The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-04-10
Winding U? of Mrs Heysers Tip to
The West.

The West.
Mrs. f. Z. Hcyser is at home from hel
extended trip to California and the West
She brought home with her many int
estiny curiosties of that section and
takes great delight in showing them and
giving her friends information in regard
TO that country that is interesting. Mrs.
Heyser is busy woman She is the
popular hostess Of the Heyser House and
most of her time is taken up attending
to her duties. When asked by the News
for an account of the remainder of her
trip she said, she had been 80 busy that
she had not found time to write it. "Just
take your pencil and put down what |
tell you, and il you think it will benefit
the readers OF the News all well and
good, haven't time to write it," and
away she went to answer a call of some
one in the dining room. But in few
minutes returned and the News man
was given the following interesting notes
which are printed for the News readers
and those anxious to hear the wind up
OF her long journey. She said:
In the Western states you meet peo-
pie of every nationality. The China
men raise most Of the vegetables and
sell them very cheap. Most of the In
dams are quite civil and you see them
now and then at the stations selling
bows and arrows, beads and fancy work
| The Portuguese make all kinds OF fancy
baskets, the Spaniaids hot-tomollies put
up in shucks and sold for lunch. The
Italians and Mpxicans make fancy paper
articles and do great deal of hand
painting In many places white and
black attend the same schools. That is
the case in California as well as in other
States, and colored women attend church
teas and d'ess as handsomely as white
people, in fact some of them are highly
educated and very refined Some of the
Chinese women dress very handsomely,
have four or five different colors on at
the same time. You never see them
with hat or bonnet on for fear OF rum
pling their hair. II costs from four to
five dollars to have their hair dressed
and its only done twice and three times
in year. They have rack on which
to rest the head when they sleep. The
dressing they use on the hair is made of
wax.
left for home March the 10th. The
night before leaving train on this same
road was held up and robbed of sixty
thousand dollars. Seventy-fve miles
from Reed Bluff we saw the sun rise
the clouds seemed almost near enough
to touch and looked like fire. never
saw anything so beautiful and nothing
could be more sublime than the trip
through the mountains, from Reed Bluff
to Portland, Oregon. You cross Sacra-
mento river sixteen times, go over thir-
teen high bridges and nineteen tunnels.
Near Oakling, small station where the
houses are built in the side of the noun
tain, where the trains stop long enough
for dinner, you can see Castle Rock
mountain with a beautiful little hotel
built on top, four or five hundred feet
above the railroad track.
We passed Shaster Soda Springs from
which the passengers filled jugs and
bottles OF the most delightful soda water,
better than any manufactured soda water
The water shoots from the side OF the
mountain in large stream, thirty or
forty feet in the air and then falls in
beautiful foam over the rocks down the
mountain side. On top OF the mountain
is small town, where many people 60
for health and pleasure during the sum
mer season. The pine timber is very
thick and green. No artist has ever
made picture so beautiful as the natur-
al scenery that we saw near Siskiyou.
You can see nothing but mountains,
pines, rocks and snow. Near Muir
Peaks you see Mud Springs, with only
hotel and one or two houses. People go
there aud camp out and drink the water,
a few miles from Mud Springs is the Hot
Springs great summer resort.
In Oregon we passed photograph rocks
where every rock broken off has a picture.
saw one as large as my hand with a
perfect pine tree in it.
After leaving Ashland, we again saw
the plains Near Central Point we saw
Mount Pit, standing all alone, covered
with snow and none to be seen any
where else. Forty miles or more from
Mount Pit we came to Table rocks and
other mountains and then to Gold Hills,
where we saw the trestle running up
into the mountain to bring down the
quartz or gold ore. Grants Pass is a
lovely town Of twenty-five thousand in
habitants built in level valley with
mountains on either side. They have
factories OF all kinds, schools. churches,
etc. The train runs through the center
OF the town, consequently you can see
everything from the car windows. After
leaving Grants Pass we go through what
is called Cow Greek canyon, the most
dangerous and complicated part OF the
road. In fact, II Is said to be the most
complicated road on the continent. The
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