Show imo if AN E EMIGRANT MIGRANT ON uis his ns I 1 WAY TO california call CALi fornia ronNiA it is with the greatest delight and feelings of the tile most lively gratitude that I 1 pen tile the few lines I 1 do hoping li they may soon meet the eyes of my eastern friends and in bome some measure remove the delusion under which so many are living 1 I 1 was myself not long since of the theu game class let me state facts and thin things thins s as I 1 see them here in tile valley of the salt lake lalee I 1 seo sec an oasis 1 I might almost saya say a paradise surrounded surround cd hy by the tile lofty mountain 1 peaks feaks eaks whose tops are glittering P littering C perpetual frost and aha ill in te midst of a vast sandy plain piali which them out some gome 1000 f miles from all civilization I 1 think I 1 may challenge the world with S safety to produce the equal equall think for a ino rno moment ment a mere mete handful til of men driven from front their native laid land far into the tile wilderness scattered for a bom digance r aro ro nd zd and in in the space of about two years making the he valley for miles and miles around to blossom as the rose tile the vast fields of vav mav c ing t grain on oil every hand watered not hy by of heaven but by the tile brooks which flow ilow from their mountain fastness ss Cs which by incredible industry have been teen turned in a thou thousand sand gand channels over dver their valley valles mal mai making llin it what it is a t perfect garden large and commodious dwelli dwelling ngsi 0 other men mon could scarcely kameely find mat material erld erid for a cabin aro arc now vow thickly scattered t over the valley in ill fact it seems like an exhalation but this is not the tiie greatest 1 I do not know bm but that I 1 arn too jast fast after what I 1 have s een seen I 1 shall shail 1001 look for great lings thins thin ti s the rie people seem to have bave nature for tapir 1 r guide irom alib air they broat breathe hp ind and the snow brownd hills they lern lean lenn ienn freedom US AW I 1 flat andr gripo in i rals rais fior a aleasa ak 1 W sf t rt h u W ali all d natu natures re god th e rn to treat all men as equals and friends da doing ifie to ethers athey athay others do to them drunkenness and quarrelling lawyers and prisons are net known here all is ilove and andt charity the stranger is i not turned away empty I 1 had the pleasure of or attending public worship on oil the lords day jutie june I 1 say nothing in regard to their religious doctrine as I 1 am of no sect I 1 will leave it for others to argue and I 1 must muir say I 1 never saw a more orderly respectable and intelligent tell telli igent c ent ana and audience lenco ienco than the one I 1 here bere saw their house of worship was I 1 suppose about sixty by feet upon the ground and aud it ite was way filled lo 10 overflowing and such an array of beauty for the size of tiie tile assembly I 1 never saive salve saw intelligence and goodness shone shon grom from every face portraying true beant beauly beauty t ill in its most lovely form and may the lord lord lorb who has certainly blessed this people bless them with his choicest blessings for choir many acts of kit hit driess to the poor poof stranger even those who have been their former times and here let me return my sincere thanks in all an es recial especial in anifer manner to my landlady mrs webb for her ier ter kindness toward me while within her house howse I 1 P S will the editor of the tile aern of the prairies chicago jl jil i please mease my copy the above i JOHN JOHNT T AMES of bloom abeld ghi wis Ms t i 4 G S L I 1 city idly july 1850 the union train traill J y r ames capt arrived in the city of salt sait lake june all well and ill in good ondi condition tion ilon for traveling ames of benj men J T ames bloom field wis wig robert forest john E read f wm cobb wis 1 J 1 0 james jamrs 99 homer bonier field ill ili J AV white k prairie ind apt traver lady jady S B bend ond odd ind I 1 j i r T n antimi J lirla LiriA ack ach L taylor ogle co xa ach 11 ft l it Is it t wm garwood macon co mo matthew kelly kully t it harling butger doat it jacob jacol Iani lani kambe t bej bei t 99 49 1 l L 13 churchill ogle co A Sheet cr joli jori coverdale Cove idale lapier lapeer co mleh midi lim lin curtis gurtis ti I 1 IP 11 bruce 11 tt it it GC geo 0 south liend band ind |