Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-22

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YcradO, Oakland and back ~ san
/ Francisco. Some q. The finest fruit
/ orchards in the world are III Santa
, Clara county. KlcHt E"ar san Jose
/ IS a large Irult CdnHcry and there has
, been strike on ter owe. i week.
The !. W. ". We're busy among the
iabCTerS and the! ali s;opred. There
. mad been some fighting. hui CODdl
/ tl0ps had quictcd down somewhat
! and the men Lad agreed 10 so 70
work for three days 30 a to save
some fruit, hut were t. 30 out again
/ Wednesday after We lett. bat We
! heard nothing from there sine leaN.
/ ing California.
! We lett the Plaza hotel in San Fran
| cisco for Sacramento. travelling over
! tie same road We had taken in reach
] Ing San Francisco, arriving at the
| Land hotel al =, O'clock il the after
/ noon. The next morning We left Sac
/ ramtntO for Reno, Nevada, reaching
| there a = p. m, AZ III" Riverside
! hotel.
! We passed by S0U:C fine farms Of
alfalfa, all under irrigation and wheat
! fields that are flooded during the dry
! part OF the simmer so that the crop
will mature better. Why. the untold
acreage that is in the state Of Nevada
unculJlvated is enough to Iced the arm.
les Of the world for years. and streams
OF water all along the road in great
rivers only wants the government to
interest insen IN developing the
state, as il is too great an undertake
ing for any individual. The land and
water is there, and ii wants the knOwl-
edge of man to make the waste land
productive. Besides the vast acreage
of level land, there are miles upon
miles Of sand hills like the sand hills
between WaiIuku and kahuIui on
Maui.
We had lunch at the little town OF
Fallon, and around this town and so
far In the state Of Nevada we have
seen more high class collie dogs than
in all our other travels combined.
There are beet sugar mills. and of
course, acres OF beets, all under cul
tivation. The entire district is ter
raced for irrigation, while the sur.
rounding country is very dry. There
Is running water in all the valleys
that We have so far passed through.
1t is very much like the fellow that
is all dressed up with nowhere to 90.
Nevada is dry, but water is every
where.
Small wild sunhoUers grow wher-
ever there IS moisture. We travelled
over desert for 81 miles and came
to station called sand String. named
after beautiful, white sand hill some
three miles away. The hill OF sand
has been there since the memory Of
man. 1t changes somewhat from time
TO time due to the wind. 1t is one
and a quarter miles wide by some
thing over three miles long. The wa
ter Mr. Lewis got for the machine
came to within four feet of the sur
face, and this is the first place he
mad to buy water, paying 10 cents
for enough to fill his radiator.
An hour after leaving Sand Spring
We met a jerk line team of nine span.
OF IS horses and mules, hauling oil
in for the salt works that are in the
valley, which produces salt IS per
cent pure. They were some distance
fIom the road and We did not 20 to
them.
After passing over two more noun.
tain ranges and through two valieys
We came TO another stopping place.
Frenchman's Camp, where Won can
get lodging for the night and a little
something to eat, and here Mr. Lewis
had to pay for water a second time.
mention this because houses and
camps are 20, so and 81 miles apart.
and there is TO living thing between
places except an occasional bird, rab
bit or lizard. anG a whirlwind that
certainly showed some life, and some
very threatening clouds And pass
ing en- we came to a second jerk line
team with eight span or &c animals
hauling oil, and water enough to wa
ter the team while on the road
A little later we came uuon three
ladies, mother and two young daugh.
ters III Buick that had been stalled
on the desert for two days and nights.
and no relief in sight. We could not
help them anyway and Iasscd on. as
they had sent word on by some PASS.
ing car, and expected to get tie LrCk.
Ell parts replaced the next dav. The
mother seemed full of cheer but the
girls looked very discouraged. And
all Of them looked as though they had
been working in a garage. About five
miles further we came to another ma.
chine, Ford, this lime with the faith !
er, mother, two grown daughters, and
a boy II or - years old. The nv /
chine had been stalled for four DAYS
and nights. The party had provision;
and water with them. 50 they had
not suffered any. They had just e.: !
new bearings and the father vas ia; .
ting them n, ana hoped to be T.,v. .
ing the next morning.
We finally reached East Gate =,
farm house that takes care Of travc!.
ers that wish to srend the night. and
We found things very comfortable
The owner does not live there at the
ranch. He just has that as a SIDE ;
show, having 1000 head Of cattle and
10000 head OF sheep feeding on the !
government reservations in Idaho !
There is stone and concrete cabin
on the ranch in good state Of preser- !
walton that was built in 1858. We also
saw there some petrified wood An
expert woodsman of the /. S. govern. .
ment passed there some time ago and
said it was petrified oak: but the man.