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Show FIRST PASSENGERS ON NEW ROUTE TO COAST Mr. and Mrs. J. Donnan Rcavis Reach Los Angeles After Sixty Hours' Tra?cl. Mr. and Mrs. J. Donnan Reavls of Salt , Lake have the distinction of being the . flrst passengers to travel over the Salt Lake railway, says the Los Angeles Examiner. Ex-aminer. They brought with them a Saratoga trunk, a bulldog and a.grayhound as Impedimenta. Im-pedimenta. They traveled In box cars and stayed at section camps and navvies' boarding-houses; took their chances on catching work trains and wild engines, but they made the Journey without disu-greeable disu-greeable Incident. They left Salt Lake on Friday evening, arriving at the Hollenbeck hotel Monday morning. "1 only had one adventure," said Mrs. Reavls. "At Callente a number of the Greeks who serve In the construction I work followed me with disagreeable re- I , marks, so I unleashed 'Bullfinch,' my bull-' bull-' dog, and set hln at them. 'Bullfinch' I ceme back but the Greeks did not. It was bad weather for running as the mud was over shoetop deep, but they did not seem to mind that at all," and the plucky little woman laughed merrily. "I suppose it is hardly necessary to tell you that I am a real estate man," said Mr. Reavie. "I felt such an Interest in the road which 1 believe means more to Los Angeles and Salt Lake than any one now realises that I decided to make the trip and Mrs. Reavis decided to come with me, so there was nothing more for me to l say. The completion of that railway" is epoch marking, it carries out a dream of forty years a dream that Brigham Young first conceived. "From Salt Lake to Callente we traveled trav-eled in a regular coach, but from there on we had to take our chances in box cars and construction trains. The road is splendidly built, but it ie going some to ride In a rattling box car at sixty miles an hour, as we often did. "Los Vegas is to be one of the finest resorts in the country. Its climate is superb, su-perb, the scenery great, water pure. Thomas McWilliams has started a town adjoining the company's site and is selling lots like hot cakes; people are driving overland Into that region by the hundreds from ail over the Western States. "Then comes Good Springs, where there are already ten or fifteen houses and stores. Kelso is the next place, where the shops are located, and then we stopped at Clmis. where the devil s playground in found. This is an Immense mound of sand, covering twenty-five acres, which changes its form wltn the wind almost every day. "Numbtrs of speculators and Investors are all along the road, and business Is brisk already. At Callente Binall lots are selling for t. and in big demand. "My object in coining this way to Los Angeles was to Inform myself in detail of the resources and advantages of the country coun-try along the toad, and help work for the good of both Salt Lake and 1-os Angeles. I am one of the founders of the Real Estate Es-tate association of my city and hope to make arrangements with reputable real estate men here to prolit by the Immense huslnees that Is sure .to be done all along the line. -No such mining development has ever been known as will be seen when that road Is oened for traffic. The country coun-try is simplv full of good mines. A hy everv brakomun and section hand has mine's and carries jnu-kets full of specimens. speci-mens. Mv advice to Los Angeles people is to get'ln and study the situation and comprehend what that country and that railway mean to southern California. i believe it will do more for you people than both of the other overland railways you now have." |