The San Francisco call., 1910-08-22
MOUNTAINEERS
WAVE WELCOME
TO FIRST TRAIN
Every Cabin by Road Gives Up
It's Cheering Group as
Special Passes
Line Through Feather River
Canyon Is Marvel of En-
gineering Skill

10 witness the long deferred realization
Of their railroad dreams this day come
true
ENTHJ SIASTIC LOMAX
Then. following the usual cries for
LomaN. the governor" as his staff af-
fectionately leails him. spoke in reply
in his customary candid way. Lomax.
old in experience and wisdom, but
young in his enthusiasm, knows how to
make verbal hit from any position.
and nobody has anything on him when
It comes to saying things in behalf of
railroad enterprise. You see. he be-
licves i'll this line of transportation
goods he is handling. and so can make
others believe in its also. Blaisden be-
lieved him before he began, and said so
with a shout that came echoing back
through the clear. warm summer morn
ing.
Then al Hartwell the good people of
quincy had come up again over a five
mile branch road. which they built
themselves 10 connect with the Western
Pacific Again their really excellent
a
humorous greeting, while feminine
quincy. from grandma 10 the little
daughter OF the house, distributed
smiles. fruit and flowers.
Julius Kahn. husky from much out
door Rrophesying for the new overland
route and for the Panama Pacific eX-
position. got up on the freight plat
form and waved an elegant oratoricaI
forennger a. he proclaimed the gospel
az good lines for the mOuntaineers and
their neighbors.
The specials run from Hartwell TO
oroVille was broken only by a brief
stop Al Intake, where the great West
ern power company is adding TO its ex-
tensive works q dam that will impound
for ii great body OF the Feather
river flood season flow This ride along
The Feather river is an experience not
10 he duplicated anywhere. 4 full 100
miles the road winds with the beauti-
ful stream that is in winter a resistless
river racing between its granite banks
Yet so far above il as TO be wholly safe
from am period of the torrent Rug
Eed walls and towering battlements of
stone border the way and the pines and
frs bristle along the high cliffs. One
sees I'm tho clear waters below schools
Of salmon unable TO get past the rock
barriers. Yet blfndly obeying the laws
of their kind. their fms beating against
No sNowSHEDs MAR VIEW
In an this 100 miles there is not a
snowshed 10 mar the view. The grade
is never above ! per cent. and the
curves are SO easy that running up or
down the train speed is unchecked and
UNMARRIED. the tunnels are short and
the bridges few, but the rock cuttings
are enormous It is easy TO believe
that tho builders put mp SIS. 600 900
for this 100 miles, and that as a
preliminary 10 it they had to blast out
wagon -oad all the way that cost
cool million. The result is worth the
money and nothing milder than a cata-
Clysm can ever seriously impede the
operation Of this stretch.
Then the scenic value of it can not
fail 10 be a rich asset TO the pa assenge
department as long as it has tickets
TO sell and while the people who travel
care 10 look at the beauties Of nature
through car windows
ACTIVE oROVILLAGERs
BY the time the Western Pacific
pilgrims pied off their train here the
astute and energetic Oro~illagers had
them all so tagged and labeled that
you might easily have thought the
whole thing a party arranged by, for
and in the sole interest of this up and
doing town.
Welcome" said the aureate badges.
Guests OF the Western Pacific. well
come TO Oroville, the gateway city in
Sacramento valley. First passenger
train. August -. 1910" And then the
feathersA fair white plumes. stamped in
gold, ''Orovile on the Feather well
comes Western Pacific were orif1am-
mes for all the headgear.
IN front Of the masonry depot. hap
PLY designed in a modified style. was
the best Of OrOvilles citizens and the
best is good enough 10 talk about, the
business and professional men whose
avocation is TO keep something coming
and going ali the time through the
gateway city. their women kind, a uni
formed hand-altogether as eager and
as enthusiastic a crowd as one could
wish TO find. A little apart. near the
new depot. little Oroville was out in
force with loops and strings OF fire
crackers strung from poles to add a
picturesque touch and enlivening note
10 the informal celebration.
TWO HUNDRED TAKERS
They don't wait for introductions or
stand on any other ceremony when
they are out boosting IN OroviIle. The
nrecrackers were still rattling and the
hand had not finished crashing out its
first number of welcome when the re-
ceptiOn committee-to name its mem
hers would be 10 give a business di-
rectory OF the town-had the pilgrims
all sorted out and assigned TO auto
mobiles and carriages for whirl about
the place and its environs. In each
conveyance, mark you, was one of the
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