Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-07

stock company with $250,O00 capital
to develop it's mineral springs and
build hotel and Burlington is expect
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Mr. Editor,-In my last letter we
were in Chicago. We started from
there about the middle of Jan, and as
we got out on to the prairies it seem
ed as though half Of the land was COW
cred with corn and corn stubble. Con-
siderable corn was not gathered, al
though there was quite quantity of
snow and the thermometer Is degrees
below zero. The country is level and
we could see that there was an abun-
dant crop Of corn: The next day be-
fore noon we were in AtchisOn, Kan
sas. | inquired for the Aliens. A
man wanted to know if I knew Mrs.
Frank Howard. [ told him [ did. 1
went to the house and met with very
warm reception. After bountiful
dinner of baked chicken and pudding
we started for the store. Mr.. How
ard has wholesale gentlemen's fur
nishing store, shop up stairs, where
he has 70 or 80 men and women MAX
ing all kinds of mems wear. At long
bench man had cloth laid out and
marked. Mr.. Howard told him to cut
his uncle a pair of overalls. He caught
up a sharp knife and in less than
minute he turned to me and said that
they were cut in the latest style.
There were fifteen pairs. He said that
in thin cloth he cut forty thicknesses
at once. After looking around awhile
Mr.. Howard said, tive we will go and
see 10. Allen" who many in Orleans
county will remember used to be in
trade at Craftsbury, and could tell
good stories Howard said he would
introduce me as Mr.. Brown from
Colorado, and would ask him if he
would sell me bill of goods if he
would back me. He introduced me
as 10 was selling a man a carload of
sugar. He shook hands, saying he
was very happy to meet Mr.. Brown,
and would attend to him in minute.
Soon the trade was closed, and 10.
started for the storeroom, when turn
ing around to see what we would look
his hands and exclaimed, ''I'm sold,
Pm sold! Gentlemen, help yourselves
to anything you like, by the box or
carload" l learned from JOS part
ner, Mr.. Simms, that they had sold
1S0 carloads of sugar in four months,
and that they had $500, 900 worth of
goods on hand. So knew they must
be doing quite business. Atchison
is quite lively place. There was a
colony of negroes few miles out, but
most of them have moved into town
or some of the villages near. Tuesday
morning, we started again for CalifOr-
MIA, over the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe road. AS we journeyed on 1
noticed the corn began to grow short
er and shorter until it was smaller
than in Vermont. Through Colorado
and New Mexico the land was barren,
with no trees. 1 would not swap a
good farm in Orleans county for all
we saw for 500 miles. We soon con-
cluded there must be something some
where, as a team drove up to the ex-
press car loaded with silver bricks,
and few stations farther on two four
horse teams came to the depot with
borax. When we crossed the Colora
do at sunrise, with the sun shining
through the Needles on the left and
the DEVILS canon, 225 feet deep, on
the right, it was scene long to be re-
membered. I asked the conductor if
he could not hold the train till we
could run up the mountain, see the
Needles and take view of the wild
scene. He replied that he guessed
we were both Yankees, but he thought
it would not pay. We saw two extinct |
volcanoes which must have looked |
grand when in a state of eruption, and
lence, as the black lava had run over
the white sand for mile in some di
rections. Although the country is
barren, we had jolly, pleasant COM
pany. Some were excellent singers,
who sang Moody and Sankey's hymns /
and college songs. 1t looks strange /
to Vermonter to travel hundreds of i
miles and not see a tree, nothing but
sand, sage and green bushes. The
Colorado river is not as large as I |
had supposed it to be. I could have
rolled up my pants and waded it, but |
could see at certain times it must be |
quite river Over the river, we were
in California, of which may hereafter
speak. MOSES Roof.
Paso Rubles, Cal.
sET have inst recovered from a second at !
tack of the grip this year." says Mr.. Jas. o.