The Grenada sentinel., 1906-09-29
G. B. Farmer Writes interest
ingly About His Trip.
is NOW SOJOURNING AT Los ANGELES
Speaks of the LaudS in Oklahoma and
the Enterprise of the Farmers.
The Snow Fences-Fruits
of All Kinds Plentiful.
Los ANGLES, Cal, Sept. 20, 1906

Los ANGLES, Cal, Sept. 20, 1906.
Editor Sentinel
| left Grenada on Sep
tember 3rd, arrived here yesterday
afternoon after long but not very
tireSome trip. Travelling through a
number of states l do not believe it
would be out Of place to write short
letter OF my trip, SO here goes:
/ left Memphis on Tuesday even
ing, arriving in ST. Louis Wednesday
morning, and was delayed there two
days. Thursday night l boarded the
Rock Island for Kansas City and left
that city Friday morning for the far
West. There are many progressive
looking towns out OF Kansas City, all
having the appearance Of enterprise
by the many factories located in those
places, this condition extending for
perhaps $50 or 200 miles.
We then run into growing Oklahoma
and as far as the eye can see is the
famous prairieS, with here and there
heardS Of cattle standing around
small pond Of water. l may not be
judge, but | should say that the land
along the line here will not anything
like compare with cur hill lands in
Mississippi. But by push, enterprise
and hard labor the farmer makes eX-
ceptiOnably good crops. They are
more up-tO-date than our Mississippi
farmers, for the simple reason that
they are from the North where more
modern farming implements are to
be had by the sons Of tOil,''
When | awoke Saturday morning
we were travelling through the plaiuS
of New Mexico, and as | would pass
by the little towns, which are twenty |
or thirty miles apart, l could see d |
few Mexican 'greaSerS" standing |
around, smoking their pipes, with
cOntentment written on every feature
Of their face.
For hundreds of miles through this
country the railroads have erected
snow fences of about ten feet in
height, which is to keep the snow
from blowing on the tracks and block
ing the trains. For many miles
across the prairie EOu can not see a
tree On house, and not IL living ami
NAL of any kind, yet every fifteen or
twenty miles we run into Il small
town or village, and how these people
live is quite IL mystery. The scenery
along the Rock Island from Kansas
City to ElPaso is not very pretty, ex-
cept to those who love the prairie.
Leaving Ell PasO we came into view
Of Il range Of mountains, which the {
Southern Pacific follows TO Los Ange- &
les. The scenery along this route is ]
very pretty, although the sandy de-
Sert is something fierce to the travel
ny public, the train being full Of dust t
all day and all night. However, on t
sunday morning we began to see the L
great work Of irrigation. The famous
alfalfa grass could be seen and ere
JnS fruits Of all kinds could be seen IL O
Ong the line. Beautiful California.
vlen you see the great grange groves
md fruit orchards you forget about
he long and dusty ride through the
lesert and wipe the dust and gravel d
'ut OF your eyes to get a better view \
# the great fruit country. t,
Sunday afternoon at Ais o'clock we
,rrived in Los Angeles, city thati
Promises to be the third city in the cl
and within the next few years. |.
will be here permanently il my health
improves. l accepted a position this
l0rning with the Evening Express,
le oldest paper in Los Angeles, as m
ity solicitor, and will report for 4t
'Ork tOmmOrrOW n
Wishing The Sentinel continued
and trusting that Grow
lg Grenada" will build up as she ~
ever h as before, | am. Very truly. s.
GuAc De