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LOS ANGELES DIVISION.
MOJAVA TO LOS ANGELES.

E. E. Hewrirt, Assistant Superintendent.

JAMES CAMPBELL, Train Master,

 

TOWARDS SUNRISE.

 

Daily | Daily {Distance
Emigrant; Express, |from San
and freight,|1st &2d Cl’s|F’ncisco

 

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO TIME. |

STATIONS.

TOWARDS SUNDOWN.

Daily Daily
Express, | Emigrant

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+Day Telegraph.

Cerro Gordo Freighting Co., who do most
of this freight hauling, employ 700 head of
animals.

Stages leave Mojava every alternate day,

ing passengers, mails and express to
Darwin, 100 miles; Cerro Gordo, 125 miles ;
Lone Pine, 150 miles, and Independence,
168 miles to the northeast; fare, 14 cents
per mile.

Mojava is the commencement of the Los
Angeles Division. The proposed route of
the Southern Pacific railroad—as successor
of the rights granted to the old Atlantic
and Pacisic Co., to the Colorado River, at
the Needles—diverges at this point, and
runs due east. The lowest point of the
Mojava Plains crossed by the railroad sur-
vey, is at the sink of the Mojava River,
183 miles east. Its elevation is 960 feet,
the highest point being 3,935 feet, at the
summit of Granite Pass. The crossing of
the Colorado, at the Needles, is 254 miles
east from Mojava.

Leaving Mojava, our course is south,
over the desert, from which rise great
numbers of round buttes; they are of all
sizes, from a halfacre at the base, to
several acres; from one hundred to five
hundred feet in height. Most of these
buttes run to a peak, and are grooved or
worn out by the elements into small

t Day and Night Telegraph.

' * Meals. Note Elevations.

ravines, from summit to base, presenting a
peculiar appearance. The cactus, or palms,
are very numerous.

Passing GuosTER, 6.6 miles from Mo-
java, where there is not even a side-track,
and 7.2 miles further, we arrive at

Sand Creek—where trains seldom
stop. To the left, ten miles, is Mirage
Lake, which looks like water, but is
mostly sand and alkali. (For a descrip-
tion of this remarkable phenomena, see
page 169.)

Solidad Mountain can now be seen on
our right, through which our road finds a
way, but where and fow, does not appear.
Large numbers of sheep range over these
plains at times, and appear to thrive.

From Sand Creek, it is eleven miles to
LANCASTER, a side-track, and 10.9 miles
further we come to

Alpine—For the last twenty miles
the palms have been very numerous, but
we shall soon leave them and the desert.
Scrub cedar, sand cuts—some very deep—
are now in order, while rapidly climbing
up to the summit of the Solidad Pass,
which we reach four miles from Alpine,
crossing them at an elevation of 3,211
feet, and then descend to

Acton—a distance of 9.7 miles from
Alpine. This is an unimportant station