, 1870-06-21
UrAN REvIsITEp.
A TTap ffem San Francfsce to Salt
!, Lake City.
The Journey Over the Mountains.
The Shoshone Indians.
Deserted Stations.


Deserted Stations.
[FRoM OCK srEc1AL CORRESPONDENT
SAN FRANCISCO, June T.
|. Tired Of the incesHant summer winds ant
dust OF San Francisco, and, still mora tired o.
| the everlasting Dawstun! Bawstnn! Baws
tun Y which heard repeated With every con
ceiyab1e addition and variation in the markets
on file streets, and in all public places whert
:hora is no charge for admission, from the
moment of the irruphon Of the yaunteG
s'fifty million dollars worth Of Eo!id men ol
tue Boston party" 1determined last week tc
"vanose tue rancho" md mako flying yisii
to the dominions of Brigham Young, on the
shores Of the Great Salt Lake.
We-the writer and his invalid wife, the lat,
ter bound on a trip to her old home and old
friends in tic Western Suites, after long years
of abscncn-left San francisco Oh Monday,
Juno 6, by the ferry steamer, which 1ande
eastwara-bound passengers at the wharf nov
reaching out almost to Yerba Buena or Goal
Island from tho eastern shore Of the Bay oi
San Francisco, aud in fcw minutes were on
board the elegant md comfortable Pullman
cars.
Nhiriing along through the broad, tree-lined
streets Of tho beautiful and rapidly-growing
city OF Oakland-the Athens Of the Pacific
Coast-through tho rich and smiling valley OF
Alameda, white with the hargeBts, and dotted
with beautiful lomesteads, hamlets, and vii
lagos, and up into the winding canon in the
mountains, through Which the Western Pacific
Pailtoad passes, over into the valley OF the
San Joaquin.
What change in the mode of travelling
from ocean to ocean, since tho great food Of
immigration poured orer the Sierra Nevada in
1913 1910, and 81. When the OK team, and
the heavy two and four-horse wagons, laden
with all the household goods and provisions
ior long, long journey, tolled painfully along,
day, at tho utmost, followed by almost worn
out, sun-burued, dust-coverad aud foot-sore
men and women, truaging painfully over thu
alkaline plains and rugged mountain roads, the
palace cars now glide swiftly through
The land, ,Paasing IN . day over ~
great distance as the immigrant
trains ten ycats ago accomplished in month,
while tho inmates read, play social games,
chat, visit old and new friends in the di1Isrent
sections Of tho train, dine sumptuoualy every
joy the journey as gala tnp, taking :" mine
ease in mine inn" in tho fullest sense Of the
word, as tho rapid transit Of the continent il
made. Sitting by ourselves, and Watching the
panorama OF fertile, fruitful valley, wild aad
lofty mountain, rushing nEer, and wild, tree.
Ices plain, uneoll before u, eating the rich
fruits, breathing the odors of glorious 1owers,
and slipping the iee-eoole1 golden Nins of Cal-
ifor1lia, VIC two recalled the trials, prirAtions,
dangers, tolls, and triumphs Of our long Jour.
ney through the savage-haunted wilds OF our
Southwestern frontier, by which We entered
the Golden State years ago, and in our hearts
thanked God that our lives had been spared to
us until tie dream OF years had been accomr,-
lished and our lines had fallen at last ia
pleasant places,
OYER TIE MouRTAIHs.
Noon found us at Stockton, 1;:'0 p. N. at
Sacramento, and p. n. gliding On up into tho
foothills Of the Sierra Nevada The country ID
very DRY already, dryer than it uBua1ly is two
months later in our rainless California sun.
mer, and the heat wAs somewhat oppressive to
those accustomed to the cool bracing winds
which make this the most unpleasant season
Of the year iu San Francisco.
LII many places all along the road we saw
tue dry grass by the roadside, and sometimes
the fencee al well, on fire from the sparks
from the locomotives, and in many places men
were at work burning the border OF grass and
plowing up the space between the track and
ton Of the latter by accidental fires. Much
destruction Of timber Is caused every year in
tie Sierra Nevada by fires kindIed by the
sparks from locomotives or set
by careless tourists, and some day
We shall hear Of ooutlag grafton too great to
sweeping, it may be, hundreds Of miles through
the mighty forests OF the great Sierra, les-
stroying more which viii be required By COM
iug generations than did tilat iu tho Pe1a
suburb Of Constantinople. week ago. The
amount of timber actually cut down and used
To
the Pacific Co2st, from Alaska to Southern Cal
nornia, annually, as compared with that We
sntior to he burned up md uHelessly DESTROYED,
ia not moro than Que to ten, and, at the pros
ent rate Of wanton waste, the Whole forests Of
California, Oregon. aud Washington Territory,
some already borp. And yet we boast of our
superior civilization" over the savage In
dian, who, from mere wautouncss, kills of
whole herds Of buffalo, which,
LIN sPa spaFed liz qgAt qos e.psx.sD. ssYs to e assa
growing up in the Sierra to take tho pIacn Of
the big tree groves now the wonder aud adui-
ration OF the world, and it will Ln fortunate in-
decd II no arc able TO preserve even those re
have from destruction for half century to
come. The savage randals Of our day are not
all red-Rkinned.
Evening was falling as We entered the SNOW
Sheds. those monstruus encroachments Of the
useful and practical on the romantic and ideal
after having rounded Capo Horn, and eazed
down Will unbonuded awe and admiration, "a
every other tourist has done before us, into
the soft b1ue vapor-tinel depths Of the great
canon Of the American River. Tlero were
several in cur party who had arrived in Cali
foruia ria the tropics, and had not seen snow
save in the dim distance on the SUBMITS Of
the Sierra, for ten or twenty ycar5 aud they
were anxious to once more come in actua1 con-
lin ~ftn 1.-l
seen great fields OF it upon the noun
tains above us, and as evening came
on tho agreeable change in the temperature
OF the atmosphere told US unu,istskab1y that
we we're approaching them. At last an en-
thuslastlc young lady declared that aho saw a
running alongBide the shed, at station far
up towards the summt, at which re halted
moment, anl to CRAFTY her, jumped down,
ran to the side Of tho shed and plunged my
arm up to the elbow into-the finest article
Of moonlight have seen in yeara. asked
her to pass me- down her hat, that might I'll
it for her, but she thanked nc coldlF, and
turned back With disappointed look and re-
entered the car, and, cav her no more that
night. Her dream Of early reco!1cctions re-
newed Was all moonshine after all; she will
learn ag she grows older that such ID life,
VALLEY AND DEsEnT.
We passed down tho eastern slope, by tho
beautiful Donner Lake and the swift-rusLing,
hngllt-flashing Trnckeo, tho best exemplifica-
tion Of tho poets npostrophetic description
''And thou, exulting, nnd aboundtng riyer,e--
in the night, and when morning came, looked
out upon the narrow green valley OF the Hum
bolt, with its background Of dreary Asge brush
plalng, barren red-rock volcanic hills, danked
by treeless snow-capped mountains. at times
We heard the sweet song of tho yellow-throat-
Cd lark, as We used to hear it in tho land OF
tue prairies years ago, and once VIC saw coyey
Of genuine prairie chickens; not the great,
MOI yet lie featlery-legged wood grouse 81
Sierra Nevada, but the real ''pinnated grouse"
Of Audubon, tho glory Of the prairies Of the
West. Oh that they, with tho wild turkey
and wookcock, might be able :. to
cross The desert and scale the
with us forever and wa1 plump and sayory on
the fat OF the land. I think With them CaIi-
fo1nia would be just perfect; but tlen We
must have some draw backs. AS it is now oaz
churches only half flourish, 10 little do our
people long for Heaven after. few
prairie hen, .Woodcock, wild turkey, and Ches-
hpeake oyster, and there would not ba snf6-
cient congregation in any church in Califoruia,
outeide Of San francisco, to pay the sexton
for passing around the hat two Sundays in
Providence may llaTe ordered it all for the
best after all. Quie. Sabe7 Many droVea of
sleck-]ookjpg cattle are feeding on the marshy
meadows along the Humboldt, and water fowl,
mainly teal, mal1arda, rail, awarrned in all the
bayous and lagunas. THIS is evidently IA
vozite summer resort and breeding place for
the ducks, and mouth or two later must be =
glorious place for sportmon-
nh. AID MRS. Low.
The Shoshone Indians. whose country
stretches from the sink OF the Humboldt to
Salt Lake, have seen the advantages acc1uing
to them from tho railroad, and have not been
GLOW to appreciate them and avail themselves 1
NJ fheun Trber have in a frroar nj. or~n 1.xt