spend in this car. We all feel better than 
we did yesterday, with the exception of an 
old lady from California, who is quite sick 
this morning. We have fixed her a good 
bed, and she rests quite comfortably. The 
greatest trouble with us is taking cold, as 
the car is sometimes too hot, and sometimes 
there is too much draft of cold air. China 
men are becoming quite plenty along the 
road. The Humboldt river is on onr right. 
At Rye Patch, we stop twenty-five minutes 
for breakfast: as we have had ours, we 
spend the time in looking around. Pleids 
of cattle here live and get fat on sage-biush 
and grease-wood. We both feel bettei this 
morning, than we have any morning yet. 
We had a good night’s rest, as the air was 
pure and cool, and we enjoyed a bieakfast 
of coffee and crackers. We make our own 
coffee and use condensed milk. Still have 
plenty of bread and cake, apples, jelly, &c., 
in our basket, that we brought from home. 
Our throats are a little sore from the alkali 
water, but we use coffee instead of water, 
and think it will not make us sick. It is 
very pleasant to-day, the sun shines warm 
and the air is pure and bracing. Snow is 
in sight on the mountains. The sick ones 
feel better and the babies are all well. 
There are eleven children on this car 
There is not a person in the car that we 
would want to put out. We begin to feel 
acquainted and have lots of fun. TV e get 
out of our bunks in the morning, wash and 
comb, (have a wash-basin, bought in Omaha) 
put water and coffee in our tin pail, and 
boil it on the stove, then eat our breakfast 
in our seats, wash the dishes, sweep our car, 
and then read guide book, look at the coun 
try, write, talk, &c. At stopping places, 
get out and walk and run around, and stand 
in the sun, then jump on, and off again. I 
will mail with this, a paper containing some 
vegetation from the summit of the Rocky 
Mountains. Also a jack rabbit’s tail, I pick¬ 
ed up on the top at Creston, (a more deso¬ 
late, dreary, windy place than which it 
Avould be hard to find,) I suppose the wind 
blew it off. The train is moving very slow¬ 
ly against a hard wind. 
The car is divided into twelve sections, of 
two seats each, two scats face each othei, 
and two passengers in a sc it. The seats 
slide out and backs slide down, forming a 
bed for two. Overhead is a bunk, like a 
rack for drying apples, that lets down and 
forms abed for two, half way up to the 
ceiling of the car. We stow our baskets, 
and luggage under the seats. The cais aie 
neat and clean, and furnished with fuel and 
water. We have been going down the 
western slope since noon, and will teach Og¬ 
den to-morrow at 2, P. M. Ranjinto a snow 
storm near Table Rock, this forenoon, and 
a sand-storm in the Red Desert. It now 
looks as wintry as a Pennsylvania Novem¬ 
ber. 
Colfax, California, Friday, Oct. 6, 9 a. m. 
Nigh*t found us at Reno, Nevada, and at 
daylight this morning we were up in the 
Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the snow 
sheds. The ground was covered with snow, 
and still snowing, and looked dreary, wild, 
and desolate, like mid-winter. We passed 
Cape Horn, and whirled through the hy¬ 
draulic regions, through wild scenerw 
The snow changed to rain, and we came in¬ 
to a warmer climate, where were gaidens, 
fruit trees, grapes, &c. We are now about 
200 miles from San Francisco: 
Sacramento, Cal., Friday, Oct. 6, 3 p. m. 
Arrived here all O. K. Snowbanks this 
morning, oranges, figs, grapes and flowers 
growing around us before noon, up in the 
foot-hills. We feel the best to-day we have 
since we started. Most of the crowd in the 
car say good-by to us, and get out here. It 
seems like parting from old friends. It is 
cloudy and rainy here to-day. Their rain 
came early this year. Farmers are plow¬ 
ing stubble, for winter grain. 
San Francisco, Saturday , Oct. 7th. 
We arrived safely at the American Ex¬ 
change Hotel, at 6 o’clock, this morning. 
It is rainy, damp and foggy, but warm. 
The early rains through Calfornia, aie un¬ 
usual and are doing much damage to grain, 
raisins, &c. We are quite well, and glad to 
get a stopping place, after eleven days of 
rail-road travel. It is ten days since v.e 
have had our clothes off. 
(To be continued.) 
Seeds when sown are like gate posts. They 
are planted in the earth to prup-ci-'jatc. 
