St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-01-03

To add to the complication, the Iowa
Legislature has enacted that her rail-
roads shall not cross into Nebraska.
The result of this business is, no bag
gage can he checked west of the Mis-
souri, river, and all passengers and
freight have to be transhipped to the
bridge cOmpany's cars, and after pass
ing this mile and a-half, are transferred
again to the Union Pacific cars. 1t will
probably occur to these corporations
sometime that the travelling public
sance will be done away with: The
time will come when a man can buy his
passage and sleeping car tickets in BOs-
ton or New York for San Francisco.
and have his baggage checked throug'. ,
In behalf of the Travelling ruhiic, : -
tition for this soon.
THE FAR WEST.
"Out West" is getting to be an i'll
definite term. Formerly any point west
ofcentral New York was out west. Now
IL person may travel one hundred and
fifty miles west of Omaha before he
comes to the centre of our country. We
think it was "Carleton" who related
| that while stopping i'll this same Omaha
at one time, Il stage load of people came
in from the westward, and man get
ting down from the coach, shook the
dust from his clothes remarking that it
''did seem good to get down east once
more ~
1t did not occur to me until took
the trip, that one did not really reach
the west of our country until after he
passed the Missouri river. Soon after
leaving Omaha we struck the Platte
river which we followed up for about
25O miles. The Platte is Il large river
on paper, but not much of one in fact.
There are 4 few inches of water cover
ing quite depth of mud and quicksand.
| remember that the western streams
are all low at this season of the year.
hut am told that when the Platte is
the fullest it will not float any craft
drawing more water than a Shimgle.
4 PACIFIC RAILROAD EATING STATION.
Not very long after leaving the Mis-
sourl river, one comes To an eating sta
ton. As these are a peculiar and i'm
portant feature of the overland route
will describe one which will answer for
them all. 1t is Il low modern building,
the prominent feature of which is IL bar
where liquor is dispensed. Beyond this
room. or at one side. is an eating house.
Not an eastern railroad eating house.
but more like Il hotel, with il large room
full of tables. where travellers can sit
down and eat Il very good meal If they
are not hurried away by fear that the
train will leave them all for one dol
lar. \ desirable accompaniment to
these hotels would he Il place where
travellers could obtain sandwich. or Il
cup of coffee. or Il glass of milk. for Il
consideration. But these houses are
run hy the Railroad Co.. and it is for
their interest to get Il dollar ont of each
passenger. Milk Is the most scarce ar
| ticlr on the route. \ woman who had
two small childIrn along. Was charged
Il dollar Il quart for it ut Grand Island.
| The passenger VIII" made the ncgotia-
| tion$ for her. succeeded i'll reducing the
price t" fifty cents IL quart. and not
low, he still thinks that the price of
Grand Island milk is too high
FROM OMAHA To OGDEN.
The Union Pacific Railway extends
| from Omaha, the eastern pant of Ne
braSka, through that state and Wlo-
ming territory. to Ogden, near Salt
Lake in Utah ii total distance of over
one thousand miles. The first five
hundred miles are over Il nearly level
prairie. Soon after passing the state
line into Wyoming. the Black Hills ap-
pear, and the grade is more apparent
until we reach Cheyenne, pronounced
Shy-en.) This is the most important
town on the line of the road Here the
Kansas Pacific road comes in from Den
| yer.
On leaving Cheyenne. two locomo-
tives were attached to the train, and we
soon commenced to rise the Black Hills.
Here the first grand mountain scenery
appears. We are up III high attitudes,
and constantly rising, until we reach
Sherman, IL height of eight thousand two
hundred feet above the level of the SEA
or more than two thousand feet high
er than the top of Mt. Washington. 1t
is i'll this locality that SO many persons
with lung troubles find difficulty i'll
breathing on account of the lightness of
the air. To me the atmosphere seemed
unusually pure and exhilarating.
Soon after leaving Sherman we begin
to descend, and now darkness covers
the scene, and we awake still in Wyo-
ming, not very far from the Green riv-
er. From this point to Ogden, which
we reached at 6 i'll the evening, the
scenery increases in grandeur and i'll
tereSt.
In closing this letter, a word about
the country Most of Nebraska has the
appearance of rich soil, but great
dearth of timber. Coal is $I7 Il ton in
Omaha. The western part of the state
is an excellent grazing section, and cat