Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-24


attend is only two years from Iowa.
Our next door neighbor is from New
ton. My Sunday school teacher is
from up thataway, too. The editor
OF the daily paper we take is a
Hawkeye. Our Sunday school sup
erintendent halls from the old home
state, too, / believe. One candidate
for congress, John Hamilton, was a
prominent Iowan. The city commits
J sioner of Long Beach came from
there some time back. OF three
ex-governors here at present, two
might keep on, but time and space
! forbid. So don't ask anyone here
where they are from. Just say,
''What part of Iowa are you FROM"
and nearly all have TO Tess up that
they were Hawkeyes at some time.
Pomona is a fine town which we
! visited the sixteenth of February.
| Incidentally we were in nine other
towns while on this trip, which was
delightful in every way. Leaving
here by stage, with thirteen passen-
gers aboard, we soon picked up two
more, so that done away with the
unlucky thirteen. / can only men
| ton some of the most important
things, and them briefly, of which
! l took notice. Anaheim is an old
historic town where they formerly
done a big brewing business, but to-
day bends it's energies in a different
and better direction. l spoke of the
oil wells in my last letter, but visit
ing a different field on this trip
there is always something new.
There were wells in great number
and oil was running from some of
them down into the stream below,
| which had the, appearance itself of
| being about half oil and half water.
| The farms, or ranches, as they are
called here, have rather poor build
| ings as a rule. In fact / have seen
many houses which were simply
shacks or huts. The mild climate
removes the necessity for the warm
buildings that Iowa must have, and
the absence of stock relieves the
need of barns. Hence the rural i'm
lproVements are often of cheap or
der. l have seen no country school
houses as yet. So far as have not
ed the school buildings appear to be
located in the towns and villages,
and I suppose they are under the
consolidation plan. At Los Alma
tos they have large sugar refinery.
Many beets are raised in parts of
this country A large herd of dairy
cattle is kept in conjunction with
| this plant to eat the refuse from the
factory. The dairy cattle here are
nearly all Holsteins and of a very
excellent quality. We passed
through miles and miles of orange
groves. A paved highway lined on
both sides with palms, and orange
trees laden with golden fruit as far
as eye could see is most pleasing
view Beautiful groves of English
| walnuts, fruit trees in bloom, and
flowers of every hue were seen time
and again. Saw campers at two diff
ferent places. In fact, one town had
park to camp in, shelter for
autos, and you could make yourself
at home with just an automobile
and tent. We passed a ranch call
ed the Diamond Bar and, long after
passing the buildings / happened to
notice the signs along the side Of
the road and / saw we were still
passing along the Diamond Bar. 1t
| seemed TO stretch for miles and
miles and contain thousands of
acres. This was some of the most
beautiful scenery l have been
through. The rough land stretch
ing as far as you could see, the
green hills covered with grass and
timber, and the cattle grazing in
contentment was scene l shall new
er forget. While in Pomona, COTS
show train of fourteen cars passed
through / presume these shows
travel in this warm country during
the winter and show up north dur
ing the summer. ] think / am cor
rect in stating that there are but
few shows in existence at present
but what are controlled by Ring
lings. Even your Yankee Robin
son, back in Iowa, sold out to Ring
lings last fall, / believe. We walk
ed eight miles in an attempt to get
on some mountains north of Po-
mona, which ! judge belong to the
Sierra Madre range. After all our
work We Just reached the base and
for want of time could go no furth-
er. Just between where we stood
and the mountain was canyon
about eighty rods wide. II contain
ed orange groves and beautiful resi-
dences with snow-covered noun
tains for a background, and my only
regret was that we were unable to
do like We did in war time-go over
the top. While on the way home,
speeding through orange groves
and after sunset to us, we looked
back and saw the last rays of the
sun still shining on one OF the high
In i
er forget that picture, for when
looking out of the beautiful scenery
below into the snow-covered noun
tains above glistening like silver, 1t
was picture of grandeur. Dark
nesses came on and II seemed
like we were back In Iowa in the
month Of May, for frogs were croak-
ing till they filled the air with
music. Further on we passed the
oil wells again, whichNI spoke Of be-
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