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Show FLOATING OFF. UMi'uriu! C'orri'T'OnileTice.l Bktwkkn Salt I.akk City AND 1 1 1 K. rAl'IKtC, May 2J, '71. The man who takes the contract f r beautifying the great wet has a huge job of work on hand. This was the thoucdit yesterday evening, while ' uperding westward past tho north end 1 uf tho great lake. The : sage- plains are coniUcrab!o, so are the alkali flats; ' Mormon industry and perseverance have proved both; but there is so vast an eslent covered by them compared, with tho beautiful grassy plains with which some ituagiuative souls now decorate the we.-t so bountifully, that tlio work of making "the earth blossom ' as the rose" over this whole region is a greater one than a few f'.or'uts and horticulturists would care to attempt. 1 Yet the pyramids were built, the' Isthmus of Suei has been cut through, Niagara, the Mississippi and Missouri are spanned, Mont Cents is perforated, ' and the great Facine railway furnishes 1 luxurious, safe and rapid transporia-tion transporia-tion to the traveling world. Aud the railroad makes practicable tho devel- i cpment of tho whole west. ; How one event brings on another!' Xh'iviug tho Mormons from Nauvoo re-' suited in their settlement in the Great Basin; that settlement made feasible the opening up of a vast region now' forming tho Territory of I'tah and part of Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Wy-oming and Colorado. Aud the racific railroad is a result of population and ; wealth extending over what was a few , years ago known as the Great American Ameri-can Pesert. With no settlements in the Salt Lake Valley there would have1 boen no Tactile railroad for at least ' twenty years yet; and without the - great railroad the development of the country through which vre are now passing would be an impossibility. There is a difference in the degree of comfort to be erjved between wo-ha-ing four yoke of oxen hitched to a wagon all day through sage p'ains, eating eat-ing flap-jacks fried with rusty bacon amid clouds of flying dust, aud resting, if so it could be called, pillowed on the uneven ground; and the modern style of doing the "across the Continent" in Pullman and Silver lVace cars. Of the two. I think I prefer the latter, i In the fortner, yen h uve to wait on patient but very stn-id oxen: in the latter you are waited upon. Pid you ever study the phrenology of a nig yti-:vri I r.uaa a colored American voter? There is one bustling bust-ling around just now, utaktcg btmscit anxious over the comforts of the passengers, pas-sengers, who is a study. S'.-.ive and polite enough to have rubied wigs with the eider Chesterfield, he has a head of the drollest shave. Imagine an overgrown n-.eshannoc potatee. with thoToseeud forward, and the larger end covered with a painting cf black curly wool, and you have the figure: yet his politeness and attention are so diverse from what the excessive development devel-opment of firmness ar.d self esteem into wulishcess and inordinate vanity would lead one to expect, that tie applicability applica-bility of phrenology to African, craa-iums craa-iums may be s:i!i considered an open question with those disposed to make it so. And the passengers oa whom these colored sovereigns are so assiduously waiting what of them? They are the usual jumbled up mixture of insipid and intercsuDjj humanity. One lady is already revolutionizing nay whole system of living. Vinegar and everything every-thing acid has been my abomination for years, yet I get a double dose I every time I look at her; and she ex-; cites attention. She a-cics to have come up from a remote corner of New Ilnglmd, thoroughly imbued with t'.e fascinating belief that creation ws iroing to the ci'igi with suliiV -n.ii' land eli.erfulne-', an 1 d it n'.tl.ir.g Ll'. a lu'.'i-h dt-i en-atiun of l...r nifiral acidulous gift will Us bl-: to -aV'; it. She uiiL:t jk d iicg a l.rai of .-ivlr..-in her own. t.itin.ation. V.i:, i: a oouijt.'rrroi - to this J rim, pre' !-': a:.d ' acid ;.;iL- ofkuik:!..: l.ii:u:.l:..'. have t!.: lux j.-iaiit ,ro ortivi.s of a la ; wl.o ml.'l.t vie wl'h i'ar" a ll -i in I-I.J -1'tal bulk, wl. j-e ati.i l': face b' aa.-cor. aa.-cor. ;tantly w.'.h ra ila.t f:nl!-s. . .'. J th' n eou.cj a fjlr Hiuta of ordii.a.-y iu ti:rL':da:':a, of Ujia fc- Xei, ' u.ii':d no i l..o ' being an ap ropiLte el.ar- ac'i-rliitioii. T;.'.-r ; i: little of jj.o :lal no'..: t ti.e ob- r'.'.-r f,r the tr-t tv tL.-eo- Li:i-, Li:i-, dred ilillcs of tlio- C. T. Ii. li. Co-' I rtni.e, tj fj.t ai ootward ajpa.-u-t 'go :, hailceu fi':e'ju.3.ly decried aL'J gro--!y b: -palter'.-1 w.ib j rai-e. I; i ri' .ili':r an iricungruou") iiia.-j of d.Kpi lati.d eaiivx: trn:turei.Dor au Atl.cui. It ha.1 tho a; p.:arar.ei of l.a.:ty c jU struo'ion, With evid'-nc-'-.i of to--tc an uliiii'y of workmandiip on the ja;t of owi.t-ri and mebanics. It is well local' lo-cal' d in the centre of a va-.t brtalth of tine land, but it will require the hard toil and continued labor of a permanent per-manent population to make that land valuable tor agricultural purposes. One peculiar feature of travel on the C. 1'. in the appearance of the Chine.-c section hands). Standing in a group ' by the side of the section hou.se, the .slanting rays of a descending sun falling fall-ing upon their "celestial" costumes' and dusky features, these Mongolians,' jabbering away like a band of excited 1'ah-Lies, give a eemi-oricntal aspect; to tho sccqo that appeared strangely out of keeping with the long train and j its splendid appointments charaeteris-j tio of practical western civilization and progress. j The day has opened bleak aud chill- j ing, and tho Humboldt valley is on I either hand. Sage covered bluffs, long lines of willows fringing the river's ! banks, and the turbid river do not makes picture to dwell upon. And writing, with cars like "Iser rolling rapidly," rap-idly," is not the most pleasant mode of holding converse with the great ! public. E. L. S. |
