The Grit-advocate., 1907-11-01
TELEPHONE NO. 10.
Viewing Nature Wonders.


The following interesting let,
ter has been written by IA Jules,
burg lady to Mrs. l.. j Adams
regarding her trip to California,
III which Colorado is most de-
lightfully described as well as
the Kingdom of flowers:
Riverside, Calf, Oct. FL am
ashamed that have not written YOU
sooner, but we have been continually
on the go and it has seemed as though
| could not get time to write
We stopped at Denver for a week
and it took US five days to come from
Denver here. We spent one day in
Salt Lake, Il very beautiful place,
much handsomer than Denver. Saw
the temple and tabernacle and Brig
ham Ioung's cemetery. | did not no.
tice any halo over his grave. | wash
ed my hands in salt Lake and while
the bathing season has closed, the pa
Wilton is opened to visitors. There
aremany beautiful residences, and one
block of residence inhabited exclusive
ly by Mormons. The dry goods stores
IN Salt Lake are fine, but the farther
west one goes the higher the price ;
climb.
We came on the Rio Grande from
Denver and took in the Grand Canon
of the Arkansas river and the Royal
Gorge. 1t was fine. The walls are
2,621 feet high and II. seven miles long
and when winding around the noun
tains you feel pretty shaky, for it
seems so dangerous. But it is sublime
and one realizes more than ever the
strength and power of the creator and
the smallnes of Man. Beyond Lead
vile we begin to mount into Tennesses
pass. The elevation got away with
me. The top of the pass is Is, ,240 feet
and on one side of the train is a lake
that feeds the Eagle river. On the
west side. and one source of the Ar
kansas on the east, the train had two
engines and we stuck several times,
going SO slow that we hardly realized
we were moving at all The train
goes through a tunnell onsh-hnlf mile
long. and when We came out of that y e
we're on the Pacific slope.
Dur next place Of interest was the
wonders of Eagle river Canon, walled
in on either si6c by different colored
rocks 1900 feet high and taking on
the shapes of cathedrals and castles
OF every conceivable style. The car
on of the Grand river is also very
grand with its granite masonary
builded by Mother Nature into towers
statues and massive buildings Of every
description. ! saw one mass of gran
ite where there were doors and win
dows cut out a. plainly as if done by
the hand of man, but words fail me to
give YOU even "a faint description.
We were never out of sight of noun
tainS.
We passed through Palisade where
Brother and Sister Smith are station
ed. 1t is a pretty country with lots of
fruit hanging on the trees.
on September y we arrived here
and found our friends waiting for us,
and have been going some ever
since We drove over to Rialto to
see some of Mr.. Lucas old friends, and
it was a beautiful drive, and such a
quaint old town, feel in love with il
The roads here are fine and lined or
both sides with palms, pepper, mag
nolia. figs. dated palms. eucalyptus
trees and roses verywhere-hedses o
them, and rose trees along the country
roads. The roads are oiled to keel
down the dust. | see houses covered
with geraniums running over then
like vines. There are SO mahy beaut.
full flowers everywhere, everybody
has them and every home is beautiful
People seem to combine to take pride
in making the country beautiful. Yol
cannot imagine how beautiful it i:
you must come and see.
Riverside has fifty square miles in
side of its incorporation, and one drive:
for miles on beautiful avenues with
trees and shrubs and flowers planted
in the center and nice drive or
either side lined with palms ant
orange groves everywhere. | have
picked orange and lemon blossoms
and magnolias ioh, they are so lovely
and so fragrant, and picked oranges
figs and almonds from the trees.
Here is surely the foothills Of paradise