| Show letter joics editor alter a long and uninteresting ride of two nighta and one day from we land in of the beautiful valley of the sacramento to find the farmers cutting their grain for hay caused ty the aroath but 1 am told that the most of the hav in the state la grain cut when it is just heading we arrived in san francisco cal 0 K and it was quite interesting and no doubt it will be to some of your readers to learn that the train locomotives and all wag run onto a ferry boat three a breast and carried across the sacramento river about one mile in width a run of about an hour the train waa run out into the bay of san francisco about a mile on a grade built above the water and the entire train load of peo pie onto a boat and carried across this beautiful bay a distance of biye miles and landed at the foot of farhet el in this most interesting city of the pacific I1 will not attempt to dis cribe it but with its old mission church established in sutro hights seal imposing forts the safety works of the government beautiful houses paries and cemeteries extensive docks and innumerable crafts of all descrip-tions from every nation of the globe to say nothing of and pur oh yes aad the fair which ie certainly a great credit to the state the first thing I1 saw on the second floor of the mining buit diniz was the large piece of slate from our slate canyon and I1 alieve a good market could be found for it here after doina the city we journeyed south of which will write later J D J SANTA cal may 20 |
