The Newark journal., 1908-05-22
NEWARKER WRITES OF
TRIP TO PACIFIC COAST
Sketch of the Points of Interest
Noted Along the WAY
Boundless Priarie, Mountain Scenery.
Snow Storm, Sunshine and Flow
ers Greet Travellers Eve


Editor Journal: With your permits
sion | will write little description of
my journey, as | promised nv
friends, and as | cannot write to each
one singly, / will take this method of
| writing to them.
On the morning of the 26th of April
| started with great longficket that
would take me to Long Beach, Cali.
situated on the Pacific coast The first
thing of interest was the storm track
above Batesville where lots of timber
was blown down along the road
Up White river into Missouri, one
can see mountain SCENERY that Colo
RADIO can't laugh at very much. We
went through one tunnel in Arkansas
1900 feet long and another 5000 feet
long. | got to Carthage, Mo-, about
s O'Clock that evening, and after wait
ing a few minutes, took a train for
Kansas City, where | arrived next
morning near O'Clock. There IS
some as fine farming land, as nice
orchards and pretty homes as one
could wish to see near Kansas City.
At 10 a. N. we got a train to Pueblo,
Col. Out into Kansas we sped along
side beautiful wheat and alfalfa fields
as far as the eye could see on both
sides of the road, with now and then a
space left for corn, where [ could see
three and four horses to the pillow.
Nice homes and orchards dotted the
countrAhere and there with windmi1ls
on every farm. We travelled through
that kind of country all day. An
old man got on the train that day who
said he was going TO Oregon. | asked
him what be was leaving this fine
wind blew so hard he could hardly
stand up. / thought if that country
had no drawbacks that the hills of Ar
kansas was not in the push when it
come to farming.
When / awoke the next morning, the
scene was changed to boundless
prairie. Hour after hour the train
ran through scenes Interchangeable.
After awhile [ could see the snow
capped mountains rise in the distance:
settlement began to get little thicker,
mostly dugouts, except at the stations
along the line.
There were two or three Arkansas
men on the train and we heard they
were looking for us at Pueblo, having
heard we were coming, and were going
to meet us at the depot with brass
band and have banquet in honor of
our passing through their city, but
from some cause they did not meet us
From Pueblo we took train to Salt
Lake City. About four O'Clock that
evening we got to Canon City where
the state penitentary Is located. After
| leaving there we went through the
famous Royal Gorge where there is
| Just room for the Arkansas river to
run through, which is to 10 feet wide
here. They had to blast off thesides of
| the mountain for the railroad track
Every body rushed to the windows to
see the high mountains on either side
1t is said that part of them rise over
1900 feet perpendicular in some places.
/ suppose it was mile or two before
we got through. 1t was such crooked
route the train would meet itself COM
| ing back. 1t commenced showing on
us there and by the time we made the
ascent of ten thousand four hundred
and sixty feet above sea level, it was
showing hard, and there icycles on the
watering troughs six inches through.
Whew. how | did need my forgotten
overcoat
1t was dark when we got to Salida
another important point along the
line in Colorado. We went through
part of Nevada next day and into
i Utah.
Those snow-capped mountains are
not as | exnected to see them. / eg-
pected to see them fiat on top with
timber growing on them but they look
more like pile of cement poured out
! than anything else. They are sharp
topped, like the steep hip-roof OF a
house. Most all noticed were too