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Show 7 ; FrKTw. W. CLOFF Los Aiffe'ei,0(!t.i7. Thiuk-iti Thiuk-iti wtniHif your readers may lc iutcretjed in hearing front thisjlau i f perpetual summer, fruit aud lowers, I httrridly pen these line! The partVof thirty of tlie old' pioneen whoVfossed the deserts I front Utah to I.iy Angeles fifty years ago, were teuered a com-' plimentarytrip 'over the Suit j Iflke, 10 ngelc & San I'edro road by Sen V. A. Clark ai ' his guests The pnrt left Salt Lake.Oct. V, at 8:30 p. 111. in I'ttllinan ' cars. During the next day many of tin old hud-mark and1 camping places were poititedl out by thoc early pioneers al-! though over fifty vein have passed since some of them had passed over that old desert trail, lu the prime aud vigor of manhood, and, although now, many arc bowed down with age andarccny.all are from seventy to eighty )ears of age, and oue is ninetynone; yet, on beholding again thole early scenes, they were carried back over the many years aud imagined themselves ouug again. Some singing the old songs, others relating old stories they were wont to tell around the enmpfircs, Other passcngeri, if they hadn't seen the gray hairs of these merry-makes, merry-makes, rould have thought them a lot of youthful schoolboys school-boys out for a lark. They all say they will return to their homes atjeast ten years yostuger than tkeyleft. At Sau Hardiuo we met many old friends of over half a century ago. The contrast of Los Anjeles of today snd fiftyone years ago " " " "" W (aaaalr on the fourth day of 'July Iat, when eighteen of u, campeil near the old Spanish town on our wavtotheSaudwich Islands, ' is motl incoraprehensible. Then an ndobeof about 850 Mexican aud Spanish population now ocr 200,000, representing all nationalities with as many fine buildings ol marble, granite and brick, as will be found in .n city in the world. In the suburbs andjcotintry around the city are huitdrrds of fine palaces of re-vrt re-vrt and pleasure as can be fonud ativwhere 1'asideua, Sau Monies., Venice, Long lleach aud Avalou, on the islaad of Santa Cataliua, are among the most noted, but all have verv fine attraction. s (Continued next week.) |