Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-15
DELAWARE GAZETTE AND STATE JoURN A1s-wI II

specials passed through Ogden last
week and We came across them at every
station. We had the right of way, but
as our engine developed a tendency TO
frequent attacks of "hot box" we had
to yiold it and when we reached a
lonely outpost in Nevada we found the
Leaguers had eaten up the breakfast
ordered for US. Warned by our ravenous
countenanoes the proprietor eagerly
promised to have more ready soon. At
every station temporary booths had
been erected and vast preparations
made to feed the Eastern hordes that
had aliehted on them like the migrators
OF old. The people from all tie country
around were assembled and It was a
good opportunity to see and talk to
them. The story of prosperity con
tinued. The Nevadans admitted that
in spite of the gold standard they are
as prosperous as they could wish,
though one added iii we had free
silver we'd be as rich as some OF your
Eastern men," A frsquen. expression
was We've got Gods country out
here" Behind the hills were rich
ranches irrigated from the mountain
lakes. On one side of the track were
rich meadows and grazing herds, on
the other sage desert. Common laborers
here earn So day; skilled ones from
"a and s. up. The women and girls
looked healthy and contented and
seemed we'll educated. Some Of the
towns have libraries and free bath
houses and the women told me of the
different societies to which they be-
longed, a prominent one peing the
Daughters of Rebeoca, Woman's Ma
sonic order. Cowboys, in suits of
buffalo hide and with cruel spurs, and
Indians, appeared at every station. The
latter were of the Shoshone and Pinto
tribes and for a consideration we're
| willing targets for the cameras. One
animated bundle of rags was an Indian
woman looking one century old and
as il good for another. The dreary
stretches of desert were interspersed
with green cases. At Humboldt a
charming grove of locust trees sur.
rounded the station and was alive with
birds. At dawn we crossed the sum
mits OF the Sierras under 40 miles OF
snowsheds through which the sunlight
sifted in dusty rays. We caught tan
talizing glimpses of deep gorges and
slender pines and Bonner Lake, then
slid down the slopes to Sacramento
The broad valleys of Sacramento and
San joaquin bristle with windmills that
draw water from underlying reservoirs
and have the thriftiest orchards, wheat
| fields and vineyards and the largest
wineries in the State. The dwellings,
of Stockton are surrounded by lawns In
which are orange trees, still laden with
golden fruit, ralm trees 40 feet high
and as much in diameter across the
branches; Japanese umbrella trees,
making roof impervious to rain, great
oleander trees, heavy with blossoms,
pepper trees, with their airy, feathery
foliage, eucalyptus, crepe myrtle in pink
pigrameds, pomegranates in fruit and
flower and fig trees. The air is scented
with jasmine and clematis. The dry
season now reiRns and bloom is only
possible by irrigation, but each house
has its windmill and the flowers profit
by the overflow and bloom continually
though the constant, never W linking
sun dries some of them to powder while
still retaining color and shape. 1t
| gives one realizing sense OF the size
OF our country to cross it from ocean
to ocean in week of almost continuous
travel. LII any one Is prepared to
say our continent is 6,0O0 miles wide
instead OF 5000, am ready to believe
him, but one is struck with the greater
comfort and convenience of our railway
travel over that OF Europe, with the
smoothness Of our roadbeds, and the
superior intelligence and courtesy of
our railway officials. A, s,