Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-09
ATTRACTIONS
OF CALIFORNIA
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Salt ale Aag axes a Faml lie
Avog ne Coast
CAZADERo TO SAN DIEGO.
Railroad Movements and what They
Mean 10 the Great west-Utsh
People In San Francisco,

The golden state IS the best adver"
tiled place In America. Every maya
zine and newspaper lauds It's attrac-
lions. Those who shiver in higher and
Northern attitudes look forward to the
time when they may get a chance to
bask In the sunshine OF the summer
land enjoyed there in our winter time.
and nearly every one Of US would like
to see some other place than the one we
live in. Travel broadens our minds
and nbs us Of local conceit when we
see how npich better some things are
done elsewhere than where we live.
/ proposed some years ago TO am Of
fetal 81 the Southern Pacific that II
they would make very low rate
would get up q young folks excursion
to the coast. At first II was met with
approval. was asked how | proposed
to control the pretty girls OF Utah, as
we'll as fer Wild boys when they reach
ed the shores OF the Pacific away from
the restraints OF home. / made the
boa assertion that they could all man
age themselves, and were capable OF
holding themselves straight anywhere.
/ am glad now that the price they
asked frightened me and 50 the matter
dropped.
stlil believe that such a company OF
etudious young people could make an
educational trip that would teach them
more In q few weeks than they oould
otherwise learn in year, especially II
they were students In botany.
I confess that the California coast
from oregon to Mexico has never lost
It's charm for me- The lofty Sierras
on the east. and the ocean on the west
nearly 400 miles In length, combine
10 produce climatic conditions that
make II q veritahle wonderland
At the present time arrangements
are being perfected TO make the trip
In ~ hours from ogden 20 San Fran
cisco II Is almost q new track as far
as Reno, from the junction city, Forty
three miles OF the present distance VIII
be cut on by the short cut across the
lake. Wherever a straight line can be
made, beyond the tunnel to be built
under the summit OF the Sierras, a still
greater saving win be effected.
The closest estimate | could make OF
the number Of passengers carried daily |
ON the six trains running east and
west, would be from 1000 to 1900 per-
sons; think OF this human tide on one |
line only. Add TO this number those
carried on the Santa Fe. the Great |
finally the Canadian Pacific and you |
can then imagine how the western part |
OF America Is changing. For the first |
few years in the early '7Os, when the
road was finished rs passengers were
Lad an tro IN n hnttf IA |
persons daily on the great highway.
RAILROAD MOVEMENTS.
Ny young peoples cheap excursion
IL looming up as a possibility. The |
800 miles Of track laying from its pres
ent terminus to a connection with the
Santa Fe and still the Moffat road now
being built from Denver, will be hunt
ing q western terminus. Add TO this
the western Pacific, the engineers OF
which are looking for a pathway over
the Serras, via Beckwith Pass which
for the information Of my readers /
may say is located north Of the main
line Of the Southern Pacific and Is
az the present time used by the little
timber road known as the Sierra Vail
ley railroad, its outlet being Reno, In
Nevada.
II does look as though a trip to the
west will be easy when all these pro-
jects mature, IL behooves us 10 Keep
well posted on the giant strides OF
western development.
still Nevada looks as desolate as II
EVER did, state whose entire popula-
lion equals about two-thlrds OF our
,ffy The elnpn ~ a paq "a linnn a.. the |
wrong population controls it-at least
I looks that way along the railroads.
| found on my recent visit along thei
'oast that it had been a cold winter.
was backward The frost
sing had nipped the palms and ban
mas as well as the ever present Gala
lily. II was the same cold snap that
tent our thermometer down 10 below
zero in February, but the difference be.
ween our altitude and San Francisco
vas so great that while we had zero
weather. they were "a degrees warmer
han the temperature in Salt Lake City.
SALT LAKERs IN SAN FRANCISCO. /
II is astonishing how many Salt Lake
,eople you Will meet III San Francisco.
70 name them would be a difficult task.
nut we are always glad to see each 9TH
rand have time 10 shake hands, when
nut upon pleasure trip. When l was
here II was the time Of the San Fran
isco conference. The fine hall on Mar
let street was well filled in every part
With a mixture Of good looking young
Elders and fine looking young ladies,