The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-17
CALIFORNIA.
a Well Known Sedalian Writes
From the Land of Flowers.
PONONA, CAL, JAZZ. 2, 1893.


srs who have never seen an orange
grove, have read, or heard many dis
Giptions Of them, but if any one of
your readers, were to stand be-
1sre an orange tree here in full bear
ing, they would simply say, as my
better half did, l had no idea what
ever, from the accounts l had read.
Charles Dudley Warner in his won
derful little book on Southern Califor-
Ma, portrayed as plainly, and graph
eslly, a. it seems possible, this won
derful country and yet when you see
i, there is literally nothing you recog-
aize from his word painting. 1t is
now eleven o'clock a. m. this Monday,
January 2. SO, and l have just walked
up from the post Office and sat down
u the hotel veranda to write you the
FIRST OF THE PROMISED
letters. The exercise, with warm
bright sun, had brought out the
Perspirstion and my first inclination
was to lay aside my coat, and go to
work. but it is a lazy sunshine, the |
thermometer shows rs in the shade of
The west porch, and so l have lolled
in an easy chair and thought of home.
The only thing in sight which looks
like home, is the blue grass plat in
front of the hotel. The green sward
Hnicely trimmed and is as fine as any
n our boosted Broadway. all the
balance of the landscape is tropical
and mountainous. The streets are
Ened with palms, pepper, cypress.
eucalyptus, china trees, while the
Sierra Madra Range of mountains,
with the bright blue mists enveloping
their summit, stand only step of and
behind and looming up over them is
SNOW CAPPED "OLD BALDY
he highest peak in the range. 1t is a.,
also strange and wonderful, but we
are gradually prepared for the change ,
- much of mountain scenery il had
before California is reached. Passing ;
through the farming lands of Kansas /
We comedy degrees to the sandy plains c
which require irrigation, and passing
through Trinidad, We have some
mountains close at hand, and from
that point west, the scenery is all fine
and very new and strange to Mis- Z
sourian. l speak of the route, by the
Atchlson, Topeka & Santa Fee rail-
way. Of course it has on its route no
such grand scenery as the Royal Gorge
Of the Arkansas river, or grand
heights of elevation as Tennessee pass,
- we see on the Denver and Rio C
Grande railway, but for the season of v
the year the travel by the Santa Fe is p
far more pleasant. There are no
great SHOWS, or cold, or water floods.
We came through the whole-miles B
On time. Not the least of its attrac- G
lions are the splendid eating houses. ! ;,
That great caterer, Mr.. Harvey, has -
:harge of the eating stations, and /
have. aI
NEVER SEEN Such MEALS
prepared for travellers by rail, except p
he celebrated dining cars on the linn
ted express trains eastward bound. ca
The first really impressive sensation m
We experienced was at Needles, din m
ng station, just east of Sierre Navada
ange. 1t was dark when we s.
topped and when We got out of the he
ar, the air was filled with a sitting nc
lust. We though it came from a
Ugh wind blowing across the wide ia
'latform of the depot, and eating tn
ouse, but at supper we learned that va
sand storm was raging outside. We cr'
ut some idea of what is meant by a
and storm. from this little experience. an
he wind was blowing gale, and the Oi
ir was filled with fine dust, and We
cry small grit, or sand, which pelted Lar
S like sleet. You know something in
dust which is blown across our prai- ira
es, and which finds its way under
he doors and through the cracks. and bel
,vers the good house wife's bric-a- emf
rae, but just imagine this fine dust, zer
, almost impeceptible grit, which In
,mes with u est
SPIRIT AND ENERGY, 49,.
Mi
I'd large particles pelting the win Gus
,ws and rattling like hail. and w,
en you can't face it. In the mo
st place you can't see to put through mas
and if you face it your eyes are ster
on useless, and your face SCARED, and |
tied and oh, they last like a Kansas arr
lizard, sometimes for week. The res,
xt day we crossed the range and syn
me down into the Pomona valley. IA;
e pointed out the storm, on both the
les Of our little village. they ex- emil
storms rise east of the