Applegate, About
Midway Between Auburn And Colfax, Is An Alleged "Summer Resort." It Did
Not Appeal To Us As Especially Attractive, The View, At Any Rate From
The Road, Being Extremely Limited And Lacking Any Distinctive Features.
Without Unnecessary Delay, Therefore, We Resumed The March.
It is practically up-hill - "on the collar" - all the way to Colfax, as
is plainly evidenced by the heavy railroad grade.
About a mile short of
the town, we made a digression to an Italian vineyard of note. There, at
a long table under a vine-covered trellis that connected the stone
cellar with the dwelling-house, we were served with wine by a young
woman having the true Madonna features of Sunny Italy, her mother, a
comely matron, in the meantime preparing the evening meal, while on the
hard ground encumbered with no superfluous clothing, disported the
younger members of the family. And as I sat and smoked the pipe of
peace, I reflected upon how much better they do these things in Italy -
for to all intents and Purposes, I was in Italy.
Colfax - before the advent of the C. P. R. R. called "Illinois Town" -
is an odd blending of past and present; the solid structures of the
mining days contrasting strangely with the flimsy wooden buildings that
seem to mark a railroad town. We were amazed at the amount of traffic
that occurs in the night. Three big overland trains passed through in
either direction, the interim being filled in with the switching of
cars, accompanied apparently with a most unnecessary ringing of bells
and piercing shrieks from whistles.
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