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Show A Trip to Logan Canyon. Bt the courtesy of Brother C. O. Card we lately rode in company with him from Logan to the Temple mill and were much interested, not only in the works of nature, but of man also, which we saw during the trip. We found the road to be in excellent condition, and as we rode over it, we noticed scores of places where it had lately been repaired. Some of these repairs were quite expensive, others were but the filling of a "chuck hole" of the smoothing of a rough place, but altogether they indicated the labor and expense that are being laid out on the road to keep it in good condition. The distance from the mouth of the canyon to the Temple mills is divided into four sections and one of more men are constantly employed on each section, keeping the same in repair. We have been assured that the expense already laid out by the road company has greatly exceeded the total amount of tolls taken thus far since the company commenced operations in January last. This being the case they deserve the greatest credit for having kept the road in such excellent repair, and all who are inclined to think the toll a heavy tax should reflect upon the consequences of allowing the road to remain without repairs for a time. It would soon become impassible for heavily loaded teams. At the lime kiln there are several immense ricks of firewood, several hundred cords in all, consisting of slabs, refuse material from the saw mills &c., the whole of which belongs to the temple. This firewood is of very good quality and is in a form to be easily cut. Further up the canyon we noticed a small herd of temple cattle that were in splendid condition for beef. Soon after passing "the forks" we spent some hours in fishing, with indifferent success, however, as the trout did not bite well, on account of the sawdust in the water, as is supposed. We arrived at the Temple mill late in the afternoon, and found an immense quantity of lumber, lath, shingles and pickets on the ground. More teams are wanted to haul this lumber, &c. A party of excursionists from Logan, and J. H. Hart, Esq., with two gentlemen and a lady, all from Bear Lake, arrived soon after we did, and a very enjoyable time was had during the evening. Immediately after supper, a dance was proposed. One of the mill hands produced a violin, which he played in fine style, and for several hours dancing was indulged in. There were but seven young ladies to about thirty gentlemen, including the men working at the mill, but the ladies tired the gents all out and then did not have dancing enough. A Logan girl out on a picnic can do more dancing to the square inch than any other known. We found an excellent spirit prevailing at the camp. The foreman informed us that during the three years he has worked there, he has never known a quarrel among the boys who stock and run the mill, a force usually numbering about twenty-five nor has he ever heard an oath from one of them. It would be hard indeed to find a similar number of men, similarly employed, of whom this could be said. We spent the night at the ill and left for town early next morning, and made the entire distance in about four hours, traveling leisurely at that. |