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VOLUME 2. NUMBER 3. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1905. 
ACROSS THE CONTINENT, 
Descriptions of a Trip from Boston to San 
Francisco and Return, 
[The following is taken from notes made 
by Thomas D. Connolly of Beverly Farms, 
on a recent trip to San Francisco. — ED.] 
No. 8. — San Francisco to Salt Lake City. 
We started on an excursion, leaving 
San’ Francisco at 8 o’clock on the 
morning of February 26, for Menlo 
Park, San Joseand Santa Cruz. Menlo 
Park is the seat of Stanford university, 
allits buildings being laid out in mis- 
sion style, and, as for the chapel, it is 
wonderful, both as to design and con- 
struction. The Santa Clara valley, as 
it is called from here to San Jose, is 
noted for its fruit ranches, and I never 
saw such a beautiful sight as on Sun- 
day morning when all the almond and 
peach trees were in bloom, there being 
acres and acres, as far as the eye 
could reach, fragrant and beautiful. 
San Jose is 51 miles from San Fran- 
cisco, and was the former seat of the 
State capitol. It is termed ‘ Califor- 
nia’s Paradise.’’ It is the most ancient 
settlement of California, and no part 
of the State is as healthy and agreea- 
ble the year round as in this valley. 
We left San Jose with 14 cars and 
two engines attached to one train, 
having taken ona train from Oakland. 
We rode through the Pajaro valley to 
Gilroy, a prosperous town named after 
a Scotchman who settled there in 
early times, then through Watsonville 
to Santa Cruz, where we rode along 
by the Pacific ocean for several miles, 
reaching Santa Cruz, about 75 miles 
from San Francisco, which is the seat 
of one of the oldest missions in Cali- 
fornia. Before it was torn down it 
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was also the best preserved mission, 
and it is a pity to see its buildings 
destroyed and a modern church 
erected in its place. 
At Monterey, just below Santa 
Cruz, a monument has- been erected 
on the site of an old mission, and an 
inscription on it reads as follows: 
“This monument, erected by Jane L. 
Stanford in the year 1891, in memory 
of Father Junipero Serra, -philan- 
thropist seeking the welfare of the 
humblest, a hero daring and ready to 
sacrifice himself for the good of his 
fellow-beings, a faithful servant of the 
Master.”’ This monument is life size 
and of stone. He is represented as 
stepping out of a boat, with his right 
hand raised as if to bless those near 
him. In his left hand is the missal. 
A society has now been organized 
for the preservation of all these old 
missions, and this, together with the 
Native Sons’ society, have done much 
to keep them preserved. 
A few miles from Santa Cruz we 
saw a great number of very large red- 
wood trees, the largest I ever saw and 
as large as some of the trees in the 
Yosemite valley. Santa Cruz beach 
is like our own West beach, with its 
long pier, but it has what we do not 
yet possess —a large pavillion where 
one can sit down and enjoy watching 
the bathers. They were in bathing 
there even if it was February, and a 
fine band added to the enjoyment. 
Here, as on Catilini island, are canvas 
tents, which one can hire for a mod- 
erate sum per week and take meals, if 
he wishes, in the hotels. 
Near Santa Cruz the ocean has 
washed caverns out under the shore, 
as the rocks being of a sand-stone 
formation are easily disintegrated, and 
I saw in the middle of a street, 300 
feet back from the shore, where it 
caved in and they had to erect a fence 
around it. If anyone fell in it would 
be impossible to rescue him, as the 
current of the water would carry 
him out to sea. A narrow gauge 
railroad also runs from here to San 
Francisco, and passes through wooded 
valleys and a rich farming country. 
Los Gatos is a beautiful town near 
Santa Cruz. 
The grape culture is carried on here 
much different than at home. One 
will see large, homely and snaggy 
looking roots standing out of the 
ground three or four feet high, and 
out from these trail the vines along 
the ground, there being no trellis or 
fence whatever to support them. 
In my next I shall tell of the trip 
from Oakland, Salt Lake, Denver, 
Chicago and Niagara Falls to Boston. 
We crossed the bay from San Fran- 
cisco to Oakland, March 20, and 
boarded the overland train on the 
Southern Pacific R.R., at 6.30 p.m. 
Our Pullman car was booked for a stay 
at Salt Lake for eight hours, Denver 
for seven hours, Omaha for five hours 
and Chicago for one day. This method 
gives the traveller ample time to view 
the different localities. At 6 o'clock 
on the morning following we arrived 
at Truckee, 12 hours’ ride from Oak- 
land. We were in the midst of a 
blinding snow storm, 7,000 feet above 
sea level, and could hardly realize the 
snow after leaving such beautiful 
weather. We saw the snow sheds 
spoken of so much, and we looked 
across and above us to see the differ- 
ent levels through which our train 
passed. At Truckee all the fruit and 
vegetable trains ice their cars for 
their long journey East. The Truckee 
river runs along below the tracks on 
one side, and is the greatest trout 
stream in the world. We crossed the 
border of California and Nevada, and 
ina short time reached Reno. We 
continued, and the town of Sparks 
came into view. Here we set our 
watches one hour ahead. It is quite 
mountainous and hilly, with consid- 
erable grass land, until we reached 
Winnemucha. From this on the 
country on each side is a barren 
waste, and we rode all day through 
the Nevada desert. Mountains can 
be seen, but with no vegetation; in 
fact, nothing but burnt-up rocks, with 
their different colors and holes in 
them (volcanic origin). This looks 
like pumice stone. Nevada is simply 
a mining country, and as night came 
on there was still the barren waste to 
look at. At 5 o’clock next morning 
we arose and found that we were 
crossing a bridge built over Salt Lake. 
This bridge is 90 miles long, built on 
piles, and is what is called the short 
cut. Every five pails of water taken 
from Salt Lake produces over one 
pail of clear salt, or 22%, after the 
water evaporates. We reached Ogden 
at 7.15 a.m., the end of the Southern 
Pacific R.R., and then started on the 
Denver and Rio Grande R.R. In 
one hour we arrived at Salt Lake 
City, the home of the Mormon. In 
our party are people from Louisville, 
Ky., Ohio, Indiana, and in fact from 
almost every Western State. 
(Concluded next week. ) 
Unclaimed Letters. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at Manches- 
ter P.O. for week ending May 27: Mr. P. A. 
Caten, Dr. J. E. Hough & Son, Miss N. M. 
Murdock, Miss Mary McTigue, Mr. Charles 
N. Miller, Mr. H. Rang, Mr. Charles E. 
Reed, Mr. I. Stinadge, Mr. B. H. Sprague. 
Miss Nora Stevens, Mr. A. B. Woodbury, 
Mr. H. Waterman, Mr. F.C. Wilson; cards, 
Mr. Burnham, -Mr. George Mosar, John T. 
Robertson, Esq. 
SAMUEL H. WHEATON, P.M. 
All kinds of fruit at reasonable 
prices at the Boston Fruit Market. * 
