The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-08-30
a TRIP TO PORTLAND
laR0Ceace Tells Of the hanY Things OF
lnfreSt He Saw In Route.

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Texan like me TO get more than a
thousand miles from home at one
dash is an event that viii not be for
| gotten. We left Waxahachie last
Thursday. the 18th. and at Fort
Worth we changed from the Central
| TO the Denver. At 9.45 we started
north and the day through the pan
handle was pleasant Recent rains
had laid the dust, and the crops,
except wheat. are just simply fine
in the panhandle country kaffir
corn, milo maize, sorghum and water
melons are fine At Vernon we
bought a twenty-five pound water
melon for nickel Lands all up
through this section are advancing
In price and settlers are moving
there rapidly Grass was never bet
ter. and cattle and horses are fat.
At tlagbreak Friday morning we
passed out Of Texas into New Mexico
and after few hours ride across
that territory we entered Colorado.
Trinidad where most OF we Texans
k4E& DA8 GoAtr &E q 43& esE anu BADS~
porous city The mountains near Ii
are full OF coal gold and silver. Our
tickets called for Denver but we
found that after reaching there We
would have to come back over the
same road TO Pueblo Having visited
Denver two years ago we stopped
at Pueblo and inside Of one hour we
we're aboard a special train bound
for Portland We secured a sleeper
on which we remained until We
reached here Monday morning at =
O'Clock
Pueblo is a city of seventy-five
thousand inhabitants Some of the
largest smelters In the whole west
ern country are located here A
smelter IL mill for crushing quartz
rock and extracting the different
ores from it, From Pueblo we turn
ed northwest over the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad and up the
Arkansas river I lived five years
on the bank OF this same stream
away down In Arkansas where large
steam boats piled up and down it.
Here Ii Is not much larger than
Chambers creek. though IL affords
more water than the creek Every
foot of the valley is planted In al
falfa and apples The Arkansas river
runs through rich soil from its hea~
in Colorado to where tt empCies into
the Mississippi Prosperous towns
dot this road all through the valley
and the scenery il the most beau
tifui the eye ever gazed upon The
train would dash under rocks and
through mountain gorEes SO high (
could hardly see TO the top of them.
by midnight We were passing right
through the heart Of the Rocky
mountains with TWO engines pulling
our thirteen sleepers. At Tennessee
pass we reached the summit ten
thousand aud Two hundred feet
above the sea level Then the train
began It's descent toward the Pacific
ocean and the scenery going down
vas grand. Through tunnels.
around sharp curves and under high
oyerhanging rocks il took lots OF
money TO build the Denver and Rio
Grande In the valley ON the west
side OF the noun aims we crossed into
the state OF Utah. the land inhibited
by the Mormoas Within one hun
dTed miles OF salt Lake CITY The
valley widened out aud pretty farms
doomed up tn every direction irri-
CATION bitches fun Of clear water
could be seen running through roe
fields Of alfalfa, wheat and oats. The
Aormons are the pioneer western
4 irrigation farmers.
We arrived at Salt Lake Cl'y at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. where
our sleeper was cut out until li
o'clock that night In order fo give
us chance 90 -se the eitf So't
/ Lake City is one of the pretuest
and most prosperous uu the CONT
nent The valleys uf Utah are
/ ahuDdentls supplied with water for
/ irrigation purposes. rns CifY haE q
/ population nf q 600. aud the streets
are of UNUSUAL width The huild
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