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Show LETTER FROM BINGHAM- Haw the Trip Out AlTecis on: Correspondent. - 'Bl.NOHaM CaSon. Aug. 6, Editors Herald: The steam horse wiiUtlud at 7 this morning, and quickly wc were gliding glid-ing alongthe excellent smooth road of the Utah Southern; Wo scon passed tho Wasatch Smclter,now idle, and stopped at the station whero the Germauia Kenning Worts are in full blatt.'- The quantity of bullion being loose arou' djuere, evmces solid pros perity. On again irum this point, through a ranye of fruitful fields, interspersed in-terspersed with patches of barren Uiblc lund, and we were eafely landed at Bingham Junction, thirteen miles from the metropolis of Utah. Here we embarked on the nice, cozy "palace "pal-ace car" uf the Bingham Canon &, Camp Floyd Narrow Gauge Railroad, which is evidently a prosperous institution. insti-tution. The ollicers are gentlemanly, business men, and such aa will doubts less make the enterprise a success: One mile from the Junction stands the Silver Seal Ho el, wliere- Mrs. Mack, who waaonco proprietress ol the Moch House, caters for the hungry. A quarter af a mile from this bote! may be seen, on tho left of the roud, 1 the Jordan and Galena smelters, and j a low rods south is the Sheridan Hill smelter. The former is the largest in Utah. It has su furnaces, and two more are in process of erection." It ia now doing an excellent . business. The Sheridan Hill ia also prosperous. A short distance from here the road crosses the Jordan river, and another quarter of a mile brings the traveler to where Bishop Gardiner is going to build his large grist mill. For nine miles from this point, on either side of the track, is a wide expanse of barren bar-ren wastes, at the termination of which a gentleman pointed out the house where tho Cotton's lived, and the spot where the Butcher "tragedy" "trag-edy" occurred. A judge raised tlie alarm at this point that deer were in the vicinity. A couple oi" jackasses had stampeded and grossly deceived thejudge's eye-sight. From Mrs. Cotton's residence to tho Bingham terminus a degree of fertility fertil-ity is visible, although the soil Bccms particularly adapted to the growth of etuifiowen, among which the keen eye of the observer may detect a few spears of sickly grain. Here and there a milch cow chews her cud untram-elled, untram-elled, in a small but luxurious- past-1 ure. Placer diggers have "honey-! combed" the mountains in this vicinity. vicin-ity. Here they get clay for fire bricks, ! and choke cherries garnish the hills, but as I was not inclined to 'choke" . juBt yet I wisely abstained from eating any. We now arrive at the terminus and breakfast at Starrh's quarters. The town of Bingham is three miles in length, and about five rods, wide. It is situated on two sides of a creek, along which lies the main street, flanked with bushes yielding in their wild thrift, raspberries, elderberries, elder-berries, serviceberries, tbimbleberries, cijrrants and choke cherries. The houses are mostly trame. They have a billiard hall, several provision and liquor stores, a Wells, Fargo & Co. express office.three hotels, a telegraph and post office. One end of the town Btands about two thousand feet higher than the other end. This must be very convenient for irrigation. One peculiarity quite noticeable to the stranger, is the total absence of the innocent in-nocent house fly and the pungent mqsnuito. Last ss 3.1A-. niuht, Mr3. Ann Eliza Young spoke Tier piece to a crowded audience in the Methodist church, a room about 10x30. I understand un-derstand she thinks this is a "poor hole." 7 To-morrow I expect to commence ''doing" the mines, ani in my next, alia 11 relate my experience. I understand under-stand someof the shafts "go down" a thousand feet. If I go down them shatts I'll let jou know. Chas. W. Stayxer. |