El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-19
SCENIC FL PASO
LIKE CALIFORNIA
Julius Krakauer Says All Ell
Paso's Scenery Needs is
a Press Agent.

Scenic Fl Paso is the superior OF the
much boosted California scenery and
lacks only exploiting and appreciation
10y Fl Paso-s own people
This is Julius \ Krakauer's opinion
after spending five weeks in Califor-
mia. the greater part Of which time
ne spent touring with Mrs Krakauer
in his Hudson sedan through the
scenic show places of the Pacific coast
state
California people take you out to
some bit OF scenery or coloring Or
cloud effect and they proceed to rave
over it and tell you it is positively the
last whisper in things scenic said
Mr. Krakauer Tuesday morning 4
had to pinch myself many times to en-
thuse sufficiently to satisfy the Cali
f5rnians for they were showing me
pretty much the same things. often
not as attractive. as we have here IN
our own southwest If we exploited
our scenery and natural wonders as the
California people DO tnere WOuIu pc
hundreds of people coming here - see
the mountains and mesas and desert
Disqualification the Thing.
Dfversification in farming was an
other idea Mr. krakauer brought back
from California with him for the II
PasO valley farmer Except for the
tourist. business in southern Caltfor-
MIA is not good he said But, after
leaving Los Angeles, between santa
Barbara and san Francisco We saw al
falfa farms. cattle feeding ranches,
sugar beet farms. fat sheep grazing on
the pasture lands and everything had
an air Of substantial prosperity about
IT, The farms up there did not Look
as pretty as the orange groves Of
southern California, but they had an
air Of substantial prOsperlty-of stabll-
ity-that looked good 10 me. II occurred
u me a the time there was a lesson
in that for the Fl PasO valley farmer
since we are Just starting and can
avoid the mistake of planting Just
one crop and putting all Of our agrlcul-
tural eggs in one market basket"
Drove 2IOO Miles
When Mr. and Mrs krakauer rolled
up 10 the Alexandria hotel in Los Ange-
les after completing their tour the
speedometer showed that they had
covered just POO miles Of the finest
kind Of California road Mr.. Krakauer
shipped his car from here and after
going 10 Del Monte where Mrs kra-
kauer and the children spent the sum
mer in their cottage by the sea. Mr.
and Mrs krakauer started on their
tour, leaving the children IN charge
Of a nurse
They visited Riverside. Los Angeles
santa Barbara PasO Robes. san Fran
cisco where they stayed a week. from
there 10 oSemlte by way OF the TiOaia
Pass. which is the lOftiest automobile
road in the world. being the old mine
road which has been paved. The pin
nacle of the pass is 1850 feet high
and Mr. Krakauer got out Of the car.
rolled some snowhalIs and tossed them
over the pass in the general direction
Of El PasO just TO show that there were
snow balls 20 be had during the last
part Of August. even If they were not
10 be found on Mt. Franklin
In Yosemite.
Mr. and Mrs. Krakauer spent some
time AT the Desmond camps at soda
Springs. in Yosemite and went from
there to the floor of Yosemite and.
after seeing all Of the places OF inter
est left the Yosemite by way Of Gla-
Zier Point, passed the big tree district
and mOtOred into Bakersfield and
Fresno by way Of TETON Pass to Los
Angeles
Ny advice to tourists making that
trip Is TO use a closed car of what
ever make so long as il is enclosed
W It'll the exception of two DAYS I drove
in y hite flannel trousers for the en-
tire distance without having them
soiled- One front tire carried Fl Paso
air all the way and is still in the tire
/ made only three tire changes and
two IF these were on the last day of
the trip. I am glad to be back and il
Is not boost stuff. nor IS il a bromide.
when ] say that Fl PasO looks better.
IS better and business is better here
than in California.