The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-09-14
ACH-LANG PARTY
RETURN FROM TRIP

RETURN FROM TRIP
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl B. Bach and sons,
Clayton and Kenneth, and DR.. and
Mrs. R. C. Lang, returned Monday
from a 10000 mile auto trip thru the
west, having left Minot on June II.
They left Long Beach, Cal, Aug. II,
and travelled home by easy stages.
Their longest trip in a day was the
last days run from Glasgow, Mont,
to Minot, 285 miles.
The party enjoyed the best of
health with the exception Of two days
when DR.. Lang had stomach trouble
from eating his own camp cooking,
and returned brown and greatly de-
lighted over their experiences.
Mr.. Bach called at the Independent
office today and told us many of his
experiences. Money could hardly hire
him to cross the desert along the
southern route again, tho he would
not take a great deal for his expert
ence. The thermometer registered
1O6 degrees one day and they were
They passed thru the Black Hills
enroute to California and visited the
Wind Cave national park. Mr. Bach
says there is some of the most beauti
full scenery in the world in the Black
Hills, with lake as beautiful as
Lake Louise. There is good fishing
in the streams. They visited Denver
Colorado Springs and spent the
Fourth Of July in the Mesa Verde ma
tional park of Colorado, the home of
the ancient cliff jewellers. The party
walked down into the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado, travelling seven miles
to walk down one mile. They visited
San Diego and Old Mexico and re-
turned via San Francisco and Oregon
They visited the Crater -. Lake Ma
tional Park, passing over some terri
BILE roads to that place, the way they
went. They could have found much
better road by way Of Medford.
Crater Lake is one Of the most won
derful places in the world. The lake
is in the form of circle apd is locat-
ed away up in the top of an old vol
cano crater, with perpendicular banks,
1000 feet down to the water. The
water is deep blue and there are
ways to get down to the water where
wonderful trout can be fished. In the
middle of the lake is an island with
another crater lake in it's center. Z
The party visited in Portland, saw
Orrin Pierce and other Minot folks
and the Bachs visited with j. T. I'm
dseth, cousin, formerly Of Minot.
The Langs saw Mrs. Geo. Benno who
is visiting there, with sister.
They went over the Columbia high
way to Spokane and spent little
time in Glacier Park, but did not stay
long as it was showing while they
were there. A park bus went over
the bank IL miles south of St. Mary's
Camp and the driver was killed, the
day they were in the park. Two pas
sengers were seriously injured.
They visited Mrs. Bach's brother,
J. Y. Millar at Glasgow, Mont.
lodge, Knights of Pythias in San
Francisco while the Langs visited
Yosemite National park. DR.. Lang
attended the meeting of the National
Dental Association in Los Angeles.
| The Bachs travelled in Ford sedan
and got FL miles to a gallon of gas
going out. The Langs drove Buick
They camped out and stopped when
ever they desired as they had no sche-
dule.
The two cars had but three flat
tires going out, all due to picking up
nails. They broke couple Of springs
but found roads good generally. They
saw little rain while away and did not
find any mud on the entire trip till
they got near Berthold, N. D.. They
found paved roads from San Diego
to Portland Ore, 1900 miles, except
1876 miles in northern California, and
this stretch will soon be paved.
| In Los Angeles they visited A. M
/ Thompson, former Minot lawyer, F.
G. Wells, L. M. Due, Ed Christensen
L. d. McGahan, Allie Rush, Raymond
Kane and II. II. Bragg, who is manag-
ing a lumberyard at Manchester.
Mrs. Bach's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. L. Millar live at Long Beach
They are very feeble. Mr.. Millar
who is a Ward county pioneer, is 81
years Of age. The Bach family spent
a month at the Millar home and the
Bach boys enjoyed swimming in the
ocean.
Mr.. Bach likes California but says
i it. is a poor place to go unless one
has considerable money. One has te
be careful or money can be lost rapid
/ ~. There are many promoters, many
selling oil stock, some good and some
4 WORTHLESS. At Long Beach there are {
thousand oil derricks on Signal Hill
some representing producing wells
DR.. Doe and Mr.. Hunter formerly Of
J BoWbells, n D., organized an OF
syndicate at Long Beach and brot i,
a $500 barrel well when the Mino
party was there. 4
4 Most any land between Los Angelo.
and the coast sells for from $500 tx
i $4,000 an acre. 1t is irrigated. Bust
ness conditions are a little quiet il
California. Los Angeles is congestet
and Mr.. Bach likes that city the leas
of any he visited, due to that fact.
!. North Dakota surely looked goot