Show f AS SEE US ogden and vicinity through a scotchmans Scotch mans last summer suin mer mr john aitkin of greenock Grce nock scotland who spent most of the past year in in traveling for pleasure and to collect information on various subjects of interest to him made up ins his mind to cross the american continent which he be did of course among the important places in ill the west ho he roust must take in ogden and salt lake like cities since his return to auld scotia ho lie has written a number of articles es entitled prom from the clyde to california in in which ho he gives a graphic description description of the scenes he saw in ill the IN western i estern world while at ogden mr aitkin became acquainted with our much respected fellow townsman mr john crawford the articles which are well written were published in the greenock Grce nock herald from which we extinct the following we now flow resolved to bid adieu to salt lake city regretting that we had not a few days to spend in visiting the rich silver mountains and golden minos of its nei neighborhood more particularly the noto notorious riou emma of which wo hive have heard so lunch much and winch which is only thirty miles distant taking train we w e concluded to spend a short time at oad en where on arrival we bad scarcely stepped on to the platform when one of the railway officials ficiala ol who originally baided from paisley licari hearing fig our scottish accent at once claimed kindred with us s and ana like all others other whom we nye had met oa on our journey there was no limit to mr john Craw C ran fords foras s atte attention and kindness finding us strangers and having a few hours to spire spare he at once proposed to leave off duty and to act as our guide and even pressed us very v erv much to lodge with him forthe for the night the former oner offer wo we accepted the latter we declined having iian ing arranged about codr our baggage baag ngo lie abe then proceeded to show us over ov er the city in course of winch we thought there was to be no end to his introducing us to scotsmen who a few veirs years ago had settled there with little or nothing to begin with now car earn ing g on extensive sive businesses of f their gieir own and many owning large blocks of property iho result of their indefatigable perseverance v arance erance As we passed along our friend occasionally casio nally nally drew our attention to the extraordinary fertility of the district w inch which in in his own ov n recollection was an unproductive barren waste with bothin nothing to recommend it but the natural beauty of the situation and the advantage of little streams of water from the mountains that had been intercepted by an artificial canal and distributed ofer over the soil so as to produce the luxuriance now before us wo we were taken round until reach ing in our friends residence idore more than a mile distant from the station where he be owned a plot of two acheson which were erected two very compact and comfortable houses one acre was used as ano an orchard theother the other acre vas was gro growing alfalfa of which vv inch he lie gets four crops in the twelve months producing sufficient to keep two cotts cows and a quey all the year round here the wife and a little son and daughter were busily engaged the young ones pulling fruit and the mother with a mac machine tine taking inking the hea hearts arts of apples aad and stones out of apricots cots and cuttin cutting them up into t agi thin lin sli cesso as to bo be easily dried all round their dwelling were set long broad tables table sas as if prepared for a public banquet these tables were covered edwith with various kinds of fruit cut in into thin slices and drying in the heat beat of the sun so as to preserve them for winter use after we had been introduced to the family the young ones exerted themselves very much to secure from the upper branches of the tree the best of the fruit to make us a present before leaving antl in alie course of conversation our friend said he lie had all along beben a workingman working man he lie had no debt and what lie had shown us cashis was his own saving the trees were tho growth of fifteen years at abich time ho lie had pure purchased based his plot when all around was a desert covered wit with I sage brush and sunflower sunflowers sun flowers flowe ns with scarcely a tree within right now all around was gardens and orchards producing every ev cry kind of vegetable ege table flower and fruit in course it transpired that our hew acquaintance was brother in law to a very much respected and loni longi established merchant merdia nt in in glasgow glasgo with whom wo have had frequent Oeal dealings ings sly friend said that over twenty years 90 ago having become a convert to the mormon faith the other members of his family ever cv cr after looked upon him as a black asb sheep cep true rue to his faithie faith he preferred to sacrifice the society of his friends rather than his religious convictions about eighteen cars ago U ho lie left ins his native e cu country banded banded in america and decided to make that country bis his home there was no railroad over the desert at that time the journey then occupied several months his bis gun being his best friend by b the way often se curing him a supply of fresh meat and as we parted ho lie said that li lie never had any cause to regret the course he be had taken |