Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-06-30
JEFFERSON TEXAS. FRIDAY. JUNE 80, 1911

dinner at the reasonable charge
of SOC each. We then took the
Mexican street car line and
crossed the river into Juarez
We visited the Custom House,
| Postoffice, old church and bar
racks, where the heavy fighting
was done and Madero captured
the federal army and the town.
The wreck and marks of the
fight are still much in evidence.
The houses are bullet struck with
holes all down the streets. The
pOstoffice building and several
others are still in ashes, having
been burned during the battle
We inspected the ruins and re-
turning visited an American wo
mans souvenire store and after
getting a few things, returned
by another bridge over the Rio
Grande to FL PasO and came to
this fine union depOt-D. V. we
hope to get to Los Angeles day
after tomorrow, Friday, at $50
a. m. We have one night to run
through the sunken lands and
Yuma river country, including
Salton, where the surface is sew
eral feet below the sea level.
Tonight we pass through New
Mexico TO Deming and on to
Tuscon, Arizona. / hope to re-
tire early and get some sleep
tonight. While there is a fine
breeze here, the sun blazes and
it is very hot.
| TuscOn, 10 a. m. 22nd. Have
| just reached here. Quite a city;
| 10000 people or more, street
cars, concrete pavements and
walks and trees that have got
ten to look like trees.
| We were followed out of Ell
Paso and accompanied last night
by a heavy rain and electric
storm. 1t was quite cool and
pleasant and we rested well on
our sleeper, which is also furn-
ished with electric fans and
lights. Found a dining car at.
tached to the train this morning
and feasted on fine coffee, straw.
berries and cream and hot cakes
and rolls.
! The scenery is all alike; a
range of rugged hills or noun
tains on each side the train from
to 20 miles off, and cacti plains
between, through which the
railway track runs. Water can
be had by wind mills and gaso
line engine pumps, but only in
sufficient quantity for small
, patches. No general irrigation,
it seems, can be used or OBJ.
tanned yet The little stations,
however, all along are new and
well built. usually adobe hous
es, and seem prosperous. Al
Tuscon, Ariz., we see in the
; daily papers a train of 1870 cars
of little melons" (cantaloupes
l supposed were shipped cas-,
yesterday, raised here in wha,
they call Imperial Valley by
irrigation, of course. This is
going to be a great country.
Here at Tuscon, which has an
elevation above sea level of 2,3OC
feet, they have closed the win
dowS of our sleeper and have
two electric fans running to keep
the car cooled on account of what
they call the hot air" which
| will continue until midnight.
We strike the Yuma, Salton and
sunken lands late this afternoon
and night, where we run "a
miles from 20 to 800 feet below
J the sea level. Still the trip to
this hour, noon, is pleasant and
we have not suffered. More la,
ter.
! 2;3O June 6 a. M, near Los
Angeles. We'll. we made it
across the divide about midnight.
We struck the city of Yuma on
Yuma river and the head waters
of the Gulf of California the
, waters of the Pacific ocean. The
gulf breeze was hot and strong.
The Salton sea we passed at ii
Up. IN. oppressively hot But
soon after midnight we ascended
! and struck u regular norther.
| had TO get on my overcoat and
wrap in a blanket to keep from
freezing. ! slept hardly any and
yet feel fine this morning as we
race through the cool air toward
the city of the angles.
The whole country is worked
by system of irrigation; or
= ange orchards, vineyards and
all sorts of vegetation depend on
the artificially applied water. |