The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-28

the Grand Canon of the Arkansas, which
narrows into the famous Royal Gorge. Here
the river roars and plunges through issure
in the rocks that rise 1000 feet above it, so
steep and straight as to make it seem impos-
sible to find a footing for a train of cars; but
by engineering skill and daring this solemn
eight mile canon has been threaded by a
railway and over it we pass to salida, where
the three collegiate peaks Yale, Harvard and
Princeton, each ever 14,OO0 feet high, come
plainly to view in the northwest.
| Leadville, we remember, is the greatest
mining camp and the highest city in the
world, its elevation being 1O,4OO feet, and at
Glenwood Springswe have the most natural
baths ever discovered Although but a few
years ago this place was part of the Indian
reservation 50 quick is Western enterprise to
see and catch at every natural advantage
that one of the finest sanitariums in this
country has already been built there, the
furnishings baths and appointments of which
make it seem incredible that we are not at
some fashionable watering place on the At
lantic coast. A 'big pool" has been built,
covering about an acre, into the centre Of
which steaming hot salt water pours naturally
from the earth at the rate of 1000 gallons per
minute.
Utah surprises us with its beautiful land
scapes and fertile valleys, Salt Lake City,
only recently redeemed from Mormondom, is
interesting because of the Mormons, and
beautiful, because of its orchards and flower
gardens.
Ogden is the western terminus Of the
Denver and Rio Grande and has healthy
record that ought to be noted. No case of
consumption or asthma has ever been de-
velOped here
At Ogden the Southern Pacific Railroad
connects with the Denver and Rio Grande
and still without change of cars You are
carried on through the highlands lying be.
tween the Wahsatch mountains and Sierra
Nevadas, known as the Great Basin and in.
cluded in the area of the state of Nevada.
This is the region of the greatest silver mines
in the world. The far-famed Lake Tahoe is
held as in cup by the sierras. This range
extends along the eastern side of California
for a distance of about 4SO miles. In this
section is one continuous snow shed of about
AZ miles. AS we pass the Sierra Nevadas we
begin to realize that we are nearing the
Pacific coast
At San Francisco the delights of California
seem to gather to focus and days and
months are all too short to study its varied
interests, its climate, its situation, its insti-
tutions, its shops, its Chinese quarters, its
hotels, its genial, hospitable people, Down
through the great San joaquin Valley we
journey past Lathrop, Fresno and Tulare
Lake, farther and farther into the summer
land" We see for the first time with our
own eyes, the orange groves and vineyards,
the rose arbors whose descriptions have been
in our ears as a ''tale that is told" and so, as
if in dream, we reach our final destination
and enter the broad streets of that perfectly
situated modern American city, which
Spaniards knew hundred years ago as
Pueblo de los Angeles" the village of tie
angels. We also paid slight visit to Pasa-
dena, the Grown of the valley" 1t is situ-
ated in the San Gabriel Valleys or miles
from Los Angeles. Its elevation is 1000 feet
above the level of the sea. Orange groves
gardens and vineyards are everywhere
present. The mountain range, known as the
Sierra Madre, are in view, whose peaks tower
up from five to ten thousand feet and some of
them are snow-capped. We cannot pass this
interesting and beautiful section without
giving some slight account of the Raymond"
among the finest hotels on the Pacific coast.
1t was here President Harrison and party
sojOurned when making their tour to the
coast few years ago. On one of the lofty
peaks adjacent to Pasadena the Lick obser-
yatory is located. 1t is the largest telescope
in the world for viewing the heavenly bodies
The raising of ostriches is here carried on to
quite an extent While in the east the
mercury is 2Oo below zero in Southern Cali
fornia orange picking is at its height.
CONCLUDED TO MORROW