The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-01-25
{. 0. Sather Tells More
About His California Trip

tie following letter while in Los
Angeles, but, being afraid of trespas-
sing on the editors time and space,
carried it in his pocket until he reach
ed home. We persuaded him to let
it be published and will continue the
narrative next week:
Los Angeles, Dec %, 1916.
Editor Hastings Times.
Dear Sir-I promised in my last
letter that l would write you little
about our trips around Los Angeles
and San Diego. We stayed in Los
Angeles nine days and in that time
visited all places of interest around
the city. Some days we went IS miles
into the country and returned the
same day, travelling by way of those
automobile bus lines.
might mention a few of the towns
that were of special interest. Pase.
dena, the millionaries' town, l describ.
el in a former letter. At Covina, the
fruit growers association have their
packing houses. It is very interesting
to see how carefully the oranges are
picked and handled. Any oranges
that do not fulfill certain measure
ments are left on the trees to glow
some more, and the slightest damage
on any fruit is enough to discard it.
No wonder this association is working
up q reputation. Anyone seeing this
plant will be astonished at what true
cooperation can accomplish. At this
town we visited former Litchville
man by the name of Knudson, man
possessed a genuine North Dakota
hospitality. After staying overnight
with him, he took us in his automoh:.!e
on sightseeing trip among the
orange groves. It is a wonderful sight
these orange groves-to a green
North Dakotan. The watering, man
uring, cultivating and trimming OF
these artificial groves is no small task
and ought no to be undertaken by any
one until he has learned how. There
is a motto that "All is not gold that
glitters"
Another immensely nice town mat
i visited is Pomona, where resides the
Times editors father-ln-law, whom
visited for several days. The hospi
tality shown me by Mr.. Awrey ! shall
not soon forget. Mr.. Awrey had just
purchased a very spacious California
bungalow, located in the incest par Of
the finest inland town have visited in
California. If should write about al
the wondrous scenes around these
places it would be book and not a
letter, so l will have to hurry back to
Long Beach.
cannot PASS by this place withou;
some comment. This city is on the
Pacific ocean, and has population Of
10000, I was told. In my estimation
judging from what I observed while
on the streets, it is a population Of old
people. l do not believe there can be
another place of that size on the globe
that has so many gray-haired inhabi
tants of both sexes. We read about
the garden of Eden, but believe Long
Beach has it skinned by a good mar
gin for beauty and climate.
After three hours travel on the
Santa Fe railroad through cactus GOV
cred sand hills we arrived in the beau
tiful city of San Diego, with its grand
harbor full of ships and four Of Uncle
Sans battleships to top it all. Here
we visited the worlds fair; the avia
ton station, seeing airships practice
flying like birds in all directions; Wis
iting those battleships, inspecting
those 15-inch guns and machine guns;
taking boat trips to Coronado Islands
in the Pacific ocean; Travino, the
Mexican gambling town across the
Bay from San Diego; the lighthouse;
and the most southern points in Uncle
Sans domain, and must not forget
to mention the visit to the highes,
wireless station on the west coast.
l will write about my home journey
If you desire it. Yours very truly,
c.. O. SATHER,