The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01
Interesting Trip
Thru California
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ferent in that 1t is joyous with color.
song and laughter, and dances of old
Spain and the romance of the golden
days of California.
There are 100 living actors in the
mission play, who have been trained
thru long years to perform their
parts with striking faithfulness.
Friedrich Warde takes the part of
Fray Junipero Sierra and is past
seventy-five years old.
Here is also the adobe building
referred to in the famous book of
Helen Hunt Jackson as the birth
place Of Ramona.
John Steven McGroarty is the
author and dramatic director and is
played at Old Gabriel Mission.
A Trip to Catalina Island
Catalina Island is twenty-five
miles south of Los angeles harbor
and is reached by the steamboat
Avalon from the San Pedro or Los
Angeles harbor. Catalina Island is
twenty-five miles long and @three1
miles wide. The area is 48,438
acres. The highest elevation is at
Orizaba which is 2109 feet high.
Bathing, boating, fishing and
sight seeing on horse back are en-
j0yed by the visitors.
Moonestone beach, is a pretty |
little cave four miles distant from
Avalon, where moonstones, agates |
and water opals are found.
Tuna fish weigh from eighty to
$50 pounds and is the hardest fight
ing fish known. Swordfsh weigh |
from 100 to $50 pounds and are
caught from June to December al
the Black Sea Bass weighing from i
100 to 400 pounds is the flsherman's
main sport.
The submarine gardens seen thru |
the famous glass bottom boat pene-
trates to depth of seventy-five feet |
and may be seen the acqualtic plant |
and animal life. The plate glass
used is ordinary glass one and an
eighth of an inch in thickness. More
than thirty species of kelp and fish
are seen among which are iodine
kelp from which iodine and potash
are made, sea cucumbers, rainbow
kelp, Irish moss, sponge moss, and
sea lichen. The Golden perch is
the most beautiful of the fish. The
abilone is priced for it's meat and
shell and when alive exerts a pres
sure of $50 pounds to the square
inch of it's sheet against the rock to
which it clings. Its suction is so
great that it can only be pried loose
with difficulty.
A native diver, Francis McGarth,
dives for abilone shells at a depth
of forty-five feet.
Hollywood and Beverly Hills is a
very beautiful drive among the pep
per trees overhanging the roads and
wonderful white homes.
Beverly Hills, Pauline Fredricks
and other movie stars.
Here is located the studios of D.
w. Griffith, Fox, Lasky Famous
Players, Warren Brothers and vari-
GUS others too numerous to mention.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks have new studio opened up
at Hollywood.
AS we pass thru Culver City we
see the Goodwin studios, Ince and
Hal Roach studies, which are all
very wonderful buildings.
The next trip we leave for Tur-
lock, Calf. distance of about $50
miles taking in Fresno, Conojo,
Selma and several other out of the
way places. We stop for few min
utes at the Del Monte Gamer and
visit raisin packing house. The
vineyards are wonderful thru here,
for miles you can see grapes.
We arrive in Turlock, a very
smooth valley with many acres of
grapes, apricots, figs, peanuts and
various other kinds of fruit. There
are tons of melons shipped from
here during the melon season. This
is the home of melons and pump
kins.
There are great many Blackfoot
people located here. Mr.. and Mrs.
]. o. Jarvis own ranch with alfalfa
and nice home in town with the