The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-25
REV. MORGAN WRITES
Tells of His Trip to the M. E.
Conference.
OF INTEREST TO DELoIT PEOPLE
Gives a Graphic Description of the
Country Through Which he Travelled.
Will Write Two More Letters.
Los Angeles, Cal. May II, 1904.

Los Angeles, Cal. May II, 1904.
To The EEIToR OF REVIEW:
In compliance with the wishes of our
friends, we will write in three letters,
brief account of the most important
features of our "trip TO the General con-
ference and Pacific coast. In this
Letter we will give brief description
of the trip to Los Angeles. In the
second letter we will attempt to des-
cribe important points visited on the
Pacific coast and the third, the return
trip.
We left Deloit APP. q on the $50 a.
% train for Omaha where we visited
relatives and looked over some of the
city. We left Omaha at loo p. IN. fos
Kansas City on the Missouri Pacific
railroad arriving in Kansas City at 100
!. N, April %. After securing berths
ind tickets we took in part of the city.
Kansas City is lively business city
out not as nice looking city as either
Oman or D.nver. We left Kansas
City, t king the General Conference
Special on the Santa Fe at 40 p m.
and passe through the beautiful state
of Kansas during the afternoon and
night arriving ia the La Junta Colo
RADIO for breakfast. There we're ten
divisions in the General conference
special and four divisions of the Gener-
al Conference delegates trains. Each
of these trains contaiaing ten or more
sleepers followed, each other about
one half hour apart, so just as we
arrived in the respective places where
meals were served. the train before US
just pulled ous. Here at La Junta we
have the first sight of the Rocky
mount ,jns. Near here is the .uins.
of the once famous fort called Bent's
Fort Bent was the first American
Governor OF New Mexico They say
this fort was once full of the mostreck-
less men that ever gathered in one
spot. Ever thing now has the western
appearance. The mountain breeze,
the adobe houses, the COWBOYS. the
Greesers or Mexicans with their som
breo h It's, the pack burro and the sage
brush, cacsi. ard masquit trees are
the characteristic features of the west
We reached Trinidad about 1000 a. m
This is where we first run into the
mountains. This is d beautiful mining
town surrounded by mountain peaks.
One OF nese peaks is called Simpsons
Rest. ST npaon, an early pioneer, was
with party who was once beseiged by
the India Is. and was killed there and
afterwarl buried on the top of this
peak. Leaving Trinidad, for the next
ID niles, we m ,de difficult ascent of
500 fest through Il binding snow
storm r@aching Ration Tunnel at an
altitude Of Z, G20 feet. The R ton Pass
is full o. interest. One of the stations
on lis pass called Wooten is named
after Uncle Dick Wooten, an old timer
who kept the trail over the pass in re-
pair, an collected Toll from those who
used it. But this pass is elder than
Wooten or even The EARLIEST settlers,
the stage coach, the caravans of emf
grants with theic long wagon trains
left their marks upon this trail, yet it
was a frequented road long before the
| Spanish invasion and doubtless CEN
turtles ago. We have now passed num-
erous COLA and silver mines and COX e
beds and reached the noted Ration
tunnel. This tunnel situated exactly
on the dividing line between Colorado
and New Mexico is 2,0ll feet ia length
Frequently the clouds can be seen be-
low you at this altitude
We are now in the territory of New
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