Show REST REST Nfl AND THANKS It I was u a week of ot resting rc for tor or me Tuesday night they walked with me mp meto meto to the thA train and sent me away 8 with wih good wishes toward to Los los Angeles And i Monday they let me come homo home again F Four ur nights and ancl two lays days were spent pent on tho the train Tho The rest of the time was waR occupied with a n glimpse e of Los Lo Angeles anti and 11 tho the re region lon round about And brief as ns was waR the tho time rime It I Is 19 ap ap- ap- ap predated I 1 wish you might have p gone with wih mo mp and ann have hav helped me to enjoy enjo the delights of a n very cry delightful week week f Passing th the tho ml miles that Intervened let mo me toll tell you Ol of ot tho the picture that has grown old to tho those e more fortunate among you you and you you-ane and which should hoUll be ie seen sper by every very ono one That Is tire the tw CT first t view of of an orange orchard Farm-born Farm men from the middle West Vest rise early earh and wh when n I I pushed up UI the tho curtain In tho the sleeper and look looked d well wel there was spread 1 before me the magical splendor that crowns tho tire beauties of all aU vege vege- tation It I was an nn olan orange e orchard loaded with wih ripening fruit Every leaf glistened like wax In tho the growing I splendor pl of the morning sun and all al Its Is h beauty nuy wa was vas accented b by th the vivid yellow elow of tho ho golden fruit rul Rows flows and acres of It I. I stretching awa away for miles miles miles- so 50 that the tho Idea of Immensity of mn masses was as Impressed At the tho COIner corners corners cor cor- ners ner stood won wonderful tropical trees and along the bo borders del of tho the fields n as If simply to express to profusion of ot productive rich A. A ranged tho the date I palms and tho the fan Can an palm palms and und the century plants plants plants-a a strange country to him who visits It for the thc first time I never l' l so realized th the advantage Salt Sal Lake enJo enjoys R over o er all al the tho other cle cities of the country countr as ns when I wont down lov the narrow streets treet of that bu buoy bucy little southern California town In the first place Los Angeles IS hus busy It I If Is Ij building with wonderful rapidity Mechanics Me Me- fe- fe arc are ii In prime demand domond They arc are getting good wages wage and are arc carn- carn Jug Ing ng them They are putting up all ni sorts o of buildings In the most modern st style stylo Ip o and are doing It I with witha a n haste that reminds one old gentlemen gen gen- of the hurry that followed the tho great fire tire In Chicago that ma maybe be re- re others of th the tho nervous activity In San fan Francisco as a a result resul of the tho the wreck made mach h by the he earthquake I i I Th Their ir street streeL car service Is about like Ikc our own The Tho conductors seemed al almost almost al- al most noat to to equal our own for tor courtesy and tw the tho willingness to consult consul a pa passengers passenger's pas par plans Their ears cars rs go o rapidly and the they make mak the active act e scene recall the hustling haste of lower Broadway In Neu Ne' New York But nuL there are the tho narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row streets street with wih the crowding bu business iness at nt either curb and a perfect wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness of oC automobiles on th their lr dashing errands errand hither and nn thither thither like like like watchful shu shuttles ies In Inn a loom oom of com com- activity If IL I th they could have had the tho broad bread brad streets sleets of Salt La Lake e. e the they could coult have made mad bettor better beter peed speed 1 wl without hout at all al increasing the r to life le and lmh limb Dont Don't you cc h t that opportunity means to us ts Out on n the plain laIn fifteen miles from Crom the city an uncle who ho has almost reached four tour score COle years has settled himself for tor the pleasant ant sunset of life There are ten rich acres acres with fruit and shade trees and ant the garden that pro prospers ner every season And there are at-a the cousins almost unknown restful unknown restful con consented people who bo ho have found the measure of life and are taking taking It in inal all al wisdom an and anI 1 contentment nd Ard there few miles mies beyond them then is old oldO O Oc Oceans Ocean's ians ian's gray and melancholy waste In reality realty it I Is the bay with wih Rod Rodon- Rodon ondo on- on do the Ocean Beach and Venice enle and Santa Monica Venice Impressed me most most alter fer after the sea There Thero is energy and much courage For It I took courage cour cour- ago age to build a Venice on the sands which had been blowing about for ages c But nut a man named KInney has ha- created a marvel there an arid and he Is reaping reaping reap reap- ing Inc a big reward The They have everything everything every every- thing that can contribute to the entertainment entertainment en en- of or reasonable lo men and nothing so far as I discovered which can cn be he remembered regretful regretfully The bath houses are the chief attractions attraction I Ito to some tle sone-tle tho tho Midway ance Plaisance to others other 0 o But forever fore er w waiting with wih blessings blessings bles bles- sings Ings for tor toral torah all al is tho the sea The tide was I I coming In when we reached the beach and while the surface of ot the water two hundred yards from shore was level leveland leveland leveland and calm the waves wae would form torm th themselves themselves them them- m- m selves and roll toward the land They came as advancing swells at first hong first long long ridges that rode forward with wih a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- In Insistent motion molon and lifted gradually until they stood atoo a miracle wall wal of green In sheer escarpment for foran foran an Instant and then broke with wih a roar of man many battles the rainbow flashing Its Us mingled colors clors along In the froth frothy embroidery of or the wave wave and and then the foam-capped foam billow blow would rush for forthe forthe the shore Over and ant over again over again over ana anil over again Does oest It eVer ever tire tiro tro one I wonder vonder Would It I not be bo a joy to sit there in the sand and watch atch that everlasting c panorama A girl wa was gathering moonstones Ina in ina ina a part of or the beach bench where a ridge of gravel runs down to the sea a. a She Sho was light of foot toot and danced awa away gracefully as the water at her trim ankles and she sho watched as ns well vell wel for the safety of ot two little tots who didn't care a great deal if It the they did get wet She showed mo me the difference between moonstones and and how you ma may know a pebble from amoss a n amoss moss agate agte And And- she drives dries a close bargain with wih the commercial gentlemen gentlemen gente- gente gentle gentle- men who come come with wih dilapidated little Itle gripsacks to get stones for tor the tho lapi lapi- dane daries darle But he scorned the quarter I 1 offered for the handful of ot beauties beautes she brought to the old uncle She Sh said sid the they were Christmas presents for Cor children no bigger than herself and herself and who could coull not como come down to th the tho edge of the tho waters 0 0 S Riding I met a steel and man who wont went to to- Los Angeles la last t March for a trial of oC tho the business jt I offered offered of of- prEt and md who vho has remained there thereto thre there there- to the enrichment of his all hC lions houst hOIR Ho UP sl sells structural Iron and has more more orders than limb h ho he can fill ti lint But the Impressive thing was what he said sll of Utah Iron Ho lie Io is supplied from rom PH Pittsburg bur and all ni the ore ole that Is treated treated treat treat- ed ed there thore comes by ship from Duluth or the other Lake Lako Superior points all ni nithe the tho way down lawn the length of the tho greatest great great- est of lakes all the tho tH wa way vay down 11 Lake Taie LakeHuron Huron away down lOwn Lake Lak Erio Bri Eri to e CI Clove Clove- land and th th then n by hy train across a countr country to t the tho furnaces and anti the tho rolls at PiUs PiUs- burg And Anc then it Is 15 shipped by freight acro across almost three thou thousand nd miles ml's of ot country countr to Los Angeles whore where the tho Iw people are put putting it i up tip In buildings build build- ings and anil are rl glad Klad to pa pay almost t en any price couldn't people establish Why hy you 01 tahl mills mif In southern Utah Ulah and supply the trade trado with wih Iron of your our own I asked I And ho he 11 told mo me mf that If the stories ne no had heard of nt the tho Iron In Utah wore were true tru some men would conic come along and do 10 that very thing The Eastern mills mis will wi s ill not complain This country Is growing In lii the J East Bast l asell ns os oswel well wel ell as In the tho tl e t And AntI the nl mill at 1 and at Cleveland and at Birmingham have all al tJ they Ire can clo do Western Vestern buyers have to fight for fOI what shat tIle they get get and get and t the they hey are aro sharp contenders contenders con con- tenders C 5 a fair aIr fall division of the tho 11 over over- sold SOll product of the mills mis But the tho Vest West must grow rite Tho coast the state the city city all ni all are ravenous rl mv- mv enous Co for or I Iron Here Hero In th the tho state lies ies liesa Ie Iea a store of the tho metal metal no no longer longet base c. c because heCo heC o it i has lias found so no l a use rise Some Somo time some somo man Is going to thud find I It It anti Is going to establish maybe establish maybe h-maybe maybe at the cost of of live five or of ten millions mIllions- the furnaces that will wi ill melt the ores ore and mills mils that will wi pre press them Into Ino shapes for use use and seand and deliver them to the market which can can not be satisfied I dont don't think one trifles with wih truth when one says fl'S YS with wih Colonel Sellers that thaL there then are arc millions In It S S SAnd And on the train there thero was as a Massachusetts Mass dass- man with wih his wife She Is Isa Isa Isa a a girl He lie I Is a Bowdoin gra graduate They are nrc ver very careful vr very Informed The They know all al about Utah because e th tile they y do not feel that a citizen citi elti- zen Zel i l of o the republic has properly Improved Improved improved Im Im- im- im proved his unless s he Is fully Culy advised as to conditions all al over the land of the tw tree roe and ant the tho home of the Ilc brave The They were properly apprehensive ap rip- l e to Know tire they had to pass through Salt Lake on their wa way to the tho East L The man told me he lie sympathized zed red with wih the good people of Salt Sal Lake who were vere compelled to risk their lives every day d-ay and when I expressed somo tonic little uncertainty as to 0 what he hea was a talking about out a he hc explained th that t the Mormons were in the habit of goIng goIng gous go- go Ing us out on ta nt t I or t pj yi I morning and taking a pot shot at nt su such h Gentle Gentiles as happened to toe je e abroad And as a business man nina he that tat any of his follow fellow iti- iti lt- lt ens should Iho 11 lit he crushed h by the odious of the churchs church's store Hc Ilc ulry-u ulry th church l co could uld Irive ever Gentile Gentie out o of business Inal Jn In n Salt al Lake Luke and k keep ep them out And ill 11 the re rest t of It I. I When hen he finished his hiS picture I asked ask ask- ed d him where he got coL his information and he told me Inc with wih some surprise that it I had come conic direct from Salt 81 Lake al c. c Ills His wife belonged to Lo a club that takes the tho Tribune and the they know the tha peril of American citizens here herein here here- in their persons and In their p purses r es bec because ufe they have been heen Informed by bythe bythe bythe the Tribune 0 1 I put in a C faithful half day showing them something the they have not yet found in that paper but it I Is not easy to correct the impressions that are are the result of ot long lying However all 01 that Is a a Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas tone 0 S Down own below Las L Vegas some gentleman gentle gentle- gente- gente man man- left leCt a that Hat car loose on a side sidetrack sidetrack track and anI It IL ran down and met us It H hit our engine and climbed up on of the smokestack and stopped us for tor live five hours hours- our but no one one was even slightly hurt and we C o of tho the sleepers were sleepers indeed for or we c knew nothing o of it till ti we e e went vent forward ward hours hour later Inter to Investigate It i was m my first frt railroad wreck after many any thousand miles les o of travel trave While hlo we wo waited there a tramp came In and and ask asked d i for or r money enough to get his breakfast Ills His face tace did lid n not t commend commend com corn mend him and wo we were a little soto slow so to respond Then he said Well Vell Wel then give me a postage stamp or a penny penn for tor luck And ATIl a 1 captain of trel freighters freight freight- ht- ht ers nam named d Wildey ld C told him hit wh why we didn't approve o of him You ar arc not right said paid the Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- e- e vada man man You arc not not good st stuff 1 out of ot luck Your trouble Is chronic Arid And the tramp went awn away Later l c worked some one ono for silver siver and cigarettes cigarettes cig cig- and as our OU train trin started he ranged range triumphant past the windows vs and told us If IC all al on t the e train were as mean as we were he lie would gladly blow us off of tho the track S 0 o 0 Do you know these big valleys valos valo's In inthe the thc lower Utah Do you Do-you you ou know Toole and nd the spaces beyond If I Iso so so you ou know a land hind that Is one time going to blossom blosson with trees and grain and myriad hom homes There Is a treasure Be suro it Is a n promise e that brief time will fulfill wi Ald Asdon on the other side is the tho CI City of or Homes It I is un good to be be- back Just Just Justa a 0 little rest resl and the empire city of the whole mountain re Jon receives ono one as with wih 0 a wel ome Good old town Let us make mako it better bet bet- ter Merry Merr Christmas Christinas a trl friends n s You Yon ha have o I boon been mo mo i I. 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