Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-04-13
INTERESTING IS
TRIP To SEVERAL
PLACES IN WEST
Mr.and Mrs. Charles Sfadler
Of Baraboo Tell of Elk
periences in Journey
fo COocf
to Coast.

10, on train numper 01O, staying IN Onl-
!cago that night and left at ten thirty
the next morning. 1t showed and
bowed all the way to Marshalltown,
Iowa. When we reached Julesburg,
colorado, it had quit stornling but
was quite cold. We were then on the
Western Pacific road and there was no
snow. We transferred our baggage
at Cheyenne, Wyoming. There was
some snow there, but the weather was
warm and balmy. Cheyenne is a very
nice city of 1000 inhabitants Leav-
ing Cheyenne, two engines were requir-
ed to pull our train. The most beau
! tlful sight we ever beheld, which was
the glorious picture of the sunset as We
were defending the mountain, burst i'll
to view. The country in this section is
very poor. A rabbit could scarcely
make living on it.
/ After leaving Ogden, Utah, q city of
80, 900 we went through the most beau
tiful valley, forty miles square, rich
in fruit and silos. When in Salt Lake
| city, we took what is called'a rubber
neck trip"which gave Us view of the
Great Salt Lake, which is 1876 miles
long and 46 miles wide and is. so salty
person will float in it. It would be i'm
possible to drown although many peo-
pie have been strangled by the brine
and lost their lives. The population of
Salt Lake City is 100, ZOO. Other plac-
90 or interest about the city were the
Mormon tabernacle and Temple. The Ia
bernacle seats TO- 900 people and there is
a concert there at twelve o'clock every
day. 1t is the finest building I ever
saw and there is not nail in it's entire
construction, nor any pillars in the in
terror. The grounds are beautiful,
containing about five acres, enclosed by
cement wall eight feet high. A par
ty Of twenty of US were shown through
the grounds and buildings by a guide.
| On leaving Salt Lake city we rode
along Great Salt lake for twenty miles
and saw the largest pavilion in the
! United States. The Santa Fe railroad
runs it's tracks across the lake. They
have it rip-rapped four feet above the
water.
We al sosaw the Garfield smelte
which is the largest smelter in the Uni
ted States. We went through thirty
six tunnels in ten hours and the highest
point was 4, 900 feet above sea level
some height. | would not give five
cents per acre for any of the land we
passed through between here and the
next forty or fifty miles of territory.
When we crossed the California line
1T was not much better until we arrived
at San Bernardino. There we saw the
farmers blowing and putting in their
crops which looked quite like spring,
After passing through beautiful or
ange groves, we arrived in Los Ange-
les and our party put up at the hotel
| Hunting on the corner of Eighth and
Main, which contains 200 rooms and has
very gOOQ service.
We met several old time railroad
friends in California, G. F. Bidwell,
who at one time was our super. en-
dent on the Madison division. He re-
sides at Hollywood, suburb of Los
Angeles. Daniel Hawkins, T. II. Long
ley and Joe Schroeder, we also visited.
They all wished to be remembered to
their Baraboo friends.
We drove to Ontario, a distance of
46 miles in a machine to call on John
Williams, also former railroad man,
but were sorry to find the doors locked
and the family absent We put in q
great deal OF our time at Long Beach
and Venice, two of the fine beaches.
We met Mrs. G. L. Thuerer at Long
Beach.
We visited the universal city to see
them make pictures. Joe Schroeder is
located at Santa Anna, a city of IA, 0O0
We went to Whittier, Redlands and
: Riverside from which latter place they
shipped 3, 900 cars of oranges this sea-
son. The groves sell at from 81, 200 to
SIS, 900 per acre. They also raise euca-
| lyptus trees for fuel A tree seven
years old will average a cord of wood
which sells for sixteen dollars per cord
| think | would prefer raising wood
than oranges.
We reached Baraboo on time we'll
pleased with the trip.
Charles Stadler.