| Show A RIDE ON THE R G W A ride from salt lake to grand junction over the rio bio grande western reveals the fact that the road has been greatly improved in other respects within the past two years besides being changed from narrow marrow to standard gauge in very many places a new road bed has been made avoiding the curves which formerly existed cuts and nils fills at a heavy expense being made to take the place thereof the unloading which occurs at thistle the junction of the sanpete valley branch with the main line renders the eastbound cars quite comfortable and roomy instead of being crowded as on the journey up to that point shows the increasing travel to the granary of utah and perhaps also to some extent how the recent developments development in the marysvale Marys Mary vale evale mines are attracting people thither shortly after yesterdays eastbound train had bad left thistle it was discovered that two ladies and a number of children who had arrived there just before on the train from sanpete Ban San pete intending to journey northward had by mistake taken the wrong train and found themselves traveling towards colorado instead of into utah valley one of the ladies was so overcome with grief on learning of her mistake that she gave way to tears A visit from the conductor however soon tended to console her and also to illustrate how courteous and pleasant it is possible for conductors to be when they choose to study the pleasure of their passengers instead of standing upon their dignity demanding extra fare berating the excited victims of the blunder for their carelessness or otherwise wounding their feelings as conductors are sometimes wont to do the gentlemanly conductor in this instance pleasantly told the ladies that they would lose nothing by the mistake but gain a longer ride as he would have to convey them eastward to clear creek a distance dib tance of eighteen miles and there atop the down train and transfer them to it with an explanation of their situation which be did quite a few passengers also left the train at price hound bound to castle valley in the south or to uintah county in the north signs of progress were visible at price and also at huntington still lower down the stream but more in the nature of extended and better cultivated fields than in buildings the country from these settlements tle ments on eastward to the state line and beyond as everyone knows who has traveled over the road is devoid of interest being a series of barren undulating du lating plains broken here and there by frowning bluffs or mesas the sides of which worn by the action of the elements into fantastic shapes suggested forthe for the locality the name which it bears castle valley grand junction has improved somewhat since my last visit a little over three years since and now claims inhabitants many passengers on the eastward journey spend the night here so as to have daylight in which to view the beauties of the road beyond the travel from here eastward is divided between the nar row gauge D R G which is famous forthe for the magnificent scenery along a D its route and the colorado mi midland land more recently built of the mer merits to 0 of which I 1 am not yet able to speak never having traveled over it G C L GRAND JUNCTION june |
