| Show The Mormons in Big Horn Basin The Followers of Joseph Smith are the Greatest Colonizers Bancroft's History of Utah says only one example in the annals of America of the organization of a commonwealth upon principles of pure There is here one example where founding of a state grew out of the founding of a new Other instances there have been of the occupation of wild tracts on this continent by people flying before or desirous of greater religious there were the the and the Pilgrim though their spiritual interests were so soon subordinated to political religion has' often played a conspicuous part in the settlement of the New and there has at limes been in some the if not indeed the hierarchal but it has been long since the the old continent or the has witnessed anything like a new religion successfully established and set in prosperous running upon the fullest and combined principles of hierarchy and That the Mormons are the greatest colonizers in the world is not only a matter of but they have gone into uninhabited waste places that were considered as and utterly devoid of and they have made such places veritable garden Their latest efforts have been in the Big Horn basin in which is quite vividly described in the Anaconda a non-Mormon paper gets better as it nears the Montana said a visitor who has just returned from a trip through northwestern the land of fruit and Latter-day you happen along down that he would advise you to do as the Romans do be a If you can't see your way clear to be at least be very careful not to say anything not intended for the of the following that Brigham Young has scattered all over the northern part of Ten years ago the upper end of the Big Horn basin was a The cowboy and the laughed when they were told that the bench lands would some day produce everything from spuds to apples and good little Mormon But the day has come and this part of the is and the people are contented and growing in thanks to the laudable efforts of a thrifty and industrious people from About ten years ago a colony was formed in Salt Lake contributing the greater of the About families followed the trail of an old farmer who had returned with the story of the possibilities of the Upper Stinking Water or Shoshone A camp was pitched upon a dreary There nothing in sight but sagebrush and the Big Horn mountains to the east and the Meeteetse range to the Water was and what little was found was a dismal for that little colony of pilgrims who had journeyed many hundred miles quest of home and fortune in a place where they could continue to preach their religion and enjoy the comfort it said the old are in the midst of desolation and But our day is We have here vast stretches of land which we will put under water and so that we may all share the which I assure you will be With this rather uncertain assurance the young men joined together with the old men and the women and the young girls and a community was rules were and the colony started out to be if at that time things did look On a bright spring morning the men journeyed across the forbidding country to a point where a canal was to tap the This canal was their salvation it was a long and a hard But the men worked as men perhaps never worked before in this They denied themselves everything except the actual necessities of and at that many of them ate but one meal a this consisting of hard wild meat and warm Soon after the canal was started the Burlington began building its Cody This was a gold mine for the Men who could get away went to work on the grade and earned money with which to buy provisions for the men who worked on the mere going to the camp of women miles The women milked the cows and sent butter occasionally to the They also came in pairs and squads to do the weekly washing and mending for the hard-worked fathers and husbands and For three seasons this hard work was and the canal was Then came the day of then it was the cornerstone of the church was the church which today stands out against a beautiful background of trees and green the admiration of the tourist who stops at the little station named Here are the built the tithing the church and the co-operative the little post-office presided over by a sweet-faced bud of twenty-five There are the blacksmith the a veritable haven of rest for the tired and hungry And let it be said nowhere in the country is hospitality dispensed more more more kindly than in a home in any of the Mormon settlements of northern Every stranger is a friend and brother until he proves himself Should he abuse the exalted opinion the colonists hold of he is dismissed with a kind word and Christian advice to go and sin no There is no jail in This town is the metropolis of several other little communities within a radius of seventy-five The summer just past witnessed splendid crops in the valley down The old farmers are giving way to their growing who in turn take hold of affairs with a vim and determination characteristic of the veterans who colonized the country with such magnificent Apples and plums and succulent garden vegetables adorn every It all goes to prove that all that is needed in any part of the country is an abundance of Leaving the traveler goes through Byron and Lovell and on to a station on the Cody Here is the entrance to the great Powell irrigation Since the government turned the water of the Shoshone onto this desert prosperity has come smilingly and the people are making There is some complaint as to the manner of making public but this is only a side for as a whole the people are prepared to testify that they are doing quite All way down to Cody are seen here and there evidences of prosperity on the There is a great deal of bad land down much of which can never be but what the country lacks in soil is made up in unique of wonderful As the visitor approaches Cody he begins to his soft hat into a peak and hitch up his trousers and try to look like a real a genuine type of the Buffalo Bill boy of s the Cody is unique in several In the first place it is a tedious and somewhat exciting ride from the station across the river to the town pounded by Buffalo Once J in town the first impression is one of awe there is in the air a something a weird- almost a stifling once the Irma hotel is with all its attractive its multiplication table bf historical events in which Buffalo Bill is alleged to have the whole thing is explained it is simply an unusual set upon an unusual by unusual The place is strictly It is the jumping-off and the or rather the from the suggests a deadness which in reality does not in the The upper end of the Big Horn asin affords much that is besides its happy communities of was traveling n a slow-going southern road soon after the When the conductor was punching his Artemus this railroad company allow passengers to give it if they do so in a respectful The conductor replied in gruff tones that he guessed Artemus went occurred to me it would be well to detach the cow-catcher from the front of the engine and it to the rear of the you we are not liable to overtake a but what's to prevent a cow strolling into this car and biting a There was a he had a His name was Matthew He wound it regular every day For four-and-twenty At last his precious timepiece proved An eight-day clock to And a madder man than Mears You'd never wish to A stranger in the seeing the places of public resort full of young night after asked if this was' the land of the midnight |
