The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-06
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of the things seen on the way
! ". left noyce al 6 10 a. M, JUS
/ s. that r.. myself and wife We
! bought our tickets over the Houston
/ aud Texas Central and Santa Pc for
7 los Angeles and return hy the Nay
of san Francisco. Salt Lake and
/ Denver. at each OF which places We
aimed Ia make a stop. After leaving
/ Fort Worth. through North Texas,
We find "A fine body of farming
/ land. We saw great wheat fields
growing up in weeds. the green bugs
/ having killed the wheat. Crops In
the territory and Oklahoma were
about like they were In Texas. cot
ton and corn both being late. We
passed the i0l ranch In Oklahoma.
That certainly Is fine body Of lev
/ 81 valley land. AS far as the eye
could reach you saw nothing but
/ corn and 1t looked like it would
make a good yield. 1t was just about
! laying by size. In Western Kansas
where a few Years ago they thought
! the land was good only FOR grazing
purposes, they now have great SUI
gar beet factories and the farmers
plant thousands of acres OF these
beets. Alfalfa was simply fine.
was told wheat had been producing
well the last few years. In Arizona
/ | saw my first desert 1t certainly
looked like a God forsaken country.
You can ride for hours and see
nothing but hills and mountains and
the bare ground without a sign of
vegetation was told that in the
valley along the rivers they have
some fine irrigated farms, but it
gets very hot there in summer. The
hottest place we struck was just be
fore We got to the Colorado river,
at place called The Needles. The
wind felt like it was coming off of
a furnace. | was told that the Their
momenter got as high as 134 in the
shade.
Los Angeles is a city of 800, 1000.
, While we were there the streets
thronged with people. They say the
city is kept up by tourists and sight
+ seers In Los Angeles you don't have
to wait long for a car. Police have tc
, stand on the street corners to keel
people from being run down
stood and watched them one even
|, ing and one car had to make a short
stop and it wasn't more than three
minutes until | counted ten cars all
headed the same way damned up
together remarked to a gentleman
standing near that it was dangerous
to cross the streets. He said he coun-
ted as high as twenty people killed
in one month by street cars. We
went out TO Ocean Beach, a nice lit
tie city built on the ocean shore
where they have surf bathing and
fishing galore They have a great
pier or bridge built out of one
street into the ocean and around
back into another street people go
out on this bridge and fish and
watch waves come rolling In which
is grand sight to one who has new
cr seen it before We went to the
street car depot, which is a large
building about the size of the union
depot "a Fort Worth, the cars run
out to the different resorts around
.o- Angeles The place was crowded
with people waiting 20 take cars for
different resorts We took ear for
/ Pasadena. The car passes the fam
ous ostrich farms. Thousands OF
people visit the place which is en-
I,.1ssd bs o. great high fence. They
l,hara, -5 cents 60 go In. and iudg
Inns from thr number ot people that
lsisit the place. BE- is equal fo a sold
Imtn, fat eu .asomt W, came on to
. F-uau. about $500 miles north.
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