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Show San f-rantlsco. Onoof our Grent Siatenian ouco raid in giving ndvico to one ot Ids friends said. Go West young man. I took that advice nnd with a traveling companion, com-panion, Mr. U. A. Kiikhiim , left Lol.' May 1st on thu evening train and itnrt-ed itnrt-ed on our journey. Wu spent that night in Salt Laku City nud on Mundny in n heavy snow storm nt I0.0 p m. weleft for Odgen, nt 2.-i:i n. m. wo hit Ogdcu nnd nindu our way by rail out tho drenrv plainf, through I lie great Sago llrusli. Statu ut Kcviula. Hopping at a few small places on the way. He crossed the Kiel rn Nevada Mts. during the nigi't nud when dny-llght came on the second morning we found ourselves gliding along among tho lovely green hills, dotted here nud tlioio with uont little farm collagen whose front doors uid porches wero most beautifully nd-arned nd-arned with climbing roses mid vines the nearer we got to Sacramento tho more bountiful thu scenery. Tho great fields tit golden headed Hurley ready for tho reaper, thu Ileitis of green oats, tin.-monstrous tin.-monstrous llelds of i-orn, wheat nnd potatoes, some in blooiue. This wns a most lovely sight to llm tout 1st, in vie iv lug the landscape. Wu thought surely thai tho Great Crentor ot tho universe hud putiill thu lliiishiug touches touch-es on this Plate, To see the plowimin going (or ouu linlf milu with his 1 horse plow leaving a straight furiow behind him. Then thu grit.it orchards with rowH ot (ruit trcos nsfaras thu eye can ecu laid out in rows nt n right angles, and hun-dredsnt hun-dredsnt acic ot vines ot nil kinds it grapes, was it most voudeiful eight. Then tho green "meadows wheiu wild flowers wero in bloom. The hoi sea nnd co-s with their young playing nnd skipping skip-ping about together, nlsa the jheep nnd herlsot fine fat swlno roaming among tho gnis i made a pretty picture to the W I . ) I I lu$ ft' ,M I - i i i, t lorlsoinno ( i ti tt iiin , -l I1 ' i ftdmlrcr of nature Wo crossed the American IUvcr nnd mndo our way to Susun bay hero our train wa rnnda into in-to two eictlors nnd wllh two engines we wero run onto n grent ferry boat nnd carried over the water somo a4 ot n mile Having landed safe wo wero carried a-long a-long nt n grent speed to tho grent city of Oakland. 1'iiffsing one continuous line ot pretty little villages, meadows, vlnc-ynrds vlnc-ynrds nnd Held? nil ndo-ncd with natures beauty. Having landed a Oakland we were run out on thu grent Pier mid nnd then to thu ferry boat nnd enjoyed n plcmnt rldo ncross iho bay which wns dotted here nnd there with white, nails, from tho small craft to the great sailor nnd ocean grayhound. Wo lauded at the great fci ry nnd then wns opened to ourvlew tho great city ot San Frnocl sco set upon hills with Its mnivd buildings build-ings churches, places of iimmueemcnt, great docks wheio Jails fiom nil parts of iho wotld come and go. Hero wo iaw riches and poverty, sin and inisci v nnd many great and wonderful nccnes of nature, lu my next t will eiidca-vo- to describe eouiu ol tho sights to bo seen in tho rar famed city ot the west nnd for tho present I uirt say udloiv. Kispt. James Kiikhiim. |