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Show Till HEK i UTAH UTAH. walk the verdant valley where the salt waves wash the feet. Of the Wasatch j.'a.in upward where the sky and mountains meet. I would stand amid these mountains with their hueless caps of snow. Looking down the distant alley stretching far away below; And with reverential rapture thank my Maker for thisgrand. Peerless, priceless panorama that a child can understand." "1 would Over and over again we hear of the Americans before taking who turn their faces Europe-wardeven a hasty view of their own country. Possibly this is because Columbias attractions are so numberless, when one remembers her Colorados, her Yellowstones, her Utahs and GoldenStates that put them once upon a travelers list and things foreign are hopelessly crowded out. Yet if America for Americans be the cry then it should be supplemented with Americans for America. So, Ladies of the G. F. W. C. as well as other nearer and farther tourists withjfaces set westward, we in Utah and Salt Lake call to you ahoy! Do not overlook us. We extend a welcome to you. Enter in at our Titantic gateways, our canyon doors, come and study our terrace rimmed Wasatch with their high up ancient beach-linmarkings, and their glacial moraines, come to our valley and stand upon old Lake Bounevilles carpeted floor come to see us. We can show you many things interesting, And in proof we herewith present a interesting fewT extracts and a view or two: Of all this countrys magnificent, more than imperial domain, one of the fairest garden spots is Utah. Utah? You never heard of it except as a wild, spot in a dismal wilderness? Very likely. Even educated Americans are phenomenal in what they do not know of their s Courtesy U.(5. W. . LAKE. native land beyond the range of their own chimneys smoke. They laugh at foreingers for mixing up Xew York and San Francisco, and expecting to find buffaloes and warwhooping Indians in the suburbs of Cincinnati and Chicago; while, in many cases, they show not so much greater knowledge than the blunderers they deride. Utah was first settled by a detatchment of Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, in July, 1817 ; and there is no stronger argument in favor of the Mormon claim to divine revelations and inspirations, than the fact that they should have been led through nearly three thousand miles of unexplored wilderness, infested at every step by hostile savages, to such a Land of Promise, where every promise finds so glorious a fulfillment. Guided by the Jehovah-swayepillar of cloud by day, and pillar of fire d by night, Isreal of old wandered forty years in search of a promised land that would hardly make a meadow-lo- t in Utah. Climate is not regulated by latitude. Tho snows of untold ages lie unmelted on the lofty peaks of the Cordillaras in Mexico. Alaski, in the latitude of Greenland, has a climate little more rigorous than that of Ohio. Utah, in the e ! far-awa- y URIGHA.M AOl.WS GRAVE. |