La Junta tribune., 1913-02-22
WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE
r. Phillips. Writes enterta'ninsiy OF
His Journey Through
The South


me to write letter or two. Although
taking the trip to get away from
letter wrlting-and some other
things-yet | am glad to comply with
his request My letters will be
rest to me rather than otherwise
for they will be brief and certainly
not very weighty. and they will al
so save me writing to my friends in
dividually. count everyone who
reads the Tribune among my friends
and am glad TO send them Il greet.
Ing In this way. In order. therefore.
to give some of my Impressions. /
will write Of them under the follow
ing topics:
Santa Fe Rail-Water Tour
This tour carries the traveller from
La Junta to Galveston. New Orleans.
or Mobile. hence by water to New
York, returning by way of any east
ern cities desired at cost of sgilO
for the round trip. including berth
and meals for the seven or eight
days on shipboard. the tickets being
good for three months. The distance
Is over 5000 miles. 1000 miles of
which is by boat. and by the way
II Is slow boat. but we do not
care for that as the slower II is
the more meals and lodgings We get.
Stop-overs are allowed anywhere.
either way, part of our plan being
to stop at Key West and take a side
trip TO Cuba.
l think the Santa Re Ii entitled
to some free advertising and wish
to say right here that thus far on
the trip | have found nothing equal
To their service. We left La Junta
m No. IL. This train has a draw.
Ing room In the rear sleeper. with
library. writing desk. late periodicals.
aAd easy chaira. an1 With ths Her.
- eaeiaG H1snaa-lA4Assoao>fnnGin
fAard 70 bcat.
| Thrs0Sh tee os~ay oewvA.
We had 4 daylight ride on the
Louisville aud Nashville railroad from
southern Tennessee to Mobile This
rad from st. Louis to Mobile looks
ON the map like the loop Of a big
letter ID. Leaving 81. Louis you are
carried eastward across southern II.
linos. u corner of Indiana and then
southeast almost through tn. cen
ter Of Kentucky and Tennessee. Ny
first reminder Of the South was cor.
duroy roads. saw mills and rail
fences. each Of which tells a tale.
respectively. Of muddy roads, n tim
hercd country and farming conditions.
From southern Tennessee TO the Gulf
there are no roads along the Louis.
vile and Nashville suitable for su.
tomobilcs. and over which the farm.
er could haul very much of n load.
Most of the country looks. too. as
though IN. farmer had not been
raising very many big loads Of any.
ihinr to haul either. The farming is
don. principally by negroes with
little mules or oxen. There ar. no
fine horses lik. Chris Rich drives In
/ lIJlbrook. no mules like Gay Ecion
buys and sells. and I saw no cattle
along III. way that would compar.
with n Colorado steer that had win.
tered on the range
! hay" been reading lately II IN.
corn contests and III. new agricul
iur" In III" south bu, hav. seen no
evidence of II. 4 man on the train
was Inclined Ia doubt the final re-.
suits and said that when corn
contestant raised ninety bushels of
corn where before only thirty could
be- produced II cost him $500 bush.
ri "a do a. told him that II 40.
even then. the coat would be juS,i.
/ fable bccaus" of III" bon"fl, Ia the
land and larger crops IN the future
/ | am not much OF n proph", but
predict that the new agriculture N
going Ia revolutioni," the farming of
tho cntIr" country. and nowhere viii
there be- n greater benefit than IN
the sunny south" which nature has
50 richly endowed.
The rainfall of southern Alabama
amounts IN sixty inches annually and
this II pretty evenly divided through.
out the year. tho highest average
record being In Auxust when six and
onc.half inches are recorded and
the bw~st In October or November
when the average record shows three
inchcs. Am surprised TO finA -
much timber. and Am told tAat nscA
n II has espwn up On the oheu11Ar
~ plantations since tA~ var. ! NV
IN abandoned railroad gfale thScaiy
eovere1 With pias tree large seeaaA
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