ESTELLE RYAN SNYDER 
 
The Land of Promise 
 
 and 
 
 Golden Opportunity 
 
 By 
 
 Estelle Ryan Snyder 
 
 " The United States of America are destined to be 
 the most powerful coimtry on earth." — Napoleon 
 
 Published by Estelle Ryan Snyder 
 
 1308 Ashland Buildinj.- 
 
 Chieaffo 
 

 LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
 
 Two Copies Received 
 
 DEC 6 1905 
 
 . CoDyright Entry 
 cuss CXl XXc, No. 
 COPY B. 
 
 Copyright 1905 by 
 
 Estelle Ryan Snyder 
 
 Chicagro, Illinois 
 
 All ria-hts reserved 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 HE "Land of Promise and Golden Opportunity'' 
 foreshadows in its title the enthusiasm with which 
 it was penned. Prepared for a delightful trip, 
 Mrs. Snyder left Chicago June 1, 1905, to join 
 the National Editorial Association at St. Louis, 
 for a tour of the "Golden West." She went prepared 
 to be pleased, as she recalled a journey through that 
 part of the territory many years ago; she returned fairly 
 bubbling over with pleasure, not only from the most gracious 
 and wonderful hospitality showered upon the editors on sight- 
 seeing bent, Init at the grandeur of the scenery, and the mar- 
 velous promise of the country for those who were ready to 
 claim the wealth and comfort awaiting them. With courage, 
 perseverance and patience as capital to invest the "Land of 
 Promise and Golden Opportunity" has a warm welcome for 
 those who seek health, wealth and pleasure under its brilliant 
 skies and amid its fertile fields. From her desire to share 
 the magnificent tour with those who could not accompany her 
 this little book is sped on its mission of cheer. 
 
 CAROLINE A. HULING. 
 
 Chicago, October 15, 1905. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 Land of the Fair God. 
 
 June 10, 1905. 
 
 ONE of the handsomest trains that ever pulled out of 
 the Tei-minal Station at St. Louis, Missouri, was the 
 National Editorial Special, which left St. Louis, June 
 6, at noon, over the ''Katy Koute." The special, which con- 
 sisted of fourteen handsome Pullmans and a liaggage car, was 
 run in two sections, and carried seven hundred editors to the 
 convention. 
 
 The special arrived at Sedalia, Mo., at eight o'clock that 
 night, for supper, and lireakfasted at Osage, Indian Territory, 
 the next morning. 
 
 The train arrived in (iutlu'ie, Oklahoma, at four o'clock 
 the afternoon of June 7. after an enjoyable trip across the beau- 
 tiful fertile plains of ^Missouri and Oklahoma. A delegation 
 of prominent citizens met the special about thirtj- miles from 
 Guthrie, and conducted the party to their city, the capital of 
 the greatest territory in the country. The station platform 
 was crowded with citizens, and two splendid bands were 
 playing patriotic airs. Cheer after cheer, shouted lustily and 
 heartily, greeted the visitors. Gay flags and bunting waved 
 in the breeze. Guthrie had donned her holiday attire. Two 
 hundred and fifty carriages and vehicles conveyed the editors 
 and their Avives to the different hotels prepared for their enter- 
 tainment. A brief meeting was held at the Opera House, where 
 the guests were welcomed by the mayor and several prominent 
 citizens. A reception given by the people of Guthrie to the 
 editors followed in the evening. The streets were ablaze Avith 
 light from the hundreds of red, white and blue arc lights 
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 Like a scene from the "Arabian Nights" was the picture 
 presented in the ballroom in the capitol building, which was 
 beautifully decorated with American tiags, bunting, stately 
 palms, beautiful cut tiowers and a profusion of cape jessamine. 
 Beautiful women, elegantly gowned, greeted the visitors to 
 tlieir city. The soft strains of delicious music drifted through 
 the flower-laden air. 
 
 Entertainments and receptions followed each other in rapid 
 succession. Delightful drives to the places of general interest 
 were indulged in. 
 
 The Scottish Rite Masons gave a splendid reception in their 
 magnificent temple, the only one of its kind in the country. 
 
 The Editorial i^arty remained in Guthrie three days, every 
 minute of which time was crowded with interest and pleasure. 
 The next stop was at Enid, a thriving town about seventy-five 
 miles soutliAvest of Guthrie. The citizens of Enid Avere hospi- 
 tality itself to the visitors, and the three hours spent in Enid 
 were passed pleasantly at a brief entertainment at the Opera 
 House, followed by a reception given by the Elks at their club 
 rooms. 
 
 Leaving Enid the sanu^ evening, we arrived at Snyder. 
 Oklahoma, the following morning. A terrific cyclone had 
 destroyed Snyder but a few weeks before our passing through 
 that country, and it was a devastated country that lay before 
 us. Clean swept of all its buildings and residences, its fields 
 of grain and crops utterly destroyed, barbed wire fences torn 
 down and so interwoven with debris as to be unable to extri- 
 cate but little portion of the clothing and mattresses, bedding 
 and so forth securely pinned in the barbs, the little town pre- 
 sented a most pathetic and desolate appearance. Over a 
 hundred lives were lost in the terrific storm that swept Snydev 
 from the face of the map for a time. But it will only be for a 
 time, for Snyder will arise again from her ch?solation as did 
 historical Galveston, and in that great and glorious country 
 she will again take her place. A brief stop was made at 
 Lawton, the metropolis of southern Oklahoma and the capital 
 
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 of Comanche county. As we were four hours late in our sched- 
 ule and had only an hour's time at Lawton, this did not permit 
 of our visiting Fort Sill, as had heen planned, but our train 
 stopped for a few minutes when near the Fort and the Fourth 
 United States cavalry was drawn up on dress parade for our 
 inspection. 
 
 Brief stops were made at Anadarko and El Eeno. We 
 reached Chickasha late in the afternoon and were entertained 
 at a grand barbecue, where tables were laid for 700. The meat 
 had all been cooked barbecue style in the open air and wa? 
 delicious. We had but an hour in Chickasha, which is in 
 Indian Territory, and a very interesting toAvn. We were splen- 
 didly entertained at Oklahoma City, our next stop. This city 
 had raised $5,000 for our entertainment. Oklahoma City is 
 a city of 35,000 inhabitants and is one of the most progressive 
 in the territory. There is considerable rivalry between Guthrie 
 and Oklahoma City. But the cities are mnch the same, both 
 thrifty, splendid western cities and i)opulated by energetic, 
 progressive people. A splendid banquet at Delmar Gardens 
 Avas served to our party during a frightful rain storm. From 
 Oklahoma City we returned to Guthrie, from which point the 
 entire party were taken to Bliss, Oklahoma, on Sunday, June 
 11th, where the party visited Miller Brothers' ranch 101. This 
 ranch consists of 87,000 acres of land, most of Avhich is rented 
 from the Indians. Here a most unusual entertainment took 
 place. 
 
 At the first streak of daAvn the trains began carrying 
 excursionists to the ranch, Avhere a Avonderful day of Indian 
 sports and games, a barbecue of buffalo meat and a buffalo 
 chase Avere to be given at noon. Forty thousand people con- 
 gregated. 
 
 Imagine thousands of acres of beautiful rolling country 
 flecked here and there Avith timberlands and picturesque small 
 streams, tAvo or three dozen spotless white tents dotting the 
 fragrant meadowlands and hundreds upon hundreds of horses, 
 carriages and ponies on every side. Under the largest tent 
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 with good things. Waiters passed the barbecued buffalo meat 
 in huge washtubs. Thirty bands of music were scattered over 
 the mammoth grounds. A grand amphitheater had been 
 enclosed with barbed wire netting. After dinner was over the 
 grand stand l)egan to fill. At two o'clock the sports began. 
 A regular wild Avest show followed. A splendid procession 
 lead by Geronimo, the great Indian chief, who has been a pris- 
 oner at Fort Sill for fifteen years, guarded by soldiers. About 
 500 Indians and 300 cowboys took part in the program, Avliich 
 was most interesting. Indian games, LaCrosse and ball, roping 
 and throwing steers, rough riding, bucking broncos, etc. The 
 most wonderful feat of all was performed by a colored man, 
 who caught and thrcAV a steer by his teeth. 
 
 Leaving Guthrie the next morning about three o'clock, we 
 arrived at Cleveland, Oklahoma, in time for breakfast and were 
 treated to a novel entertainment by the citizens of that place. 
 We Avere taken to the Ohio and Indiana Oil Company's wells, 
 where a new oil Avell Avas "shot." This is done by placing 
 a quantity of nitroglycerine in the Avell and then dropping 
 a "go-devil" ontt) it. The explosion opens up the Avell and the 
 oil gushes out. TIoAvever, the oil Avell shot for our benefit was 
 someAvhat of a fizzle, for the stream shot from the Avell Avas 
 fcmall and lasted but several minutes. The oil industry is an 
 important one in Cleveland. There are hundreds of oil Avells 
 in that locality, but the price of oil is so Ioav that oAvners prefer 
 w^aiting for a better market. 
 
 The next stop Avas at Tulsa, Indian Territory. Tulsa over- 
 looks the Arkansas riA^er valley, has a mild climate and pure 
 Avater. This city of 7,200 people affords excellent schools, 
 banks, churches, neAvspapers, and is groAving vigorously. It 
 has fiA'e railroads. The manufacturer here finds his raAv materi- 
 als right at hand. Ioav freight rates, best labor, fuel at equiA'a- 
 lent of coal at 60 cents per ton, and a groAving market for his 
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 At Tulsa the special was met by two hundred carriages an A 
 a*brass hand, and onr party Avas escorted to a large hall and 
 banqueted there at noon on the 12th. A brief stop was made 
 at ]\Iuskogee for supper. 
 
 As I Avrite this letter I can look from the car window and 
 \iew this beautiful country noAV at its l)est. I passed through 
 Indian Territory in 1889, three days before the Territory was 
 cpened, and the change in the space of sixteen years is cer- 
 tainly remarkable. Where great tracts of waste, overrun Avith 
 Indians and outlaws, who were a menace to the civilization and 
 development of any country, were, I find a very different con- 
 dition today. 
 
 Oklahoma and Indian Territory, so long denied statehood 
 on account of the lawlessness of the country, are now seeking 
 the privilege of adding another star to the American flag. 
 Here beautiful fertile hills and valleys are covered Avith fine 
 herds of cattle. Waving fields of golden wheat glisten in the 
 sun. The cotton plants are now four inches high. Her cities 
 and toAvns, which have sprung up like magic, contain as tine 
 buildings as our own at home. The women, stately and edu- 
 cated, men rugged, splendid and ambitious, have left the 
 crowded cities of the states and have sought a new home, a 
 new country. They are bringing into existence a generation 
 of healthy, ambitious young Americans which would be a credit 
 to any state in the Union. 
 
 These people are hampered to a certain extent b.y the law 
 which gives to every Indian man, woman and child 160 acres 
 of the best land in the Indian Nation. It makes no difference 
 if the Indian family contains ten children, each one of thos3 
 children is allotted l)y the Government at AVashington 160 
 acres of the best land, absolutely free of any tax. The taxes 
 are borne by their Avhite brothers, who groan beneath an 
 unnecessary burden. It has been said that the Indian was not 
 properly treated in years gone by. That may be true, but 
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 Rather than work their acres they rent to the whites, who till 
 them and cultivate the products of the field. This land is so 
 rich that anything and everything may be grown on it. Alfalfa 
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 of land. This brings into existence a deplorable condition of 
 affairs. The Indians of the Territory are all wealthy, and the 
 Indian maidens are eagerly sought after by white men, and 
 innunu'ral)le marriages have been the result. 
 
 But outside of these drawbacks, Oklahoma and Indian 
 Territory are destined to be the Mecca for ambitious men and 
 women. With their fertile lands, their great gas and oil wells. 
 their rich mineral wealth so long hidden in the Wichita moun- 
 tains, Oklahoma and Indian Territory offer every inducement 
 to healthy and ambitious men wishing to earn success by work- 
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CHAPTER II. 
 
 The Lone Star State. 
 
 June 12, 1905. 
 
 WE are now traveling across one small section of the 
 great state of Texas, the home of the pioneer cattle- 
 men. The magnitnde of this wonderful state can l)e 
 imagined when I state that we will cover 1,500 miles from Den- 
 nison. Texas, to El Paso, and have merely skirted the horder 
 of this immense tract of land. It is claimed here that Texas 
 is larger than Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania put to- 
 gether. "We have passed through the great oil and natural 
 gas well belts. Texas produces one-third the sugar output 
 of the world and tAventy per cent, the output of cotton. 
 
 The first city in Texas that we stopped at for any length 
 of time was Dallas. It is a splendid city of 100,000 inhabi- 
 tants. Handsome public buildings, beautiful, spacious south- 
 ern mansions and a fine park, add to the natural beauties 
 of this thrifty city, Avhose boast it is that the next census will 
 reveal a jump from 100,000 to 150,000 inhabitants. Our train 
 was met at Dallas by the prominent business men of that city 
 and a brass band, and our party was escorted to the Commer- 
 cial Club, where an impromptu reception was held. An hour 
 iater four special electric cars conveyed us to the fair grounds, 
 where a bounteous luncheon was served. A vaudeville per- 
 formance followed, interspersed with speeches by the mayor 
 and several other prominent Texans. In the afternoon the 
 ladies of the Elks Lodge gave a reception and musicale to our 
 party in their magnificent club house. This is the finest Elks 
 home that we have had the pleasure of visiting. We spent 
 a day and an evening in Dallas. 
 
 We arrived at Houston, Texas, the next day. The number 
 of fine magnolia trees to be found there has caused it to be 
 called the Magnolia City. 
 
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 We visited ]Ma<i'nolia l*ark and saAv some splendid trees 
 covered Avith the unsurpassed liloonis. The flower is siniihir 
 to our water lily but much larger, being the size of a dinner 
 plate. The odor is clinging and pungent, of such heavy fra- 
 grance as to make it nauseating in a short time. 
 
 Houston is a splendid city and located in the center of the 
 cotton belt. We visited her great cotton warehouses and saw 
 cotton handled in every stage from the raw material to the 
 finished product ready for shipment. 
 
 At Ilarrisburg Park, under the shade of fine oak trees 
 luxuriantly draped and festooned by nature with great ropes 
 of greyish moss peculiar to that portion of the country, a 
 bountiful luncheon had been laid, and our party did ample 
 justice to the collation while listeniiig to a fine address by a 
 prominent judge of that city. 
 
 Leaving Houston at six in the evening, we arrived at San 
 Antonio the following morning. The scene here surpassed 
 our wildest dream or imagination of the picturesque. Narrow, 
 winding streets, low houses of Spanish architecture with broad 
 porches extending to the curbing, beautiful plazas, or squares, 
 as we v\^ould call them at home, most artistically laid out, 
 presenting for the edification of the public the handsomest 
 lare plants to be found in tropical or semi-tropical countries. 
 There are twenty-one of these parks and plazas in San Antonio, 
 the majority of them within easy reach of the center of the 
 city, and all told embrace 3271/2 acres. Winding and well 
 kept drives through groves of oak and pecan trees reach and 
 skirt the San Antonio river and lakes. The aim has been to 
 preserve the natural beauty of the park, but as restful features, 
 available sections have been terraced in miniature and deco- 
 rated with rare plants and flowers, which impregnate refresh- 
 ing breezes with most delicate perfumes. 
 
 But it was not the beautiful parks and ])lazas that we came 
 to San Antonio to see. It was the wonderful, world-renowned, 
 historical Alamo. 
 
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 San Antonio was settled in 1689. The Alamo, Alamo Plaza, 
 was built in 1718. 
 
 Governor Antonio Cordero was the first of four governors 
 to occupy the Governor's Palace. He was tried for treason, 
 executed, and his head was placed upon a pole where the city 
 hall now stands. 
 
 The Veramendi Palace was occupied by Governor Vera- 
 mendi, who was the father-in-law of Colonel James Bowie. 
 
 Eight battles for the independence of Texas were fought 
 in and around San Antonio between the years 1776 and 1836 
 
 Santa Anna invaded San Antonio February 23, 1836, in 
 command of a force estimated at from 4,000 to 6,000 soldiers, 
 and Colonel Travis and his men were driven into the Alamo, 
 the Travis force consisting of but 188 men. After a siege 
 of eleven days the Alamo fell on March 6, 1836, and the entire 
 garrison was killed and their bodies burned. Colonel W. B. 
 Travis, James Bowie, Davy Crockett, J. B. Bonham and J. 
 Washington were the officers defending the Alamo. 
 
 The battle of San Jacinto was fought on April 21, 1836. 
 "Remember the Alamo!" was the slogan. Santa Anna was 
 at last defeated and captured, which ended the war and gave 
 Texas independence. 
 
 At an early day retreat might have been made with some 
 losses, but the heroic band believed their death would serve 
 their country better than ignoble fiight. And it will be noted 
 that while the number besieged originally was but 150, yet 
 during its continuance thirty-two others fought their way in 
 to share the closing massacre. At the end of eleven days the 
 sacrifice was completed — all dead ! 
 
 Travis, the commander, fell at his post of duty on the wall , 
 Bowie, in bed so sick he could not rise to receive the bayonet 
 thrust of the foe, was murdered where he lay ; David Crockett, 
 the famous, died behind a rampart of assailants he had slain 
 There was no chivalrous recognition of valor ; the last defender 
 died. On the monument Texas has inscribed : "Thermop^^lae 
 had its messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none." 
 
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 It is evident that the tragedy enacted within the walls of 
 the Alamo that day fired the heart of patriotism, for shortly 
 after the Lone Star waved in trinmph. 
 
 Last bnt not least we visited the old Spanish missions, 
 San Jnan and San Jose. These rnins are in excellent condi- 
 tion when tlie length of time that has i)assed since their con- 
 strnction by the Indians two centnries ago is considered. They 
 are built of cement. San Jose has some beautiful carving on 
 the cupola and lintels. Great pecan and peppin- trees shade the 
 mission. For a pittance a guide shows the tourist everything 
 of interest. We walked through the crum])ling corridor where 
 the monks were wont in years gone by to pace to and fro, tell 
 ing their beads and reading their breviaries. A green and 
 mottled lizard wriggled in our lead and a big horned toad 
 blinked at us hizily from a convenient rock, where he sat sun- 
 ning himself. The air was heavy with the fragrance of the 
 tropics. The Christ painted on the mission walls is nearly 
 obliterated by the hand of time. The great cement oven is 
 fast falling into dtn-ay. 
 
 AVe took a trolley ride to Fort Houston, the second largest 
 fort in the LTnited States, having a standing army of 2,500 men. 
 
 From San Antonio to El Paso we passed through some 
 wonderful scenery. Great cactus plants of every species and 
 gigantic palms were growing wild. jNIile after mile of moun- 
 tain ranges lift their l)lue, Imzy peaks to the hot, pitiless sun 
 shiniuff from the bluest of blue skies. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 El Paso, the Gateway to Mexico. 
 
 June 16, 1905. 
 
 A TRACT of land from ten to twenty miles Avicle. travers- 
 ing New Mexico from north to sonth. Within this val- 
 ley are located the thrifty cities of Albnqnerqne, San 
 Marcial, Las Crnces and El Paso. The rapid growth of these 
 cities establishes the fact- -without a question of a doubt — 
 of the wonderful producing quality and fertility of the soil 
 in this valley. The Rio Grande river, however, is somewhat 
 irregular and uncertain in its flow, and cannot ])e depended 
 upon to furnish all the water needed for irrigation. The river 
 supply is therefore supplemented by pumping from the inex- 
 haustible and constant underflow, which passes down the val- 
 ley and underlies all the irrigable land within a few feet from 
 the surface. 
 
 AVhen properly irrigated the soil is capable of producing 
 p. greater variety of vegetables, fruits and grains than any 
 other portion in this section of the country. 
 
 The altitude of El Paso is 3,800 and gradually rises to 5,000 
 
 feet at Albuquerque. 
 
 The climatic conditions are nearly perfect. Thousands of 
 invalids come here yearly, returning to their homes so bene- 
 fited in health that they are living testimonials of the wonder- 
 ful healing properties of this climate. 
 
 El Paso, formerly Paso Del Norte, the pass of the north, 
 going from Old IMexico to New, has a virile business life; its 
 people are aggressive and wide awake. There are many noble 
 public buildings, United States custom house, and court build- 
 ings, and some beautiful residences. At the foot of ]\Iount 
 
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 Franklin is a eolony of tents. It is called Consumption Villa., 
 as it is the home of health-seeking- people. The climate is 
 nearly the same the year round. 
 
 Forty miles west of El Paso are beds of lava from preliis 
 toric volcanoes, which, and the old crater, are visil)le to the 
 south. 
 
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CHAPTER IV. 
 
 " Mexico es el pais mas y mas hermoso en el Mimdo." — Gen. 
 
 Grant. 
 
 LATE in the afternoon of Jnne 16th, we arrived in El 
 Paso, Texas. A iMexiean brass band met our party at 
 the train and escorted them by special trolley cars 
 across the Pio (Jrande River, the dividing line between Texas 
 and Old ^lexico, to the quaint little town of Jaurez, 
 
 We were taken to the custom house, where the mayor and 
 the prominent citizens of the city held a reception. The 
 leception rooms of the custom house were beautifully decorated 
 with Howers. Two dozen or more handsome senoras of the 
 purest Castilian type received the visitors. Dainty little senor- 
 itas flitted in and out of the gay throng, dispensing refresh- 
 ments. These women were the wives and daughters of Mex- 
 ico's highest dignitaries, and representative of the highest 
 type of culture and refinement in Mexico. 
 
 After the reception we were allowed to stroll at will, 
 Ihrough the quaint, narrow, crooked streets of the city. 
 
 We were much interested in the houses, which are mostly 
 of adobe. They are square and box-like in shape and flat on 
 top. There is an interior court or plaza where beautiful flowers 
 and palms are grown. Some of the wealthiest people live in 
 adobe houses, as they are the most practical for that climate. 
 The Avails, which are from six to twelve inches thick, exclude 
 the heat, making these residences very cool and pleasant 
 inside. 
 
 The Bull Ring is in the heart of the city. It is a large 
 amphitheater where the bull fights are held. The building will 
 accommodate S.OOO people, and is a fine adobe structure sur- 
 
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 rounded by a hi<ih Avail of the same material. Fastened to the 
 gate was a placard announcing a great bull fight for the fol- 
 lowing Sunday. 
 
 The streets are crowded with the funniest little low-ceil- 
 inged curio stores, where beautiful trinkets are on sale. The 
 most unusual curios are seen in these quaint little shops 
 Beautiful mottled wildcat pelts, armadillo baskets made from 
 the entire animal, the shell back forming the basket, the tail, 
 which is thrust in the mouth of the animal, forming the handle 
 
 We remained but two hours in Jaurez, returning to El Paso. 
 The Eio Grande is very high and has again overflowed its 
 banks. It is not a picturesque stream, being muddy and filled 
 with whirlpools and rapids. 
 
 Our entire trip through Texas was filled with interest and 
 most enjoyable, made doubly pleasant hy the fact that the 
 locomotives used on the railroads are oil-burning machines, 
 using oil for fuel instead of coal, hence there are no cinders to 
 incommode the tourist, and the sight-seeing from open car 
 windows is a pleasure, free from the dust and grime of ordi- 
 nary travel. 
 
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CHAPTER y. 
 The Great Arizona Desert. 
 
 June 18, 1905. 
 
 ON leaving El Paso, Texas, we crossed the great Arizona 
 desert, which lies between Texas and California. 
 Leaving El Paso in the evening, at sunset we passed 
 through beautiful mountain ranges, towering on either side 
 like gigantic sentinels. Slowly the crimson sun sunk behind 
 the ruged rock-ribbed mountains, painting as with an artist's 
 brush wielded by an immortal hand, great shafts of richest 
 crimson, gold and purple rays. After several hours of glorious 
 twilight, the moon arose behind the snow-capped peak of a 
 distant mountain, lighting up the scene with the magic touch 
 of a fairy wand. Softly and silently in the bright moonlight, 
 a beautiful fleecy-white cloud floated over the crest of the 
 snow-peaked mountain, and, like the soft, white hand of a 
 babe nestling in its mother's bosom, it lay lovingly and con- 
 tentedly in the grand old mountain's embrace. 
 
 The scene changes in the morning. The mountains are 
 gone, and in their place are great, ever-shifting sand dunes 
 that lift their glistening peaks to the hot-pitiless sun that fairly 
 dazzles the eyes with its fierce rays. Beautiful palms and 
 weird species of cacti can be seen on all sides. A little mound 
 of stones with a small wooden cross tells its own pathetic 
 gtory of folded childish hands. 
 
 The ground is a dull, dead gray mixture, part sand and part 
 alkali dust. Vegetation is encrusted with the grayish dust 
 of the desert. The air is like a blast from a furnace. The 
 dust sifts into the car windows in spite of every precaution. 
 The windows and doors are kept closed or the ride would be 
 unendurable. It is almost unbearable at that, as the cars are 
 
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 hot and the air soon becomes stifling. A window is opened 
 in desperation, bnt is closed as quickly after one blast of the 
 desert's scorching breath. 
 
 Tucson, the beautiful Arizonian metropolis of the desert, 
 comes like a draught of cool water to the parched traveler. 
 It has a history rich iu anecdotes of the Spanish conquerors 
 and of the American invaders who came to the scuithwest after 
 the Gadsden purchase. Its climate is superb. The dry air and 
 altitude make it a natural sanitarium for those affected with 
 throat and lung ti'oublcs. The Roman Catholic sisters maintain 
 a complete hospital ami sanitarium just west of the city, for 
 tubercular palieuts. 
 
 Although a lively frontier town in those days. Tucson was 
 not destined to become an important jxiiut until the Southern 
 Pacific railroad arrived in the year 188-1. This event quite 
 naturally revolutionized the frontier post ; new industries were 
 established, the rich mining country around Tucson was 
 opened up, and the soldiers having i)acified the Indians, 
 marched away. But for all of this the old Mexican pue])lo 
 still retained its relics of the past, its narrow streets lined 
 with adobes remained unchanged, and the large ^Mexican popu- 
 lation clung to the old customs. It has only been in the past 
 few years that Tucson has emerged from a somewhat obscure 
 jjast to find herself a modern city in every sense of the word; 
 a great business center and the metropolis of a rapidly growing 
 territory, rich m natural resources. 
 
 While the history of the early days in Tucson is a remark- 
 able one. the story of her recent transformation from a quaint 
 old ^Mexican pueblo to a modern American city is not less 
 marvelous. In the past few years the city has been practically 
 lebuilt, but the many new structures have not taken from 
 Tucson her foreign flavor, as the designers have preserved in 
 these new buildings the most picturesque features of the I\Iex- 
 iean architecture, and many of her new buildings are of Aztec 
 design. 
 
48 THE LAND OP PROMISE 
 
 Tucson is the liealthseeker's paradise, and aeeommodates 
 more tourists during the year than probably any other city in 
 the United States. 
 
 Another day of desert travel and we reach Yuma, Arizona,, 
 said to be the hottest place in America. Any number of adobe 
 Imts can be seen from the train. Native women and children 
 clamor among the passengers at the depot, trying to sell 
 souvenirs. They are a motley throng with their swarthy faces 
 and coal black hair. Yuma is a stock-raising and agricultural 
 city. 
 
 The departure westward from Yuma for five miles is 
 through a bush-covered river valley with huts here and there, 
 comprising part of an Indian reservation. Colorado river is 
 a pleasant sight at the southward. The way is then through 
 a section of barren, pebl^le-strewn hills, the conspicuous moun- 
 tain called Pilot's Knob in the near vicinity at the south. 
 
 Five miles east of the station of Volcano the train leaves 
 a remarkable depression, the bed of an ancient sea. This vol- 
 cano station named itself through a spring of sulphuric mud 
 and water of temperature to suggest internal fires. It is said 
 that one adventurous person who wanted to know too much 
 traversed the elastic and yielding crust until the growing heat 
 had penetrated the soles of his footwear and given him burns 
 that nearly made him a cripple for life. 
 
 A few miles farther on we reach Salton. The feature here 
 is the salt production. On the south side may be seen a number 
 of buildings for handling and storing the salt, and there are 
 huge piles of it in the crude state. A tramway leads to a lower 
 level, where the salt is garnered. The concentrated brine rises 
 through the earth in a capillary way, the liquifying water \.i 
 driven off by solar heat, and a crust of comparatively pure 
 table salt forms in readiness for the saltman's scraper or plow. 
 It is hard to realize that in early days the ocean surface was 
 L'63 feet above your head. 
 
THE GREAT ARIZONA DESERT 
 
 49 
 
 Through some curious phenomena of nature a great portion 
 of this salt bed is now inundated unexpectedly and without 
 apparent cause. It is called Salt Lake, for a great sea of water 
 nearly forty miles long and several miles wide covers this great 
 salt bed, and has destroyed millions of dollars' worth of 
 machinery and property. It has only been within the last six 
 months that this phenomena has reappeared. 
 
Capistrano Mission, between Los Angeles and 
 San Diego, California 
 
 Courtesy Rock Island System 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 California the Beautiful. 
 
 June 20, 1905. 
 
 OUT of the great gray waste of the desert, Riverside, 
 (California, greets the tourist like a glimpse of 
 paradise. 
 
 The city itself is surrounded by great orange groves, the 
 trees of Avhieh are always covered with fruit and blossoms at 
 the same time. We had the unique experience of plucking 
 oranges, figs and lemons from the trees. Riverside is a city 
 of beautiful avenues bordered by magnolia, pepper and palm 
 trees, accented here and there by ornate and stately residences. 
 
 Sixty miles from Riverside is Los Angeles, the metropolis 
 of southern California, boasting of 170,000 inhabitants. Pro- 
 jected on lines of beauty with curves and angles, streets well 
 paved and cleanly, traversed by commodius cars, beautiful 
 parks, handsome residences and fine public buildings, it is the 
 Mecca of southern California. 
 
 Pasadena, the home of wealth, is probably the most artis- 
 tically beautiful city on this continent. Residences of grandeur, 
 semi-tropical flowers and trees all combine to produce a second 
 Eden. Here the traveler sees hedges of geraniums from six 
 to ten feet in height. Roses of every color and description 
 fill the air with their delicious perfume. What we call ribbon- 
 grass in the middle west grows to a height of twelve feet in 
 California. Acres of land are devoted to the cultivating of 
 calla lilies. It is a beautiful sight to pass through these great 
 fields of lilies, a sea of white blossoms. We traversed about 
 three miles through one immense tract of land devoted to the 
 cultivation of sweet peas of every color and variety. 
 
Garden Scene, Hotel Del Monte 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 53 
 
 Mount Lowe is reached by electric cars. We found the 
 trip most unicjue and a novel experience. The instep of the 
 mountain's foot being reached, the cable incline railway gives 
 safe and exciting transit to Echo Mountain House, 3,500 feet 
 above ocean level. Upward 1,500 feet by railway we reached 
 "Ye Alpine Tavern." If the tourist desires to reach the actual 
 summit he must traverse the rest of the way by saddle animals 
 to mountain fastnesses that shall feast the imagination with 
 its marvelous grandeur. A most spectacular and thrilling 
 trip. 
 
 From Los Angeles we took a run over to San Pedro, which 
 is a quaint, thrifty seaport town, twenty-seven miles from Los 
 Angeles, of which it is the harbor. The original harbor was at 
 Santa Monica, where for half a decade the ocean commerce 
 of Los Angeles had centered. In reality there was no harbor 
 there; it was merely an open roadstead, until the Southern 
 Pacific Railway built a long breakwater and thus furnished 
 all the shelter necessary under ordinary circumstances. But 
 commercially the necessity for a more extended harbor with 
 permanent safety was felt and the national government was 
 asked to build one. After a Jong-drawn-out fight, San Pedro 
 Avon. Since that time San Pedro has blossomed from an insig- 
 nificant fishing village to an important seaport town. 
 
 The government has built a breakwater three miles long 
 to protect the entrance to a little river which has been dredge i 
 out for a mile and a half. Ten million dollars have been 
 appropriated by congress to build a gigantic sea wall. The 
 work has been commenced, and it will take ten years to com- 
 plete it. It is claimed that San Pedro is the largest lumber 
 market on the Pacific coast; it also claims the largest sardine 
 cannery in the world. It is a town of over 7,000 people, and 
 is progressive and growing rapidly. 
 
 From San Pedro we took a steamer for Santa Catalina, 
 called "The Magic Isle of the Pacific." It was a beautiful day 
 with a stiff breeze a-blowing. The sea was fairly smooth, but 
 ■\ery few on board escaped seasickness. Our attention was 
 
San Gabriel Mission, nine miles east of Los Angeles 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 55 
 
 attracted to what seemed to be small birds skirting the waters 
 of the bay. We watched their maneuvers interestedly and 
 noticed that after speeding swiftly through the air from fifteen 
 to twenty feet they would sink into the sea again. We were 
 lold that they were flying fish. We saw a great many during 
 the trip. 
 
 The approach to Catalina Island presents a picture which 
 can never be forgotten. The placid and translucent waters of 
 the deepest blue fairly teem with every form of marine and 
 piscine life. As the steamer casts anchor a number of small 
 boats lay along side. Divers with glistening bodies of statu- 
 esque bronze are poised ready to dive into the crystal waters 
 for coins thrown by the passengers. So adept are they in their 
 art that the coin scarcely touches the water before like an 
 arrow from the bow the diver, with a panther-like spring, 
 strikes the water and seizes the coin in his teeth. It is a splen- 
 did exhibition of skill. 
 
 Glass-bottom boats are scattered over the water and for a 
 quarter the tourist can see the pearly depths of the bay. This 
 is called crystalized fairyland. We gazed upon the wonders 
 of the deep. Weird, uncanny fish with round, curious eyes are 
 seen through the glass bottom of the boat. Beautiful sea moss 
 and flowers trail their graceful lengths over the shell-strewn 
 floor of the sea. 
 
 At Santa Barbara we visited the Mission Santa Barbara 
 Virgin y Martyr. This is one of the best preserved of Califor- 
 nia missions. It was founded December 4, 1786, and is within 
 the city limits. It is the home of the Franciscan Fathers. 
 Prayer at its altars has never ceased. We were shown through 
 the building, which is in a splendid state of preservation. 
 Rosaries made of Job's tears which were grown and made by 
 the monks, were on sale for 50 cents each. Brother Dorotheas 
 showed our party many interesting things. In his coarse, long, 
 brown habit with thrown-back cowl and bare, sandaled feet 
 he presented a splendid picture. The mission has a beautiful 
 garden, through which we were shown. It is strictly private, 
 
Ostrich Farm, Pasadena 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 
 
 and our being allowed the privilege of going through these 
 grounds and private sepulchre was an unusual courtesy. A 
 brother led us to a granite sepulchre. A narrow door was the 
 only entrance for light. Here, sealed in narrow apertures with 
 but a paneled inscription bearing the name and dates of birth 
 and death, sleep the Franciscan Fathers who passed from life 
 in the shelter of the peaceful monastery walls. There are but 
 four empty tombs left. 
 
 From the mission we took an eighteen-mile ride over the 
 mountains by coaches. It was a most magnificent drive. 
 Downward, looking through topmost tree bows, we saw fertile 
 farms and picturesque farm houses, orchards laden with fruit, 
 oranges, lemons, figs, guava apples, olives and plums. Little 
 Jiamlets nestling cozily in the peaceful valleys, the mountains 
 towering around and above them, wild flowers, lichens, mosses 
 and great trees covered the mountain sides. Golden grain 
 ripe for the harvest gleamed below in the valley. The road 
 was so narrow that we fairly held our breath when the four 
 trusty horses made a perilous curve. The outside hind wheei 
 beat the air, but on we went, swaying crazily from side to side, 
 happily but fearfully expectant. 
 
 Our party made a visit to Del Monte the beautiful, and 
 enjoyed the splendid hotel park grounds. We took a little run 
 by electric car to quaint Monterey, one of the oldest towns 
 in California. A visit to the old IMonterey mission was made. 
 
 Within a circle of six miles about Monterey are more 
 objects of sacred, historic, romantic and scenic interest than 
 can be found within any other similar area in California. 
 
 Along these shores Cabrillo coasted in 1542, and on Novem- 
 ber 15th named the land-fall "Cabo de Pinos" and the shel- 
 tered waters "Bahia de los Pinos." 
 
 In 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered Carmel river on the 
 14th of December, and on the 16th rounded Punta de Piilos 
 and landed at Monterey. In 1770, June 3d, Junipero Serra 
 founded a mission, San Carlos Borromeo, on a spot near the 
 beach within the limits of the present municipality. The 
 
A Fallen Monarch 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 59 
 
 ashes of Serra and some of the fraters loved by him, including 
 Crespi (the brother of his soul), repose beneath the altar; and 
 the form of worship he established one hundred and thirty 
 years ago still continues in celebration of high mass once each 
 year. A monument to his memory, the gift of Mrs. Leland 
 Stanford, occupies a commanding place in the suburbs of 
 Monterey, overlooking the bay. 
 
 Monterey has a great number of old buildings tottering 
 under the weight of a century. Wandering on, following the 
 coast line, we reached Pacific Grove, a picturesque little place 
 with the only Chinese fishing village in America. The place is 
 on the beach, and consists of probably fifty or sixty rude huts 
 inhabited by Chinese fishermen and their families. Long, Ioav 
 tables are near the water's edge, where the fish are placed to 
 dry. This is quite an industry. Near the village, at the foot 
 of the cliffs, are great jagged rocks which can be reached at ebb 
 tide. ]Myriads of crabs can be picked up from between these 
 rocks. We found some beautiful specimens of abilona shells, 
 which we cut from the rocks, and some splendid specimens of 
 star fish and sea urchins. 
 
 Santa Cruz was reached at two o'clock in the afternoon. 
 There was a great hustling of our party to go in surf bathing- 
 Santa Cruz is the greatest summer and waiter resort in Cali- 
 fornia. Half a million dollars were spent in improvements for 
 public amusements on this the finest beach on the Pacific coast. 
 A splendid afternoon was passed in the surf. In the evening 
 a fine concert and reception was given in honor of our party 
 at the Casino, a beautiful beach resort. Bright and early the 
 next morning our party was conveyed by carriages to Big 
 Trees, five miles from Santa Cruz. A delightful drive in the 
 cool of the morning, through gorgeous mountain scenery, 
 brought us to where a delicious breakfast was waiting us 
 under the Big Trees. This is the largest grove of Sequoia 
 Sempervirens in the world. We were shown through by the 
 guides and saw the difi:'erent famous trees. These wonderful 
 trees, in the hollow trunk of which fifty persons can stand 
 comfortably, are a positive revelation to those who have not 
 
In the Surf, Santa Cruz, California 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 61 
 
 seen siicli mammoths before. Some of them, as they stand, 
 have hollows in their bases equal to the temporary honsint,' 
 of a family. Shelter within one of them was sought by Fre- 
 mont before "Days of old, days of gold, days of '49," was 
 sung. 
 
 A breakfast consisting of the choicest of viands and Cali- 
 fornia vintages followed. It was a magnificent sight, a thor- 
 oughly tropical scene. Imagine 326 people seated at beauti- 
 fully decorated tables under the shade of these majestic 
 monarchs of the forest. There was the silence and subdued 
 light of the forest and the twittering of birds. A Hawaiian 
 band dispensed the beautiful, weird music of their country.. 
 Soon the welkin rang with happy shouts of laughter. When 
 Ave returned to our special train we found that the ladies oP 
 Santa Cruz had taken possession of the Pullmans and con- 
 verted them into perfect bowers of beautiful blossoms and 
 golden fruits. Great crates of oranges and figs were stacked 
 up in the baggage car for our consumption. 
 
 This charming coast country lies about midway between 
 the northern and southern boundaries of the state of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Santa Cruz city lies eighty miles southeast of San Francisco 
 and thirty miles soutliAvest of San Jose, on the north shore of 
 Monterey Bay, just within the point that separates the bav 
 from the ocean. 
 
 Santa Cruz county, of which Santa Cruz is the county seat, 
 has an area of 320,000 acres. Nearly all of this is capable of 
 tillage, and at least 40,000 acres of bottom land are fertile 
 beyond belief. The county has some fifty miles of coast along 
 the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay. From this thousands 
 of acres of farming land rise in terraces to the summits of the 
 Santa Cruz Mountains, forming an amphitheater of almost 
 perfect aspect. 
 
 The climate is indeed ideal. No enervating heat — no icy 
 chill. It is claimed that between summer and winter there 
 
Street in Chinatown 
 
 Chinatown is included in that part of San 
 Francisco bounded by Kearny, Stockton, 
 California and Pacific Streets, and while 
 thus surrounded closely by the life of a great 
 American city, is as complety isolated as if it 
 were in the midst of the Flowery Kingdom 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 63 
 
 is SO little ditrerence that the same clothing is worn at all 
 times. 
 
 Leaving Santa Cruz, we passed through San Jose. San 
 Jose is the home of apricots and prunes, and sends forth an 
 abundance of peaches, plums, pears, apples, table grapes, wines, 
 nuts, small fruits, seeds, and vegetables. 
 
 We had expected to have the pleasure of visiting Palo 
 Alto, the home of the Leland Stanford University, but a flying 
 glimpse was all we had of the splendid buildings surrounded 
 by extensive grounds. 
 
 Our next stop was San Francisco, where we spent two days. 
 
 Chaperoned by thirty special policemen, our party was 
 shown Chinatown by gaslight, that intensely interesting settle- 
 ment where over 50,000 Chinese live packed like herrings in 
 a box, in an area of less than ten square blocks. We saw them 
 m their homes and shops, their mode of life and business 
 They Avatched us curiously from between their narrow slits 
 of eyelids. Some were sullen and suspicious, others good 
 natured and curious. One of the men carried a cunning little 
 Chinese baby in his arms and the women of our party clustered 
 around the little one and oh'd and ah'd until another China- 
 man standing in close proximity exclaimed in good English, 
 "I guess they never saw a China baby before," and then the 
 crowd roared and the women passed on. 
 
 We were piloted through an old dilapidated tenement house 
 and were assured by our guide that it was the place where 
 seven Chinese lost their lives a few years ago during an out- 
 break by the Chinese Highbinders. The walls of dingy, dirty 
 plaster were splashed with big, ugly blotches of what we were 
 told was human blood of the victims. While we were mount- 
 ing the stairs a vicious, yellow face appeared at the head of 
 them. "What you want?" was asked angrily?" 
 
 "Never mind, John; we want to look around a little," said 
 the guide. 
 
 "You go 'long 'bout your business," said the man, 
 viciously. 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 
 
 65 
 
 "Now see here, my boy, don't you get too fresh. You just 
 go inside that door and close your face or you will be sorry," 
 said the officer, sternly. 
 
 The door closed with a terrific bang, and a number of the 
 women of the party were in favor of not proceeding any 
 farther, but the detective assured them there was no dange'.' 
 whatever, so on we went. 
 
 Owing to the size of our party it was impossible to be taken 
 through some of the places of greatest interest, but we saw 
 enough of the conditions that exist in 'Frisco's Chinatown to 
 wonder how long they can exist and be tolerated in a civilized 
 country. 
 
 "We visited beautiful Golden Gate Park. This thousand- 
 acre pleasure principality extends for more than three miles 
 from the western margin of the city to the ocean's beach, and 
 is a delight to the tourist. North of the park, at the beach, is 
 the picturesque Cliff House and Seal Rocks. Here the visitor 
 is regaled by the unusual sight of seeing ocean-washed rocks 
 covered with a regular seal colony, whose unwieldly gambols 
 and contests for position are endless sources of amusement to 
 the onlookers. Our two days at San Francisco were crowded 
 full of interest. 
 
Cliff House and Seal Kocks, San Francisco 
 
 San Francisco is probably the only city in the world 
 where one can, from the open doors of a pleasure resort 
 within the city limits, find sea lions bliukiuff at him 
 only a stone's throw away. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 Mount Tamalpais. 
 
 June 23, 1905. 
 
 ONE of the most enjoyable experiences, however, was 
 the trip we took from San Francisco to Mount Tamal- 
 pais. Four special cars conveyed us over the eight 
 and one-fifth miles of mountain railroad, which winds in and 
 out and forms a great bowknot on the side of this wonderful 
 mountain. After two hours of travel we reached the summit. 
 Great mountains covered with snow, winding rivers, verdure- 
 covered foothills, and the broad expanse of the glittering Pa- 
 cific Ocean lay in one glorious kaleidoscope of color before us. 
 A filmy white cloud floated beneath us ; seven cities lay at our 
 feet. It was a scene which filled the spectator with awe by its 
 magnitude. 
 
 The Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway was built in 1896. 
 The road is a standard broad-gauge railroad, with steam, oil- 
 burning, traction locomotives of a special type. This mountain- 
 climbing railway is not a cog road; it has no steep inclines; 
 the grade is gradual, averaging about five feet to the hundred. 
 
 There are 281 curves in a distance of eight and one-fifth, 
 miles, during which there is an ascent of about 2,500 feet, 
 nearly a half mile, the steepest grade being about seven per 
 cent. If in following the tortuous course the curves had been 
 continuous, there would be forty-two complete circles made. 
 The longest straight piece of track is but 413 feet, and, strange 
 to say, is in the crookedest part of the road — the "Double Bow- 
 knot." About half way up the mountain, on a broad southern 
 shoulder, where the track of the railroad parallels itself five 
 times within a distance of about 300 feet, is, as the name 
 denotes, an almost perfect "double bowknot." The fact of 
 
Broad vviiN, Los Angeles 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL 69 
 
 overcoming the grades in such a short distance and in such an 
 ingenious way has caused the "Double Bowknot" on Mt. 
 Tamalpais to be pronounced one of the greatest of railroad 
 engineering feats. 
 
 The trip to IMt. Tamalpais may be said to begin at the 
 Union Ferry Depot, foot of Market street, San Francisco, for 
 there starts the ferry to Sausalito, taking a northwesterly 
 course, running close to the wharves and shipping of San 
 Francisco, at the same time affording an excellent view of the 
 many points of interest about the bay. Telegraph Hill, with 
 its houses clinging to the edge of precipitous cliffs. Fort 
 Mason and the Presidio, with its military aspect, the magnifi- 
 cent Golden Gate, the Berkeley shore, Alcatraz Island, with its 
 Government prison and fortifications, can be plainly seen. 
 
 At Sausalito, a pretty suburban town overlooking the bay, 
 you connect with the North Shore Railroad, running along 
 .Richardson's Bay to the base of the mountain, six miles dis- 
 rtant, arriving at Mill Valley, known as "The Little Switzer- 
 land." Stepping off the train, to your right you will find the 
 cars of the IMountain Railroad in waiting. 
 
 Through a fine forest of redwood, the wondrously beautiful 
 canyon of Blithedale, past beautiful suburban homes, with 
 their pretty ponds and lakes. Marsh's Japanese village and 
 its quaint Oriental houses, the Mountain Railroad takes you. 
 As the train climbs the elevation, the tourist sees wooded 
 canyons filled with redwoods, madronas, oaks and mountain 
 laurels. The trip to Mt. Tamalpais is one that will remain a 
 cherished treasure in memory's halls. 
 
 We visited Berkeley, and had a pleasant hour going 
 through the University there. Our special had been trans- 
 ferred from San Francisco to Oakland, 16th street, and after 
 the trip to Mt. Tamalpais our party crossed the bay to Oak- 
 land, and from there took the trip to Berkeley. Oakland is 
 a rapidly growing, progressive city, with a population largely 
 beyond its first hundred thousand, and is a favorite resident 
 place for many business men of San Francisco. In approach- 
 
70 
 
 THE LAND OP PROMISE 
 
 ing Oakland the train traverses the water front of Berkeley. 
 The location of this city is a beantifnl one, as it looks out 
 through the Golden Gate to the ocean, more than a score of 
 miles distant. The University of California, richly endowed 
 and generously fostered by the State, is located here. 
 
 We were very much interested in the Oakland Pier, which 
 is at the terminus of what is called Oakland j\[ole, and extends 
 
 "The Golden Gate," 
 San Francisco, California 
 
 City Hall, San Francisco, California 
 
 nearly one mile into the bay, that deep water may be had for 
 its fleet of ferry boats, also receiving and sheltering an endless 
 throng of ships coming from all over the globe to the metrop- 
 olis of the Pacific. 
 
 At Oakland our train was put on the largest ferry boat in 
 the world, and ferried over the Carquiuez Strait. This ferry 
 boat can carry a train of twentj^ cars and two engines. 
 
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL, 71 
 
 Our next stop was Sacramento, the capital of California. 
 It has a population of 32,000, is compactly built, and covers 
 an area of about four square miles, with broad streets of an 
 average width of eighty feet, and is wholly lighted by elec- 
 tricity. 
 
 Sacramento claims to be one of the earliest settled places 
 in the State. In 1839, General John A. Sutter established his 
 fort, which is practically the same to-day as it was when 
 built. We visited the old fort and found it a very interesting- 
 place, well stocked with curious relies of earlier days. We 
 spent a very pleasant evening at a reception in the State 
 Capitol Building, which was erected at a cost of $3,000,000 
 One of the best mineral exhibits in California can be seen at 
 the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, the pride of Sacramento, which 
 contains paintings valued at more than a half million dollars. 
 
 The Southern Pacific Railway Company has its great rail- 
 way shops here, covering 110 acres of ground, and employing 
 over 3,000 skilled workmen. 
 
 The beautiful Sacramento Valley is called by enthusiasts 
 "The brightest jewel in the tiara of the Queen State of th.3 
 Great American Eepublic." It is spoken of as "An empire be- 
 fore which the petty principalities of Europe are dwarfed into 
 insignificance: a territory containing fourteen counties, any-" 
 of which are larger than some of those old world domains; 
 f valley nearly as long as the great State of New York anl 
 containing more than 3,000 scpiare miles of the finest land 
 adaj^ted to farming and fruit raising." 
 
 Overlooking the fertile Sacramento Valley towers IMount 
 Shasta, whoso white-capped peak is visible to the naked eye 
 ( n clear days from the dome of the State capitol at Sacramento, 
 nearly 300 miles aAvay. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 The Glorious Shasta Route. 
 
 June 24, 1905. 
 
 WE left Sacramento in the evening. From San An- 
 tonio, Texas, until we arrived at Sacramento we had 
 been in the care of the Southern Pacific Railway and 
 traveling over its road. From Sacramento we took the Shasta 
 Route, and arrived in Dunsmuir, Oregon, the following morn- 
 ing. At the break of day our party were up enjoying the mag- 
 nificent scenery of the Shasta Mountains, which have been 
 called "The Switzerland of America." 
 
 Description fails in painting the wonders of this paradise. 
 The beautiful Sacramento River rushing madly over its rock- 
 strewn bed, tiny cataracts dashing, foaming, to the river bed 
 below, and the glorious fragrance of the mountain heliotrops 
 which abounds everywhere, combine to produce another Eden. 
 Crossing the mountains, our train crept slowly over trestles 
 of terrifying height, spanning wonderful canyons, beautifully 
 wooded with splendid trees. Rare mountain flowers growing 
 on perilous peaks are frequently seen. 
 
 Shasta Springs was reached at noon. Grand old Shasta 
 towered majestically above the surrounding range, lifting his 
 hoary head to the sun. Our train stopped long enough for us 
 to explore the beauties of the scenery and to drink the refresh- 
 ing water of the springs. Shasta Springs, with its beautiful 
 falls, cataracts and glorious mountain scenery, is simply sub' 
 lime. 
 
 On leaving Shasta Springs we continued over the moun- 
 tains, finally reaching an elevation of 4,500 feet. Winding in 
 and out of tunnels, crossing great trestles spanning gorges 
 
74 
 
 THE LAND OF PROMISE 
 
 and chasms, we finally reached the beautiful little city of Ash- 
 iand, which lies at the foot of the mountains. This is the greai; 
 fruit country of the Willamette Valley. Great crates of the 
 most delicious cherries were put on the train for us. This is 
 also the rose center of the State. Glorious fruits, flowers and 
 l^rains are raised in great abundance. 
 
 At Medford, Oregon, fruits and tlowers were again show- 
 ered upon us. We breakfasted at Salem, the capital of Oregon, 
 snd the commercial center for parts of Polk, Yamhill, Linn 
 t'.nd Clackamas counties. There are probably 125,000 people 
 now in the immediate patronizing territory. There is room 
 for a million. 
 
 The Oregon Penitentiary, Asylum for the Insane, Reform 
 School, Deaf Mute School, School for the Blind, general office.^ 
 — in fact all the purely State institutions, offices and officers — 
 are located here, being so provided in the State Constitution. 
 
 Salem has a population of about 14,000. It is the prune 
 center of Oregon. Three-quarters of the 150,000 Angora goats 
 of the State are found within a radius of fifty miles. IMost of 
 the mohair is marketed here and in Dallas. There is room in 
 the same territory, it is claimed, for a million goats. Goat rais- 
 ing is considered a most profital)le and reliable industry. 
 
 'W 
 
 
CPIAPTER IX. 
 ' ' Grand Old Oregon. ' ' 
 
 "Go west, young" man." — Horace Greeley. 
 
 June 26, 1905. 
 
 PORTLAND, Oregon, was reached after a most interest- 
 ing trip. But before I go into any details about Port- 
 land as a city, I wish to speak of Oregon as a State. 
 
 There is no better place in the growing west for the enter- 
 prising young men of the east and Middle States to locate for 
 life and reap the benefits of the great activities now being- 
 developed on the Pacific coast. There was wisdom in Horace 
 Greeley's advice, "Go west, young man." 
 
 In the next twenty-five years Oregon is bound to grow 
 into a great, populous and prosperous State. No country on 
 earth surpasses in natural resources the territory within her 
 borders. Travel America over, take the Nile country in its 
 most flourishing days, the vastly rich country in the East 
 Indies, and nothing can be found that will exceed in richness 
 and variety of production the beautiful lands surrounding 
 Salem, the capital of Oregon. 
 
 The State of Oregon, the Willamette Valley in particular, 
 has earned for itself the reputation for raising the best hops 
 m the world. Hop land can be bought from $30 to $50 an 
 acre, and good yards in this vicinity yield from 1,200 to 1,500 
 pounds to the acre, which means a handsome profit to the 
 grower. 
 
 Oregon is nearly square in form, being 275 miles from north 
 to south and about 350 from east to west. Contains 95,274 
 square miles or 60,076,000 acres, consisting of valleys, hills 
 tablelands and mountains. In the western part is the beautiful 
 
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 THE LAND OF PROMISE 
 
 Willamette Valley, which is bounded on the south by the Cala 
 poola Mountains and on the north by the Columbia River. 
 
 From Portland, Oregon, a number of our party visited the 
 beautiful Dalles. In this eighty-eight-mile stretch Nature has 
 made a scenic panorama of valley and hill, mountain and river, 
 f^eld and forest, great high and picturesque walls of rock, fern 
 r-nd moss covered crags, gorges and cascades that has no equal. 
 The extreme wildness and beauty of the scenery is almost inde- 
 scribable. Towering heavenward are the beautiful snow- 
 capped peaks of Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount Saint 
 Helens. During the entire trip from Portland to the Dalles 
 the sightseer is regaled with incomparable views, about which 
 \olumes have been written but whose grandeur and sublimity 
 must be seen to be appreciated. On either side huge precipices 
 tower skyward, while more than twenty cascades, half hidden 
 by tree and vme, race over verdure-clad walls of rock. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 The Lewis and Clark Exposition. 
 
 June 27, 1905. 
 
 FROM the Dalles we returned to Portland. The site of the 
 Lewis and Clark Exposition is a beautiful city and one 
 full of interest. A beautiful, romantic history runs 
 through the discovery by Lewis and Clark of the only terri- 
 tory that made it possible for the United States to make acqui- 
 sition by right of discovery. Sacajawea, the heroine of the 
 story, was one of the three slave-wives of a French Canadian 
 voyageur who acted as interpreter for the explorers. She was 
 a full-blooded Shoshone Indian, who had been captured by the 
 enemies of her tribe, the Mintarees, and sold by them to Char- 
 bonneau, who had been an interpreter among the Gros Ventre 
 Indians, having joined the expedition at Fort Mandan, the 
 Lewis and Clarke headquarters, during the winter of 1804 
 and 1805. 
 
 Charbonneau in company with two Indian wives whom he 
 had just purchased, together with Sacajawea, his latest acqui- 
 sition, were invited to the fort to witness the dancing on Christ- 
 mas day. February 11, 1804, Sacajawea gave birth to a son^ 
 who accompanied her throughout the long journey through the 
 wilderness. 
 
 Charbonneau, who was quarelsome, and whose haggling 
 about terms with the party almost lost him the position of 
 interpreter and guide, would never have been retained by the 
 party except for the knowledge that his Indian wife, Saca- 
 jawea, possessed of the country through which the explorers 
 must pass to reach the Pacific. This ignorant, uncultured 
 daughter of barbarism proved ever a faithful wife to the degen- 
 erate French voyageur who was her master rather than lover 
 
78 THE LAND OF PROMISE 
 
 or friend, and whose affections (if any) she was obliged to 
 share with two other Indian women. Ignorant of the simplest 
 rule of propriety, this remarkable woman conducted herself 
 with such dignity and poise as to win the admiration and respect 
 of the entire party. She toiled incessantly, and did the work 
 of a man in the perilous trip up the Missouri from Fort Man 
 tian. The papers and instruments of the expedition party were 
 carried in the canoe in which Sacajawea, her husband and babe 
 rode. The canoe was caught in a whirlpool or rapid and over- 
 turned. Charbonneau deserted both wife and child, but the 
 brave Indian woman rescued the more important papers before 
 she attempted to save the life of herself or infant son. 
 
 Sacajawea then became the actual leader. It is said that 
 at a period of great distress she gave Captain Lewis a piece 
 of bread which she had been saving for a long time, intending 
 in case of emergency to use it for her baby. At the close of 
 the expedition Charbonneau received $500 for his services, 
 and Sacajawea, the saviour of the expedition, received no com- 
 pensation whatever. A beautiful statue made of Oregon cop- 
 per at a cost of $7,000 has been erected to her memory in 
 Columbia Court, the central plaza of the exposition. 
 
 The statue, executed by Miss Alice Cooper, of Denver, 
 represents a young woman with a papoose strapped to her 
 ])aek. The woman is pointing toward the distant sea, her face 
 1 adiant. 
 
 Thus after years have rolled on since the bravery of this 
 remarkable Indian woman, tardy recognition is at last being 
 made to her memory. 
 
 Two days were spent in Portland seeing the fair. The 
 Lewis and Clark Exposition is not as vast as the Chicago 
 World's Fair, being much smaller, but the natural beauty of 
 the site, Avith its excpiisitely kept grounds, is very artistic and 
 pleasing to the eye. 
 
 Ten large exhibit palaces formed the nucleus of the exposi- 
 tion. Around these cluster the State, Territorial and conces- 
 sions buildings, special pavilions, the Administration group. 
 
THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION 
 
 79 
 
 the Auditorium, and numerous smaller pseudo-exhibit struc- 
 tures. The main exhibit palaces are: Agricultural, Liberal 
 and Industrial Arts, Foreign Exhibits, Forestry, Horticultural, 
 ]\Iines and ^Metallurgy, United States Government Exhibit 
 Building, Oceanic Building, United States Fisheries, Forestry 
 and Irrigation Building, Machinery, Electricity and Transpor- 
 tation. The Forestry Building, constructed entirely of huge 
 logs felled in the Oregon forests, is the most striking archi- 
 tectural creation ever seen at an exposition. The United States 
 Government Building occupies the Peninsula in the center of 
 Guild's Lake. It covers three acres, cost $250,000, and has two 
 towers, each of which is 260 feet high. 
 
 Life, color, demonstration and motion are the chief features 
 of all departments of the exposition. 
 
 Portland, the exposition city, has 130,000 inhabitants. 
 Within a radius of 300 miles of Portland there are 1,200,000 
 people, and within 500 miles there are 1,900,000. Total cost 
 of exposition, $5,000,000. 
 
Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah 
 
 Courteiiy BurUngton Route 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 The Wonders of Utah. 
 
 June 29, 1905. 
 
 AFTER leaving Oregon, Idaho was passed through. From 
 the car window a beautiful agricultural country, rich 
 in products of the field, was seen. One stop, and that 
 at Tampa, we soon reached the borders of quaint and modern 
 Utah. A brief stop at Ogden, and our special was transferred 
 to the tracks of the Rio Grande Railroad and conveyed by that 
 line to Salt Lake City. 
 
 The State of Utah covers 85,000 square miles of territory 
 and embraces within its borders every condition of climate 
 from temperate to semi-tropical. It lies along the western 
 slope of the Rocky Mountains and is the natural center of a vast 
 area which is rapidly coming to be regarded as the richest 
 section of the Union in natural resources and potential devel- 
 opment. It was settled in 1847, by Mormon pioneers, and in the 
 comparatively brief period that has elapsed since then it had 
 made such marvelous strides in material, social and business 
 progress as to excite the wonder and admiration of ths 
 observer. Within the memory of many of its citizens, the 
 country enclosed by its boundary lines was an arid, treeless 
 and uninhabited desert ; today it is the home of 300,000 indus- 
 trious, prosperous and patriotic people; its valleys are filled 
 to the mountainside with fields of waving grain and orchards 
 of choicest fruits, and its educational and charitable institu- 
 tions are among the best in the land. 
 
 A special train conveyed our party from Salt Lake City to 
 beautiful Saltair. One of the grandest sights for the travelei* 
 who visits the city of Salt Lake is the great Pavilion located 
 at Saltair Beach, on the Great Salt Lake. It is thirteen miles 
 due west from Salt Lake City. 
 
Cniir/Mi/ lUi) Oraiiih' Ud'iJnxid 
 
WONDERS OF UTAH 83 
 
 The various huildings of the immense pavilion form a sym- 
 metrical group. The magnitude of this great structure can 
 he readily imagined, as its length is 1,200 and width 355 feet 
 The lower floor is used for a refreshment room, and is provided 
 with tables and seats enough to accommodate over a thousand 
 persons at one time. The upper floor, which is one of the 
 largest floors in the world, its dimensions being 140x250 feet 
 of clear floor space without a pillar or obstruction of any kind, 
 IS used for dancing. A thousand couples dancing at once is 
 a frequent sight to be witnessed at this resort. The Great Salt 
 Lake is 4,218 feet above the sea level. The water is a verita- 
 ble salt brine. Wherever a splash of water touches a dry crust 
 of salt forms. The salt is very coal'se and looks like granulated 
 sugar. 
 
 From Saltair we returned to Salt Lake City, to the great 
 Mormon tabernacle. Salt Lake City was founded July 24, 
 1847, by a company of jMormons, led by Brigham Young. The 
 population is 85,000. The Tabernacle is full of interest. It is 
 one of the largest auditoriums in this country and possesses 
 acoustic properties unequaled by any other structure in 
 America. The interior construction is so near perfect that the 
 dropping of a pin can be heard at a distance of over 200 feet. 
 The seats seen in close proximity to the organ accommodate 
 an unpaid choir of 500 singers. The great organ, which in all 
 probability is the most widely and favorably known pipe organ 
 in the world, is at the west end of the tabernacle. 
 
 We were royally entertained in the IMormon Tabernacle 
 Avith a splendid recital on the world-famous pipe organ. When 
 the organ and choir join forces it is a tidal wave of sweetest 
 harmony, of grand tone. 
 
 Utah is one of the most interesting States in the l^nion. 
 
Tithing House, Salt Lake City, Utah 
 
 Courtesy Rio (rraiuJe Railroad 
 
 
 Saltair Beach on Great Salt Lake 
 
 Coiirti'sy Rio Grande; Railroad 
 
Mount of the Holy Cross 
 
 Courtesy BurUngton Route 
 
Suspended Bridge in Royal Gorge 
 
 Courtexy BKrltngfon Bonte 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 Colorado's Wonderland. 
 
 July 1/1905. 
 
 THROUGH the Rocky Mountains en route to IMauitou and 
 Colorado Springs the scenery was simply splendid. 
 Truly the mountainous region, with its wonderful can- 
 yons, great gorges, foaming cataracts and sparkling mountain 
 streams, is a scene which must be witnessed to be thoroughly 
 appreciated. We stopped for fifteen minutes at the Royal 
 Gorge. On either side immense Avails of solid granite rear 
 their lofty heads to the ])lue sky above. The gorge is about 
 the Avidth of a narrow street. The mad, rushing waters of a 
 mountain stream dashing over its rocky bed is spanned hy an 
 iron railroad bridge. 
 
 It is a night and day journey from Salt Lake City to Pueblo, 
 Colorado. During that time most of the trip was through the 
 mountains. It Avas a raw, drizzly day, and at one time while 
 i, rain Avas falling and beating against the car windoAVs we 
 could look but a short distance and see the suoav falling rnpidly 
 and silently in the mountains above us. It Avas a Avonderful 
 sight. 
 
 Here and there in the mountains are small cabins or huts 
 of the prospectors searching for gold. Great shafts and 
 machinery in active operation Avere seen frequently. 
 
 We made a short stop at Pueblo for Sunday evening supper 
 and Avere pleased Avith that thriving city. Colorado Springs 
 vas reached the next morning. Our party Avas eager for the 
 trip up Pike's Peak. An early start Avas made and Ave Avere 
 taken by the cog-Avheel railroad up the mountain. The start 
 Avas pleasant, the Aveather being magnificent; after traveling 
 
The Georgetown Loop 
 
 Courtesy Bnrllugton Route 
 
COLORADO'S WONDERLAND 89 
 
 over the mountain for a short time it became colder and wraps 
 were resorted to. The trip affected several of the party, one 
 suffering from nosebleed, from the rarity of the atmosphere. 
 A magnificent panorama could be seen from the top of the 
 mountain. At our feet nestled Manitou, a little farther Colo- 
 rado City, and still farther Colorado Springs. The ground 
 was covered with snow. We were told to brush away the 
 snow, which we did, and we found the most beautiful little 
 blossoms growing in the crevices between the rocks hidden in 
 the snow. These flowers are called Rocky Mountain forget- 
 I'le-nots, and are of a beautiful dark blue shade and very fra- 
 grant. 
 
 The summit of Pike's Peak is a barren pile of huge rocks. 
 There is a small observatory building located there, which also 
 contains a most unique postoffice owing to its utter seclusion 
 from the world. 
 
 The trip to Pike's Peak and return consumes four hours' 
 time. Little burros could be seen plodding their way up the 
 foot of the mountain, and numerous tourists rode the patient 
 little beasts through the Garden. We drove by coach through 
 the Garden of the Gods, a natural garden of wonderful rock 
 formations shaped like animals and different objects. Here we 
 saw the famous balanced rock, a huge stone so exquisitely 
 balanced as to keep its equilibrium although swayed by every 
 passing breeze. 
 
 Manitou is a beautiful little city nestling at the foot oi 
 Pike's Peak. The climate is delightful and the surroundings 
 superb. 
 
 Colorado Springs, a city of 35,000 inhabitants, is seven 
 miles distant. It is 6,000 feet above sea level. 
 
 We left the Springs in the afternoon, arriving in Denver 
 in a short time. A committee from the Chamber of Commerce 
 were awaiting us at the depot, and we were taken to the Savoy, 
 where an elaborate lunch was awaiting us. 
 
Falls Near Rifle, Colorado 
 
 Courtesy Burlbigton Route 
 
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 LAND OP THE FAIR GOD 
 
 A most delightful two hours' ride about the city in the 
 electric cars was enjoyed. Denver, while a city of the plains, 
 lying "wide-open to the sun," in the broad, gentle depression 
 of the Piatt Valley, has one of the finest mountain views in the 
 world. 
 
 We left at ten o'clock the same night via the Burlington 
 route for Chicago. The trip from Denver home was a very 
 pleasant one. After four weeks of gorgeous scenery, rushing 
 mountain streams, awe-inspiring canyons and gorges, the beau- 
 tiful green fields of Nebraska and Iowa were a welcome sight. 
 A ten-minute stop at Omaha, then we were in actual reality 
 homeward bound. How good the waving corn fields of Illinois 
 looked to my tired sight seeing vision can only be conjectured. 
 After all, go where you will, visit the most interesting and 
 beautiful States in our Union, and when the train rolls into 
 the home depot a long breath is taken and the thought comes 
 instinctivelv, "It is good to be home once more." 
 
 Pikes Peak from Colorado Springs 
 
 Courtesy Burlington Route 
 
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