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Transcription
At 5.30 the Batlers take my luggage
and me to the Southern Pacific R.R.
He had dinner opposite the depot, and at
10.40 P.M. I came off in Tucson. It is
the Sunset Route or the Sunset Limited.
En route to Tucson, Saturday
January 12-1924.
It was about 8 A.M. when we passed
through San Antonio. Set out at 7:30 in a bright
hot and cool morning. All in a sage brush plain
with here and there a conspicuous residual
chill that look like mountains. The homes
are the smallest and poorest with hundreds of
cattle here and there. No water is sight but
wind pumping wells are to be seen in places.
Or it goes for miles upon mile until near
Del Rio when the usual rattle of the train clamps
and we go over a bridge, over a small stream,
a tributary of the Rio Grande - it looks
With water there
is an abundance of humanity and a town