The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-06-29
A TRIP TO PACIFIC
Our Iowa Friends Makes a
Purchase of Panhandle
Lands.

News
To all the friends and neighbors
near and far away;
! have at last decided to tell them
of my journey to the Pacific coast
in 1906. Many of them may have
looked forward for this far a long
time, but time and opportunity
have been against me this far,
therefore, beg to be excused if
any of my friends have got weary
by this time, but | will endeavor to
do my best and not be tedious to
wear on the patience of the kind
editor of the Allerton News.
AS luck would have it we left
our home town, Allerton, Dec. 20,
1905, for Kansas City, and after a
short stop there we boarded a
through train for Denver, Colo,
and there enjoyed the hospitality
of my kind nephew, Benjamine
Reipi, who was at that time in the
ice business. | will pass no opinion
about the city only that it is a
swell place. From the dome of the
capitol we could see Pixies Peak
about IS miles distant and num-
Der of other places of interest. In
a few days we took leave and start
ed on our way to Colorado Springs
which is delightful place i'll the
summer. While there we visited
the Garden of the Gods and also
Manitou at the foot of Pixies Peak,
and had a drink from the soda
springs that is bubling up from the
earth. 1t was there that | went to
the top of mountain the first time
in my life, and ! found it as hard
to decend it as it was to climb it,
and also took a trip to Port Har-
ford where at that time a whale
had washed to shore. They we're
a extending the wharf there for the
. i'll men spent thousands of dollars
where and were preparing it to load
large ocean vessels with oil, But
during our stay in the city we
made visit twenty miles distant to
a sea shore town called Cyucas,
we had to pass through Moro lit
tie village in the shade of all euca-
lyptus grove, there also was Moro
rock surrounded by water, much
talked of land mark in that country
there we struck the beach for seven
miss. just like to say to my dry
land friends that a beach drive can
not be over estimated. Cyucas is a
small town on the shore not over
10 #, above high tide.
Los Angeles was the next stop
after a twenty-four hour ride
through desert country. landing
in the city at night. The morning
sun came forth in its usual sum-
mer glory, roses and flowers every
where such a contrast was delight
full but this time we stayed only a
few days for we got anxious to see
our folks. The first stop was in
San Louis Obispo, but as we left
the city OH the Southern Pacific
road /, for the first time, beheld
the great ocean, beautiful sight
but the railroad and the ocean
seemed to get too close together to
suit me, for several times we were
several hundred feet above the sea
level and no earth in sight on the
sea side, and landslides and leav-
ing the track and tumbling down
into the ocean are some of the
thoughts that force themselves up
on the individual at such periods OF
life.
We set Our day for our departure
for San Jose, Calf, where we
stopped with sister Hattie Wise,
but in going there we had to cross
the Coast Range mountains and
down the Salinas Valley till we
reached Gilroy, and from there
through Santa Clara Valley, which
is fruit country, apples, peaches
prunes, apricots and berries of all
kinds, indeed interesting trip We
landed in San Jose about O'Clock