| Show SALT LAKE LAK CITY CUy I AGO AGOt t Gold Seeker Describes Zion in I Interesting Letter 4 I It WRITER DIED OF CHOLERA t TELLS OF BIG CELEBRATION nELD ELD BY THE MORMONS 7 4 Salt L k City as seen seon In 1850 by a agold agold gold seeker on his owa way to California i ij Is j in a 3 l letter which has just t come to light The epistle Is dated at atS S Salt lt Lake Lak COlt City JuI July 34 4 isiO It was wall Written ritt n b by J Conrad of Lo Logansport Logansport lad Ind to lila his father David H Conrad of that place Shortly after I writing the letter Jetter Mr Conrad dIed ot of I cholera before reaching California The I letter was preserved over halt hall a cen cenI century I tur tury In a family Bible It was wag dis discovered covered there a short time ago by I Stephen O 0 Conrad brother of th thI I II I writer and was published in the Lo I II I Pharos ot of last lut Wednesday a arop copy rop or of h W ws JS received In Ia Salt Lake yesterday by Hen Henry Welling The Thelt lt letter ii as follows Pear Father We have bac teen seen some Fome of th the country s fill far Sometimes the hills are so steep that w we hAd to let wagon down by Jopes and before we got into th the valley we came through a canyon that W was I not more murt than fiftY yards wide at the widest And the rocks I Io so high high that they make ones ons head swim to look at the top of th them m I w would uld l them to b be from rom to I f lest t high by th the looks Of the mountains I I around the valley ar are f feet et I high wIth of grizzly boar moun tan sheep ep black tall tail de deer r etc We e arrived arrin d In the valle valley on the da day of oJ ua and found It to be one or of the nicest places Iii in the States and ander very er IU healthful The Mormons sa say the they knew a cue case of fever levet or ague since the they lived here The Tho or water vater Is as and cold coid X as the well water in the stat states and hR have springs by th their Jr doors door They have no rain here In thE summer timey ther to Irr their land I but still the they sn l raise rals more wheat than we tan can In the states They ral raise e from U I to tf Ta 75 bushels an a re Jill joe man raised I 1 UIO bushels from one olle bushel or of wheat fl flother an another other aiMed 1 un n one and a I half acres It ma may seem to he be K a bi big I st stOry r but It Is true Wheat Is worth from 6 5 to S 1 Flour S 25 cents per pound It sold as high ts S 1 n a polin pound when we came cam ill iii Butter oI cents Pott es S 54 beef 14 10 to 12 cents corn coni 54 4 and all other things s accordingly We t can make makl from ram to SIC IC a day Ia We e have It a strong notion to lo stay here un till spring take takeI I a and years car Provisions with us Ui to time the I f The cholera Is vera er ba bal on th the road I and we expect it has reached the mines We Ve have haye heard no news from California IJ w We left leU the state and io hI fact from any place dEe IE One might think It hard but we take It ft patiently hoping to st see better times Umes some omo day Js As Ion long tS as onto one has his health he can get along Yer very well but It Is nu no E tor Sik folks I know that b by exp experience r stat man many R a poor has laid his bones b by the roadside e eI I just returned this from the great Mormon celebration and It caps anything I ever er saw t suppose that there wt were rc about 1100 men meno women antS and children It Is a queer way ray of serving the Lord I They had a whole band of musiC and mOre too when they marched to escort ort the president or prophet e as you might I sey The band pre r e n Jf ladies I J all ed dressed in white with blue on a an n flag g with the words All 11 to Our ur Chieftain The riley were followed allowed hy by each roch a flag and th they were followed by b n a R number of 01 so some HOme dr dressed ed In the most splendid style They had two annone which they Y discharged every few leW They hl had hada 1 i a large flag hoisted It was 80 feet long 1 anti and O 5 feet wide but It fell down in the I afternoon on account of oC Ing They intended to lUI n a concert lii In Inthe the evening but I 1 did not flOt sta stay Ell Eli ana George remained I IThe The men have hate from Crom one to wives each and It heats bOts all places s for children that r I have hae eo ever r seen They say It that there h has boon been but one bo boy bOrn In the valley alle In iii t o years The They think this is the promised land which shall hall flow with milk and but I 1 think It will with milk butter ami cheese heese You need not expect to hear heHr us again agalli until next summer If we stay here hErc but I want vant you ou to write to C will be there by the first of June Tunc If not soon sooner er 1 Wheat Is worth liO iii cents per b bushel for threshing Tell Teli Joseph Ir if he had I his s machIne here he could coull make a fortune Two m men can more threshing here with ith flails than the best t can ean there It if I had ad IL ii machine I would go no farther towarD for I could make mak a as mu much h as I want here attic and horses need no ff feed d hero her scar scarcely eb In the winter As soon as ao time the snow rail fails tile the grass grows better There II I I Is snow ht here rp all the tho on the I have bae kept journal a since I Ithe day I left I can tell yoU a groat I many things after I I get home if 1 am amI I pared to get back backI I |
