Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-13
SANTA BARBARA, CAL,
AUG. 6, 1878.

penses covering the single trip from
Carson to this place 1 had omitted the
cost of sleeping accommodations on the
c. P. cars from Reno. 1 now refer to
that item not for the purpose Of reckon
ing it in as amongst my own expenses,
but, instead, to say that and my fam
lily were denied the boon of a section or
any part of any sleeping car, but had to
ride all night and catch such unnatural
and trying maps as comes to the weary
traveller while he curls himself upon the
pitiless seat of an ordinary railway car
rage / 90 not say this in sorrow nor
vet in anger; for it is q painful and ex-
pensive delusion to give way to the pre-
vailing weakness of supposing that the
sleeping coach sleep which one gets be-
tween Reno and the Summit House is
worth paving for or worrying about. 1t
is not sour grapes with me; although l
am not above the natural sense of per-
sonal resentment which finds vent in the
detraction of what one can't possess
himself of. You get aboard the ives:
bound train at a quarter to three in the
morning; get asleep, if you are in thor
ough health and are free of nerves by
half past three; and it is simply impos-
sible for you to sleep after siX-for then
it is breakfast time and the car porter
wants you to get up. and get up you do.
Now while this is announcement 1t IS al
most unavoidable. and the remedy-a
sleeping car at Carson-is the solution
Of the problem which hope the future
may bring, although the c. p. people
say they can't See how they can possibly
haul an extra car up the eastern ACTIVITY
Of the Sierra.
If the Pacific Ocean rolled its surges
upon beach stretC hing along the line
Of the fence of Mike Stewards race
track, Carson City would be situated
very much as Santa Barbara is and
would look like it, SO far as its situation
relative to the mountains and general
back ground, middle distance and dis
tinctive accessories are concerned. Genoa
is little more like this place with re-
gard to its nearness to the back ground
of hills; but these mountains resemble
ours in form and disposition: and when
our pine trees are all gone the likeness
will be yet more striking. The town
itself is at least one-third bigger than
Carson and has some very handsome
buildings scattered about here and there.
I am staying at the Occidental Hotel"
which is on State street, about a half
mile or SO from the wharf where the
steamers land. This hotel is of brick,
two stories high, and with pretty Man
sard roof and a cupola, or lookout
Nearer the Bay is another brick hotel,
larger than this This is the county
seat, and they have just finished sight
" brick Courthouse modelled after the
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handsome two story brick public school |
house within sight of my window, also |
stylish church built of brick-an |
Episcopal church-very much hand
somer than any church in Carson. l |
notice several private residences which |
denote, externally, good deal of Eber-
ality of expenditure and taste in build !
ing. Curiously mixed in with all these
are hundred or more of tile-roofsd |
Mexican adobes. All the denominations
...ave church buildings; and e jc::n: s..cccL |
company have established school here !
something approaching a college
quite a slightly atfair--brick buildings q
"a Tall.ries in style of architecture
I judge by the new wing
they are building there. Here the young
Santa Barbarian can get all the schooling
he needs to prepare him for one of the
Eastern universities. The town is in
and seems very orderly and
supports three papers, the
Press, Times and Iade.r; new buildings
are going up in all directions; new water
works are constructing; nobody dies
but they who bring old ; -- dis
~ ..th them, (just like Mime
sofa in that respect,) and the winter
time is the tina when the big crop of
visitors and health hunters comes in
and is harvested.
This climate is delightful compro-
mise between the temperate and torrid
zones am prepared to believe all /
have heard said in its favor. The far
capes at either side of the Bay
keep off the severe sea-winds; the noun
tains protect the town from the sweep
of the land breezes, and the seward
islands ward off the foSs. The south
casters of the Winter months are the
only heavy storms of serious nature
ever experienced; and sometimes when
they blow the surf pours in upon
The beach in q tremendous fash
ion. Something under so and above
30 degrees of Farenheit describes
the average temperature of the
climate. l never saw more beautiful