The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-09-03
DELIGHTFUL TRIP
ALONG PACIFIC COAST.
Senior Editor and Ills Better Half
Enjoy Their Annual Outing.

The senior editor of The Com
mOnwealth and his better half re-
turned the first of last week from an
outing of over six weeks, having
travelled more than twelve thousand
miles by railroad and steamship
making numerous stops at points OF
indescribable interest and the most
magnificent natural scenery in the
world. This extensive sight seeing
tour was one of the grandest and
most wonderful in almost every re
spect that we have ever had the
pleasure of making-and we have
had several very interesting excurs
ion trips with the National Editor
ial Association to near y every sec
ton of the United States and Can
ada.
We begun our long journey from
Greenwood on Saturday, July 10th,
going via Jackson, New Orleans,
Houston, San Antonio, Ell Paso, Mex
leo, Arizona, California, Oregon and
Washington to Seattle-making the
trip to San Francisco over the splen-
didly equipped and altogether re-
liable Southern Pacific Railway,
which we consider one of the most
pleasant and attractive routes to
reach the God favored section of the
Golden Gate. The Southern Pa
cific uses oil for fuel, it's tracks are
sprinkled with oil, the car windows
are screened with fine wire gauze,
the sleepers are provided with elec-
trio fans and electric lights, the
time made is good, and the absence
of cinders and dust, the delightful
breeze from the fans, and the polite
and courteous attention of the con-
ductors and other members of the
train crew, all conspire to make the
trip one of continuous pleasure to
the tourist.
We made brief stops en- route at
San Antonio and Ell Paso At the
former place we visited historical
Alamo and other points of interest
about the city, At Ell Paso we took
an auto ride about the city and
across the Rio Grande river and
viewed the quaint old Mexico town
of Jueares At Tucson, Ariz we
had stop of thirty minutes. Learn
ing that Mr.. J. M. Buchanan, a
young man from Brandon, Miss,
held an important position with the
railroad company there, l rushed
out to the depot to say "howdy' to
him and while outside the electric
famed car discovered that the Their
mometer registered ITO degrees in
the shade, This was a scorcher,
but Mr.. Buchanan informed me that
it frequently got that hot out there.
After crossing the Colorado river we
travelled for many miles along the
noted inland Salton Sea-a section
of country formerly occupied by
enormous salt refneries, which was
overflowed from the Colorado river
several years ago, completely sub
merging the re6neries, causing the
Southern Pacific to have to remove
it's tracks back three or four times.
This inland sea is full of fish, but
for the past few years the water has
been receding and it is believed
that it will eventually dry up.
THE CITY OF THE ANGELS
Our next stop was at beautiful
and picturesque Los Angeles 1.-THE
City of the Angels city pa1
excellence and altogether lovely
Los Angeles is the chief city Of
Southern California, and has in
creased in population from 11.0O(
to $4,000 during the past 80 years
Los Angeles was the first city in the
United States to abandon gas fol
street lighting by substituting cleo
tricity. The city now has foul
trans-continental lines of railway
and one of the best street railway
systems to be found anywhere
There are here dozen great park.
and seven play grounds, and in thu
vicinity there are numerous splen-
did vacation or summer resorts
Glendale, Pasadena, San Pedro
Long Beach, Santa Anna, San Diego
San Bernardo, the Catalena Islands
etc. The population is cosmopol