Here's How You Can Go to The 

 Annual Farm Bureau Convention 

 at Pasadena on an Escorted Tour. 



^^^^ HE Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 — -^ciation's escorted all-expense 



-/ tour on a special train to the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation Con- 

 vention slated for Pasadena California, 

 December 8 to 11, is swiftly taking 

 shape. 



The Illinois delegation will leave Chi- 

 cago Wednesday afternoon, December 2 

 and arrive in Pasadena early in the morn- 

 ing December 8 in time for the opening 

 day. It will return Dec. 16. At Madi- 

 son, the Wisconsin delegation will join 

 Illinois and speed to St. Paul where it 

 will be joined by the Minnesota group. 

 At Bismarck, the convention squad will 

 grow bigger with the addition of South 

 Dakotans. 



At Butte, Billings, Bozeman and Mis- 

 soula, Montana Farm Bureau members 

 will join the party which will then head 

 for Coulee Dam. The first side trip will 

 be taken at Coulee Dam where delegates 

 will see a clear river racing 12 miles an 

 hour through a 1,000 foot channel be- 

 tween gray granite bluffs. Yellowstone 

 National Park is accepted as one of 

 America's greatest vacation sights; how- 

 ever, this year Grand Coulee Dam is ex- 

 pected to outdraw Yellowstone by 150,- 

 000 people for sightseeing interest. 



Grand Coulee damsite is 92 miles west 

 of Spokane. Five thousand men are now 

 at work on the dam. About twice as much 

 concrete will be required as was used in 

 Boulder Dam. Annual volume of the 

 Columbia River is about half that of 

 Niagara, but at high stage is three times 

 Niagara's flow. 



Washington delegates who do not join 

 the party at Grand Coulee will catch up 

 at Seattle. Here members of the party 

 may either spend the day or go on a 

 sightseeing cruise on beautiful Puget 

 Sound. The sightseeing trip will in- 

 clude Victoria in British Columbia with 



dinner at the Empress Hotel. One of 

 Seattle's well-known sunsets will be seen 

 from the boat coming back to the main- 

 land. 



With all additions to the starting dele- 

 gation made, the trip will continue down 

 the coast to the Columbia River highway 

 where sightseeing trips to Multnomah 

 Falls (a drop of 625 feet) and Bonne- 

 ville dam will be made. Following these 

 trips, the tour will continue through 

 Southern Oregon and the Shasta moun- 

 tains of Northern California. At Oak- 

 land pier, the train will be left to make 

 the ferry trip across San Francisco Bay. 

 From the boat can be seen the new San 

 Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, largest in 

 the world — eight miles and a half long 

 — built at a cost of $77,000,000. 



From the ferry may also be seen the 

 new Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz Is- 

 land and Golden Gate proper. When 

 the ferry is docked once more in San 

 Francisco at nine o'clock Monday morn- 

 ing, the party will board sightseeing autos 

 for a 30-mile tour of San Francisco with 

 its beautiful parks and boulevards, re- 



turning to the Hotel Bellevuc in time for 

 luncheon. That afternoon will be left 

 free to members of the party. The party 

 will leave San Francisco that night for 

 Pasadena, arriving at the convention city 

 early the next morning. 



On the trip to Pasadena, 23 ranges of 

 mountains will be passed in one day by 

 the Farm Bureau special. One of the 

 biggest thrills of the trip is expected to 

 be the crossing the main range of the 

 Rockies or Continental Divide. The re- 

 turn trip will be equally if not more in- 

 teresting but more about that later. 



Two routes back to Chicago are of- 

 fered to the individual himself. Trip A 

 will take him through Boulder Dam. Salt 

 Lake City, Denver and Omaha. Trip 

 B includes Grand Canyon, New Mexico 

 and New Orleans. More details of this 

 in a later issue of the RECORD. 



Definite costs have not as yet been set, 

 but approximate all-expense costs for 

 everything excepting the days at the con- 

 vention in Pasadena have been released. 

 They follow: 



COACH 



All-expense f6r the going 

 trip only with round 



trip rail ticket $ 86.70 



Round trip with re- 

 turn trip "A" all- 

 expense except while 



in Pasadena 103.20 



Round trip with re- 

 turn trip "B" all- 

 expense except while 

 in Pasadena 117.90 



One in 

 Lower 



TOURIST 

 Two in 

 Lower 



STANDARD 



One in 

 Upper 



One in 



Lower 



Two in 

 Lower 



One in 

 Upper 



$105.80 I 9995 $109.95 $134.50 $122.50 $129.70 



132.80 121.70 134.85 



149.00 137.15 150.75 



170.75 148.90 162.20 



189.45 165.60 17990 



SEPTEMBER, 1936 



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