The record-union., 1891-07-08

Vow IL w Il1lcu Will people,. IOHi olSSOll
northward the tourists were taken to
Edgewood, where their car was detached
from the train and taken back to Sisson
by special locomotive. Here couple OF
hours was spent, and the party were
driven across the little valley to the home
(and hoteD of the old pioneer, in whose
honor the place was named.
Here were found quite number OF
guests from San Francisco, Oakland and
other places, who expressed themselves
as delighted with the place. There are
pretty meadows in the vicinity, and the
grandest of all views of Mount Shasta
and the Black Buttes. The leading in
dustry about Sisson is lumbering but it
gives employment to large number of
persons.
Sisson has an excellent newspaper, the
Mascot, of which II. 3. Loos is editor
and manager. This gentleman returned
with the party to Mott, and gave its mem
bers much interesting information about
that locality.
The Depot Hotel, at Sisson, has the
reputation of being the finest on the
coast. Here all trains stop for meals.
The hotel is kept by Ammer Persons.
There are also Il number of summer
boarders there.
SOURCE OF THE SACRAMENTO.
AS the little special train sped back
down the mountains from SissOn in the
direction OF Mott, the writer was gazing
out upon old Mount Shasta when one of
the party familiar with the locality called
his attention to a spring by the roadside,
the waters OF which went tricllling down
the hill.
DO you see that little spring there ?"
he asked.
On being answered in the affirmative,
he said, ''Nell, that is where the Sacra-
mento River takes its rise"
Re1erring to this spring, Mr.. John
stone says in his book on Shasta:
Away up on the southwestern front of
Shasta, above the clOudS and murk of
earth, above timber line or any sign of
vegetation, there starts little stream so
small that your drinking cup, held under
one OF It's miniature cascades, would very
perceptibly diminish the stream below.
Yet, if you should follow this modest
brook, as 1t springs, chamoislike, from
crag to crag, gaining strength and vol
ume at every bound-casting its trifiing
spray upon the giant front of the great
glacier: dancing by the bright-hueQ
''sarcodes" in its bed of snow: mirroring.
the faces of the wild mountain sheep and
the savage grizzly as they slake their
! thirst on It's banks; down. down, down,
Splashing, turning, foaming, from the
home OF its birth down to the upland
meadows-you would find broad stream
and fishermen casting their deceptive
| lure from its banks. And If you should
! follow it farther, after it had gathered
the waters Of thousand rills, YOU would
find this now mighty river, that had its
! birth far up in the glacier-locke canyon
of Shasta, with its many tributaries.
draining country far larger than the
State of New York. And if you should
be curious to know its destiny, you
could follow it to where it pOurs it's
mighty volume through the Golden
Gate, bearing Oh its turbid bosom the
white wings Of commerce, and is lost i'll
the great Pacific"
THE NATIVES AROUSED.
Arriving at Mott, it was determined bv
MesSrs. Horsburgh and Morrow. the
officials in charge of the train, to pass the
night there. After supper the members
Of the party held an impromptu celebra-
ton in the parlOr of the hotel, and a stun
ming programme was given. Among the
guests at the hotel were State Superin-
tendent OF Public instruction Anderson
and wife and q number Of others
E. McD. Johnstone was elected Presi-
dent of the Evening, and Al. Murphy
Grand Marshal. The President delivered
so-called Grafton. for the preparation of
which he barely escaped being mobbed
and turned over to the fury Of the en-
ragged populace. The Marshal saw the
storm arising, and made sneak out the
rear door. He was found later on hiding
beneath q table in the barroom
The intercession of the respectable ele-
ment in the party had the effect of saving
the leaders of the celebration from vio-
| lence at the hands of the natives. They
were aided in this by the efforts of Mr..
Fitzgerald who did his best to play the
"Arkansaw Traveller" on banjo which
| he fOrcibly took from defenseIess boy at
SiSSOn.
After the turbulent mob had been
quieted huge case of fireworks was
brought forth from the car. It was
opened up in front of the hotel, and
everybody did his best TO help burn
| them. There was roar and sputter that
aroused the sleepers for miles around,
and the town of Mott exploded more fire
crackers to the square yard Of territory
on that Fourth of July night than any
other town in the State. The woods were
| fairly painted red from the glare of the
bursting pyrotechnics.
A QUIET SUNDAY
On Sunday morning the special
| dropped down from Mott to Shasta
! Springs at slow speed, giving members
ofthe party opportunities to view the Big
/ Bend, or loop, in the railroad, which has
already been described. At the springs
the car was side-tracked, and here the
party spent the day and night visiting all
the various points of interest in the
neighborhood
On Monday the 'Carmello" was run
down the road, and visits made to Duns-
muir, the Upper and Lower Soda
/ Springs, and Sims, at which latter place
! it was attached to the south Inbound Port
land express in the evening, reaching
! Sacramento during the night.
! The guests of the party were most hos
! pitably entertained by Mossrs. Hors-
| burgh and Morrow, who lost no oppor-
tunity to minister to their comfort and
| enjoyment throughout the trip.