Show TRAINS PASSED IN THE DESERT Passengers Exchanged Greetings as asS S They Rolled Along FIRST TRIP DELIGHTFUL SALT LAKE ROUTE IS NOW A t REALITY t S S Special al to T The Herald Harald HaraldO HeraldS S N BOARD first east bound train i O Salt Lake route Caliente Nev ev evi i May hl The two initial trains of ue the Salt Lake touts roue have made a meet I lag jAg iu in the desert And the last mile of t tI trade track S Salt Lake and the I southwestern aboard haS hag hem been form Corm Cormany formally any ally opened to the public At U Z p m in inthis this last event took place well down among the rolling foothills winch which fringe e the Nevada Neada desert below where a sign board against a pole told the stor story of location at the stat station on caned called Byron and the distance miles from Salt Lake The east and west bound trains exchanged greetings 5 as the W Bt hound tram train took the pa passing sing track for or the meeting The east bound train has from the excessive excessive I sive of Its equipment met with a two hours dela delay in the heavy climb over the Cajon a but Its op from Salt Lake the meet meetIng In Ing point on time to the Continuous Welcome The progress of the fast rast bound train had been a continual s series ries of glad wel comings even at Daggett and Otis which points were not reached until long past midnight What seemed to tob b 1 the entire population of these des desert desert ert towns was present to welcome the initial train and speed it on its way with u a noisy adIeu H Here re and there at the now sparsely populated construction camps bronze faced Gr eks or diminutive Japs lined up to wave their hats and send a cheer after the line of coaches and Pullmans that was being whirled over the grade in which their hands had so lon long be been n buS busy r in building A lengthy stop at Las Vegas gave the passengers a peep at this thin typical outpost of the frontier its rag houses and fUld other types of oC temporary structures tures being a ne sight to many of thEse th se overland travelers Lost Time ime Made Up Over Oer the divide between Las Ve Vegas as asand and down to the meeting point in the valley of the Muddy luddy some of the lost time was gained as the train rolled smoothly over the ne new construction Once in a while a six or sight ight horse or e freighter toiling along the old trail gave ve Opportunity for comparison be I tween the time and those days when the pathway was as the only connecting between Salt Lake and California Entering the Valley wash under which title is known that long pass through the I mountains of southern Nevada Neada the I eastbound traIn winds its way wa through I a stretch of ever varying scenery This I portion of the line has Impressed the passengers with its beauty I The dun dull gray colorings of Palisade canyon have given brilliant hues which tine the stratus stratas of the can canyon yon Everywhere there Is a constant shift and change of color which gIves the tIte Salt Lake route a place among the lines of the west Grim Reminders At many points along th the wily way th this narrow still tm retains portions of cf I Ithe the abandoned grades grim me of that great for the on of this right of wa way which marked the early days or of tile Snit Salt Lake route before rte peace MIme came to the warring fAe fac and rendered the present opening of thE lIne a possibility Caliente was reached at p m in where the people although th they y had toda today already welcomed one initial traIn were out in numbers to greet the passengers from frolD the Land uLand of Sun slime shine From here the rest is eAsy and tim the run home to capital will mishaps be made in such time as to send the train into Its ter terminal terminal minal station close to its scheduled time |