Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-01-27

broken, we also saw nor mules
Ralph and Lynn enjoyed seeing sae
black pigs and cove
Oar luncheon lasted until room
Wednesday and that evening we got
supper in the dining Car, I never paid
So that cid Us more good than that
About 7:50 o clock we reached Kansas
City and of all the bum places ever
was IN, judging from what I could
see OF IL from tho depot, this Is the
worst. Here | got some more fruit,
bread and milk and one of the bottles
OF milk ourst 50 We had only one but
that was enough such as it wEs.
Well, We got a section In the sleeper
and from here on everything was
comfortable and we went to bed,
Lena and Lynn downstairs, aud
| upstairs" as Ralph called it.
We woke up in Kansas and here
we had our hrst glimpse of a lsvel
plain as far as we could see dotted
with farm buildings and smallyiilages.
every house with one or two wind
mills aud a tee had ANAL rees grow
ing around them. Here were miles
and niles of corn fields and lots of
cattle and a few horses and hog bat
mostly cattle and corn. We saw aome
fair places and | noticed one place,
Mead, Kansas, and thought 1t was
about the best We went through and
wondered il II was named for Or.
Mead.
For hundreds of miles all Is leve
and the farms look large bat | would
not like 10 live there. We saw no
buildings that would be worth more
than IS cents, little lo~ squat affairs.
for a barn Just a shed or something.
. Ii did not look very much like Yer
mont. Thursday night we had a good
sleep and woke up in New Mexico,
and what a change. | 3 ould say
from 20 10 30 miles, sometimes nearer,
: were high bare mountains topped with
snow aud all around q desert, and
. such a desert, sand, alksli, ~sageorush
and cactus no houses, Just dry waste,
occasionally a hut beside the track
= where some poor NJ xican or Ihdian
lived andperhaps worked on the road
O Occasionally there was a mining camp
6 near the mountains and when there
:. was q town II VAS small,a water tank,
6 a small depot, a store and from 4 10
20 houses. Later 1t began to get bet
e ter In places and We saw a few larger
towns. We saw some prairie dogs
:, and a few skeletons of cattle. We
= got another good nights sleep and
Is began to get our meals in the dining
,s car Thursday night. Friday morning
II we found we were considerably late
a and would not reach Ell Pssso, Texas
mining going on and found quite &
d large pretty place. Before reaching
" FL Paso we passed through a besuti'
e full place where there were parks
small ponds or lagoons with largg
Ie beautiful swans and ducks by TIN
d hundred, this Is a great place for con
- sumptive people and a great man,
= come here. Il Is a regular oasis ii
the desert.
in At FL Paso we purchased cur tick
st cts for Phoenix and had our trunk
re- r~echecked and after a stop of ?
~ minutes were again on our way. W
az saw a large ore smelling plant an
es had a glimpse of the Rio Grand
de river which Is sometimes quite a rive
w but was then nearly dry ana We coul
scarcely see whethe. there was an
th current or not. Here We had OF
as frst look at Old Mexico ard what "
re saw oil 1t cross the river was = prett
a dry, mountainous, barren outlook, a
IN. red alkali, rock and desert, nothIn
Id. growing but cactus and rattlesnaket
I'M For a long way all was a regU
lat lar desert, dry and barren, in som
Ter places badly broken up by hills 81
mountains, later pm up in New Mexie
st. we saw N first regular cowboy
.ck and IL any boy who dreams OF being
'ou cowboy could have Q them and th
to hot burning country lonely beyor
We any description they wouli new,
dream Of il again. Here We "a
ell. many skeletons oil cattle that b.
"a. died probably from thirst. We sa
no a beautiful sunset and went to b,
,ad again, waking up and changing
,ad another sleeper before reaching Ma
cot icopa a. about : o'clock In the NOR
the ing, leaving there again at about o
a m. for Phoenix.
a From Manicopa up to some fl
and miles from Phoenix all was a desc
Id | but sou can bet II Phoenix had be
got ike the other towns We a seen
was should have taken the next train
xas partnn mr. California hnt n vas n