The Springfield herald., 1917-11-23
An Overland Trip
Del Norte, Colo


terested in a sketch Of our W st
ern trip. will give it as follows:
Thursday morning Oc'. IL. We
started for southwest Colorado
in our Fold, and eau ped west OF
Springfield at night. Passed
thru the inland towns of Buster.
Kim and Tooe, and Travelled along
the mesa.
Trinchera was our first rail.
road town.
We had some pretty steep
hills to &C. up between it and
I rinidsd (city of Holy Trinity,
Trinidad used to be a Mexican
village and there "re a lot OF
..!exicans there vet
From Trinidad to Walsenburg
Is great coal mining country.
Saw very little crops after leav-
ing Baca county until we reach
ed Walscnburg There is lots
of wheat and alfalfa raised be-
tween Walsenburg AID Laveta,
where we drove GU tn camp
and camped until Monday morn
ing.
After leaving Laveta We saw
some fine fields of alfalfa. Io,s of
timbe, and one OF the finest
springs Here we talked to a
couple Of ladies' that were driv-
ing from Laveta over the pass
to Alamosa, they were driving
an Ellin 6. Willie had talked tt"
them in :he Laveta gar"ge W."
had to run on low most If the
time from Laveta to Lave,a pass
where we threw h"r il: hi h and
Irambled right along.
We saw no snow on ,,e Noun
tainS, and it was warm an'i nice
at Laveta PASS. evelalnn 9,242
feet.
After dinner y. pa -seh AZ old
saw mill town. and rs "" came
laround a short curve saw where
a car turned over in Il ditch
labout Is feet deep. We stopped
anG got out and We're Mortified to
Itind il was the car driven !y
those ladies' We had talked to in
the morning. We stopped at
next town and t-lerhoned back
and found they weren't kllled
|but pretty badly b-uis" MP.
We passed Garland an Blanca
land stopped in San Luis 7al'ey'
SThere a,e lots of rtesiin sells
there. They cl.'p thaa a' ono
ltime this valley MS IN lnlant
lake.
In boring these ". y ~ Y fin.
ytish bones, ,hrlls, n'c S o
wood, etc. They gi 'r,esiar
| water at II depth of 3pD +" an.
Iless. Tnc closer .hr 'e' the
cooler it ic.
1 Alanosa is l,cat ! net" the
Il center of the San l. mis- valley
lit is in tn. snad,v o''he Sier:
}! Blanca Mount ,ip. IN Iua San.r'
I ide Cristo range having the '''.i'
Z est mountain in Colo RADIO, i,44'
fee, above the So l"vcl.
A. Finger they were loadir,
potatops, load after load com!ni
lin. This looks to ne Il prosper
| gus country; lots of fine dwelling
/ h ouses. silos. etc. L't- of alfa'
ia and stock looked we'll.
] \ 'onte Vista'and Del Norte, ou
lnext towns, are said to have I'll
finest climate in Colorado. Tn
\ Rio G, ande river runs thr"uv
there. At Del Norte they have
u magnetic spring, which h"
Ahealth giving qualities, wheth'
. used inter nally or externally.
They raj Sc wheat, oats. bale
d alfalfa and pative hay and v's
tables. Tne potato crop - II
lmost valuable. many rN'nl" pr
fering the San Luis valley pot
Il oes 10 the more famous Gr<+lf
p. -oduct.
We could hardly decide whet
er to stop here or 90 o. hut q
side d VS. would go on over II
Con, tinen tai Divide.
It, sure .nakes a person hc'
gu. . .oine UP those mountain
fthe 70 ads are so narro" in MAJ
| ii, -, .hs. one Co" can't pa
3a.ha, On one side would
! .he uou,1 tain bank, and on q
/.Is;d., we could Look dov