The Penn's Grove record., 1894-10-26

tcoSrrSuED FROM LAST WEEK.

striking scenery WHICH lney Will enolu
until the passage of the Sierra's has
been made. For GO or 20 miles the as
cent continues until summit station is
reached, the highest point attained by
the Southern Pacific Railroad. From
Reno the road follows the course of the
Truckee river and enters into Truckee
car.on. The course of the River is very
terturous and the train is first on one
side and then the other, giving varied
aud interesting views of towering rocks
foaming waters and pine clad Noun
tains. In rapid succession several
towns are passed until W. come to
Truckee, which is rooted in like an al
pine village TO keep the heavy winter
snow out, which the State of Nevada is
famous for. Truckee is a great lumber
district and all the lumber for many
miles around come from this section.
The elevated height at this village
among the mountains is $500 feet.
The next point of interest is Lake
Tahoe fourteen miles from Truckee.
The Lake lines in the heart of the Sier.
ra's G,240 feet above the sea level and
is % miles long 10 miles wide and in
depth 100 feet, its waters are SO pure
and clean that fish can be seen swim.
ming around so feet from the surface,
a great many mountain peaks a be
seen from this point. The most prom
inent are named The old woman and
old man of the Sierra's, as from u dis
lance the tops Of these peaks look like
an old woman and man. Several lakes
of less prominence are near by surround
ed by cottages of cattle kings and gold
barons. From this place we Travelled
through miles and miles OF snow sheds,
which interrupted the view, but without
these sheds travel in the winter would
be at an end Oh account of the very
| heavy SHOWS which fall in this section.
We now have two monster engines pull
ing us around the curves and up the
grades. Rumbling through II long un
mel the train comes to II halt at the
highest point in the Sierra's called Sum-
nit, 1850 feet high. Six miles from
Summit We pass cascade, by crossing a
branch of the Yuba River, and here
there are plenty of game, such as bear,
and deer, but not having viii Denny's,
Buckelup's nor AL McGill's breech
loader, | thought it was of no use 10
get off at thls point, as did several hunt
ing parties.
Cape Horn, II famous pass in the
mountains is now reached and the plat
forms are crowded with tourist TO again
| see the wonderful sights and feats of
engineering which had to be accom-
plished to get around. The road at
this point being carved cut of solid
rock the wOrkmen were suspended from
the cliff above by ropes until they bad
blasted suhicientLSgain "a foot Eold.
The cars run 50 close to the rocks that
a hand put out coufd tuuch them on
one side and ON the other side a stone
could he dropped two thousand feet be-
low into the American River.
Now the descent begins, and indeed,
every body in the cars is glad, for If A
coupling pin should break, OF anything
give way / wouldn't be sitting here
writing and locking cut upon snow cap
ped mountains. Auburn is reached in
a short time by going through a tunnel
seven hundred feet ia length and as j
was walking up and down the platform
my attention was attracted to some In
dians who were riding On the rear cars
on the platform. The Railroad CON-
panies in the West gives all Indians the
privilege of riding on their trains. Yes,
l saw three Indian Queens and three
chiefs. At least that's ws grs~eall.
ed themselves. One of tiSg5 z
or Queens had Il papoose 10 :
her back % an ironIng boaI "a !
assure you it was Ia Walt, 81
asked the Queen III mosttn . -
Ugh" she replied3 bSsid Oh. year
ugh" Again Nay 80 years 2n
ugh" Then said BY ars, and she
laughed and said "Uf% l gave her
a bunch of grapes, al wasenA sssssssd
the papoose from her Spade bis mt y ii
the grapes. At this It'd thls. pc iy 40
or so passengers wereVs it va these
Fairies of the Forrest, asl gfg all kinds
of questi )ns, and the same answer was
given to all, ugh" Cakes, buns,
peaches, grapes and some money were
handed the Indian Queens. The con-
ductor calling ''all aboard,n we all
scrambled into IL coaches to make the
run to Sacramento, the capitol Of
California. Here at Sacramento the
elevation is only 30 feet and the dis
tance from Ogden is 743 miles, popuIa.
tion, $4,000. As it begin to get dark
again the Porter made up the berths
ana soon all the tourist were in the
land OF morpheus.
At five O'Clock in the morning of the
10th. the Porter called me, saying, If
wanted to see the largest ferry boat IL
the world to get up, and so | did and
found our TIA II On the steamer Solono,
a boat capable carrying 60 freight OF
passenger eaiS. We were crossing tht
straits &c Cardenquez from Benicia L
Port Costa, and | can tell you, Mr.
EDITOR, was glad to smell salt air
for it told to me that | was nearing my
journeys end. From port Costa, .
great shipping point for wheat, We hat
Il nice run along the Bay of San Fran,
cisco uatil Oakland was reached, tler
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