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After much good natured
strife for a seat on the shady
side, all were comfortably
seated and the car was
soon in motion unfolding
to the delighted sight seers
the natural beauties of landscapes
in the unsurpassed
Truckee Meadows. Here the
cool green fields with the
golden sheen upon them
encompass comfortable looking
homes and stretch away to
the purple shaded mountains
overtopped by the chaste Mt
Rose her virgin robes mistly
outlined against Nevada's blue
sky.
Arriving at Steamboat Springs
the party spent the afternoon
in examining the springs
which, bubbling and hissing,
issue from figures in the rock
and pour their boiling mineral
water into the levels below.
The creek with its shady
bed offered attractions for those
who would bare feet and ankles
to its cooling influence and
soon it was so full of kicking
screeching humanity that the