The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-23
Spends Day Watching the
Snow Capped Peaks and
Goes Through Royal Gorge
of the Arkansas at Night.
PRESIDENTS VOICE is IN
GOOD WORKING CONDITION
Breakfasts With Thomas F..
Walsh Near Denver and
Then ChriStenS the Colorado
MiIIiOnaireS New Home,
CHANGES SPEECH PLANS

Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 22.-President
Taft tonight is crossing the Cont
mental divide, and tomorrow morning
will find himself west of the Rocky
mountains.
All day the president has travelled
with the panorama Of the white
capped peaks Of the Rockies in view,
and at one time the train ran for a
mile or more through fields Of snow.
Tonight at Tennessee Pass, the
climb to the top of the divide carries
the chief magistrate to an altitude
Of 1920 feet, nearly two miles high.
For the first time the President is tray
cling to the west through the Royal
Gorge of the Arkansas, where at one
place the half-mile-deep canyon is so mar
row that there Is not room for the track
and the river and the former has to b9
carried over the rushing waters of the
stream by means of a hanging bridge sus-
pended By cables imbedded In the rock
walls of the Chasm. The eleven-miIe ride
through the gorge was made by moon
light tonight, the Presidents train h1v-
ing left here at $40 p. m. and reaching
the hanging bridge two hours later
The President did not feel the altitude
at all today and at the end of his first
week of 'one-night stands" ne is i'm
splendid health despite the efforts of the
hOspltabie west and its elaborate and
never-endtng breakfasts, lUncheons and
Taft's Voice Working Well.
Mr. Tsfts voice also is I'm the best OF
condition There was "a little huskiuess
for a time but 1t has about disappeared.
Beginning the first Of the two days Of
his Colorado tour, Mr.. Taft mOtored four
teen miles out Of Denver to- breakfast
alSn, and at the request of the owner,
rechristened as 'Clonmei' the estate here
tofOre known as "WOlhUrst-"
Taking train at WOihurst with an adj
dit-Onal train filled with Colorado people
as an escort, the President proceeded to
Colorado Springs, where he made a brief
address in the public park TO one Of the
largest crowds OF the trip and then made
a hurTy-up automobile tour to points OF
scenic interest At an emineuCe overlook
ing the valley of the Garden Of the Gods.
with the Rockies iE the background and
dark cumulOus clouds playing tag with
Pike s Peak. Mr.. Taft expressed hts admit
ration of the view with unresTained en-
From Colorado Springs the party came
on to Pueblo. where the President left
the train at the Mineral Palace park and
was driven at the mead OF a long process
sion of automobiles to the state fair
grounds to face another exuberant
thrOng and TO make a brief extemporane-
Gus speech in appreciation of the recep-
ton that Colorado has extended to him
Secretary of the Interior BallIngeP
Joined the presidential party at Denver
and VIII go through to Seattle with the
President. He will assist Mr.. Taft to-
morrow afternoon in the formal opening
of the GunuisOn tunnel a MOutrOse. Colo.
the greateset irrigation project the gov
eminent has ever undertaken.
Conservation Talk Postponed.
Mr.. Taft announced today that he will
not make his speech upon the subject OF
the conservation Of natural resOurces-tha
topic of supreme interest in the country
through which he will pass during tha
next two weeks-until he reaches Spokane
on Sept. Is
1t was at Spokane that the controversy
between Mr. Ballinger and Chief Forester
PinchOt arose and Mr.. Taft regards il as
probably the best place to discuss the is
sue, In the brief references ne has made
IN his speeches so far Mr.. Taft has de-
clared that the reclamation work must go
or, but that It must be done i'm conform
ity with the law and that no project will
be undertaken until the money for the
work is on hand.
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