Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26

rails were clamped, and In thirty
minutes we were sliding down the
mountain. Our next stop was at
GIenwood. Here are the celebrated
Glenwood Boiling Springs.
We passed fine scenery all night
and on waking we found ourselves in
the land of the Mormons. We pass ed
in sight of Utah Lake and soon viewed
Salt Lake City. just outside of Salt
Lake City, near Brigham Junction,
our engine struck a flock of sheep
crossing the track. 1t made the wool
fy,-killed forty. Salt Lake City is
beautifully laid out in squares and
shaded by poplar trees. The great
Tabernacle is in plain view from the
car windows. We made a stop here
of twenty minutes. Next we passed
Great Salt Lake, which is few miles
from the railroad. This is a desolate-
looking country along the salt
marshes. At noon we were in Ogden.
Here we made stop of one hour.
Ogden is the railroad center of Utah.
Here some of the party dropped into
barber shop and paid two bits for
shave. They shave people here in
every sense of the word. Two bits
for mug of coffee, four bits and
dime for small pie, etc. At Ogden
three suspicious ooking characters
boarded the train and aroused quite a
commotion among the passengers,
especially the ladies In the morn
ing, my neighbor, Mr.. W., in the OPP
posite berth, said to me, "Well, how
did you sleep last night?" I replied,
''First- class" He said, "My wife was
nervous and lay awake and watched
the car" Well, about two hours
after this conversation 1 saw man
with the porter making for the bed
ding closet and 10 and behold! they
fished out Mr.. WIS pocket-book. In
his excitement he had forgotten his
wallet, and the porter in making the
berths, had deposited it with the
clothes unobserved. A close shave.
We travelled over the western part
of Colorado and eastern portion of
Nevada in the night. In the morn
ing we were in the desert One
may read about desert but he has
no conception of what the word
desert means until he is placed in one.
We rode for miles and miles where
the country was bare as bald head,
mountains and everything as far as
sand was drifted and piled into heaps,
resembling New England bayfield,,
only of different color. About noon
we came to the Truckee river, clear
as crystal, fed by melting snow from
the mountains. 1t seemed good after
leaving the muddy Arkansas and
crossing the desert to see a stream of
clear water. Our next place of i'm
portance was Rens, pretty city at
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
At Truckee an extra engine was at
tached to our train and we began the
mountain climb. One would think it
impossible for a loaded train to cross
these mountains. In many places
the curves are so sharp that the en-
CINE and nearly all the coaches were
in view from the rear car. Prese ntly
we approached the famous Snow
| l,
When we reached the summit the all
was so rarefied that an old gentleman
in the party could hardly breathe
and had to be famed to keep him
alive. High up the mountain is a
beautiful lake named Dunnor Lake
1t is said to be we'll stocked with fine
trout. We came down the mountain
flying and were soon curving around
Blue Canon. Here one can look down
into the canon nearly perpendicular
two thousand feet. 1t is one of the
finest sights on the route. Snake
river in this vicinity is a novel sight. A
little farther on we saw geyser spout
ing several hundred feet high. Iforgot
to mention that we were then in the
"Golden State" After making Cape
Horn we soon began to strike the rec
soil, and pass vineyards and homes
surrounded with beautiful flowers and
orchards.
We arrived at Sacramento al
500 p. m. Our party separated;
some for San Francisco, some for Los
Angeles, and others for more southern
points. The Corning party stopped
at the Western hotel over night and
in the morning we visited the Capitol
building and grounds. The building
is fine but the eye of the tourist il
caught by the grounds. Here we saw
the orange and lemon trees lader
with fruit, also the magnolia in bloom
and hundreds of varieties of beauti
full flowers. At 1920 a. M, our party