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Show CARLTONS CHRONICLE INCIDENTS OF TRIP Karl S. Carlton, former publisher of the Milford News and Beaver Press, who, with Mrs. Curlton, recently re-cently motored from their Riverside, California home to that of their son, Dave P. Carlton, in Houston, Texas, furnishes us with the following clever comment concerning towns enroute: Riverside, California, February 27, 1 !):).'! I jiiuI of tourists and oranges. Beaumont Cherries and apple cider. cid-er. Banning Almonds, aqueducts and prunes. Palm Springs Movie stars anil sunshine. Indio Dates and grapefruit. Mecca Salton sea 200 feet below the sea level. lily the liich, fertile soil; unlimited unlimit-ed cheap water; highest tax rate on record 370 mills; 88 per cent delinquency de-linquency for 1932. A perfect example ex-ample of too many bonds! Colorado river Small and muddy. Quartzite, Arizona Giant cacti; perlect desert. Phoenix State capitol; oranges and grapefruit. Tempe Oldest date garden in the United States. Mesa Mormon temple. There are only seven in the world. We have seen six of them from the outside! Coolidge I-ake Largest! multiple dome-type dam in the world. j Safford Region of Apache Indian depredations. Ixirdsburg, New Mexico Rich -mining country. Kl Paso, Texas Gateway to bull-1 fights. ! Ysleta Oldest town in Texas. j Fabens Someone stole our gasoline. gaso-line. Van Horn North to Carlsbad cav-J erns. We turned south as we hail visited vis-ited the caverns in 1929. j Alpine Over the fastest dirt road we ever saw. j Langtry Where Sullivan whipped Kilrain. I Pecos river The highest railroad bridge in the world( ? ). I Del Rio Across the river from ' XKR, second most powerful radio station in No th America. Uvalde Home of John Nance Gar- ' ner, wild turkeys and deer. I San Antonio Where the Mexicans ' slaughtered the Texans "Remember i the Alamo" Kelly field and many j old Spanish missions. j San Jacinto Sam Houston won Texan independence here. Houston Largest city in Texas. Home of Dave P. Carlton, our son, 2216 Inwood Drive. March G, 1933. Where next? KARL S. CARLTON |
