Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-28
A Wonderful Trip
Across the Continent
written by NJ. \. colaw)

| plunged on through Shafter, down
the Goshite Valley and over the
large ranches of Nevada to Calneva
on the state line. Some of our
party stopped at Doyle to go over
to Reno for breakfast, and likely
get a divorce while eating, pay the
bills and join us at Sacramento.
We now pass down the Feather
River Canyon to the Big Inn and
Campo and on to Intake where the
big pumping station marks the
mouth of Big Bend tunnel which
conducts tue water three miles
through the mountain to Los Plu-
mas where the great power plant
of the Western Power Co. supplies
power to furnish electricity to SSan
Francisco, a distince of 220 miles.
Passing through Roosevelt Tun-
mel The train shot out into the open
like lightning from clear sky to
GRANVILLE in the Sacramento valley.
Wiping the cindars from our eyes
aud gazing like a dutchman at a
bull fight, we realized that we were
now in the home of the orange, OIL
ives and other citrus fruits. Gee,
whiz! but our mouths watered
and our stomachs felt as big and
empty as a cidar barrel in dogdays
Once in Sacramento eve kissed
the babies" made a dive for the
fruit stand and in five minutes were
back in the car with enough fruit
for billy goat-all for a quarter.
The fruit industry is enormous
and over 100000 acres of this
rich fiat bottom lands are being
bloken for fruit and extensive farm
ing. We arrived in Oakland about
5 o'clock, and Immediately crossed
The bay to Union Ferry Station,
where we bid our many new found
friends good bye and started for
our hotels. After some delay in
getting our baggage we passed out
to the street and looked for the
Winchester bus but it had just left.
We asked guide which street car
to take when a slick guy with a
hotel badge and cap said he work
ed up there and would take us up
in his car. We got in while the
fellow took off his badge and hurri-
ed away, thinking of his gold coin.
Pretty soon we there ready to make
another little speech, and have the
laugh on the other fellow. Holy
Hooligan, but he was mad. We
didn't see him around at the di-
rectors office next morning as we
expected.
At 9 o'clock we took a Union
street car and was soon on the hill
where the grandeur and stupen-
dousness of the great exposition lay
before us in panoramic view.
! 1t would likely bankrupt the
English language for descriptive
superlatives should We attempt to
describe half its beauties and won
ders.
We entered on the north side,
passed down the zone or street
of amusements to Festival Hall 4,
bought an official guide book and
settled down to business.
There are eight large exhibit
palaces, viz: Palace of Education,
Liberal Arts, Manufactures, varied
industries, mines and metallargy,
transportation, agricultural, and
food products in the main group
of the walled city, with the mighty
Tower of Jewels oyer 800 feet high
in the center. The art palace, ma
chinery and horticultural buildings
and festival hall, state and foreign
buildings all surround the main
buildings:
The whole site covers 635 acres
and cost about $50, 100000. About
32 nations engaged in the exposi-
ton and all made creditable ex.
hibits.
The whole shows a marvel of in
ternational progress unsurpassed in
the industrial, artistic, and educa-
tional world. The live stock ex-
hibits were exceptionally good and
the races fine.
We went through all the large
buildings carefully, and examined
most of the exhibits infinitely,
then we took in all the state and
foreign buildings, and the live
stock SECTIONS, and lastly the
amusements along the zone, where
everything conceivable from the
devils daughter down to incubator
babies, could be seen for the
money. When we visited the Vir-
ginia building. we laid our hat on
mother Washington's bed and sat
in Washington's rocker and felt
real proud of the Father our below
ed country, if he did cut the cherry
tree down. We could write book
of the different exhibits and then
not tell the half, so we must refrain
from mentioning them in this
article.