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Show up almost among the wires, in order to seo the processions. ; The illaminations along Main Strcet'isrjfnmenrfely- grand, being lit up with Electric lamp?, reaching reach-ing from. ono side of- the street., to the other, , and to look-at- itii't-nighti itii't-nighti one cannot help but be 'delighted. 'de-lighted. The irocession today was splen-did. splen-did. The county floats are ftll nifcely arranged aiL do- much credit to tho counties represented. It is raining this afternoon and looks as though it will not dot up soon. Yesterday we met an 1 old ac-quantancoof ac-quantancoof 'the Fawcetts, in the person of what they used to know as "Tommy Hickonlooper," whose right name isTllwmas Stevenson, and now resides at Preston, Idaho. He mads many inquiries about old . friends and we enlightened . him. 1 to . th best of our.- ability. It seemed 'strange that two persons from two extreme parts o ' the country should meet so accidentally; But such is life. He also told us of an old Bible that he very much prizes, which; is now in .the possession posses-sion of sonieman. down, in Dixie. Everything in . thecity is a buzz and a whirl. . The electric. cars are moving to and "fro in verious parts of the city and one can ride from one end of the city to the other for only 5 cents, not much but in the numerous; littles that is collected collec-ted during a day there must be quite a-, sub! in the-boxJby the time a days woik is donsi ' The varions places of resort, fcc.; are all calculated to be quite enticing, entic-ing, but a body .must Jiave.money, money, in order j to 1 satisfy the dmands o' sight seeing in many pjaces. Even the fact of being an editor will, not always answer the place of ..the filthy; lucre. , . To betfontinucdt.; Salt Lake City, July 22, 1897. Ye editor left St. Gerfrge, on the 15th of July and after a rough and tumble journey over a wagon , road disatnee of 125 miles we ary rived at Milford. At 9:30 p. tn. we boarded the 1 train for Salt Lake City, arriving at the depot at 10:30 a; m.. on Monday. Expecting to find several letters from those owing us, we make pun way to our landing ilace bub we are sadly, disappointed to -find : that not the firist one has .forwarded Hhe little due ua from them, thereby leaving us in a peculiar position, but we, are obliged to make the.best .of it. We commenced sight seeing, jn tho af ternoon. , and . have been, for three days. believe one could Bpend two months in the metropolis metropo-lis and everyday seo something new . The parades have been-splendid and most of the floats are delightful. delight-ful. Even the beautiful swan 13 not forgotten. -.'But tho parades on Friday and " Saturday will be the best. v In those IFashington County Co-unty will be represented of which we will say more in ouu next. Cold weather is more prevalent hero than in our sunny south'and today we had quite a shower before the children iu the parade could all get into tho Tabernacle', and we may have some more befdr;it finally fi-nally clears up. July 23. Last night we had one of the finest parades we have had.i A gentlemau from the east says he 1ms been in many ports of. the United States and .he has never ' seen tho equal of tho jubilee celd- ;bration in this city. ' Everything is so badly crowddd - - that it is hard tofmd n good place to see anything. Many of the bb'3' climb up the telephone and . electric light poles, and some go |