The Newark journal., 1915-09-02
ENJOYS TRIP TO
 SUNNY CALIFORNIA
Newark Citizen Writes of Things Seen and Heard on Trip to Pacific Coast.

your valuable paper 1 will give short description of my trip to Sunny California. J.I.Sturdi- want and I left Newark August 18th. We saw nothing very startling until we reached Pueblo, Colorado. From there we started through the great Rockies. The scenery wonder ful. The Arkansas river and the railroad seemingly filled the Royal Gorge to the utmost, but all the way through up the great gorge, the convicts have built an automobile road that is a credit to the United States.
 We passed over the highest point at night and were asleep. We reached Salt Lake City Monday at 3 o'clock. Visited the Mormon Temple and sev- eral places of interest. Soon after we left there we began our travel through tEre awful deserts of Nevada. Nothing noticeable through these dole ful places but the prairie dogs, and they looked very forsaken. When we reached the eastern side of California signs of life began to present themselves. Beautiful vineyards, orange groves, lemon groves and every kind of beautiful flowers.
 We reached Los Angeles at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening Mrs. J. 1. Sturdivant was there to meet Us. We had to catch a street car and come to Saw Itelle where 1 met my children, H. L. Burnes and family. They are all the picture of health.
 l hardly had time to sit down until w. A. Edwards came to take me to see the Pacific, a distance of two miles from SaWtelle. It is grand sight 1 for it had always been my desire to see the largest body of water on the globe. We vis- Iited three beach towns before we came home. Was in my first ocean bathhouse. Will not say my modesty was complete Fly tried but I've seen sights that would make most any of our Arkansas people blush.
 The next day w. A. Edwards came and took me for a 140 mile drive over the great orange belt of Southern Cali fornia. We drove through fif- teen towns besides driving through the city of Los Angeles. In fact it's the most beautiful on earth. It has all nature could give it in the way of climate, soil and mountain scenery. Then in addition to that, all the art that money and man could use. They irrigate through the summer and raise every thing on earth. have seen hundreds of acres of Lima beans, melons, orange groves, lemon groves, olive orchards, English walnut orchards, and in fact everything that grows can be grown in California. visited their Chamber of Com imerce. Their samples of cot ton and corn were no better than we raise in Big Bottom. They raise the Lima bean with out any rain or water except the ocean fog.
 We visited Pasadena where it is said that the majority of the millionaires of the state live. It is useless to try to de- scribe the scenery of that place. There is where the noted Caw- Eston Ostrich Farm is located. We stopped long enough to look at hundreds of the birds of all sizes.
 On Thursday I had to take rest and on Friday an auto mobile load of us started at 2 o'clock for another trip. We went to Santa Anna where they have a beet sugar factory. Then to the beach and start ed north. The most important towns we came through were Huntington Beach, Long Beach, San Pedro, Wilmington, Redon-