in the neighborhqod OF the
city CT Alg;ers, La, Our train crossed
the river from Algiers to New Orleans on
a ferry boat, and we sooa found IL
selves IN the Texas Pacific depot at New
Orleans.
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