32<) Beyond (he Sierras. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



BACKWARUS MARCH. 



The FituU Break up. — Rdiuiume ti> Gj. — C/iitiese New-Vear in Los Angeles. — 

 Firecrackers nd libitum. — Tli< Old Bad One arul Red Paper. — Enterprises of 

 The Angels. — The UiiiversHi) of SnUhern Calif /rnia. — .San Fenvindo: Her 

 Water Supply.— A Dry Mill-pnul. — The Sania B'lrharians. — The Majavc 

 Desert Again. — The Mirage in Deith V'dlei/. — Tlir Vwca Bdm. — An Old 

 Sleeper. — Scene.- Abuut Mojaee. — A Muuntain Cluud-burst a7id its Cunse- 

 (jaences. — Ome Mare at San Francisco. — Heaping up if Radicxdiam on the 

 Coast. — General Sketch (f the CHy. -Snyid-HUls ami Dane Grass. — The Park 

 a7ui Cunsrrvafcri/. — Harb(/r and Military Stations. — Vessels at Anch<)r. — Cal- 

 ifornia Wind. — Shops and Marts. — Manners and Morals of the City. — S^m 

 Franciscan Methods ami Enterprises. — Big Men. — Ltland Stanfonl. — Old 

 Jimmy Lick. — VisU to John at Home. — H'ls Place and Style. — //w Restau- 

 rant and Juss-House. — Mumh > Jumb i. — The Chinese Situation. — Out-tf-Door 

 Life in San Francisco. — Gathering (f Brica-Brav. — Dfparture. — At Sacra- 

 mento. — Climbing the Sierras. — Mining Camps ami Mountaineers. — Salt 

 Lake City. — Aspect of the Valley. — Water Supply. — Z. C. M. I. — Smith and 

 Polly. — Essentials (ftlie Morrmm Questum. — Amo7ig the Saints. — The Temple 

 and the Tabernacle. — Tendency (f L<^dter Day SaintluKnl. — Again En Route. — 

 Some Persmalities. — Entrant (f the Gunnism. — Ascent (f the Caiion. — Im- 

 pressions. — Castle Gate. - Marshall's Biss. — Amojig the Snotv Peaks. — Begin- 

 ning the Descent.— Black Carvm and Royal Gorge. — The Arkansas Cail'm. — 

 Pueblo. — Onward to CvU/rado Springs — Manitou and the Garden <fthe Gods. 

 — To Denver.— Characteristics (f the City. — Speech making. — The Argo and 

 Grant Smelling Works. — New Process (f Separating Mttals. — Scenes and 

 Sketches. — Institutions. — The Denver Climate atid Lung Diseases. — F\ir Gtxjds 

 and Mineral Brica-Brac. — Bancnft Ranch.— A Colorado Sunset. — Homeward 

 Bouml. — Kansas City and Fareivell. 



Returning from the San Bernardino excursion, those of our company 

 ■who still hung together in clusters of three or four made their way, some to 

 Los Angeles and the north, while others tarried until the Santa Fe and 

 Southern Pacific trains came by to take them up for the homeward journey. 

 One considerable band, ambitious of having a last view (and perhaps a last 

 banquet), wandered off to Sunta Barbara, on the coast. But the excursion 

 as such, was now hopelessly broken up, and after this day we saw each 

 other only by accident. For some weeks, here and there in the California 

 towns, we occasionally met each other by twos or threes on the streets ; but 

 our gre;it voyage was at an end. It, therefore, only remains for the writer 

 to summarize as much as ho may of the return across the mountains. In 

 doing so he must, of course, sjieak almost exclusively of his own t>xperience 

 en route over the Central Pacific and the Denver (t Rio Grande. 



