The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-04-10
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/ IlNeT' we ATE ulhner anu supper az one
of the best hotels. The colored people
stop at the hotels and eat with the white
people / saw muscles, craw fish, clans,
oysters and soft shell turtles all alive in
abundance. All kinds Of fruit and vege-
tables are raised in Oregon without irri-
cation.
Left Portland at o'clock in the even
ing, travelled through mountains all night
and the next day. Ate breakfast at a
beautiful hotel at Mechaum, built OF
pine logs, ceiled inside with cedar and
furnished handsomely. We crossed
Snake river into Idaho. This river has
only been partially navigated and con-
sidered very dangerous. No life has
ever been saved after getting into its
waters. They have tried to use the
water for irrigation by making flood
gates, but when they get the water most
through it sucks back into the stream.
II it could he used for irrigation the
land would be much more valuable. In
some parts Of the State, the river has
what they call whirl-pools. The water
will start like blubber, 20 round and
round like wheel, gets longer and long
er until it disappears. This you can see
plainly from the car window. The lady,
who lives near the river and told me all
about it, said you could throw a small
stick in the water and never see it again,
also that there were great many nice
fish caught in some parts Of the river.
She told me also that Idaho had great
many valuable mines, but that none OF
the miners in the West anywhere were
making any money, now, just about
making expenses She gave me some
beautiful specimens from her two mines,
one the JEFF Davis the other Mary Ann.
She said that Idaho was in most places
very unhealthy as there was nothing
much but alkali water, and scarcely any
vegetables or fruit raised in the State.
Some of the land was irrigated from
pools dug at the bottom of the noun
tains that catches the snow water as it
melts.
At Colwell we saw great deal of pine
timber and large saw mills At Dempa
the people changed cars for Silver City
and Denver City, two large mining towns.
We reached Brigham City Wednesday,
18th, nice town, named for Brigham
Young, where he lived with fifty wives
We ate breakfast at Ogden, where people
change cars for Salt Lake City. Eastern
people, with round-trip tickets, can
make the trip in one day free Of charge
A man with eleven wives was on our
train from Brigham to Ogden. The law
in Utah now is that men are to have
only one wife, but those who already
had their wives are still allowed to sup
port them. At Coalville we had terri
BILE snow storm and the train was delay
ed half an hour. We passed through
the snow sheds, then saw the rock domes
where they burn lime, very different
from anything in Kentucky. l met
lady going from Ogden to Cheyenne,
who lived in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She said,
in that part of the State colored and
white people often inter-married.
In going through Wyoming, which is
also mountainous country, we saw a
great deal OF beautiful scenery. Moth.
ing is raised in the State, except by irri-
cation. Thurs lay morning the 18th,
we reached Denver, Colorado, and re-
NAMED in that city six hours. The
train, which came on Monday night,
was wrecked and robbed near Denver.
In going through Colorado il was so ex
tremely cold and the ice so thick on the
car windows we could see but little of
the country.
We were in Kansas city two hours.
The country reminds one very much OF
Kentucky. The State OF Missouri shows
up beautifully from the train and We
passed so many large, nice towns At
st. Charles we crossed st. Charles river
on a long bridge, over mile long, said
to be one OF the highest in the world
Was in St. Louis three hours, where the
depot is the finest in the United States.
Saturday the 10th | ate very expensive
breakfast at the depot IN Chicago, after
which we took the buss for Oxford hotel
While there | visited the beautiful Lake
Michigan. From the hotel saw the
large iron bridge over Chicago river
turned around for passing boat. ATT
o'clock in the evening took the train
for Louisville, passed through Illinois
and most Of Indiana at night; reached
Louisville at o'clock Sunday morning
aud Cloverport Sunday night, 18th, at
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