Graham guardian., 1916-11-17
A PLEASANT TRIP U. S. CROP REPORT
Party Of Saffosdites Return
from Automobile Trip
to the Coast

November 5th saw the return
to the valley of a company of
people who hied themselves off
on a journey to the Pacific coast.
The party consisted of AT. West
and wife and baby, VIM. Moore
Claydon and wife, Mrs. Matte
lWaddell, NJ, r. Crandall, R. l.:
McAliister. j. G, Rhodes and
Wellington Curtis.
They travelled in Mr.. Vests
new Hudson Super Six and Mr..
Curtis Studebaker Four. They
went by way of Bowie. Wilcox
and Benson, where Mr.. Curtis
broke an axle which delayed him
several hours. The party crossed
the Gilariver at Florence where
they put the cars on hay rack
and with a siX-horse team were
lpulled accross the river. ~
They arrived in Phoenix just
| in time to hear Allan L. Benson,
the socialist nominee for presi-
dent of the United States, and
were we'll paid for making the
effort.
Their next stop was at Palomas,
from which point they travelled
the worst road that ever could be
called a road in the United States,
until they reached Yuma, and
the same night stayed at Ell
Centre, and then on to San Diego,
where they visited the Exposi-
ton, and if they had seen moth
ing but the Canadian exhibit and
the United State fisheries display,
it was enough to pay for the
whole trip.
The next stop was made at
Santa Ana and the next at Los
Angeles, where they met some
old friends from Stafford, Doctor
J. w. Freestone, who has a
lucrative practice. and his broth
er, Geo. L. Freestone, who has
a large garage and is also rum
ming an automobile school. Both
of these gentlemen are making a
success in the city of the angels.
Their families are healthy and
happy. Mrs. j. w. Wakefield
and daughter were also visited
and we were warmly greeted by
the same.
The company then went on to
Llano, the cooperative colony in
Antelope valley, where they
found everything prosperous, the
eighth crop of alfalfa several
inches high. Seventy tons Of
apples put away for winter use
and a large quantity of tomatoes.
The cannery was running full
blast putting up vegetables and
fruit galore. Hogs, cows, horses,
rabbits, Belgian hares, Flemish
and New Zealand rabbits, by the
hundreds, lots Of chickens and
everything had a very prosperous
appearance. The visitors brought
back some of the largest and best
apples they had ever seen.
Leaving the colony they re-
turned to Los Angeles and then
started on the return trip by
way of San Bernardino, Victor
vile, Bantow and the Parker
cutoff, crossing the Colorado
river with both machines and
tourists on a good ferry boat.
They stopped at Daggett and
Blythe Junction, each one night.
The next night at Phoenix, and
then, by way of Roosevelt Dam,
to Globe, where they stayed over
night, and the next day put both
machines on a fiat car to cross
the river at San Carlos, while a
motor car took the passengers to
Nachez, where they waited for
the autos, and then drove to
Stafford the same day.
Having had a beautiful trip,
no accidents, except the broken
axle at Benson. Mrs. Clayton
stayed in San Diego for the
winter.
Mrs. Gilmore Thorpe and two
sons, Owen and Allen, are doing
well. They are in charge of the
kitchen at the Colony Hotel,
where they feed eighty people
three times daily, and sometimes
the number runs higher.
Eugene Biglow and Miss Gibbs
and Dora Kane, of this town,
are also in the colony. All are
happy and contented.
The two sons of James Wake
field are both in the navy. Will
lam is chief engineer on one of
the largest vessels on the Pacific,
while Robert has just got a good
start.
Dan Kemp and family. former
ly of Thatcher, but now of San
Diego, are doing well and wished
to be remembered to all of their
old friends.