Wagoner County Record (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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EXCLUSIVE AGENTS
Part Way to Galitornla '
In making a fen observations
along the way on our trip to and
from the Pacific coast we do not
want our readers to think that
we think that we are about the
only creatures who ever went to
California but it isn’t everybody
who has made this trip that is
rich enough to posess the luxury
of a newspaper hence these few
remarks x
We left Wagoner on that fam-
ous early morning “Katy Limit-
ed” so called doubtless because
it seems to be limited to about
two houi’s late most of the time
The first town of any note to pass
through was Mazie in which we
were greatly disappointed It’s
an awful small town — not much
bigger than Coweta When we
got to faraway Vinita Mrs P
was getting home sick and want-
ed to turn back but after we
crossed the Kansas line she
made me no further trouble
The corn crop from Wagoner
to Parsons is very fine but the
acreage is small The corn crop
of entire eastern Kansas is all but
a total failure half or more of
the fields were abandoned after
planting on account of continued
rains and the other half will
make little or nothing The
small grain crop like our own
was also badly damaged Corn
and wheat in centeral and west-
ern Kansas is very fine except
that rajns did more or less dam-
age during harvest and thresh-
ing time Centeral Kansas is
about the prettiest country on
the face of the globe At the
Colorado line or some 50 miles
before the dry section of our
country is entered where farm-
ing without irrigation is usually
uphill business but this year the
rains have enabled them to raise
a moderately good crop Around
Lamar Las Animas and La Junta
the country is irrigated from
great reservoirs one of which
covers 14000 acres The finest
and most extensive alfalfa fields
we have ever seen are around
the above towns but unfortun-
ately there is little market for it
owing to the scarcity of live
stock and the advent of the auto-
mobile which has put more than
200000 herd of horses out of
business in the state of Colorado
alone
Denver is a beautiful though
very quiet city of 220000 people
Colorado Springs is a nice little
city of 35000 that lives off of
tourists just as the mistletoe
lives off of the big elm trees of
Oklahoma
Leaving ' La Junta over the
Santa Fe southwest there is no
further effort made at farming
in Colorado except an occasional
homesteader who is still trying
to make dry farming go with
little prospects of success
Trinidad a substantial town of
15000 is the chief town of south-
ern Colorado and is in the cen-
ter of an extensive 'coal mining
district but owing to strikes and
labor troubles is very dull
Entering New Mexico at Ra-
ton a substantial town of some
7000 we run over one of the
most beautiful level or slightly
undulating prairies we ever saw
covered with fine grass as there
has been an abundance of rain
this summer There are thous-
ands of head of high grade
herford cattle feeding on these
plains
We visited Santa Fe the capi-
tol of New Mexico and the sec-
ond oldest city in the United
States having been founded by
Coronado in 1585 or 330 years
ago It looks older There are
about 7000 people two-thirds of
whom are Spaniards and Mexi-
cans and one-third Americans
all of who live in the memories
of the past as the present or
future seems to concern them
but little The town is largely
built of low one-story adobe
houses nicely finished and afford
comfortable homes ' The busi-
ness section is built around a
square is quite modern and has
a large number of two and three
story brick buildings The cap-
itol building and governor’s
mansion though not large are
modern and nice Within a
stones throw of the capitoi is
San Miguel church built by the
Catholics 310 years ago It is
quite well preserved but no
longer used for a church Near
by is a low one room adobe house
built at about the same time In
traveling over the town you can
hardly tell whether you are com
ing or going whether you are in
a street or in an alley as they are
all about the same width How
ever the people are kind and
courteous and we enjoyed our
stay very much One thing
which seemed very odd to us
was the manner in which the
town is supplied with cook wood
It is brought in from the moun
tains some ten or twelve miles
away which are covered with
scatering pines is cut into short
cook stove lengths and then
built up over a buro’s back in a
semi-circle coming down almost
to the knees and strapped on in
some ingenious manner we know
not how- This load weighs over
300 poiinds and is quite a burden
for the 400 pound burro Usually
two Mexicans andthree burros
make v a working outfit The
buros carry the loads while the
driver drive them just as you
would calves as the burros have
no harness nor bridles ' The
wood finds a ready ' market at
from 30 to 35 cents a load -each
btirro or $105 for two men and
three burros for two days work
as night overtakes them some
where imthe out skirts of town
the first day where they unload
the burros and camp for the
night then they start out early
in the vmorning driving their
burros and wood over town in
search of a house wife in need of
wood 1 By ten o’clock the wood
is disposed'of the proceeds soon
invested in fresh beef and they
are oft for home to make up a
batch of Mexican chile which
will supply the family for a
month or more
We stopped i over night at
Albequerque which is quite a
city of some 25000 people about
half of whom are Americans and
half Mexicans The town has
many wholesale and distributing
houses but its great source of
support is from the Santa Fe
railroad which has ' immense
machine shops employing some
four thousand men all of whom
are Mexicans except the fore-
men and a few of the higher
skilled mechanics A white man
stands about the same chance of
getting a job there as an Oklaho-
ma negro would getting to vote
in a democratic primary
The entire country between
Santa Fe and Albequerque is
settled by fullblood blanket In-
dians who live in numerous
adobe villages along the Grand
river a small stream and have
irrigated farms of just a few
acres each upon which they
raise beans corn wheat and oats'
with a varying degress of suc-
cess and while we do- not ask
you to believe it these Indians
of the Domingo tribe are actually
working Many of the old
blanketed boys were out in the’
corn fields hoeing to beat the
band Why if our own famous
warrior Joe Cobb could have
seen the sweat dripping from
the brow of his far western
brother he would beat it back to
that fine farm and not show his
face in Wagoner for two years
Another good show to attract
all on our train was a bunch of
fuilbloods running a fine new
steam threshing machine full-
bloods engineer and all The
only white man on -the job was
the government farm agent who
seemed to be giving general di-
rections Our own Cherouees
never had more fun at a moon-
light stomp dance than these old
scouts seemed: to be having
Eight or ten little pony teams
hitched to brand new wagons
were waiting with little jags of
wheat sheaves piled up on the
top box It was about six okslock
in the evening cool and pleasant
and they seemed mighty proud
to know that the traveling pale
faces had caught them in the act
of running such a gigantic insti-
tution as 'a threshing machine
From -Albequerque on west
there is little of interest until
Flagstaff Arizona is reached
This town has some 5000 people
and is in the center of an exten-
sive pine forest has a number of
large lumber mills the finished
products of which is shipped
to all parts of the United States
A couple of hours run from
Flagstaff brought us to Williams
a small railroad town from which
point we took a branch line 61
miles north to the Grand Canyon
of Arizona This canyon is con-
sidered the greatest natural
wonder of the world at least
that was ivhat we learned from
world Wide travelers whom we
met there The railroad runs
right up to the canyon in fact if
it went 100 yards nearer it would
dash over a precipice and be
hurled into the Colorado river
nine miles below It is the
immenseness of this great can
yon that impresses you most
It is more than a hundred miles
long twenty to twenty-five miles
wide and has a depth of two
miles
There are so many angles to
this great wonder that as the
rays and shadows from the sun
are reflected you can see every
color of the rainbow stretching
for miles along the mighty walls
of this thrilling child of the des-
ert A striking feature comes from
the fact that you can view this
indescxTojble sight from one
point then turn your eyes
away walk 100 yards to another
point look again and to your
amazement the'whole landscape
has changed and you feel almost
certain that you have traveled
many miles and are viewing the
scenes of another bottomless
wonder but not so the angles
have only shifted and the many
shadows and reflections changed
places
We traveled twelve miles along
the rim of this canyon and at
many places could look down up-
on the Colorado river which to
the eye seemed to be a quite lit-
tle creek some 15 feet wide while
in reality it is a mighty rushing
roaring river nearly a quarter of
a mile in width
At another point we could see
a tiny green spot which was
described to us by tourists who
had just returned from there as
a nice little irrigated farm of
several acres watered by an
immense spring which burst
forth from the desert bottom
and around which were enor-
mous cottonwood trees three
and four feet in diameter and
towering nearly a hundred feet
At still another point we could
see what seemed to be a number
of bee hives with many ants
maneuvering around as if in
search of honey but we were
wrong again as the bee hives
were camp houses 16 feet square
and the ants we re big fine ten
and twelve hundred pound mules
and horses grazing about while
the tourists could not be seen at
all with the naked eye The
road climbs down the mountain
just as a railroad climbs a moun-
tain by winding back and forth
The path is but 4 feet wide and if
the mule should make a misstep
instant death would follow but
we were told that few accidents
had ever occurred
The round trip can be made in
eight hours on horesback In
fact a young man of our party
who was an expert monntain
climber started down on foot at
8:30 in the morning made the
round trip spent a half hour on
the brink of the river and was
back on the hotel porch at 5:30
little the worse for wear though
not one in a thousand attempt
the journey either on foot or on
horsehnek but are content to
view the wondrous beauties from
the rim
sAs we took our farewell look
into the mighty cavern the
shades of evening were fast dim-
ing our eyes to the thousadd
sights before us Away to our
left thfi great canyon 'was envel-
oped in almost total darkness in
front of us and a thousand feet
below a terriffic thunder storm
was raging while far tq our right
old Sol was silently call in his
myriad of colors which had de-
lighted the multitude
With this scene stamped in-
delibly upon our mind we bowed
our head and turned away with
a suppressed exclamation upon
our lips: “What wonders God
hath wroughti’
And we haven’t got to Califor-
nia yet but are on our way and
our readers cannot escape the
punishment
The Lecture Course
Thd Lecture Course for the
present season will open October
9th with the Ada Roach Com-
pany in “The Heart of the Im-
migrant” All those who signed
up for tickets as well as all those
who have not can secure them
at Van Leeuwen’s store Regu-
lar advertising announcing the
superiority of this company and
all the entertainments to follow
will appear in the Record next
week Secure your tickets It
is a fine course
Those new fall caps are it
See them today at Van Leeuwen
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Mrs E A Bixby left yester-
day for Missouri after spending
three months with her daughter
Mrs Almgren
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Foster, George H. Wagoner County Record (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1915, newspaper, September 23, 1915; Wagoner, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1721912/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.