The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-23
WHERE! WHERE rolls THE OREGON
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
THE FAR WEST,
\ Falls City Resident Tells of the
Glorious West. the Diseom-
forts of Travel, Etc.


We enjoyed a part of our trip very
much and a part just the opposite.
The part that We enjoyed was from
Denver to Pueblo, about one-hundred
miles of beautiful country, then it
commenced to get very tiresome; we
xould see nothing from the car win
dow bat sandy. rock hills and noun
tains.
We hear people talk about Colora-
do, Utah and Nevada. well outside
the two or three larger cities in the
three states. | wouldn't give a dime
for the balance. They seem to me
like a large desert and only just once
IN awhile you can look down a val
ley from the train and see a small
oasis, or two by four garden patch,
with q log-cabin by its side.
We stopped over at Salt Lake but
We were very much disappointed. The
city was very dusty, hot and smaller
than We expected We went out to
Salt Lake. or Saltair. as it is called
here, in the evening. II is quite a
pleasure resort, all kinds of amuse-
ments, bathing, dancing, skating and
I think a merry-go-round.
Monday We started for Ogden, and
Reno. which are in Nevada. Ogden
IS just as nice or a little nicer place
10 live than Salt Lake, as 1t isn't so
dirty. Reno, Nevada, is the pleasant
est town we have struck. It has a
fine stream of running water through
1he center of the town. 1t has a
population of II, 900 and is up-to-d date
In every way. We stayed there over
night and the nex morning started for
Altural, the end OF the narrow gage,
''ierk-water" road that is ten times
rougher than the Missouri Pacific road
in Nebraska. When we reached AL
turas, California, in the evening, we
were more than tired and dirty we
went to an inn to get a drink of settler
water and all that two small glasses
cost was thirty cents, and 1t didn't
start to queneh our thirst. "Old
rocky jerk-water road was out of
Ice water about ten o'clock that morn.
ing, so you can imagine our thirst,
Alturas is a town of | 900 and Is lin
tied to nine saloons. AS 1t was late
when we reached there we did not
have time to find out much more
about the town, so we retired for the
night. The next morning we got up
early and started for the deserted
point, Lakeyiew. Oregon, We made
The trip in an automobile, 1t is only
sixty-three miles from Alturas, but a
srifle further than | thought it was.
Ne enjoyed the ride and the scenery
vas beautiful especially along Goose
Lake. | think Louie Dawson especi.
ally enjoyed the auto ride as the
driver placed him between two old
maids, who were very laxative. The
driver being very reckless Louie
found himself at times in the arms
of first one of these ladies and then
the other. We saw many fine large
fir trees and other very interesting
rived at Lakevlew shortly after n
O'Clock and was as hot as"blixen,"
we ate dinner at a Chinese restau-
rant AID at that hour it tasted just
fine.
| have been making a great many
negatives in and around Lakeview,
l. i hardly think | will have time to
1iaih many postals to send to my
8eieads. a 8 eeer5t ing is so different
here than | had expected. We have
seen 4 great deal around Lakeview
the last two days, but | havn't been
out to where a company is building the
big reservoir for the irrigation, but
they tell me it is about twenty-five
or thirty miles up the big valley from
here. | e only a few cherries and
some apples and raspberries. The
soil in the valley seems to be fertile
enough to raise most anything. The
climate will allow such as wheat,
,ttts dltd tit Hay.
Farmers here raise a great man cat.
sle n sheep, but not so many hogs.
The country has been very much mis-
represented as to climate and fruit.
4 wouldn't care to live here at all, but
as to the valley land, when it has
water on 1t will be worth what con
tractors have paid for 1t. D
most OF the rough land could be
sised all right if some one could get
rid Oh the large nigger-head rocks
and smaller stones. From here we
can see Mt. Chasta still covered with
ssnow, it is about n hundred miles
away.
Lakeyiew is a nicer place than ]
klad expected to see, has about 1,S0O
people, two churches and nine toe