The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-16

: deer. so | invited my brother, Cliff
Hardy of Colorado Springs, to go along.
He is debonair merchant in his mil
lionair town. To see him in his white
suit in his elegant little art store you
would think him the last person in all
the world TO pick out for driver, but
. he is really the best person | have ever
travelled with at fixing busted tires and
kissing babies. hate both jobs. But
both jobs have TO be done occasionally
on campaign trip and he did both
frequently and cheerfully, so we got
along fine.
] We were out nine days and Travelled
700 miles. From Pueblo we went
straight down the Arkansas river to
Lamar visiting Fowler. AIanzanola,
Rocky Ford, Swinls. La Junta. Las An
imas, and many smaller places in be-
tween. This is q rich farming section,
: with many beautiful orchards. big
stock farms, rich beet fields, several
beet sugar factories and many other
evidences of prosperity and wealth
Lamar especially IS q bustling little
city in the heart OF big rich territory.
From Lamar we went straight south
to Springfield, county seat. of Baca
County, 55 miles off the railroad. Few
tramps. book agents or candidates visit
Baca County, 1t is a great county
nevertheless. IT is about 60 miles
square and as level as map. Just
few low ridges and shallow draws that
might be represented by the creases in
the folded map which carried in my
pocket.
While neighbors in Baca County
hardly live in borrowing distances Of
each other, even with the prevalence
of the jitney. stil there are a lot of
votes down there as IS Indicated by the
fact that Baca County sent about 500
boys to the war and had about 5000
more registered in the draft. Baca
County Is rich section. largely unde-
iyeloped but has a great future ahead
of il. It's greatest need is transporta-
tion and when all these government
trucks come back from the war per
haps some good proposition can be
worked out.
Our speedometer marked up about
$50 miles on Baca County roads and
We visited Springfield. Campo. Ston-
inGton and Two Buttes. We busted
only one tire. one spring and a few
barb wire fences i ba-bed wire fence
+ is hard to- see in the night when you
are driving 80 miles an hour across a
great prairie.
Coming back to Lamar we started
down the river again. visiting Granada.
Bristol and Hartman on the way. All
along the way we saw more beautiful
farming country. mostly irrigated.
Holly IS a charming little town that
shows evidences OF Eastern culture
and prosperous country all around
From Holly, one rainy day. we drove
north along the Kansas line to Towner
in kiowa County, on the Missouri Pa
'cific railroad. Then we followed the
railroad back west TO Pueblo. Kiowa
is another county about as big as some
states back East, As the map is drawn
it H. IS miles long by "a miles wide.
and fancy no person VINO pays school
taxes IN Biowa win vote for govern
ment ownership OF railroads-so much
does the Missouri Pacific now con-
tribute TO the school funds Of that
county.
In Kiowa we saw the towns of
Towner Sheridan Lake. Brandon
Chiviugton. Eads. Gaiatea, Haswelt
ana Arlington. This is a county Of
many dry farms and some big cattle
ranches-ranehes that are measured
not by acres but by fenced up town
ships.
4 From Kiowa we drove over into
I Crowley and visited Sugar City. Ord
way Olney Springs and Crowley. all
I prosperous. thriving little cities. Sugar
/ City has beet sugar factory that div
ides up large sum with the beet
growers every year. And down around
Crowley are some OF the finest farms
Z in Colorado.
From Crowley it IS short ride back
into Pueblo.
( A map gives you some idea Of the
magnitude of this Third District Of
Coinrado---but an automobile lays IL
out before you in good deal better
shape. You can't go TO all parts of it
without going outside. You have to go
to Denver to get to the north end Of
the district.
Our next trip was to Denver and in
to Jefferson and Clear Creek counties.
Mr. Biggs, my District Chairman. took
his Cadallac for this trip. our conf
dence in the campaign was picking up
and we decided to travel first class.
4 From Denver we went out through
Golden and up over Lookout Noun
tain and through Denyer's playground
parks. This is wonderful ride. one
Of the most magnificent mountain
drives in the world and the beauty of
/ the mountain parks is understandable.
These drives and parks win stand out
as fitting monument to the big gem
ius OF the late Mayor Robt. Speer as
long as Colorado IS a state.
4 On the other side of the mountain
we found Idaho Springs. charming
little mountain town nestled in u pic
/ turesque valley. II has famous hot
springs and fine tourist hotel The
next day we drove up the creek 10