The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 02, 1923, Image 4
THE 1AANWEU. PCOfUL
JOHN W. MOLMM
iMo-itia
B. P. DAVIES, Ultor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
On® Year — 1160
Six Month* ........ JO
Three Month* .60
(Strictly in Advance.)
TMUMSDAT, AUGUST 2ND, 192S.
Monday morning’s papers publish*
ed the distressing news that 25 per
sons at various points in the United
States lost tfleir lives in automobile
accidents on Sunday. One train
struck two automobiles in two States
within a few hours, four being killed
in the first crash and nine in the
second. Many other persons were
reported injured in the six different
accidents listed, a train striking an
automobile in each instance. It is
possible that each of these accidents
could have been avoided, and The
People wishes to call attention to the
“Ten Commandments of Automobil-
ing,” published elsewhere in this Is
sue, and especially to command
ments 9 and 10. Commandiftott
nine says: “Drive slowly in streets
children are playing. Re
roar own childhood.** W*
wish that the driver of every avto-
eooid rood and obey that
tdmeaL. and we wish also
r local police weald station
Ives (anhnown to the
In the toot hereoa* It Is
the rainfall here It
iMto loot ororh of a rain. BfePI
it comes It I* sufficient to mate
narrow mountains aid* road* muddy
and that la Just too much.
“After two day* In the hotel at
Afton, waiting for the rain to cease
we made our first camp in the
Swift Creek Canyon of the Salt
River Mountain Range. The camp
site, in the deep canyon with snow
capped peaks aroundus and the
rushing stream below was a beautiful
one and we stayed there for ten days.
<4 Our main purpose while out here
is to collect all the native plants we
can find. These^are dug up, brought
to camp and then pressed and dried
(between blotting paper to be kept
permanently for further stury. We
are taking ten sets of the plants
which we expect to sell to various
Universities and Botonical Gardens
to partly reimburse us for the trip.
Since we are in very mountainous
country and have to travel largely by
wagon or pack horses we go as
lightly equipped as possible but for
four of us, quite a few things seem
necessary so with food, plant presses,
tent, considerable bedding, and
clothes we find it necessary to take
about 500 lbs. of baggage. After
pitching camp we walk out into the
surrounding country and climb the
' mountains in search of our plants.
We are developing marveloua ap
petite# and are getting hard as nails
for diming high mountains la* no
easy Job. Every trip Is meetly high
ty intersting and we bate to think
of the time when we mas* leave.
| “Our neat romp woe about forty
•olios sway ooor the Grand Cooyon sf
I the loo ho rtvee nod d! tbs
ferry fvok. W#
_ iptl»l
gut us here. We bod to walk
of the way, In the rain and mud.
but It wannt really bad for we had
a good time out of it We brought
two Army ponchos but the Paysons
didn’t bring anything of the kind so
we took one and they took one
and away we trudged up the rocky
roadway. We got here Sunday night
made camp Monday and set the top
of the highest peak as our goal for
the trip Tuesday. Monday night we
attempted to sleep outside but my!
What a time! Such hordes of mos
quitoes as I’ve never seen , and I
thought the Wisconsin hordes were
unbeatable, descended upon us like
mad bees and we were almost carried
away. We had mosquito netting
draped over s|fkes to protect our
faces but the mosquitoes would not be
denied and sometime in the early
morning when I turned the flashlight
on, we had 200 mosquitoes with ua
in that small enclosure and thousands
buzzing outside. We started on our
mountain climb as planned but the
crowd was so pepless we never reach
ed the top. On Thursday we reach
ed the top and got a wonderful view
of the country around. Think of
being able to see 100 miles away!
The air was fine and that ia what
we did for we saw Frecmont Peak
fairly well. The Tetone decidedly th*
highest range in this port of the
country, sixty miles away were dear
ly visible and the snow-capped peaks
be aeon distinctly. We find
climb wkirk
| to me. Jos*
think of • snow-fight on July l» et
Urn than I MW foot drvattoa W#
peak, bom for the
It
RtUCS li ftATtOlUL
Wing bo
I"* ^ , ^
tt«o rvtattng apectolly to the
palm from this potat of vtow Is glvoa
Is the Bulletin of the Impede! In
stitute. This pel at (mot In the
muddy eetoeriee of rivers through
out the eastern tropica The Juice,
which contains about 15 per cent of
sugar. Is obtained by removing the
flowering shoots and collecting the
sap which escapes. If desired, the
Juice can be fermented for the pro
duction of alcohol.
It has been estimated that 28
hundredweight of sugar, or 200 gallons
of 9fl per cent alcohol, could be ob
tained annually from an acre of swamp
land planted with Nlpa palms. The
♦ree occurs over extensive areas In
British North Borneo, snd the au
thorities there are ponelderlng the
question of utilizing it as a source
•f sugar and alcohol.
Advertise in THE PEOPLE.
FORMER BARNWELL MAN
HAS A THRILLING TRIP
(Continued from first page.)
try it It rained th night before we
left early the next morning and that
ride over a wet, slippery mountain
road waa the most dangerous and
thrill log one I ever expect t« take. I
bad never triad suck and didn't have
■enae enough to know how dangerous
it was. My hnart almost ceased to
beat a doaen timoe as the car slipped
out of the
ibia. yet the
Crook were the ftret
si
to see them sod yet have no
encounter . As wo roam down from
our mounttan climb through a deep
wooded hillside we heard some
thing making a fuss guing up a tree
and we wondered if it was another
porcupine. Porcupines were a
nuisance at that camp and I shot
three to keep them from eating up
everything we had. We followed the
noise and soon saw two of the
prettiest little bear cubs I’ve ever
seen perched in the top of a dead
spruce tree. We carry no weapons
except a .32" revolver and didn’t have
that with us. Our first thought, of
course, was as to where the mother
bear might be, and after some anxious
glances around us, we couldn't see
her charging us, so we decided to
get out while the getting was good.
A she-bear with her cubs treed is us
ually a dangerous thing and we were
i delighted not to encounter her. The
Grand Canyon of the Snake is in the
Elk country and I hope we will see'
one but the chances of seeing these
wily creatures s rather slim.
“From the Snake Catiyon camp we
had a team bring us twenty five
miles up McKey Creek Canyon here
to the slopea of Caribou Mountain
in Idaho. It is • good thing we
hod a ( strong wagon and two good
from m
to
* bah? all
One wba bos not boon among earn a
number of sheep bos no idea of tbe
indescribable noise they make. We
must have seen from 50,000 to 76.000
sheep the past ten days as they have
been driven in for the summer range.
The largest flock contained 5000
bleating sheep and it certainly was
some sight and sound. Recently a
sheep hearder’s tent on some high hill
has become a common sight and I
marvel at the sight of one man and
a few dogs handling so many of
these senseless beasts. The sight of
an occasional lost one of these help
less things wandering hopelessly un
til some copote get it is really a
pitiful sght.
Cottonwood Lake, the sight of next
camp, is twenty miles from Afton at
about 8000 feet elevation and is sur
rounded by a number of high peaks.
WeHtave expected all summer that
this will be the most delightful of all
our camps and we have every reason
to believe that it will. It will un
doubtedly be quite cold at night but
we are prepared for that. At the
Swift Creek camp ther« were several
very cold nighta and one morning
we found about 1-4 inch of ice in the
water bucket. This occurred about
the 27th or 2»th of J
“From Cottonwood Lake wo os
•a to Gray's River by mean* of
and I will gut tbe uu»-
ebine and bogia oar Journey drat to
the Teton* and Jodi sons Hale aoutk
of the Yellowstone and then on into
the Park for ten days er taro weeks.
We have oar own tent and will camp
at we go. From the Yellowstone
we will drive South to Cheyenne, then
through Estes or the Rocky Moun
tains National^ Park, then to Denver
and the many interesting points
around there for at least a couple of
days, then going south by Colorado
Springs with a stop to climb Pikes’s
Peak and on across country to St.
Louis where we hope to be by Sept.
15. If we don’t have too much rain
and mud we can make this easily but
rain and mud will necessiate leaving
out some of the proposed itinerary.
The cost of such a cross country trip
isn’t so much as you might imagine
when you travel by auto, camp out
and cook your own meals. If we had
not developed such terrific appetites
it would be much cheaper. You
would be amazed to see the food we
brought along here to last four peo
ple one week and it is about ail gone
with two days yet to go.
“We expect to sell about 1200.00
worth of plants and this will help
very considerably towards paying our
expenses.
“We bought a pretty good camera
and hope we are feting some won
derful pictures. Only six have been
developed thus (or and they were
fine. I will enclose two or three of
thee# to gve seme idea of tbe region
tbeee to give aease idea of the region
Wm. E. McNAB
Fertilizer end Fertilizer
MelerieL
Cotton Seed Bought end
Meel Exchanged.
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