Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-07

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out would need to be a better man than
l. But after swapping a few questions l
was more than surprised to find that
the occupants of the place were button
hole relations of mine and we're born .
few farms from where | was born. We
talked far into the night and things
looked quite different in the morning.
He went with me a large portion of the
way and with his directions I had no
difficulty in reaching nay destination.
After getting over the Turtle Back the
soil is of black loan and 1 had smooth
driving the rest of the way. Abundance
of ducks and geese are to be found
around these little lakes. My journey
completed [ had Indeed a pleasant meet.
ing with the relatives of my departed
wife. My wife's sister and little daugh-
ter accompanied me on my return trip to
Calgary.
l left Calgary at 4 a. m. to get the
Canadian Rockies by day. | have
travelled over the Salt Lake & Santa Fe
trans-continental lines but for continu-
Gus sceanic granduer they do not com
pare with the g. P. r. route thru the
Canadian Rockies; but as | have neither
the pen of a writer MOI the brush of
painter it would be useless for me to
attempt to describe. My next stopover
was at Vancouver where [ stayed two
DAYS with friends.
The G. P. r. are justly proud of
Vancouver and as an inducement to get
people to see 1t the> carrie everybody
myself among the rest, whether they
had a ticket or not, from Mission juno
ton to Vancouver a distance OF 40 miles
and back free of charge. | was again
more than surprised to find a city of
moro than 100000 inhabitants. 1t
appealed to me to have greater possibili-
ties as an investment than any other
place | have been. / believe it will be
doomed still farther by the completion
of the Panama Canal, as for some years
TO come it will have almost the exclusive
Canadian trade on the Pacific coast. I
had a very pleasant visit here with Dan
McCallum, also with Ed. Mahon, former
ly of Easily, n. d., also the Rev. P. FL.
McEwen, who is pastor of a church
there.
| then struck south, Seattle being my
next port. | spent two days at the fair
and could have spent several more with
both interest aud profit, but [ was draw
ing so near the expiration of my ticket ]
had to hasten on. Ihad the addresses
of several old friends here and regret
very much that | lacked time to hunt
them up.
Being now a resident of California |
was justly proud of our state exhibit and
building at the fair. 1t is generally con-
coded to be the finest of any of the state
exhibits there and [ think those who have
visited the fair will bear me out in this
statement. [ took in every thing on
"Pay Street" dropped my dimes and
quarters with reckless abandon of a
school boy. | went in with some money
and came out rich in experience.
Leaving Seattle l started southwark
on the home stretch, except for one day
l spent in San Francisco. | wanted
very much to see John Mcdonald at
Eugene, Oregon, but could not on &C.
count of time. l thot l must needs
spend n day at the city of the Golden
Gate which l had never seen before
and of which I had heard 30 much.
San francisco was the talk Of the
world and many shed tears three years
ago when she hardly existed as a col
lection of houses when fire swept over
the city and consumed her. At the
time this seemed a dire calamity but
was really a blessing in disguise.
Though the city has gone the people of
the Golden Gate were not destroyed.
With push and energy almost unheliev-
able they went at the work of rebuilding
and today there is represented to the
world a modern metropolis of steel and
marble and granite the like of which
for a three-year-old is not recorded in
history.
Passing thru California | was delight.
ed with the scenery OF the Shasta
country with its beautiful imposing
snowcapped Mt. Shasta. We stopped
long enough to fill up on soda water
from the beautiful Shasta springs.
came from San Francisco to Los
Angeles by the Coast Line, which skirts
the blue Pacific much of the way, ana
arrived in Los Angeles Saturday at
2:3O p m. where | stayed until Monday
with relatives in their beautiful Getty Of
the angels" mot fallen angels) in "The
vale that gods love the best Monday
Sept. ID, l made my last 66 miles, arriv.
/ ing in Redlands, HHome, Sweet Home
with its oranges, sunshine and flowers
| am glad you like your country, so dc
l. L treasure many happy memories Of
life in Dakota and also of the other