Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-03-22
Dome Department.
AMERICAN LETTERS, NO. II.
NEW MEXICO ARIZONA AND SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.
Feb. I. 1889.

Pullman cars, both well filed in one a
party of ten from Jamestown, n. Y, in
Guiding Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford, who said
they had spent some time in Florida sew
eral years since with Mr.. and Mrs. Col
umbus Smith and daughter, to whom
they wished especially to be remembered.
But the most marked person in our car
was a gentleman in corduroy suit.
What was noticeable in the first
place was the dress, which suggested
perhaps an English gentleman. / no.
ticed him for some time, but he sat so
quietly that one could not tell to what ma
tionality he belonged. He was a hand
some-made man of middle age. Seeing
peculiar phase of color in the distant
landscape | crossed to his seat and asked
what it was. He said it was sand. There
was a narrow sea of it, and an ever-va-
rying one. 1t was a dangerous thing to
cross it if there was much wind; for. in
the first place, a horse or man could walk
but slowly in it, and a wind would soon
blind one, so that they would not know
how to go. He thought it was thrown
up originally by volcanic action. 1t was
of the same character as that back of
San Francisco. The gentleman in cor
duroy, who might have been from his ap-
pearance an English lord, was a native
of st. Louis, now engaged in large IT.
rigating project in Arizona. | found both
his manners and his intelligence delight
full.
Shortly after leaving FL Paso we
wound up quite an ascent, crossing one
of these dividing ridges of mountains.
Then we pitched into New Mexico, and
sailed through it. 1t is all a desert or
nearly so, but some of the distant views
of mountains are very pretty. They
fade away into the blue and the sunlight.
Leaving New Mexico we inter Arizona.
, Arizona was settled by Judge Cozzens
} about the year 1853. 1t had been inhab-
tied before more or less by Mexicans and
Indians. Its hottest place is Tuna, but
) many of its places are hot enough. where
the thermometer frequently goes in sum-
mer from 10 to ia in the shade, some
, times higher. Tucson is now the largest
town with some 1000 people. We passed
this at night. At Tuna we had break.
fast, and very good breakfast, at the
railroad hotel. Tuna looked like il
might be hot. The noble red maj
abounds in Tuna. He abounds with al
his original cussedness. with long cOars,
, hair and painted face. It's a differen
q type of Indian from the Aztec. more say
e age. Many of them have IA bad eye. \
Tuna we cross the Colorado River ant
enter California. Through this whole re
t gion of New Mexico and Arizona ther,
has been little change of scenery o.
character. Mountains, bare rock. anC
. plains a desert, only to be reclaimed b,
irrigation. Southern California. where W,
o enter it. Looks still more parched. Blu
after a while there are signs of trees OIL
: the top of the mountains. In the blu
e distance to the south lie the mountain
e of Lower California We reached Col
= ton. the first town of any note in Cali
!, fornia. at 80 p. m. Cotton is the stop
i ping place for San Bernardno, distan
) four miles. With some difficulty foun'
!, lodgings and the next morning by tn
dummy road came here. Cotton has mic
n site and should become quite city.
e is badly in need of IA good hotel. Sal
Bernardino is a fine place with wild
! streets regularly laid out and many fin
y buildings. | stop at the Stewart Hotel
! a new one that cost over 100000. Pr &c
IS SO day; not high. There are severa
e smaller hotels at Sl.5O to 81 per day, o
d 80 per week, that seem very god. Th
location O San Bernardino is very fine
u 1t commands the resources of superio
q valley, whilst rising all about it, thong
;, some little distance off, are high mour
1t tains, several of which now are whit
II with snow.
i Last evening we had dance at thi
If hotel, perhaps 30 couple, mostly young
2 apparently from the village. /, was
= genuine American dance of the countr
>, variety; everything decent and in order
N though the belle OF the village seemed t
be away, probably gone to Santa Barbar;
lie The RAYMOND HOTEL,
lie PASADENA, Cal, Feb. ., 1889. J
- More of interest has been crowded il
If to the last two days than in number {
those before. At least there has bee
50 more within the limits OF few mile
a than in many hundreds before. FRS
is there is the girl with the red dress, b.
to we shall not reach her for more tina
three miles. Then there is the one wit
~, the brown dress, but we can't get TO he
n. at all. San Bernardino | babe adieu
ne yesterday morning. At the post office
IL made the slight acquaintance of gel
an tleman from Castleton, who had bee
De here many years. | also made that I
- = Mr.. S,arke, German, who came to Cal
ar fOr1ia i'm the fOrtips around Cane HOr