The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-09-11
temple and other buildings are beauti-

temple and other buildings are beauti-
full. The streets of Salt Lake City are
very wide, so of course that helps to
make the city pretty. Outside the wide
streets and the temple grounds and
the temple, it isn't as pretty as Denver.
We went over the Sale Lake about
ten miles by moonlight. That was
lovely sight-the moon shining on the
water and changing the salt which
had accumulated along the side of the
railroad bed to the colors of the rain
bow. We missed seeing the wonderful
salt beds as we were asleep when we
passed over them. They said for miles
and miles there was nothing but salt
salt everything was white like snow
We passed through more desert, as
most of the state of Nevada and east
ern California was desert. When we
reached the little town of Helper we
were practically out of the desert and
entering the beautiful Feather River
Canyon. This canyon was about $50
miles long, SO you can have some idea
of the lovely scenery we saw that day.
Something new all the time. | craned
my neck from one side to the other
until it was sore and stood up most
of the way. The Feather River Canyon
was made by the Feather River, they
say Still, can't see how one little
river could make so much beautiful
scenery. The river was named that
because in falling over the large rock
it foamed up and floated on down SO
as to look exactly like feathers-so
you can have some idea of the beauty
of the river on one side of us and then
on the other All along the river were
miners huts and places where miners
were washing for gold Strong wires
were suspended over the river and on
these were baskets which carried the
men from one side of the river to the
other. We saw the old Forty Miners
Trail 1t was in sight of us most of
the time. The Feather River Canyon
was the exact opposite of the Royal
Gorge. In the Royal Gorge we were at
the bottom looking up at the bare
rocks towering to the skies-in the
Feather River Canyon we were up in
the mountains looking down on the
canyon. The fir trees and Feather
River softened it all and made the
scenery more beautiful STILL the Royal
Gorge was just as wonderful in an
other way. The contrast made us en-
joy it all the more.
In the Feather River Canyon we saw
tombstone where the mother of the
first white child in the west was buried.
We crossed the San Francisco Bay
about $3.50 Sunday night We nearly
froze but still we couldn't keep from
standing out on deck looking at the
beautifully lighted city of San Fran
cisco. In front of us was the large
tower looking like ball of fire with
the words Welcome to San Francisco
1915" in the electric lights There
were such crowds of people we could
hardly get room for the night.
The Exposition was great! We went
first to the Arkansas Oklahoma build
ing and it was nice The exhibits from
both states were good. Oregon had a
beautiful building out of the large logs
from that state, and the exhibit of
products was fine. We went into al
most all Of the state buildings, but
Canada's building to our minds out
stripped them ALL CALIFORNIA;, though,
and Oregon's came close to it, Canada
had large pictures of farm houses,
scenery, ETC., all made of tiny grains
of wheat, corn, etc.-their grains. The
exhibits of their animals were unique
and also the fruit exhibits. The China
building, also Turkey, Siam, Bolivia,
the Philippines, Hawaiian, Italy, France
and Japan buildings were especially
interesting to us, as they had their
natives-some selling their own goods,
som singing, etc. The Education and
Fine Arts buildings we liked very
much. Japan seemed to take off most
of the prizes. The battleships were
interesting; also the races between the
sail boats; the life-saying crew; and
the fire works at night were wonderful.
The tower of jewels was grand.
We remained in San Francisco one
week and half and didn't see one
half OF the Fair. "The Zone"-the
amusement part of it, was very good.
We saw chocolate made = the whole
process from beginning to end. The
Mexican entertainment on the zone we
liked best-they not only gave a good
entertainment, but in their little build
ing they had their natives making the
different articles which they send out.
In the Varied Industries Building you
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