The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-09
Grain Crops Seen

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| ly looked toward it. Salt Lake City
proved to be clean, wei kept city
full of flowers, and trees, all OF
which had to be watered daily.
There we were treated-with five
thousand others--to a half hour re-
cital on the great pipe organ by a
master organist, and then carried
out to view the Great Salt Lake
where 20 per cent of salt won't let
you sink if you try-but you better
not try.
Sun Valley Visited
Thence through Wyoming to Sun
Valley, Idaho, one of the most beau
tiful places we visited. You can get
a real nice room at the Hotel there
for $24. day (meals extra). There
were wild ducks and Canada Geese
on the small lake, profusion of
flowers and green lawns. We watch
ed the ice skaters doing stunts on
a frozen pool and then rode out to
the Ski Lift, a continuous cable
that takes you-if your wife1l let
you goa mile or so up the noun
tain.
Being at the top, 5000 feet up
$3.50 feet is a mile) you look at
the scenery, and then if you are in
a hurry you buckle elongated and
somewhat refined barrel slaves on
your feet-they call them "Skees"-
and slide down standing up. That,
of course, is after the real SHOWS
come and standing up is provided
you do not fall on the way down.
The trip down is claimed to be quite
thrilling. Annie Mai went up and
back on the lift but Nick and Harry
didn't, their wives-but never mind.
Ate Borbecued Buffalo
Then for dinner Supper to you)
We had barbecued buffalo steak and
trimmings, plenty of trimmings, and
a dance in the Lodge" We saw a
whole kennel of "Huskies," the
Alaskan sledge dogs. Fine specimens
they were, too, big powerful, deter
mined looking dogs. Attendants
showed us the sleds and harness
used in dog shedding. 8oa
Westward through and over the
Rocky Mountains along the bank Of
the Columbia river, stopping to in
spect Bonneville Dam, where en-
gineers have made the River gene
rate 100000 horse power of electri-
city; taking fifteen minute look at
Multnomah falls where snow fed
stream dashes over precipice twice
as high as Niagara and breaks into
mist; inspect the City of Roses
Portland-where there are more of
the finest and most beautiful roses
than anywhere else in the country.
A bus ride through Seattle, hilly as
Vicksburg, clean and flower deck
ed at every residence and Park.
Cross Into Cdnoda
That night we crossed the line
into Canada and-at Vancouver
boarded streamer for Victoria in
British Columbia, perhaps the most
beautiful city on the Tour, the near
est we got to the Pacific. Again
carefully tended trees, shrubs,
flowers lawns, impressive Govern
ment buildings, courteous replies to
questions. The Canadians are much
like Southerners, their forebears
having come from the British Is,
lands, for the most part, just as ours
| did, so their habits of thought are
pretty much the same as ours.
Now, travelling eastward on the
Canadian Pacific, the train-a heavy
one of fifteen air conditioned Pull,
| mans-climbed over the rugged
Rocky Mountains again, past the
Continental Divide, where the
waters of a bold spring flow, par
into streams that finally reach the
Atlantic ocean and part into Paci.
| fic ocean bound streams.
| On some stretches, three great
, locomotives were straining to pull
us up the grade.
Sidetrock To Louise
Presently the train took side
track, and all the tourists piled into
big buses and drove to most beau.
| tiful Lake Louise, fed bv the melt,