The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-08-11

week. Starting from BOISE, about nifty
in number, OH July II, they went to
Portland, visiting the Lewis and Clark
fair for four days, then going to Seattle
where day was put in sightseeing,
thence up the Sound by steamer to
Victoria, b. c., where a day was most
delightfully."- spent in viewing the sights
of that charming Canadian city. Then
back TO their car at Seattle and by rail
to Portland, where part of another
day and night was spent, when their
car was attached to the regular train
on the Southern Pacific for Oakland
and San Francisco. At Oakland the
party was taken in charge of by gen.
tleman representing the Chamber of
Commerce, and, from an observation
car, shown many points of interest in
Oakland and Berkeley, stopping for an
hour or more in the grounds of the
University of California, and partaking
of a luncheon at one of Oakland's
splendid hotels. The party was then
turned over to the Inequalities of the
Golden Gate City, and given such a
welcome as none but Californians can
bestow, and treated to round of sight
seeing which included round of adja-
cent country, with trips by vessels
around the bay, trolley rides to the
Cliff House. parks and out among the
charming homes in the surrounding
country, and ride to the summit OF
Mt. Tamalpais. over he crookedest
railroad in the world. Three most
thrillingly interesting days we're en-
ioyed around the Golden Gate, when
our car was again hitched onto a
Southern Pacific train and whirled
through and past towns and villages,
farms, gardens, orange groves and
country homes, by the Coast route to
the City of Angels, where we we're
again met and treated to another round
of Pacific coast hospitality, where sum
mer reigns the year around and the
palm and orange flourish. Two days
we're enjoyed amid the stmi-tlopical
wonders and splendors of Los Angeles
and the magniticence of its suburban
homes, villas and towns, during which
Santa Monica, Venice. with its ocean
beach and surf, the celebrated Cali
fornia ostrich farm and the wealthy
city of homes and hotels, PASADENA,
we're visited.
Then, by the new Clark road, the
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake,
we started home, arriving at the City
of Saints in the morning, to spend an
other day of interesting sightseeing,
where we viewed the splendid Mormon
temple, visited and listened ia an or
gan recital in the world famous taber-
nacle, rode out to Saltair and took a
briny bath, and took view of the city
from the military post at Fort Douglas.
When we pulled out from Los An
geles, our party, by its members drop
ping out to remain longer at different
points, had diminished by about one
half. From Salt Lake, where our sight
seeing virtually terminated, we re-
turned home, the never-to- be-forgotten
trip ending with the car taking the last
remnant of the party back 10 Boise.
The foregoing is merely an itenerary
of pleasure and sightseeing tour
taken by members of the Idaho State
Press Association aud their wives and
:z....e .,:.Lo,,t ,,,oufiO,, Of tho manu-
courtesies shown them by railway
steamer and city officials, and others
aud the thousand and one incidents
which contributed to make it so pleas
urable that it must remain in every
memory as bright spot in their life
times.
We saw the very best of the very
best country on earth-the cities
towns, rivers, mountains and portions
of the wonderful scenery of the happi
est, most progressive aud most rapidly
improving portion of the world.
Teeming with life aud energy every
where from British Columbia-and fal
up under the Arctic circle for tina
matter-down to the Mexican line, thu
waves of the Pacific are breaking OF
the western shore of country making
material pr ,gress such as the worl'
has never before seen. One need no
have the gift of prophecy to forese
the not distant day when the commerce
of the Pacific will exceed that of al
other seas, aud the commercial AM
financial center of the world will b
located in one of the cities which gu
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