The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-05
he PACIFIC COAST.
|inls That Interested a Former
bp County Boy as He Made
Is FIRST Trip West Of the
Rockies.

|oh the courtesy o. J. Kendall
b of this place, we are permit
|ubilsh from u private letter
|. brother. Prof. Oscar S. John
|,no.pal OF the Pittsburg Busi-
,llege at Pittsburg, Kansas,
astIne sketch of a trip to Cali
For want Of space the reader
the party at San Francisco.
nation Is one of the Editors
normal students, being con-
~ with DR.. Nick Trout, Bruce
Mrs. DR.. Hanks, Mrs. w.
and others, and his success
~ Il noted with much salts
b ! oould tell you of the many,
aces Of interest in San Fran
me. Some OF them which l
are. sutro Heights, Sutro
he largest in the worldl, The
use, Seal Rock, covered with
seals In full view, some sleep
q climbing, some fighting, and
Iuuoing into the sea, the Gold
Golden Gate Park, contain
reds Of acres with such ami
the buffalo, grizzly bear, elk,
,ose, ostrich and thousands
!. the u. S. Mint, Mark
Art institute, Academy OF
the Presidio reservation,
|cy other places of interest
\ San Jose, on my return from
|, ruz. I nook a twenty-seven
Re ride to the top of Mt. Ham
see Licks Observatory and
ep through the wonderful tel
| Q be lens Of which is thirty-six
The instrument is forty feet
weighs seven tons. The lens
.trument cost 100000, and the
st Of the Observatory was
We looked through it at
q ith its circle of millions of
nd through a smaller teles-
Jupiter. About two hundred
L up that day, and the people
observatory were very kind.
|on Ie us free lectures on the tele-
also explained the working
|-S strument which registers the
/ Of earthquakes and other
- s of the earth.
way up NE mountain l kill
rattlosnake, cut off his rat
II opt them as little souvenir
}. On theway down | saw a
|,ov d cat sitting about twenty
the stage window. Would
II ] you about each of the pla-
a but 1 arn sure it would be
ED our patience.
n San Francisco Monday
lN yer the Shasta route, keep
hasta (over l4,0OO feet high J
|S y day. II was so large that
seemed as though we could
say ir0mit. Shasta Springs
very beautiful. The water
In the alr for POO feet like a
hi Another spring close by is
water, much better and pur-
bIne soda water of the drug
tains. II tseems very strange
rom snch a spring and the
igtowasto as fast as 1t flows.
across D number of such
w. . our trip at such places as
Springs, Colorado Springs,
Us ched Portland, Oregon, at
ON nesday, md that afternoon
wv ty mile boat ride up the Col
Fer. We visited horse
lery where they can horse
hey do beef, claiming that
I'm sweeter md more tender
Al nto the up-river fishing re-
na heid's island, about fifty
|3S"p Portland, where we saw
n % the drag nets loaded with
rga beautiful fellows from
.D,.e and one.half feet long
ing the ISLAND we saw the
'Hls IN operation, kept mov-
EF motion of the water. We
up the river until reaching
|,Ur ah Falls, where we arrived
O"'' m. distance there, you
an, cry de<eiying. We could
D NN ~ a long Time before we got
9 lady oA the boat asked
PILLVHig I thought those falls
ing plenty of allowance, as
myths Tor The Reception of dis.
n''l esseo Two hundred feet
nna 'vJT n. 2 shree Kindred, and when
ornG OF the boat came around
our % y for as by saying that
shs hundred and forty feet
,ple ore could hurdly believe it un.
tnI''a ted and walked about hall
pH'" got directly under them,
.
realizd their great height.
na" la.,, 'ail'n9 snch a distance be,
and q coufse, before 1t gets
N Fp' and looks like a veil
| Ds,. 'or . baekgroud,
on Of 'eFy upthis river is per,
caD be grander thar
aaI' ~ a'F statement was veri,
% party who had
pa, ,nuHon. Some of the
0'' ''oc Rlong the river
to twenty-foul
IL " by Imagination