The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-27

Lake, before turning northward
through Oregon and into Washington
1 with possibly short side trips to
busting, growing Vancouver, or
quaint, old English Victoria, before
i swinging southwark along the Pacific
coast.
There is choice Of rail or water
route along this second leg of the
swing around the triangle. From
Puget Sound large steel steamers of
modern construction and splendid
comfort and accommodations plough
4 the waters around the bases Of the
snow-crowned Olympic mountains, flirt
With Cape Flattery, and then pick up
4 the swell of the ocean and follow a
line straight to the Golden Gate. To
the resident of the Mississippi valley.
the short and pleasant ocean trip
will be a feature Of the outing
of 1915 that will be a bright spot in
memory throughout life.
At San Francisco as much. time as
! circumstances permit may be spent at
the great exposition there, and then
the journey is resumed, either by rail
or water to San Diego, thus in trip
along one side of the triangle visiting
the extreme northwest and the ex-
i IRENE southwest of the nation. Our
exposition here is to be so essentially
different in almost every detail that
few travellers will visit one without
visiting the other. Our exposition is
to he one in action, showing not what
people do, by display of products,
but how they do things, by display
of processes. think the very novelty
Of our plan is its greatest drawing
power
This marks the second turn of the
triangle have in mind, and here the
4 trail turns astward-homeward
wonder how many people realize that
within a few decades their opportun-
| ity to see the great desert places of
the southwest will have passed. We
must not forget that irrigation of the
desert has passed the experimental
stage, and that the passing of the
desert through it's reclamation is as
certain as is future time. In the des-
erts today, tickled by irrigation, are
wondrously productive spots They
are prophetic of the time when the
seeker for the American desert will
seek in vain. The man who travels
over the same route century in the
future will not find any desert.
I'm Arizona and New Mexico are
found things of rarest interest. Here
are the remains of civilization,
crude though it was, that existed
thousands of yeas ago. The rough
/ irrigation systems then built are elo-
ouent promise of the great works OF
today. The rude houses of this van
ished race are the foundation in part
of the architectural theme of our ex-
position After leaving this land Of
mystic romance the way leads the
traveller back home through rice
| fields.
Think of such a variety of enter
tanning features, all found in one trip!
Such aStrip reveals the natural won
ders, the vastness, the resources and
the resourcefulness of the west. 1t
brings to view spreading wheat fields
in the middle west, the majestic for
ests of the northwest the richness OF
lands in precious minerals 1t touches
two great expositions; 1t threads a
way through an empire made waste
now being redeemed by mans pluck
and enterprise and ingenuity.
For those of longer purse and more
time there will be the trip through the
Panama canal, from the Atlantic or
gulf coast ports, to the Pacific sea
board. Doubtless thousands will visit
the coast in 1915 by this route, but
probably 1t is safe to assume that the
vast majority of the multitude that
will wend it's way toward the setting
sun two years from now will employ
the idea Of the swing around the tri-
angle In some of it's possible modi-
fications, think this will be the route
| OF the average information seeker dur
| ing 1915.
| Il repeat. however, that the Ameri-
can people have never had, and may
never have afterward, an opportunity
to see so much of life and the scenic
grandeurs of the west, at so little ex-
pense, either of time or money, as will
be presented in 1915. With all these
things to attract, travel is certain to
be of immense volume"