The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-13
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CALIFORNIA
WILL INTEREST PALLA-
DUN READERL.
Los Angeles, Cal, June 4, 1904.

Los Angeles, CAL, June 4, l9O4.
Correspondence Of the Palladium.
After having put it off for month,
l will not write the letter which L
promised.
[ do not suppose you care much to
hear Of my tripou t here, and even
If you did, it has been SO long, that
little incidents and happenings that
might have been of interest to you
have slipped my mind. In fact trip
across the plains with their sage
brush and cattle ranges | consider
very tedious and uneventful.
But when you strike the mountains,
by the way of the Denver q Rio
Grande railroad, it wakes one up to
| the greatness if not the goodness OF
God, the Almighty, for it was GER
tainlv an almighty big job to build
the Rocky mountains.
| I passed Pueblo and Canyon City
while asleep, but awakened on enter
, ing the Royal Gorge at 4 a. m. The
magnitude and grandure Of the scene
here is awe-inspiring. Rocks, hum
dreds of feet high, both sides Of the
train. and so close as almost to shut
out the light Of day, and some places
literally overhancing the coach.
One can scarcely conceive the wild
beauty Of this part of the Rockies
without actually seeing them, and to
lattempt a pen picture Of them Is be-
vOnd me and makes me think of the
cowboy, who, on seeing them for the
first time. threw his sOmbrero into the
air and cried "Hurrah for God!' 1t
is all one grand picture from Denver
TO Salt Lake City. Mountains Of pre-
cipitous rocks with snow clad peaks.
Some Of the places Of interest, the
college mountains (Harvard, Prince
ton and Yale), Mountain Of the Holy
Gross and the Colorado mines, with
their workings hundreds Of feet above
the railroad, which at that point Is
nearly two miles above sea level.
! In looking up to the mine, the scene
;, is sublime. Rock upon rock, ledge
upon ledge Of red granite, which when
the sun strikes it, looks like amethyst
and the mountain tops capped with
snow look like silver
1t is slow travelling here, but none
too slow, for one feels like lingering
midst these mighty works of Nature
i Now [ will skip Salt Lake City
with its wide streets studded wifi
| electric poles in the center instead OF
at the sides. and costly Mormon
temple and tabernacle. On by Ogden
more plains and cattle ranges, till We
climb the Sierras, up, up, through At
miles of snow sheds, till we finally
reach thesummit midst cold and snow
in plenty. And now we start dowr
toward the Land Of Promise. Within
! an hour the car windows are oper
and the wind blows in soft and warm
, An hour later potatoes in blossom
wheat in head, fine lawns, fruits anc
flower And after the long, cold win
ter I had passed in Richmond | know
, You will believe me when I tell yor
I was glad to be in California, where
I would not have to thaw out the
cistern pump in April.
, Now I will skip about 400 miles
! through the fertile Sacramento val
! ley and across Mojave desert to Lo:
Angeles, the mecca of southern Cali
! fornia. with population of 10000
; and situated inland % miles from
: the ocean.
The seven southermost counties O
the state, usually referred to a:
: Southern California, constitute ;
= small empire containing an area O
: about $4,000 square miles, within
which may be found a wonderful va