About The Valdosta times. (Valdosta, Ga.) 1874-194? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1905)
THE VALDOSTA TIMES, TUE8 From Portland t San Francisco Through Many Interesting Scenes Some Impressions That Greet the Traveler In the Timber and Fruit Lands, and the Picturesque Scenes of Oregon and California. A trip from Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, California, covers distance of between eight and nine hundred miles over a road which has been designated “The Road Thousand Wonders.’ By leaving Portland at night you have two nights and a day on the road, but the day carries you over the finest scenery to be found in the entire West. Your route leads along the ..liamatte river for a hundred or so miles and through some of the best fruit and grain growing sections of the state. It is along here that wheat and hops, prunes, grapes, peaches and -"sins grow to perfection. Dairying* is also a large industry, while the lumber mills along the route remind you very much of the southern por tions of Georgia and Florida. The chief difference is in the kind of tim ber that is used in me mills, the modes of getting it out and the char acter of the land upon which the im mense forests are grown. Oregon, you must remember, is one of the greatest lumbering states in the union. The mountains and hills are covered with « almost untouched forests of fir trees and sugar pines, spruce, hemlock, ash, cedar and ma* hogony. The fir tree Is the principal one that is sought after by the mill men. It Is said to rival the pine in lightness, while it is as durable as the oak. Like the sequols and red-wood of California, they grow to enormous size. On exhibition at the Portland exposit.on was a 28-foot fir log that measured 110 inches at the butt and 95 inches at the upper end. This tree stood two hundred feet high with out a limb. It was an exception, of course, but it showed how great they are capable of growing. The lumbermen there v have much trouble in getting their , logs from the mountains as the luml of this section have in getUhg, from the ba^s/ and swamps. ’ the s§me d£ans is employed ifre used..irtc:re the ^“*VhiIe flumes' and sll Crags was had from the top of Sis kiyou range. Mount Shasta—14,000 feet above sea level—is the tallest peak in that section, If not in the coun try. Black Butte stands near it and is a peculiar formation of lava stones thrown up by volcanos in untold ages gone. Pilot Rock is a cupulo-like rock on one of the peaks, which it is said, the sailors from the ocean often use as a pilot. Castle Crags is the queerest of all of the rock formations —cold, grey, fang-shapbd, they stand like a splintered heap from some great geological mastodom. The feat of engineers- across the Siskiyou range and toward Shasta is probably as fine as have ever been accomplished anywhere. The decline on the southern side, while not as daring, dizzy or bewildering, is, nev-j ertheless, magnificent work. A chart and compass could hardly keep up with the direction which your train moves as it dashes from one peak to another, over canons, along the preci pices and through the turning, twist ing, everchanglng scenes through hill and vale. But Mount Shasta is before you all of thd time, or at least, it is the point toward which you are bound. Ninety miles away, it looks not more than ten. You can see the great banks of snow in the mighty ravines on its side; you can easily tell where the timber line Is by the change in color a little over half way up to its summit. The track is so crooked through this section that Shasta remains on one side only short time before you find It on the other side of you. One minute you see it out the window on your left and the next minute It Is to your right or behind you. The people out there call it “jumping mountain" on this account. Some Englishmen were told that the mountain jumped from one side of the roa&tothe other and It'll said they stapflfkfct the station there and spent ' eee It make . f Ten miles ls : i Mi waiting to : WMfEiW ' v ' tijCAlfccreeln and river . though, It you r, you isfoutd Bup- wero not over a mile There are three or :r ’ mile stations near the foot of /.the mountain where your train stops, v I was told that two of them were not j more than half a mile from each oth- | er across the country, though It Is are knd rtversai fling and the mill business are to be as profitable as If Is S this section. JL* Through the Mountains. TPhe country, * of course, is not so. about sixteen miles by rail, tktekly settled (is It is here, settlers Shstta Springs, amoving in all of the time and the Shasta Sprlng8 „ the stopplng place - - during the past few years is am| , place o( ftreat lnterest lt The W-'. f sU >«» rema “ A thl,, aprlng8 rlse on a u ope time to the south are the magnificent thousand fm aboV(j ^ rallroad views that are constantly, track apd tumble oyer road, besides the depot, Is a pretty little house, with heavy glass win dows and In It Is arrange-- in attrac tive shape the products of the sec tion around. It Is like a county fair, but always open, and without fakes end schemes that play against the fairs that we have every fall, .m-ie exhibits are presided over by a ager, who has plenty of advertising •natter to (hstribute to passengers on the caln. To see one of th-so ex- l-ll-tts gl.-.-s you a much bs ’er impres sion ot llte resources of the co.r.lry than you c:.uld otherwise get The ueatnes. of the displays i-.d the en 'erprlsc tl k' stands bohi if them Im presses liself upon you it oucc The Magnificent 8cenery. But the thing which Impresses Itself upon one the most on the trip through western Oregon and California Is the almost unrivalled scenery and the comforts of travel. The roads use oil burning locomotives, which does away with smoke and cinders,, while the road beds are sprinkled with petro leum, thus keeping the dust down and giving the right-of-way the appearance of a macademlzed highway. The Sacramento river rlsoB within a few feet of the track, near Mount Shasta. You cross lt a half dozen times on the route, at first a tiny stream trickling over the rocks and hedges, then a splendid creek tumb ling over the Mosstbrae Fals, making one of- the prettiest pictures In the en tire west. Then you cross lt within a few yards of the car shed la Sacra mento—a great broad river big enough for the ships of commerce of float upon Its surface. As you near San Francisco, you have two other large bodleB of water to cross. The first Is an arm of the bay, which is crossed on the largest ferry boat In the world—a boat bo large that It will carry forty passen ger coaches, a ha'lf dozen engines, with a freight train thrown In, without the slightest trouble. It Is fitted up with restaurants, barber shops, sa loons, etc., and lt makes the two miles across the bay in about ten minutes!' San Francisco bay Is crossed on passenger boats, the trains going to the pier, some two or three miles out In the bay and eight or ten miles from the city ,& splendid blrdseye view of which can be gotten across the bay. You reach the great western metrop olis at about nine o’’olook the second monilng.ifter leaving Portland.,You find the city alive with Is hurrying narper Kye “On Every Tongue." Scientifically distilled; naturally aged; best and safest for al> uses. thousands and yon get a glance dty wjilch rivals X?< r-mlituH ...JPu*! wen si arpadsea’ th n groat eastern metropolis In ; Its Mend. San Francesco is worthy of special article and I will give some Impressions of the place at another time. EVER WATCHFUL. 'U panoramic unfolding-before the eyes." From ten o’clodk in the ^morning, of the day light ride, until, night you are going through scenes'that cannot be sur passed for grandeur on the continent. The scenes are beautiful all of the • way, your train sweeping around curves, over the bridges, through tun nels, along mountain streams and riv ers and then out over fertile valleys for mile after mile, You reach Ashland, in the southern part of the state, about eleven o’clock in the day and from then until night, Mount Shasta and the Siskiyou range are the objective points. At Ashland your*train of twelve or fourteen coach es is cut intp three sections and six or seven engines are coupled on to them. The first section of four or five Pullmans is drawn by three pow erful engines. The next section of four day coaches is drawn by two engines and the mail, baggage and ex press make up the other section, The climb up the Siskiyou range be gins at Ashland. It is about eighteen miles across the mountains and about two hours are required to make the run. Before you reach the top of the ••hill" you will have passed through fourteen tunnels and have gone over the same ground, but at a much high er elevation, no less than four times. As the engines struggle up the moun tains,, barking like dogs on a trail, you can look far below you and see where you were a half an hour be fore, and fgar above, and see where— if something doesn’t break—you may be a half an hour hence. Our train took a side-track on the top ©f the range in order to let the x&drth-bound "limited’’ pass. It was divided into three sections just as our train was. For a half an hour before either train reached the summit, we could see them winding their way around the grades below. You could have thrown a brick-bat on them many minutes before they finally pass ed out of sight, only to come In sight again five or six minutes later on the curve a short distance off. Mount Shasta In 8!ght. The first view of Mount Shasta fjlack Butte, Sailor’s Pilot and Castie greht fall, about the size of a Braall river, down to the passenger station. The town, hotels, etc., are up on the plateau near the spring and you reach them by an elevated road, like an elevator, from the depot. The place is mag nificently lighted and is a great re sort for people in that section. The water from these springs is as full of soda as though it come from a solid bed of that stuff. The Oregon & California railroad company is selling off some two mil lion acres of land, which was granted it as an inducement to get it to build a road through that section. Most of this land is within twenty miles of the road./ For many years, the roads kept their lands, hut the thrifty Mr. Hill, whose name figures so frequent ly in connection with western ttil- roads and western developments, in stituted the policy of selling the lands. Get settlers to locate and they will furnish business for the roads,’’ w: his argument, and on that prlncir the railroads have carried thousands of people to that section to make their homes. The valleys and farming lands along the road show a degree of thrift that Is making the country blossom as the rose. The fruit orchards, vineyards and the broad acres grain are a revelation to one who has not been in that country before. De velopment is the idea on every side. Burbank and others of his class are working night and day to develop new species in fruits and vegetables, mel ons, etc., and while Burbank has man aged to have the most attention at tracted to his work, he is by no means the only one in that section who is do ing marvelous works on the same line. They are not only developing various produots and making them grow to perfection, but they are lot ting the world know what they are doing. Great Advertisers. They are setting the older states some lessons in advertising their at- A Little Care Will 8avs Many Valdoa* ta Readera Future Trouble. Watch the kidney secretions. 8ee that they have the amber hue of health; The discharges not excessive or In frequent : Contain no “brlck-dust-like" sedi ment. Doan’s Kidney Pills will do this for you They watch the kidneys and cure them when they’re sick. H» Y. Ferrell, veterinary surgeon, living at 67 8tate street, Albany, says: "Although I have never been laid up by kidLoy complaint, I have suffered a great deal with a lame and aching back, and have felt like going to bed on that account often enough. This dull, heavy pain was with me for sev eral years. The urine was also very dark and sluggish and contained a thick sediment. 1 tried all kinds of remedies and used prescriptions of my own, but without success. Nothing seemed to take hold, until I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills. They were ex actly suited to my case. Since using the pills I have not been bothered with those pains, and the kidney secretions have been restored to a normal color and consistency.’ Plenty more proof like this from Valdosta people. Call at A. E. Dim- mock’s drug store and ask what his customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Bu alo, N, Y., sole agents for the Ignited States. The Youngest Whiskey House in Valdnsta. BUT IN MANY MEN IDLE IN JAPAN. Face Troops Returning from War Industrial Depression. Toklo, Nov. 20.—The number unemployed, following the return of the troops from the field estimated at 70,000 men, ip causing uneasiness, in view of th eindustrial degression now prevailing and the unlikelihood of a revival of buslpess in the neai ture. It is authoritatively stated that lt has not yet been decided whether Vice Admiral Togo will visit Eng land or not. Thank the Lord!" cried Hannah Plant, of Little Rock, Ark., "for the relief I got from Buck- len’s Arnica Salve. It cured my fear ful running sores, which nothing else would heal, and from which I had suf- tracuons that 1. ream- relresh-n, to | ^ one whorbelleses In publicity In such 0uarantced at w. D. Dunaway’s and matters. ' At every station along'the g Dimmock’s drug stores; 25c. .m * WATCH 1HE LEAD. ME GROW ■> I O 4 XT 1C the right kind of goods at the right prices and am in position A to give better goods at lower prices than any of the older established houses In South Georgia. My motto is new methods and new Ideas. The world Is moving too fast to hold to the old way. I want your business, and to get It, I know that I must give you good, honest measure at the lowest prices, with polite gentlemanly treatment. I pay especial attention to mail orders, giving the quickest service possible after orders are received. Some of My Special Brands. Old Bob Rye, Sandlin’s Blue Grass, Lons: Cotton, Horse Shoe, Rose Valley Rye, Jefferson Club Rye Old Parker Rye, Freestone Corn, : $1.00 per quart, 4 quarts vered for $4.00 1.00 “ 4 “ “ 4.00 75 “ “ 4 “ “ 3.00 75 “ “ 4 •• “ 3.00 1.00 “ 4 not delivered 4.00 1.25 “ .. 4 “ ' 5.00 1.50 “ 4 “ 6.00 75 " .. 4 •• “ 3.00 I have a full line of Ryes, Corns, Gins, Rums, Wines, jBrandies, etc, Write me for prices. Address Postoffice Box 441 or Phone No. *20. SEND ME YOUR ORDERS. YOURSJFOR BUSINESS. H- J “Cap” SANDLIN, VALDOSTA, GA. ■ ' w
