Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-23
mutual shippers that this years ship.
ments would exceed $4,000 carloads.
Visits Smiley Heiahts.

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| At Redlands also we visited the
great Smiley Heights, Smiley is the
man who made so many men smile
with his patent cuff attachment. Well
he is enjoying the returns from his
wonderful patent now. We had the
pleasure of meeting him and he is a
very pleasant old gentleman who GER
tainly has an eye for the beautiful
His place has hundreds of acres of
beautiful, natural parks and he has
vastly improved it. 1t is one Of the
grand sights of California and des-
cription is out of the question. There
are thousands of different flowers
there and roses abound, along one of
the drives for from one-third to one
half mile. On one side of the road
are roses and nothing but roses and
would guess there are over 100 differ
ent varities, all climbers and way up
at the top could be seen rose and
ripe orange side by side. Say that
Is enough of California except to say
that all California is not the same for
from the time we struck the summit.
above San Bernardino until we left
the state at the Needles there was
trees, not another living thing The
whole Mohare desert Is worth whole
lot less than nothing and in fact any
one can have my interest in Arizona
and New Mexico just for the asking
There may be some desirable points
but we failed to see them. When we
got back to Albuquerque we concluded
| that the southern route would be pref
cradle so we got directions through
the canyon over to Moriarity so miles
east of Albuquerque through Tijeros
canyon, one of the most beautiful
scenic drives Imaginable But at
present it is one of the toughest as
we'll. We were assisted through some
tire trouble by gentleman from
Saltwater, Okla, who was driving a
team over the country looking for
health and sport and finding both.
His name is G. E. Burroughs and he
invited us to camp with him. We ac-
copied the invitation and had splen-
did time, enjoying every minute of it.
We camped about two-thirds of the
way through and in the most beauti-
full part of the canyon. From MORT
arity we struck south to. Encing, N. NJ,
followed east to Santa Rosa near
where Mrs. Woollett met some
old friends from Las Vegas with whom
we visited. From Santa Rosa to the
line of the Texas panhandle we had
some roads to contend with, sand
rocks, broken rocks, hills, blackjack
and always sand and more sand-say,
we had to work some you can bet.
Then we had about 100 miles of as
good road as lies out of doors any
where and then sand, then deeper
sand and then some more and some
deeper sand. For seventy-five miles we
saw nothing but sand and say If there
is any one thing an automobile does
not like it is sand But we got through
all right except one place where we
struck q snag in the very deepest sand
and cut a tire out. There we got
some help and used a rope with a
team at the front end of it.
Meets Tom Kirby.
While walking along the street to-
day I ran square into Tom kirby, ex-
police Judge of Ottumwa and he tells
me there are several Ottumwans here.
l am going to look some of them up
tomorrow. Ed. Campbell is one of
them and understand he is doing we'll
here.
This city shows wonderful improve
ment in the last eight years. The |
hotel facilities are remarkable The |
is 10 stories high, oc-
cupies full one-fourth block and has |
Bears the