The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-01

sheds, built at an actual cost of $40 900 per
mile; and since they saw the good they
have done, they have added 81 miles more.
Inc snow falls on these mountains in win.
ter from 10 to 20 feet deep, and the sheds
are built SO when the snow begins to slide
down the mountains, it passes over these
sheds and plunges into the chasms below,
while the cars are passing smoothly along
like in tunnel. The company always
keep an engine with steam up ready, if a
fire should take place in the sheds she has
water cars attached to the tender
We are,now over $40 miles from Omaha
and about 240 from San Francisco We
have passedand seen "The Great American
Canyon" M this point the American
river is composed between two walls, 1000
feet high. You can stand onether brink of
the cliff and look down on the foaming
water below.
We have passed "Shady Run" Clutch
Flat" "You Bet" "Red Dog" and is stop
ping at Gold Run, where there is great
deal of hydraulic mining done, but we
must be brief ard pass all in Sacramento
valley, as it would fill more paper than
can spare to write it up.
Sacramento reached at last; spent days
in the city; then on to San Francisco, 90
miles l cannot pass from Sacramento to
San Francisco without saying something Of
the trip and what | was most taken with
was the transfer boat at Benici. The largest
steam ferryboat in the world, length over
424 feet; extreme width, 116 feet and 6
inches. She has two vertical steam en-
gnes Of 60 inch base and II inch strokes
Each engine can be worked up to 1000
horse power Her wheels are 80 feet in
diameter. She has steel boilers. She
has tracks with the capacity Of AZ freight,
or "a passenger cars. Now we will pass on
to Oakland.
Oakland is to San Francisco what Brook
Ign, n. Y, is to New York, and once was
called Brookland with population of 35,-
600. Oakland wharf ferrvb6ats leave and
arrive every half hour to and from San
Francisco, and trains many times, composed
of IS and 20 coaches, run in connection
with the boats to Oakland, Berkeley and
other points. The bay from Oakland to
San Francisco is about three and a half
miles. San Francisco is reached and here
intend to stav for a we'll 7 oct fired
After landing in the Golden Gate City and
taking the town in as it is called, I could
see there was lots Of bus and plenty of bull
ding going on; but San Francisco, in some
places, is like Cairo till hard to get a
good foundation, | saw a pile.driving
machine at work, driving piles 50 feet
and then no bottom,
The weather is splendid. l got here
about Goth Of August and had to use my
overcoat every night since. No trouble to
sleep with heavy blankets.
Before close, | must tell you when you
come to San Francisco not to miss going to
the Cliff House. 1t is on north beach. The
best time to 90 in the morning to see the
seals on seal rocks, About 500 yards from
the shore at time there is as many as 1000
of the fighting and making noise like
the doakeys. The largest one, called Gen.
Grant, with Ben Butler, &c. Some of them
weigh 5000 lbs These seals are protected
by the laws OF the state.
Last week we had the Marquis Of Lorne
and Princess Louise in the city. They
were well pleased with San Francisco.
They left Saturday, the 10th, for B. G.. on
the man -of-war Comus, sent from b. G.
to convey them there.
To be continued in the next.
Tom MORGAN.