The Newtown bee., 1898-04-29

and Chula Vista and the green hillsides,
springs and running brooks Of old Cor
necticut. Next Colfax, named for
Schuyler Colfax. Here are railroad
repair shops. Next Cape Horn and the
head Of the American river. At Cape
Fl orn the mountain is vertical and work
men were let down from its top by ropes
until they could blast and obtain foot
hold. A plumb line suspended from the
outer side of the cars would touch the
bottom Of the canyon 24OO feet below.
Next Gold Run, where gold was first
discovered in 1848. In this locality
hydraulic mining has in many places
washed away the soil to the bed rock.
Next Chinatown in the mountains.
Over 500 Cinnamon are employed here in
placer mining. The plant is owned by a
Boston syndicate. Next Dutch Fiat,
another mining village. Next a pipe
line coming down the mountains to fur
nish water for mining purposes and
throwing g spray from the lower end,
80 feet in height. Next the lumber
mills in the mountains, with an independ-
ent railroad owned by the company to
bring the timber from the mountains to
the mills. At this place the timber con-
sisted of Arbor Vitae, spruce, pine and
grease wood, snow in the ravines. Next
the Blue Canyon 300 feet deep and 420O
feet above tide water; snow and mud
mixed in the streets around the station.
After leaving Blue Canyon we pass
through A miles of snow sheds in the
Sierra Nevada mountains; also Is tun-
nels connecting the sheds. Next Sum-
NIT, the highest point on the railroad OF
the Sierra Nevada mountains, 7Ol7 feet
above tide water. Bonner lake, 16 miles
long, is nestled in the tops of the noun
tsins just north of the track. The con-
ductor said that one year ago there was
II feet of snow on the Sierra. The past
winter there has been but little snow but
it never wholly melts in summer in the
vicinity of the snow sheds. Sometimes
it -accumulates to a depth of 30 or 40
feet. Descending by a horseshoe curve
from which we saw the track over which
we had inst passed high above US.
Evening found US at Truckee, the first
town in Nevada. Stopped 20 minutes
for refreshments. Morning of Good
Friday, April 8, we are passing over the
desert Of Nevada. A long range of
the Rockies l6 miles away in Ethe south
east perfectly covered with snow, and no
timber to be seen. 1t is a most magnifi-
cent sight.
IL As a. M: We have been crossing
the Nevada desert since early morning
Sage brush and alkali, with mountains
in the distance. Afternoon First glimpse
of the Great Salt Lake. We are running
around the north and northeast sides OF
the lake. The great plains all around us
glimmering white with alkali. Passed
the place marked by post and board
where the last spike In the Continental
railroad was driven, May 10, 1869. The
road was built through the influence of
the late Senator Leland Stanford and the
spike and tie are in the museum of the
Leland Stanford University. We next
fertile and level plain, border
ed with mountains on the east and the |
Great Salt Lake on the west; one of the
Loveliest valleys in the world.
Passed the town of Brigham, situated /
IN the plain in q kind of amphitheater
1t the foot Of the mountains, named from
Brigham Young, and inhabited wholly |
by Mormons. Great numbers of cattle,
jheep, horses, ETC., were seen in the diff
erent enclosures, and stacks Of hay were
n many Of the fields. The men were Just
to pillow. The soil appeared
ich and fertile. Five O'Clock o. M.
changed time to o'clock.
Ogden, great railroad center, noun.
aims capped with snow. The valley
ontinues very fertile, with no signs of
kali. $50 p. M: Crossed the River
ordan, beautiful clear flowing stream,
nth very low banks on each side. We
emarked that although we were very
ear the Jordan yet we did not s'stand
n Jordan's stormy banks" Large en-
losures for evaporating salt water ana
manufacturing salt all about. 1t is said
hat the water of the Great Salt Lake ID
o strongly impregnated with salt that
0 person can sink in It. III
From Ogden to Salt Lake City the /
alley increases In beauty. On the east 3
re the eternal mountains, on the west Il
40 lake, while enterprise and thrift /
bound on every hand. Next, Salt Lake q
ity, with the temple ornamented with i