Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-23
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August Trysg Writes TO the Tribune

August Tryss Writes TO the Tribune
and Relates His Winters Travels.
AS It may be OF some interest to
the readers Of the Tribune I will ask
the editor to allow me space to tell
Of my travels in the west.
Having a desire to see California
II took passage for Portland on the
|twenty-sixth Of last November. From
here to Portland l saw nothing par
ticularly worthy Of mention with the
exception Of the scenery when travel
Ing through the Rocky mountains.
We passed through these and the
Cascade mountains in the day time
but Ibid not find them as rocky as
/ had expected. I s h. + 5s'. b III,
At Portland took the Southern
Pacific for Sacramento and travelled
over some of the steepest grades that
I have yet seen. Toward evening of
the second day out from Portland
we sighted Mount Chasta which rises
to an altitude OF 14,444 feet above
sea level and the summit is covered
with snow at all seasons Of the year
This mountain is called the father
Of the Sacramento river as 1t is here
that that river has its source, fed by
the melting SHOWS.
The train stopped here and all the
passengers got out to have a free
drink of soda water which gushes
out of the mountain. This water is
bottled, shipped and sold all over the
state sof California. d"
I reached Sacramento after two
nights and one days travel. This is
the capital of California and their
capitol building is magnificent being
built of white marble at a cost Of
about three million dollars.
This was the first place at which
saw anything really beautiful. The
orange laden trees and the flowers
were grand and this in the last days
of November make one wonder.
travelled from here to Bakersfield
through the San Joquin valley a dis
lance of about two hundred miles
through a practically level country
of Eighth and sandy soil. think that
the land out fifty miles from Sacra-
mento Is not worth farming without
the aid Of irrigation as there is but
about ten inches Of rain fall during
the year. The Sierra Nevada range
of mountains, however, furnish plenty
of water for irrigation and I could
see Vineyards as big as North Dakota
wheat farms all along the line. !
arrived in Los Angeles after little
over a days travel from Sacramento
and from there took passage over
the Santa Fee for San Diego. There
are some very fine orange groves near
this place and it is here that the
| Rand, McNalley company of Chicago
operate a large orchard.
! I like San Diego. 1t is a nice clean
city, has a beautiful harbor and de
lightful climate but the land-it Is
not worth the having as one could
not feed a COW on a hundred and
sixty acres without irrigation and
they have to pump the water for that
which costs a great deal.
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travelled by steamer. This is another
seacoast town with a beautiful har-
Dor and the same kind of climate.
The old seventeenth century missions
are great sights and there is a great
/ deal to be learned from the monks
who are there. 1t certainly required
strong and brave men to endure and
| pass through the hardships that
those who erected these mission did.
Here first saw the process of manu-
featuring ice and it was great sight.
The proprietor of the ice plant was
northwestern man and said that he
was in Bismarck the first winter that
the Northern Pacific came there.
After two nights rest I took steam
er for Santa Cruze and arriving there
took trip up the mountain north
of town. The view from the summit
is grand. From Santa Cruze went
to San Jose by rail and saw some of
the giant trees in a large canon about
seven miles out Of the starting point.
In Santa Clara county almost all the
land is planted to fruit trees. I took
a trip by stage to the summit of
Mount Hamilton to see the Lick OBJ
Iservatory. It is twenty-eight miles
by the winding road and 4,2094 feet
above the level of the sea-. From the
peak one has magnificent view, to
the east the Sierra Nevada range Of
mountains while to the west lies the
city OF Santa Cruz. y.
Z The next stop made was at San
Franctsc0 and 7 snant week in the