The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-17
WILL START SEPTEMBER 18TH
AND HAS PUT COLORADO
ON HIS ROUTE.
TAKES IN SEATTLE FAIR
TO MEET PRESIDENT DIAz ArEL
PAso, AND RETURN THROUGH
THE SOUTH.

Washlngton.-Preside Taft has
given an outline of the tentative plans
for his trip through the West and
South this fall
The president has abandoned all
idea of visiting Alaska this year, large
ly owing to the fact that Mrs. Taft
will not be able to go with him Upon
! his arrival here from Massachusetts
the president received word from Bev.
erly that Mrs. Taft was rapidly i'm.
proving in health. The president feels,
however. that it would be too much
OF a strain upon his wife to ask her
to go on the long Western trip this
fall. which will occupy about two
months.
AS soon as the tariff bill has been
acted on by the president, Mr.. Taft
will leave Washington for Beverly. He
will remain there until September Is
his fifty-second birthday-when he
hopes, If Mrs. Taft continues to I'M
prove. to begin his Western journey
The president will head directly
from Beverly to Seattle. stopping for
brief visits en- route at Denver, Salt
Lake and Spokane. After visiting the
ka-Yukon-Pacific exposition the
president will swing down to the
Southwest. stopping for a time at
Portland, where he will be the guest
of Senator Jonathan Bourne, and CO.
ing thence to San Francisco, where he
will spend several days. Leaving San
Francisco the president will go direct
to Los Angeles. where he will stop fcE
several days with his sister.
From Los Angeles the president
will go to San Diego and then go into
Arizona and New Mexico, the last re-
naming territories which soon are to
be admitted to the Union. II the
weather is pleasant and his engage
ments permit, the president hopes to
visit the Yosemite valley before going
to Los Angeles.
Coming out Of Old Mexico. the presi-
dent will stop for a time at Ell Paso.
where he expects to meet President
Diaz of Mexico. Mr.. Diaz and Presi-
>dent Taft have never met. The Mexi-
can president wrote recently to the
White House suggesting a conference
at Ell Paso. and President Taft replied
today that he would be delighted to
meet the Mexican executive about
October Is, the meeting depending, of
course, upon the presidents ability to
make the Western trip.
after his stop at El Paso the presi-
dent will visit San Antonio, where he
will inspect Fort Sam Houston. Mr..
Taft, while secretary of war, was deep
ly impressed with this post and was
instrumental in building it up to its
present impOrtance After visiting
Austin and Dallas, Texas, the presi-
dent expects to spend several days ON
the ranch owned by his brother, C. P.
Taft, at Corpus Christi. near Browns
Vile
Continuing east the president will
stop at Houston and go to New Or
leans to attend the meeting of the
Deep Waterways congress, the date of
which will be fixed to suit his con-
venience.
After attending the convention, Mr..
Taft wants to stop for a time in the
Bayou Teche country of louisiana, the
land Of Evangeline and Arcadia. From
there the president will go to Jack
son, Miss, thence to Montgomery,
Birmingham and Macon. From Ma
con the president will go "home" to
Augusta to have a game or two OF
golf on the links where he spent much
! time last winter. Leaving Augusta,
Dthe president goes to Savannah and
fspm there begins his northward
ykght to the White house. stopping at
Wilmington, N. c., and Richmond, Va.
New York.-John ID. Rockefeller