Show e interesting letter from missionary dixon SCENES A findly 1 will canvass spottsyl county editor enquirer thinking a tar a months absence yon would liko to bear from me and my journay I 1 take the first opportunity next to writing to my family and business associate to let yon know how I 1 am faring in the old dominion stale Ile ithome via R G arway on saturday jan being thirteen osbar ciders on the train all bound for the southern beatea I 1 had not bea acquainted with any ot these brethren but I 1 soon became BO well acquainted with tham that it appeared before oar trip asa finished thit I 1 hul them all for year oa the irth we reached leadville Le advilla where we saw the ice constructed of lumber frame work and blocks of ice similar to those hauled up to provo irom utah ikiko fr summer storage the eerik laire coat 41 and has a mag milicent nili cent ii ilire ire hill electric colored ligha inserted in ho fl or and walls ibo blocks of ico giving the a brilliant lustre also a rink about the eize of a provo ci y lot anich ia flooded every evening uy manna of liose and then by the enli ie made aa slick as glass there ae a e skating cluba members atar fanny colored woolen suits eaid to 01 ol 30 each th n there are tob argan balides about 15 feet lone and 5 cents a ride thousands of persons from all parta of the west visit this placa anil it ia a moat attractive acona to sea the lone lina of aIrA tera men women and children th alona abo D R G justly known as tha scenic route is too well known to your readers and it ia useless for rae to attempt to die cribe t we arrived at pueblo sunday even ine and eight of our number left for kahsai city mo via the missouri pacific while tho remainder eai went over the santa fe monday evening we reached kansas city and soon after met the six elders we bad separated arom at pueblo also president alark of the states a lesion and bino elders en route for the southern states mie aion and four or five more for the northwestern states who had come via the U r to kansas city we met liero also elders young and Burlon two young elders who baa tracia in kansas city next morning we went by cable car to independence ton cailoa out of kansas city visited the temple cite which is a block containing a tree here and thero and a wooden school bouse or church about feet on the northeast corner ol 01 the block acio s tho street south Is a ficie eray sandstone church owned by the reorganized church of jesue christ of lattur adny saints erected in 1838 it in not quite finished inside II 11 is here that the first presidency of our chuick with the salt lake tabernacle choir visited en their tour to the worlds fail the people speak in the bighead terms cf the services cervices vices rendered on that occasion we all registered in the chorch re erter and to kansas city I 1 had the pleasure of meeting john H thomas an elderly and pleasant gentleman and a brother at the late lamented citizen ol 01 provo robert T thomaa mr thomas said he donld bo pleased it his relatives in utah would correspond with him his address is P 0 box independence mo in kimsai city we visited tho stock eatock yards and armours great packing house to tasse who had never been in a packing house it was quite a treat I 1 had been through the flame firms ahouee in chicago Ws were at the hoe killing at 3 p m and there had been 2500 bogs kill ed that day at p m e proceeded on our 1 gurncy via chicago alton railroad for st lonis arri there january the union depot here ia a marvel it io claimed to be aba largest and moat magnificent depot in aba world allix the principal places of interest in the city we returned to the depot to prepare or our further journey it was new or bome of us to witness the loading of a steamboat we wit hessed alou the out of four bodies firemen from the ruins of a fire that abd occurred on broadnay the previous night amoni the most not able places ol 01 interest inte iest ia the anheuser butch brewing COB arfat works al li ore are hundreds ol 01 coin through this great brewing plant daily and get their freo bebr wa aid not imbibe which cur ceide cuide thought very we let lor nashville Nath ville tenn at liht wacie we were met by lour ol 01 iho aldera who are lab in the middle on tauri dy we arrived at the southern mission headquarters in fueting with elderd hubbird and campbell elias 8 kimball in salt lake here I 1 elder john halliday of pleasant grove who is now president of aba east tennessee conference also elder eraetta fillerup of lake view utah cauntay after re addico and in TO sard to our missionary labore and testing the photographic plass with the twenty three now elders in connection with elders hubbard aej campbell we received our appointments to the various tat 03 I 1 antt after two days atay in connection with elder reuban hatch of bountiful davis co utah for virginia our field of labor following are bome of the most historical of acenas battle fields monuments to our heroes one thousand cannons mounted in position grand boulevard mission ridge gov eminent towers ruins sherman heights bragga oro chard Knobb tho national fort wood cameron hill vala view and lookout mountain three railroads to the top we belt via western atlantic railroad at am for atlanta ga and some very fine lumbering districts yellow achre ochre hlll blast furnaces and cotton fields arrived in atlanta at p m the day was like a may day at home we took tho electric car to tho exposition brounda ero unda and although the fair was closed it was worth while to bee tha buildings end grounds we walked back down peach tree estreet the people were driving in their fine turi on the boulevard it ia one of the moat beautiful ever beheld wo visited the fire department capital and eliare it is a good sized city next in eize to new orleans we took seaboard air line railroad lail road to north carolina to a town called afe den we passed a deal of cotton baled and at the depots ready for shipment also immense quantities of lum bar and standing timber all trough south and north carolina we parted at apex with conr two traveling companions eidels stable and smedley miles from atlanta they beier assigned to abe north carolina confer ence wo noticed a good many cotton factories and tobacco barns through north carolina afe bad aycub an boers chat with x cheatham Cb eatham of N C on reading the interview of senators can non and brown at amaba published in the now york world lie expressed himself as very pleased wih their breaid ibey had tho richt ring at we visited st johns charch and blood in the identical new in which patrick henry made bit fam oua speech pres M thomas of the virginia con clerence has appointed elder 0 W nibley jr and to canvas conaty we have been here two weeks people treat us very kindly and we are benj idine finely JOHN D Oo kovs Vs feb 1896 |