88 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
_ shore near San Diego by the Mormons, who sunk a shaft to 3 
a depth of 863 feet. Veins of good coal were found, varying 
in thickness from 6 inches to 44 feet, but during the ne xt 7 
year Utah was invaded by the United States’ troops, and 
Brigham Young ordered all the faithful to Salt Lake to 
defend the “Holy City.” Thus the work was abandon 
and the shaft is now full of water. There seems to be no 
doubt that the coal can be used for commercial purposes. 
From San Diego to Temecula, a distance of fifty-four and 
a half miles on the route to San Bernardino (at the western | 
end of San Gorgonia Pass), the road bisects numerous strea ns 
and dividing ridges nearly at right angles, and presents an 
exceedingly rough profile; but from Temecula to San 
nardino—fifty-five miles—it traverses almost an unbro! 
plain. The streams crossed: are, the San Diego, the Soleda 
San Diegito, San Ilejo, San Louis Rey, Temecula, San Jacit 
and Santa Anna. These streams are all full and strong, § 
most of them difficult to cross, by reason of quicksands}; 
were obliged to stop and lead our horses across them, 
though the bottoms easily sustained the weight of man, t 
threatened to swamp the poor horses. Most of these. vall 
contain a great deal of arable and extremely fertile 
while on hills and in valleys the luxuriant grasses of 
fornia sustain immense herds of cattle and horses. Oc 
sionally we would pass the “casas” of some wealthy ? 
chero, surrounded by orange groves and vineyards, and 
several of them we were right hospitably entertained, : 
refreshed with the vino del pais. 
From San Bernardino, which is a large and ra 
increasing wine and fruit town, sixty miles brought us to 
Angelos, famed for its salubrious climate, its beautiful wom 
and its three thousand acres of vineyards, and twen 
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