The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-07-02
WESTERN SCENERY
NOT DUPLICATED
Presumptious to Plan Trip Abroad to
See Commonplace Scenery, When
So Much in Our Own Country
IDEAL WEATHER AT SAN DIEGO
1.-THE Little City Of Big Nerve" Under
going Remarkable GroWth-Pop-
uIation Of 10000 Claimed

San Diego. GALL, June 20, 1910.
Editor of Review:
San Diego is long ways from Den
ison, but ones meeting so many Iowa
people here rather removes the I'M
preston that the distance between the
two points is so great.
We had delightful trip coming out,
stopping at several points on the way,
We wonder why people are SO anxious
to go abroad when the scenery in our
own country cannot be duplicated
anywhere. Until one has visited the
Royal Gorge on the Arkansas river
and the scenery along the Grande riV-
er, coming down from Tennessee Pass
toward Glenwood Springs, Colo, and
Salt Lake City, it looks a little pre-
sumptious to plan extensive trips
abroad to see the commonplace seen
cry which is offered to tourists.
We stopped long enough at Salt
Lake City to view points of interest
at that place, and were surprised to
see such a remarkable development
since We We're there a few years ago.
1t has the appearance of a steady
growth and little evidence of boom.
For a long distance this side of
Salt Lake City, coming out on the San
Pedro route, we found land under cul-
tivation and bountiful crops growing.
Alfalfa seems to do remarkably well
in that locality. 1t is necessary how
ever, to irrigate the land in order to
insure crops, but it seems that where
ever sufficient water can be secured
a good crop can be assured.
For hundreds of miles after passing
out of Utah We found nothing but
sand and sage brush, and this contil-
ued until we passed over the Sierra
Nevada mountains AS We came down
en- the level plain west of the noun
tains, we found fruit of all kinds and
bountiful crops. No more beautiful
sight can be offered the traveller than
is seen when passing through the or
ange groves, which line the railroad
on either side. Truck farming is
profitable and is practiced extensively.
We arrived in Los Angeles on the
afternoon of June 10Th and found the
city had improved very much from
what it was when we were there sew
en- years ago. 1t is unquestionably the
leading city of the southwest, and we
doubt if it will have any serious COM
petition for many years to come.
We confess prejudice in favor OF
San Diego, on account of the enter
prise which is shown by the business
men of the place. One of the minis
tiers in a sermon yesterday described
San rtego as the Little city with big
nerve" That quite correctly de-
scribes the place. 1t is claimed there
are in the neighborhood of 10000 peo-
pie here, but we imagine $4,000 would
cover the number of actual residents.
It is true that remarkable improve
ments are going on here, and great
many men of large financial means
are investing their money in various
enterprises. Young Spreckles, the son
of the millionaire sugar baron, is in
vesting millions of dollars in magnifi-
cent buildings and other improve
ments, and is owner of the street rail-
way system and largely interested in
public utilities. IT is probably mis-
fortune fer the city to hear the re-
mark made that "Spreckles owns the
town, but it is safe to assert that If
few men of his means and ability
will back San Diego that it's future
will be assured. Large profits are be-
ing made by men who purchase prop
erty here, but how long this will con-
tinue is a problem. The chances are
that the boom which is apparently on
will not continue forever, and some
UOuy WILL We 4CAC W uOAu IAiC oe1SA' ooAA
Diego has one thing that no other city
on the coast can claim to equal and
that is it's climate. 1t is claimed for
the place that the summers are cooler
and the winters warmer than any 9TH
er city upon the coast. We find a
marked difference in the temperature
of Los Angeles and this city, The
nights are somewhat cooler here and
the days are not so warm as at Los
Angeles. If there is such a thing as
ideal weather in this country, it is
here in the extreme southwestern por-
ton of the United States.
We find that Iowa people are well
represented here, and many of them
are identified with business interests,
and making investments upon the the
DRY that large profits will result. A
number of investments have been
made by Denison people, some OF
which have already proved profitable.
We are not surprised that the pop
ulation of Iowa scarcely holds it's own