Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-04-21

woman and Mr.. Lane was formerly To- !
Gated at White River Junction. They |
enjoy seeing you and you'll enjoy see
ing them.
While in San Diego I took occasion to
motor across the line into Old Mexico
to the little town of Tijuana, town
about the size of West Glover. If this
is any sample of Mexico give me this
side of the line. Hot, dirty, dusty, ill
looking, ill-kept, ill-smelling and half
baked. That's my impression of the
place. Roulette wheels. gambling de-
vices and joints of all kinds run wide
open. You are shown bull pens where
the bull fights are pulled off for the
benefit of sightseeing Americans who
pay their good money to see bull so
scared to start with that any child
could drive him out of the place. A
garrison of some 80 soldiers are sta
toned there by Villa. I saw several
of them dressed in their almost white
uniforms One of our party ventured
a picture of the barracks despite the
days before who tried the same thing
had his camera taken from him. and
thrown to the ground and jumped on
by half dozen soldiers.
The next place of interest I shall
mention is the Grand Canyon of Arizo-
ma or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
river. This is most wonderful place.
The immensely of this cavity in the
earth is stupendous. A description I
have found says: eft is not merely a
cliff but terrific trough six to seven
thousand feet deep, five to twenty
miles wide, hundreds of miles long,
with hundreds of peaks taller than any
east of the Rockies, all blazing with
color as no eastern or European land
scape ever knew" In few words this
conveys the best impression of the
place | have ever seen. You will not
believe the statements made here until
you see the place.
descended to the banks of the Colo
RADIO river a full mile below the rim Of
the chasm. This is a days trip on
muleback and a hard day too. The
narrow, winding and steep trail takes
you where it seems impossible to 60
The mule always seems determined to
travel on the very outside edge of the
trail (Where sometimes a misstep
would hurl one hundreds Of feet to the
rocks but your guide calmly tells you
there is no danger if you let the mule
have his head and not try to guide him
to the inside of the trail. Perhaps he
knows.
From the Grand Canyon l came
through Arizona, New Mexico to Kan.
sas City. St Louis and Washington
(where gathered up my little family
and hurried on home. After once head
ed east the train could not travel fast
enough.
The climate of California, especially
the southern part, is certainly delight.
full for a short stay. Whether ar
Fastener would tire of a temperature
that varies but a few degrees from
J day to day the year around, is for the
Individual to decide. Whether five OF
six months of hot sunshine withou,
rain, parching every foot of land not
irrigated. is ideal or not is for others
to say. That one is able to pick
oranges in March, raise garden vege
tables any month in the year, cut az
. high as seven crops of alfalfa in a year
usually four or five however, see bar
ley ready to harvest early in April ane
such things pleases the eye of a Yer
rnonter to be sore. but, [ just surmist
that the Lord did not make any spot OF
this earth a heaven. And whether Cal
ifornia is any nearer that longed- fo
place than Vermont is questionable t,
me.
t do admire the loyal spirit of tn,
) westerner however. He may develo]
his ardor to such a degree that hi
statements need liberal discounting
/ but man who knocks in that countr,
} finds little peace. He is politely toll,
that if he doesn't like the place he i
2 in we'll enough to stand up for it he Cal
: get to another place warmer than tn
2 Imperial valley in California. That
one reason why the west has grown S
: tremendously. The man who doesn'
like his town out that way is made S
uncomfortable that he moves and keep
moving Eastward usually until n
+ finds town that will tolerate him.
y While soft coal sells for SIP to 81
per ton and hard coal is hardly obtain
y able at any price, crude oil make
8 cheap fuel for locomotives on the coas
e and manufacturing plants. Pasaden
h has municipal electric plant sellin
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