Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-04-14
From Tulare, California,
to Cameron Township
Editor Journal

full of interest from every point Of
view. In the many miles of trave
there is nothing particularly re-
narkable, but when you consider
the fact that in connection with the
entire trip there were no missed
trains, 10 accidents, and no mishaI
of any kind whatever, it was surely
piece of good fortune to say the
least. 1t was almost continual
round Of pleasure, profit, flowers
scenery and sunshine. We wers
either in for time or passed thru
at least three hundred towns and
villages. They ranged in size from
q little village of three or four
houses on the great plains of the
west to the city of Los Angeles
which was the largest and is des-
tined to some day become one of
the big cities of the world. In fact,
you do not have to work on your
imagination very far to see the day
in the future when all of southern
California along the ocean will be
built up as an almost solid city.
This will be true because thereare
millions of miles of other territory
under our flag, but there is only
one southern California.
In my letter of two weeks ago
we were just starting on home from
Tulare. A little belated now pos
>sibly, but never theless true is the
story as we leave the orange groves
and hasten on our way to Byers'
"Fairest Land of Ali the Vest
Iowa, Down through the San Jo-
aquin valley was a beautiful trip
North Of Herndon many fields re-
sembled mower gardens. | do not
know what they were, but the hand
Of the painter never formed pref
tier picture than those fields of
golden flowers as viewed from the
car window. Going past Madeira
We entered great grain fields and /
am quite certain that these mature
without irrigation. | noticed the
peculiar way of hitching horses to
farm machinery in that part of
California. For instance, when
they use twelve horses, they are all
strung out, as we would say, with
only two horses abreast, making
the front team a long ways from
The driver. Seeing truck load of
calves, called to mind the fact that
they are not generally kept and
grown to maturity as in Iowa, but
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are taken to market by the truck
load when quite young. By the
way, have seen truck loads with
trailers attached, and them loaded
too, hauling such large loads on the
paved roads of California that /
am afraid to repeat here what |
have seen, for most of my readers
would declare it to be a pipe
dream. Arriving at Sacramento,
our course was changed to the
northeast and we were beating it
5or home as fast as the old Cont.
mental Limited could carry us
Sacramento has been the capital Of
the state since 1854. Here we saw
the first engine operated over the
Central Pacific railroad out of Sac.
remento. Its greatest peculiarly
rs the big drum smokestack which
all engines used to be adorned with
as old timers will remember. Gu
train rah through Dutch Flat
which is one of the historic place
where gold was mined in the grea
rush Of l849. History says tina
the route to this Ell Dorado wa
strewn with skeletons. And afte
going over part of that route on
would not be surprised at such j
result. Entering the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, we pass throug
forty-three miles of snowsheds
Without these the winter trave
would be, impossible, for at on
point the snowfall is forty-fv