The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-06-30

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young man were going as far as Den
YER.
We stayed at Cheyenne for nearly
three hours and in that time succeed
ed in seeing nearly all of the town.
Here we had a.. regular thunder
storm. This is one of the windiest
towns we ever saw.
Denver.
We reached Denver Tuesday af-
ternoon about dark. Our stay here
was very short, only n night. We
liked this city so much when we Wis
tied it in 1911. The streets are so
wide and we'll lighted at night. We
saw a pretty good Burlesque show
which was go per cent girls at the
Tabor Grand. Denver is the sun
shine city. They will guarantee you
325 days of sunshine a year. Of
course it was our i'll luck to strike
one of the remaining forty days.
We left Denver on Wednesday
morning over the Rock Island lines
on the Rocky Mountain Limited. At
Limon, Colorado, We stopped a short
time. 1t was cold and raining and
the wind was blowing something
fierce. We were glad that we
didn't live there.
One thing that particularly inter-
ested me was the tumble weed" 1t
is shaped like a ball and is light in
weight. When it natures the wind
breaks it off even with the ground
and carries it for miles over the
plains until it strikes something. The
fence along the railroad ~right-of-way
would be hanging full of the big
weed balls. Another interesting
sight was how the stock stood the
weather. 1t rained the whole way
into Chicago so we had lots of time
to notice the cattle. They would
wander on until they came to a
fence then they would stop and hud-
die up close together with their faces
from the wind. There were no
trees for them to fi:G shelter under.
Most of the cattle have red hair and
white faces.
Through Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa we saw real farming. One
field would be as large as Abbeville,
and perfectly level. Some times a"
many as eight horses would lie
hitched to II plow-usually there
were six. The fields were absolute
ly free from grass. Grain Is the
most extensively raised Great
quantities of alfalfa is grown. Es-
pecially in Nebraska and I:wa we
noticed from the general appearance
Of the homes that all the farmers are
rich. Their homes are large IL and
16 room houses, paipte | white with
green blinds The l,rg":t barns
are three times as large as the dwell
ing house. There would lie two or
three smaller barns, a glragc, 0
wind mill and a silo. 1nea 4 small
herd of cattle, horses, sheep and al
ways a large drove or hogs, usually
red in color. The white leskorn
chicken is the most popular Judging
by the frequency with which we SAW
them.
We passed through Lincoln, NeD.,
the home of William Jenning@ Bryan.
In places the track was covered
with water, due to the heavy rains.
Sometime during Wednesday ni;:ht
we went over 600 fee: of tract thct
was under water. l was glad that
I didn't know this until the next
morning for / am sure I would hive
been very nervous. The next day
all trains were delayed on account
of this place. We crossed the Miss
issippi River at Davenport, the home
Of our townsnan, Mr.. D. A. Dewey.
We reached Chicago late Thurs
Cay afternoon. I though! l had
seen crowded streets and blocked
crossings, but they didn't compare
with what l saw in Chicago. Here
the streets are narrow and the pave
n1ents rouph. be;nr broken in places.