Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-01-19
PLEAsANTVILLE, N j, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1881
HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA.


HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA
Letter from a PIeasantyIIle Citi
zen who is yourneyIng Across
the Continent.
En-route for SAN FRANCISCO
January A, 1898.
To THE EDITOR OF The PLEAsANTvILLl
Press:
We left Philadelphia, December 20
Our first stop was at st. Louis, spo
which, in 1854, party of Frenchmel
| selected for q trading station for FUR
| with the Indians 1t is now an Amer
lean city of 100000 inhabitants full o
life, push and vigor. They claim to hav'
had the biggest and most destructive
tornado of any city in the Union. They
also claim the largest depot in the world
!. 1t covers, train sheds and all, clever
acres. Its train sheds cover four miles
of track. People from the seaboarC
cities notice great difference in tht
shipping along the river front. Herr
wh8rves are not practical on account o.
the great difference in the water level
| Between the extremes of drOuths and
| fresh ts at Cincinnati. there is differ
ence OF seventy feet. The steamers, many
of which are long and low, have big
| paddle wheels in the stern and on front
Extending from mast is long boom,
which reaches over the bow and sup
ports long, light narrow bridge. Iu
making landing along the river it lie
swung out to the shore and passengers
are taken on or off.
Along the river front, at these inland
cities, instead of wharves the river side
fo r,araH 10 1awocf lido SanUs
| (called wharf boats) are moored tOlarge
rings in the earth and are kept af1oat.
To these the river feet are mOOred, and
unload and load their cargOes and pas
sengers. Bridges are arranged from
the wharf boats to the shore. There is
an immense traffic on these inland
waters. Great quantities of bituminoue
coal goes from Pittsburg to New
Orleans. 1t is towed in large scows to
Louisville. Kentucky, where the great
Mississippi steamers make up mann
moth tows for New Orleans.
Our next stop was at Kansas City,
built on hills. We think cable and cleo
| trio cars must have been well received
for it must have been impossible for
horses to pull loads up the steep grades,
A half day ia sufficient and we board the
train again December 81 at 2 80 p. m
for Flagstaff, Arizona. Wepass through
Kansas in the night time and wake up
in Colorado.
It was beautiful New Years morn.
ing and we were greeted with "Happy
New Year" from several of our newly
made acquaintance. They were very
sociable travellers. Two were going to
China, another to Australia and Others
to various points in Arizona, and New
Mexico, and California.
We breakfasted at La Junta, Col
Pixies Peak is just visible in the dis
| tance. The country is rOlling-mOstly
stock farms, Hundreds of little prairie
dogs watch us from their little villages
as we pass by. We now approach g
more rugged country and pass villages ol
adobe houses, some very neat ones, two
and half stories high. Many sheep and
cattle ranches are passed. 1t is rich
deep soil but long dry summers make
| agriculture difficult unless where irri
cation is practical. A lady passenger
gave me some interesting points in sheep
raising on large ranches. They have one
black sheep to certain number of white
ones, say one to every hundred. Their
| to count a thousand they only count the
| ten black ones { we now see the necessity
of black sheep). A flock of sheep viii
follow a leader, but no sheep will lead
| to sheep car, SO q goat is trained fol
| the purpose, Billy" marches into thu
car and the sheep follow. Then "Bllly'
edges his way out and is ready fol
another job.
| At Las Vegas, New Mexico, we eat oul
| New Years dinner; night comes aD(
weary of watching we retire to wake vi
in Arizona. We pass Canyon Diablo AMI
arrive at flagstaff at 10 a. m. 1t is {
beautiful Sunday morning. We engeg
carriage and after dinner start fo
Walnut Canyon to view the habitation'
| of the ancient and prehistoric elf
| dwellers. Ca our way there ant
through forest of giant mountain pine
(some of them looked to be nearly fou
feet through we rode within 200 yard
of a deer and we had good view o
him. Our driver said he never saw on
on that route before. We arrived at tn
canyon and viewed its cliffs and habita
| tions, which must have been reache,
from above by rope or other contrivance
As there is no tradition or history @
these seeming habitations, we have ou
own theory, which is that they were fo
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