The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-08-03
MRS. WIN. STAPLES WRITES
OF OVERLAND TRIP TO Fl.
COLLINS AND ESTES PARK

We are glad we came to Fort Col
Inns, as we had very pleasant trip
all the way over. Had no trouble of
any kind, for which we were very
thankful. We drove through Denver,
all the way up Broadway and peo-
pie would look at US and smile. Of
course they thought we were a back
number with our new Taggart horse
and wagon. But we got here just the
same, while we saw autos in the
bitches upside down and stuck in the
sand and all kinds of trouble We
are very much in love with our new
horse and he knows how to camp and
seems to enjoy il.
We saw some very beautiful country
on our way from Denver to Fort
Collins. 1t certainly did look pros
porous We would travel all day and
see nothing but automobiles-every-
body rides in automobiles-and there
are no poor people" up here.
Fort Collins is quite a city, but at
present they have the streets torn
up paving the main part of the city.
and it makes tho town look bad. We
found it very dry and hot here
think more so than Canon. We found
the roads bad a big part of the way
for the reason that they are doing SO
much work along the way and on ac-
count of the dry wether They are
badly cut up.
We found Mr. and Mrs. King well
and they seemed glad to see US. We
all went out on big lake, Long lake,
believe they call it. and spent the
Fourth. Had good dinner and took
a water pail of fish home with US.
Now we are camped on the Cache
la Poudre river and Mr.. S. has gone
trout fishing. There are trout here for
we cansee them and caught one for
dinner today. They tell US they bite
better in the evening, so We hope to
make a good catch Mr.. and Mrs.
King and Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy will
be up tomorrow to stay over Sunday
II we have good luck fishing we
may stay a week or longer, then go
back to Fort Collins and up to Estes
Park. We are fourteen miles north
west of town at present.
never saw so many people travel
ing by auto and carrying their beds
in all my life. The autos run all
night on the highways.
We find they have a fine crop of
cherries and raspberries over here and
at Loveland l never saw cherry trees
so red with fruit There will be a
fair crop of plums and apples also
| July 12th-We went up to the camp
yesterday. Capt. Baldwin. who is su-
perintending the convict camp. seem
ed very much pleased to see some
one from Canon. He gave us very
warm hand shake and asked US to
have dinner with him OF course we
could not refuse and had a splendid
dinner and a fey minutes talk yith
him. However, he soon had to start
back to work with his men. so left US
with the cook and waiter. He asked
about Canon and the fruit. Said he
was sorry the fruit had been frozen.
We asked him if he had any word to
send to Canon and he said. Tell
them / am still fighting the granite" +"
and said to tell Ted Harding he was
! still burning powder. Mis-. Baldwin
I is not with him now. but on their
farm in Oklahoma.
The road where they are working
now certainly is very grand. think
| it is almost as beautiful as the Royal
Gorge. The country is very rugged
and wild looking and we could see
all kinds of animals faces and heads
among the big rocks. think there
were as many as hundred cars went
up past our camp last Sunday over the
new highway.
There were ten young ladies and
one old gentleman came through. The
old gentleman was the father of three
of the girls and they camped near
us. They came from Eaton, Colo, in
their cars.
BY this time we have had several
messes of trout They are quite plen'
tiful but hard to catch on account OF
so many fishing the stream.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. WILLIAM STAPLES.