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Show Letter from T. F. Trano I.m Angeles, May S, lJd. Kdivh ok Han.skii. IKar Sir: -Just a few I lias r.im our old mtsdoii Held. Our trip wis made on the Chicago Limited Stilt Like Houte, and olio of the llne.it tr.tlus (lint cross Iho continent, consisting of Pull-many, Pull-many, Diner, Observation Car, etc This was somewhat dlllercut to my I llrnt lilp made In tho early liO's, when ' 11 took us about 10 days logo from Lehl to San Pedro. Hut the same old deserls are (o bo crossed nnd I could see no change except Las Vegiu, which Is i n nourishing (own with stores, banks, I club houses, buildings, etc., located nbout a mllerom (ho old spring. see where tiro Homl river hnd created such wonderful chmigcB In the girat i Meadow Wash on the route of Salt Lnke I road. Bridges with one end washed 1 away nie still standing It has cost the , railroad over a million dollars to rcpalt (ho tracks and roadbed. Water for the engines Is supplied from well that j havo been driven hi the desert at ( (HU'eii'ilt places. Tho wells are 87 to 020 feel deep. 1 see ninny changes in tho country after wo pass (hioligh the Calicou Pass t and travel through San Bernardino (the I early home of some of our Lehl people), ' Hlvcrslde, Pomona (o the city of the AngeN, with her 210,000 people. They claim 10,000 visitors are here now. The main streets Saturday evening looked j llko Market St of Frisco or Slate St., ' Chicago. New buildings are going tip every wheie and excavations are being made for new foundations. In regntd to living down hero some people thought everything would bo high, but 1 do not llnd much change hi litis regard slnco I was here on my mission 10 years ago. Hooms nru from f2 to f5 a week and meals 20u. and up. Fii'sco's trouble made no difference. I wish to mention about one of the ' new resorts, Venice, whloh has sprung up by the help of an old Lehl boy, David Evans. Many of your friends w I'll (o be lemembeied to you. Yotiis, s T. F. Tka.nu. |