Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09
The following letter is dis.
criptive of a trip by Mrs. Celia
McCrillis, sister of A. E. Bessire.

Ainsworth, Nebr., Oct ~, 1905.
y. Bcssirc, Mo. Valley. Dear brother
and family:-Wc got home from our
western trip about six weeks ago. IL
YOU have been as busy as we have YOU
will know the reason have not writ
ten sooner We were away just seven
weeks, saw lots of country and had a
fine time
From Omaha we took the Z. p for
Denver Did not see much of Nebraska,
us we started from Omaha at 4 10 %.
m We followed the Platte river most
of the time until dark The next morn
ing we were in Colorado and arrived in
Denver at Ssl0a m Eastern Colorado
looks bare and level. AS you near Den
vcr the country looks better some irri-
gate land in small grain but mostly
alfalfa and sugar bcets You can get
:, glimpse OF the mountains about GO
miles away The city OF Dnver is u
beautiful place. They have fine union
depot The city is SO clean and the
buildings are nearly all stone, brick or
cement | think it is the finest place
we s;lw. I'm the forenoon we took IN
observation trip around the city in an
automobile They have large autos
the one we rode in would carry about
thirty people and one man points out
places of interest as you 50 along Saw
the Tabor opera house, built by Tabor
and cost one and a fourth million The
state capt. i on Capitol Hill is an inn
ncnsc builling, built of marble and
stone. Say one house that was all
made of granite III the rough
In the afternoon we went to Boulder.
III .,l.f.,,t midas fr,,,,i i1n,,Nar ~
nice place They have lots of coal
mines and it seems to be a good fruit
country We visited August Nelson,
who lives 31a miles from the city. He
lis the man that bought our Modalc
| farm near Boulder. He has 1000 cherry
When we were there they were picking
trees as they had on theirs. They irri-
ards They don't let the weeds grow.
and we're commencing on their late
ones. The average pric' OF cherries is
about $50 per crate. He estimates
his crop at 2O0O crates and his trees
are not large The prunes were not
Y
to be over 200 tons and the price u
early ones to one cent for the late ones
The mountains near Boulder look very
much like the bluffs OH the hill road on
they are quite a ways off. You car
see snow capped mountain from Mel
son S, about 60 miles away, and they
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grain We saw wheat they told US
the farms around there arc Small and
Modalc man lives about Is miles from
we did not see it. Lots Of coal j.
saw several oil wells.
day, staid all night there, and at $50
Denver & Rio Grande You don't &c
| try gets rough, stony and gravel Col
seen from the train. They have very
sec Pixies Peak, 20 miles away, and SCI
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Colorado Springs for quite WAYS there
is some farm land The crop is wheat
alfalfa, and a little corn: The corn i
only about three feet high. We passce
through Royal Gorge. II is mountain:
of rock, almost straight Up, rive
t,lmblng over rocks. and just room fol
the railroad track. From Pueblo west
for quite ways the SC merry is just
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scribed The rocks arc all colors. Some
Of the mountains are just rocks ne
vegetation of any kind and in Other
| places there are evergreen trees here
and there. We arrived in Grand juno
ton at midnight, won't to a hotel To
stay the rest of the night and phonee
to Alhert's in the morning We tounf
them all we'll. They have nice place
and it's a nice country. We stald there
a week and had splendid visit. Al
bert and Lizzlc took us all around The
icountry We drove out some place
every day. He has a tine apple orch
ard. $" have the SCOTS. We saw all o
them They Will have very large
crop ot good apples They had sprayed
five times when we were there and OK
pected To spray some more, so yo,
know they will not have many wornny
apples Their peach crop was failure
this year They had ssme pears. blu,
their main crop is apples About II
m mn rom ON, lhere' around i .M J, y
AN peag,' l,;.. ana pears. ne country
arouina i.a'is'lue Is Is, ilile, many PAGES o.
liVs or zen acres ali 'e''c,ies OF aI, pears
l'l'1 , y, Nun .iul.. Atou.'a l,alisaa,
.'1r,, r'l',, u'. .'uA laise iJ.s VI
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