The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-10-06

All aboard. Let's 20! We're start
ing from Manila, the great picturesque,
Americalitzed Oriental city, and VIII
travel by automobile 200 miles to the
north to Bagulo the summer capital of
the Philippines The trip can also be
made by train
We have ahead Of US one of the most
scenic, spectacular and thrilling auto
mobile trips in the world. We will
have excellent roads all the way, The
Philippines are, in fact a paradise for
autoists. possessing $500 miles of fine
,nacadamizcd roads.
The first part of the trip Is through
typical small towns and then across
the central plain of Lu2on and through
several rich and fertile provinces,
where tropical vegetation is seen at its
best. Here one is impressed with the
great agricultural wealth Of the Philip
pines, which represents one of the
East's greatest producing areas, with
the advantage of immense natural re-
sources for the development of further
production. 1t is regrettahly true that
even in the United States there is far
from any real understanding Of the
potentialities Of the islands.
At some points rice fields, looking in
the distance like the grcenest OF green
lawns, stretch away as far as the eye
can see. If you want color, IL you
want to feel the romance and mystery
of an Oriental twilight, pass this way
as the red eyed sun 1T the end Of the
dying day is slowly sinking behind the
amending eEpalse of green fields. At
first you cry ont in ocstacy Ut tie
gorgeous scene. But as you ride along,
your eyes fastened on the panorama
Of tints and colors, and with the im-
penetrably black Oriental night COM
ing on fast, you become enthralled.
You no longer try to express your feel
inGs. You cannot You realize that those
now fast changing, colorfu master
pieces in the heavens and on the land
scape are pictures that no man can adj
equately describe nor human hands du.
plicate. So what's the use of trying!
True, these are but impressions, but
the travel0guer considers himself JUST
fed in mentioning them, for they are 6
part OF the trip to Baguio and return
Indeed, the gorgeous sunsets in al
parts of the Philippines leave an i'm
preston on the mind Of the tourist thai
is everlasting
We leave the palms and tropical
foliage and enter the zone of rugged
pine. We pass from the soft, incense
laden air of the warm lowlands 70 the
crisp, invigorating ozone of the tenn
perate zone, all within few hours
time.
For mile after mile the road now fol
lows the tortuous course Of a river, the
road lying in the bottom or on the
rocky sides of a granite canyon.
The Philippines are rich in hydro
electric possibilities, This power is Tx
cheapest power on earth. And it is
everlasting. Your traveoguer is nei
Their 4 prophet nor the son of proph
ct. but he predicts that one day there
will be innumerable Philippine govern
mcnt owned hydro-electric plants ii
this canyon We are now. passing
through. Think of the possibilities OF
such a project; Today the trip from
Manila to Eaguio is too expensive foi
the average Manila worker and his
family, many of whom may live an(
die without beholding the wnndr0u,
beauties Of their own island of Lu2on
Think of what Il blessing it would h,
to Filipino mothers and children L
feel upon their fevered brows the cool
invigoratlng breeZes OF the mountain
tops now so near and yet SO far, Witl
the Philippine government owning It.
own electric railways and hydro-etec
Gsc plants II would be possible to brin: