The Nevada County picayune., 1920-05-20

All aboard Let go VIC le SeaAN gng from Manila, the great picturesque, .Smericanized oriental city, and Will travel by automobile 200 miles to the north to Baguio, the summer capital or the Philippines. The trip can also be msade by train.
 We have ahead of us one of the most scenic, spectacular and thrilling auto yspbI1se trips in the world. We Will have excellent roads all the way. The Philippines are. in fact, paradise Tor autoists. possessing $500 miles of hne nacadamizcd roads.
 The first part of the trip Is through typical small towns and then across the central plain of Luzon and through several rich and fertile provinces, where tropical vegetation Is seen at it's best Here one is impressed with the ,xrezt agricultural wealth of the Philip vIneS. which represents one of the Eaxt's greatest producing areas, with gGne advantage of immense natural re- sources for the development of further s,yrsaluction. It Is regrettably true that svvn sn the United States there is far from any real understanding of the potentialities of the islands.
 At some points rice fields, looking in tfne distance like the greenest of green lawns, stretch away as far as the eye san see If you want color, if you want 10 feel the romance and mystery .iG an Oriental twilight, pass this way ss fIns red eyed sun at the end of the sying day Is slowly sinking behind the sTsending cXpanse of green fields. At srst you cry out in ecstacy at the soFgeaus scene. But as you ride along eour eyes fastened on the panorama rY 7infs and colorS. and with the im aeuetrably black Oriental night com AoR an fast, you become ontlralled Tou no longer ny 10 express your feel snEs. You cannot. You realize that those rgu 1ast changing, ealorful master plet,.s in the heavens and on the laad- scape are pictures that no man can ad- laqnoJely describe uor human hands du- alicatc. So what's the use of trylng
 True, these are but impressions, but s.us s.rorelogucr considers himself iusti- leo m mentioning them, for they are a iyar1 u tae trip 10 Baguio and return. indeed the gorgeous sunsets in all s1arts of the Philippines leave an im- presAl on the mind of the tourist that is everlasting.
 %e leave the palms and tropical .atnaEe and enter the zone of rugged p&ae We pass from the soft, incense laden aT of the warm lowlands to the 2 c--isg. invigorating ozene of the tenn peTate zone, all within few hours th<ra
 &'nr mile after mile the road now fol- l. sses inc tortuous course of river, the vsrrsad siEing in the bottom or on the rocSy slaes of a granite canyon.
 The Philippines are rich in hydro cheapest power on earth. And 1t is everlasting. Your traveloguer is nei- xhxx T prophet nor the son of q proph- Ss. but he predicts that one day there 'uqa Ae innumerable Philippine govern asient owned hydro-eleetric plants i1 (znis canyon We are now passing thraoogh. Think of the possibilities of ssetN s project! Today the trip from Manila to Baguio is too expensive for xzs< average Manila worker and his .saaisy, many of whom may live and ,aSe without beholding the wondrous Nsfuties of their own island of Luzon. 'sgEAax of what blessing fl would be sss E1ipino mothers and children to ssssssss9 sggon their fevered brows the cool, azFz.s eating breezes of the mountain SafnS rrow so near and yet so far With 'sise Philippine government owning it's %axn electric railways and hydro-elec- 1Izic plants 1t would be possible to bring