Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-05
THE NEW ROUTE.
A Trip Over the Mojave Division Of
the Southern Pacific Railway as
far as the Colorado River.

A Trip Over the Mojave Division Of
the Southern Pacific Railway as
far as the Colorado River.
EDITOR HERALD:-As the Great West
is now enjoying railroad "boom," it
may be that few observations made
during recent trip from Los Angeles to
the Needles, and back, will prove of in
tsrest to your readers-especially as the
opening of this new route is to affect
this end Of the State.
The run of the San francisco trains
from
Los ANGELES TO MoJAvE,
as you know, is made in about five
hours, q distance Of about one hundred
miles. The objects along this route
have been so often described, it is not
necessary to dwell upon them. 1t is
worthy Of note, however, to state tha'
after leaving the city, there are quite
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Aatten with n desert Main. Then there
is nothing but dreary waste of sand,
only relieved by thinly scattered, scrubby
worthless growth. Darkness now sets
in and the passenger is happily relieved
from the monotonous spectacle Of the
next sixty miles. At 10 o'clock the
train reaches Mojave, one of the wind
lest places perhaps on the continent.
Ca the night in question there was q
regular blizzard" Here the passengers
make their Transfer for the Needles. As
1 had to wait some six hours for the
train l took q look through the round
house. There were fourteen engines
housed, and two out of doors. They are
used as helpers over the Tehachepi
Mountains, and some of them are mons
ters-one of them weighing as much as
nine five tons when equipped for run.
At o'clock the next morning the
train started over the
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the centsr Of large c;rcnIar
basin, which is about twenty miles
in circumference. 1t is entirely destitute
of vegetation. and the surface is as hard
and smooth as if it had been carefully
packed and leveled. After passing this
curious formation the surface of the
ground becomes gravelIy. and is COM
paratively free from dust, which renders
it much pleasanter than the desert route
by way of Yuma. From Yucca to the
next station, it is seventeen miles. 1t is
called Kremer, perhaps in honor Of one
of Los Angeles respected citizens. There
was bore of three hundred aud thirty
feet made here for water but none was
obtained. The next station is Harper,
thirteen miles; and the next Hnkley.
nine miles. This whole SCOPE of coun-
try is dry desert, with a continuous
range of hills on either side. Eight miles
further along the train reaches
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usra thoro IL uatar rrnn;no on Tho spr
faoa .na for tho erst ,;roa a Match ~
a.n oor,.,rv oats tbo sv. of,ar ,..v
;no pecan. s,.,;o. a;s,onoo of a.