The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-09-04


am learning to go without much sleep
BY seven.thirty we had had good
breakfast at the leading hotel and
were on In comfortable car for
| Crater Lake. Judge Gardner. a pleas.
ant young chap who serves his county
as county Judge. drove us in a brand
panion and a good car add much to
the pleasure of trip like this.
Here let me say something about
the enterprising people of Oregon.
Last year an enterprising young news
paper man of Oregon City came to
Hot Springs to help others urge US
to come to the Pacific Northwest this
year. <. e. Brodie was his name.
He said II we came West Oregon folks
would show US Crater Lake. II didn't
mean much to most OF US at that
time, but il does now. When we
reached Oregon we found that Mr..
Brodie and his committee had ar
ranged to take orr bunch-25o people
by this tfme-from Portland to Med
ford by special train and by autono-
bfles ON a two Gays trip to Crater Lake
at no cost to us. The business men of
Portland raised about $4,000 for this
and other entertainment I saw the
check for $1,000 that was paid to the
railroad company for the train. The
people OF Medford. Ashland and other
nearby towns furnished the 90 cars
that took the folks up to the lake. I
consider that most wonderful per
formance on the part of Oregon folks.
The drive up to Crater Lake was
the most wonderful drive I have ever
taken-unless the drive back be con-
h. t. n
miles up and over a hundred back IL
you come back by another route, as
we did. On the drive up fully 10 miles
is thru great forest. little touched
by man and on the drive back fully
so miles is thru similar big trees. For
$50 miles these two days we drove
thru this magnificent forest Most of
the time trees lowered above us 800
feet high as we wound our way along
the old road. a dark shaded lane. no
doubt first blazed out for horseback
trail. The road is not good for auto
mobiles IL is so narrow for miles
that great care had to be exercised
to save damage to tenders. and not al
ways with success. At one point two
large trees. seven or eight feet in size.
crowded the road SO closely that
double trees or auto tenders would
catch on the trees.
The road leads up into the mountains
along the sides of deep canons. beside
and across swift running mountain
streams. beside great lake. Klamath
Lake. and most of the time thru the
wonderful forest have seen woods
before bat never such forest as this
They are building a new road to
Crater Lake and in few years you
will be able to go up on a well built
surfaced road But | am glad | went
on the old road before the city pave
ment is put down. for l have seen q
great forest In its native state And
the forest, I think. impressed me as
deeply as the lake.
A right OF way is now being cleared
thru the forest. 1t is 60 feet wide for
% miles long. We crossed it in several
places. The great trees have been cut
down and rolled into great piles in
the center OF the right of way and
were being burned II was said that.
while the timber was valuable. the
cost of getting IL to market would be
more than Il would sell for. We es-
timated that at least 100000 worth
of good logs were being burned.
II took US six hours to go up and ten
hours to come back by the longer
route 1t was a hard. long. dusty ride
much of the way. but when we got in
sight of the mountains that surround
and hide the lake. told our driver
that the ride was quite worth coming
for IL ! never saw the lake. That
drive thru the forest-7o miles of II
going and so miles of it coming back
was a drive long to be remembered.
What little discomforts there may
have been were soon forgotten but
the so miles of trees-hig forest trees
in their primeval state will stand out
prominently and long in the memory
Of all members of our party.
CRATER LAKE.
Near the end OF our long drive we
came to high ridge of rocks. Our
driver said over that ridge is Crater
Lake" So we climbed the rocky
ridge on a switch back road as we
climb the skyline drive. Reaching the
top of the rocky hank we look down
into the deep blue waters CT Crater
Lake. a thousand feet below. with the
surprise and admiring ordinations
that tourists from the prairie sections
express when they first look over the
edge OF the skyline drive down into
the beautiful little green city at their
feet below.
Crater Lake is one OF the national
wonders OF the world. There is moth
:ng to compare It to. II stands alone
as the one great Crater Lake OF the
world. It is a lake in the top OF a
volcanic mountain that has blown its
top or or that has sunk into the bowels
of the earth The distance across the
lake is from six to seven miles. The
rugged precipjtous banks rise from