Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-09
Over the Mountains.
ABOVE THE CALM CLOUDS ON THE
sNOW-CAPPED SUBMITS IN
OREGON.
Three Engines to Each Train to
Accomplish the Jouraey-Ralid-
ing Of the Railroad q
Great Engineering
Feat.
Editorial Core. pondence of the Ledger.

Our trip over the mountains to
Portland was worth remembering.
The train was cut up into sections
of five cars and we had three large
engines to each section. Most OF us
were higher than we ever were be-
Cap and many of us higher than we
ever will be again. We were up in
the snow and above the clouds and
the scenery was grand. The build
ing of railroads over such mountains
is a magnificent achievement. The
hills on the other side are very pro-
ductive. In one county we were in
the following grows:
Apples, almonds, apricots, as
paragus, articoke, barley, beets,
beans, blackberries, broom corn,
cherries, corn, c%urrants, caulif1ower,
cucumbers, celery, carrots, citron,
cabbage. cantaloupes, egg plant,
figs, grapes, gumbo, garlic, hops,
lemons, lines, loquats, lettuce,
watermelons, nectariness ounces,
muskmelons, olives, oranges, oats,
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes,
prunes, pears, plums, peaches,
peppers, pomegranates, persim-
mons, parsnips peanuts, raisins,
raspberries, tomatoes ,turnips, wheat,
walnuts, leeks, parsley, okra,
rhubarb, horse radish, rye, radishes,
squashes, strawberries.
In the same county you find
gold, silver and timber of the largest
and best. There being only one
railroad, freight is very high, and
the producers do not make what
they should. There are a great
many tribes Of Indians in this
state, but they all look alike, dirty,
and talk different languages which
sound like the same jargon. The
Indians here live on scenery without
the climate the tribes enjoy in Cali
fornia.
We trust some move is being
made to have a big Fourth of July
celebration in Mexico. A large
number of people from all of the
adjoining counties should DE in Mex
leo on the Fourth and the idea of
Mexico people going away to spend
the day is preposterorls. Five
thousand people can be brought to
Mexico on the Fourth of July with
out any trouble. Mexico has al
most a national reputation for enter
prise, but Will lose it unless our
people wake up. Mexico can't
stand still. Surely we are not going
backward.
The farming in this country is so
different from what it is in Missouri.
In California the fruit farms are
models. If the Missouri farmers
would pay as much attention to their
farms as some do in California the
result would be much better and
politics would get along just as well.
In this country the blowing is done
with big gang plows drawn by ten
or twelve horses, headers and
threshers are drawn by IA to IS
horses. The crops all look fine and
the people are prosperous all along
the route. Apples are very scarce
in California and of inferior quality.
Oranges bear the same relation to
California that apples do to Missouri
and wine is cheaper here than
cider is in the latter state.
In addition to the quartz mines
$500 feet deep at Grass Valley, we
visited the surface mines at Dutch
Flats. There we saw exhibitions
of all kinds of mining going on
from the "panning OUT to the fifth
and most modern, the ''hydraulic."
About $3.50 in dust was "cleaned
up" in our presence and made into
a brick which was presented to the
National Editorial Association.
Some Of the pine forests here are
as fine as those of Michigan and a
good deal of lumber is being cut.
We have seen quite a number of
"forty-niners." They are as
plentiful as Washington's body SER
wants ever were. "The horns off the
finest OK which ever went over the
plains" are without number. They
are on exhibition in almost every
town we visit and you car buy a
set for any price which can be
squeezed out of you. Most of the
horns came from Armour & Co.'S.
Packing house in Kansas City.
Ben Blanton, of the Paris appeal.
and Marens of the Hamilton News.
Graphic, are still studying the Ian
guages. One has taken the Chinese
and the other the Digger Indian and
are teaching each other between
stations.
The people of Portland, Toronto.
Seattle, Salt Lake and Denver have
prepared elaborate programmes for
our entertainment and we look for
pleasant visits. The trip to Van.
eouver Land promises to he espec-
attractive. You dort't know
what a big country you live in until.
you try to travel over il. The more
you travel the more You wonder and
the more you want to see. The
American people + a great people