Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-27
SAS JosE. CALIFORNIA.
Jan. SIh, lS72 4

this evening | thought l would improve
ia 4 writing. hn ST. Adams NOvem'
Der 2sth, and wori o Malone aud spent
Thanksgiving. thee m to Ogdensburgh,
crossed over to Pr soft. aud there took
the G. 7. X. r., aud Of all the mean
roads ever a person rode over, this is the
worst. IL was quite warn there but at
Toronto very cold and also until we got
to Chicago, where il blew a perfect gale
Of snow, and as cold as Greenland. We
stopped in Chicago three hours and a-half.
We crossed the Mississippi River at Bur-
lingion, Iowa. which was frozen 50 that
people crossed on the ice, but il was
%thawibg here. Thursday morning we
were at Council Bluff. This is OF the
opposite side Of the Missouri River from
Omaha. At Omaha We were behind
tive. There had not been a train in from
Ogden for seven days, and 10 knowing
when one would be, on account of the
snow. We laid here about four long
hours and heard all kind Of rumors Of.
snow aud blockades, but VIC were bound
to push along with the rest. From this
point we rode 1000 miles without change
of cars, and n tircsome ride it was, yet
we had lots Of fun for all kinds of game
was plenty. Such as prairie dogs, prairie
wolves, antelopes, jack rabbits, &c,
which got a few shots from the revolvcrs
of those on the train.
1t was level most of the way through
to Ogden. Each side of the track for
miles some of it as far as eye could reach
settled only now and then, but at the
stations a good many huts have been
built. Here we saw all nations repre-
by their people. AT Ogden early
Sunday morning 30 minutes behind time,
and to lay over until II O'Clock at night.
The depot as comfortable as your horse
baru with a stove in it, SO thirty of us
in the cars. This place is Al
miles from Salt Lake and one of the su-
oerbs of it. 1t is nearly as large as St.
Adams, but not as thickly settled. Its
are nearly all Mormons except the
Railroad men. Three of us wanted a
ha ye and went into the only shop in
own, which was presided over by a wo-
nan, one of the wives of a MOI mon elder,
Who did the job in an acceptable manner.
By daylight We had ridden 100 miles
md began to see mountains in the dis
ance covered with snow called the Sera
We went through a valley
hat was filed with cattle that are herded. !
We saw herdman on all sides all day. !
FOR a distance of over 100 miles cattle
7ere living on sage bush, as the grass :
Ias not up, and they we're as fat as hogs. :
he land is covered with n white sub :
lance, | thought it was snow, but it was
in it natural state. The water in !
he creek is SC strong with Alkali that :
might make warm buiscuts with only >
he water and -four, and, they would be I
ght and good. The water the people >
sc here had the same effect on me as a I
ose Of salts. >
At Z o'clock Tuesday we are at the v
ummit of the mountains in the centre of l
he snow sheds twenty.three miles long, .
here for breakfast. At $50 We :
egan to see green trees and rose-bushes a
q blossom. At noon we were at Colfax, =
re could get grapes and fruit of all Kinds. ,
2:l5 was at Sacramento, stopped 80 :
Arrived here at 1856 P NJ, =
tuesday,, tired, dusty and hungry. The !
lace is as large as Burlington, VT, nice |
laid out. On Sunday | picked grapes y
nd some Strawberries as large as your u
humb. 1t has rained here fifteen days 0
ut of twenty, as it is a rainy season. a
We all like here very much. l gained I
hree pounds the first two weeks. | saw !
beet to-day that weighed 100 pounds. I
From your friend. m
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