The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-05-20
MR.. w. M. CRANE WRITES
OF WHAT HE SAW ON TRIP
Tells of The Many Interesting Sights
He Has Seen. Also Of His Stop
Over in Utah and Other Places

TulIOT OentineI.
In response to your request, | will
undertake to tell you something of
my trip west and little of what |
have seen in this great section:
Of course in these days and times
| of post cards and movies one can
| hardly find a place in our country
where he does not seem to have been
before, so it seems absurd for me,
who am no writer, to try to tell Of
grand scenery and other things, so
| am simply going to tell you Of the
things that impressed me most.
For one thing the immensity of
the wheat fields of Kansas We ran
into them in the morning and never
got out of them through the whole
day, was never out Of sight of wheat
fields during the day except in pass
ing through towns and in Kansas City
where we made close connections.
There is no land wasted in this sec
ton, no trees or brush and very lit
tie land used for pasture-just one
big wheat field
The wheat looks fine with that rich
dark green that denotes health. Run
ming out Of Kansas into Colorado.
the wheat fields gradually gave place
to prairies, too dry for wheat.
Our train was behind 50 | went
by Limor. Col. 10 Colorado Springs,
to catch the Scenic Limited on the
y. a. r. G. Ry. SO failed - see Den
yer, but got plenty Of time in Color
ado Springs.
There is little use for no 10 tel
YOU anything Of this place OF the
mountains that surround it or Of the
wonderful beauty of Pixies Peak ana
Sugar Loaf. could see the grand
eur all right. in the immensity Of the
mountains. but was wonderfully dis
appointed as 10 their beauty. for
where can one see beauty in lust
piles and piles Of dull colored rocks.
no trees or grass, all Cesolate. dirty
looking rocks.
One can go to the Northeast part
of our own state or in Alabama and
Tennessee and see the beautiful
limestone hills mountains on q small
scale) where there is so much mois-
ture that every crack and crevice is
oVergroWn with trees, shrubbery and
grass, so that in summer there are
millions of flowers and in winter we
still have evergreens.
l know this is rank hereSy about
the lack of beauty in the Old Rockies
but l venture to say that lots of
others had the same impression but
thought it best not to voice it-how
many people dare to say that they
can find no interest in a Best Seller? |
| think one of the grandest sights |
| saw in the Rockies was Castle Gate. |
through the Grand Canyon Of the !
Arkansas. We ran into a heavy snow
storm making the climb to Tennessee !
Pass and lost the view from there. !
which is said to be great Now from
what | saw of the Rockies. during
daylight hours, they are all desert
except in the valleys where irrigation |
is used and there the crops are fine
and everything is green especially |
the alfalfa. The climate is 50 dry
that hay keeps perfectly in stacks, |
saw lots of stacks just broken into
put up last year, and the hay is as !
green as if it had just been cut. |
Talked with lots o. natives on train |
and they tell me they get two and
three cuttings of over two tons per
acre.
The land seems to all be fertile Of |
course, excepting the alhali deserts !
and salt flats, and only need water. !
Stopped over about 10 hours in |
Ogden, Utah, and was delighted with |
the city. 1t is a pretty little place |
Just nested in hollow in the noun |
tains
l was so surprised in the people
there. had heard and read so much /
OF the MOrmOns that l almost ex-
Dected to see horns and tails. don't |
blame the men out there for want |
ng pOlygamy, for with so MANY
beautiful women, / can't see how
hey could pick one. One would
naturally expect rather loud voiced
people in a land of such wide ex-
but they are very quiet and
20 polite and small boys seem to en-
Oy answering questions, this not only
or Utah, but for all this glorious
'ountry, so different from the middle
vest where poIteness seems to have
'een crowded out. Did not see much
II tne Great Salt Lake, as we crossed
n the night Came on from Ogden,
la. S. P.
Morning found US in Nevada where
re saw lots of desert interspersed
nth irrigated lands. Got to Reno
fter dark and only stopped a few
llnutes. Passed through The Sierras
urlng the night. which | greatly re- /
ret as | am told that they are verv1 I
eautlful, having a heavy growth of
mber on all the lower slopes. t
Day broke as we dropped into the
alley of the Sacramento, one big =
arden, not prairie as one can al
avs rest ones eyes with trees, but h
'st a beautiful garden, where all h
aste land is glorious everywhere. t
I'd the city of Sacramento and the o
eautiful river Of same name as a t.
tting for the center. n
From here on to Frisco +hnro &c