The Ordway new era., 1920-09-03
TOURISTS AND
TOURING
By l.. 1. C.
CONTINUED from Last Week

CONTINUED from Last Week
Tourists coming to Colorado get a
bit of variety to gaze upon. Many
OF them who have never been to the
state before expect to see snow-cap-
ped mountains about the time they
hit the state line, and every summer
cloud in the distance causes them to
see things. However for a good
many miles. coming into the state up
the highways of the Arkansas Valley
or coming in over the highways from
the east in the northern part of the
state, they see some mighty produc-
tive farms. II they've been living
down in Texas, Oklahoma or some of
the other rain belt" states, where
some times 1t does not rain, they will
see such wonderful crops out here by
comparison that they can soon make
up their minds that 1t is an agricul-
tural state as well as state filed
with hills from whence comes most
every kind of mineral ore.
There are the beet dumps ell along
tho line, occasionally a sugar mill,
and most interesting of all the irri-
gated lands. They may see the wat
er running down the irrigation ditch,
bank full, and they can soon see why
the crops in 'arid" Colorado look so
good. Perhaps they have been liv-
ing where they grow but one or two
kinds OF crops-wheat and corn, or
cotton and broom corn, principally,
but out here they get bit of every
thing. There are, in the various
parts OF the state thru which they
VIII travel sometime on their
auto journeys. the beets, alfalfa,
potatoes. cantaloupes. watermelons,
pah N nd
one other big producers. They VIII
soon know what it means
when they see the immense loads be-
ing hauled to the beet dumps, or the
mamoth loads of alfalfa going to the
meal mill. or the wonderful loads of
cabbage being hauled to some
''krautery". And what's more most of
this is now being done with auto
trucks. That's little nevel to the
average tourist because roads in
most states do not permit of the
trucks being used so generally as
they are in Colorado.
Tourists, the newer ones at least,
do not get the full appreciation out
of mountain scenery, 1t is 4 ccse of
rugged mountains, deep tanons,
and fast flowing streams bewildering
them-at least they don't seem to
see as much or talk as much when
they go thru the mountains as do the
folks at home, This is illustrated
train recently in an all-day trip from
the western slope to Pueblo.
The train of sixteen coaches and
two powerful engines was winding
its way around the sides of mountains
/ thru long tunnels, up narrow canons,
sometimes with two thousand feet
above and eternity below, wonderful
scenery on all hands-right or left.
above and below, ahead and behind
yet it was a group of twenty per-
( sons. residents of the state, who seem
ed to be enjoying the trip most and
getting the most out of 1t. There
were lot of tourists on the train and
one man who said that It was his first
trip thru the mountains. read a Sun
/ day newspaper thru five times that
day and rarely glanced about to see
tho snow on the peaks hundreds of
feet up or a trout fisherman in the
water almost as far below This
. fellow didn't appreciate the grandeur
of the scenery. He may on his next
trip.
Another prosperous looking man
from Nebraska. also making his first
visit to the mountains, "beefed''
everytime a single thing went wrong
with the train. II 1t stopped to take
water he would kick. II the train
went little slow he'd kick. and dur
ing the day he let people know what
he thought of the rail roads and the
service. He failed to enjoy what
there was to be seen all along the
trip thru the heart OF the great Rock
les and even the world-famed Royal
Gorge because he was so peevish. He
did not know that the train of sixteen
heavily loaded coaches. pulled by two
powerful engines. was climbing and
climbing all forenoon that day to