Show A PENCIL or OF LOGAN tho following sketch of logan appears with numerous illustrations in harpers ff tal beekly eccli it was written by julian ralph an ail emi eminent author who contributes to the leading magazines in all my western travelling tra veiling velling loman logan 0 is tho the prettiest country place I 1 have yet seen it would be difficult for me to picture to the readers mind a moro more charming enchanting spot than this mornion mormon village dots a lovel lovely Y park or bit of prairie that is walled around by chains of stately mountains whose sides are all furrowed and heavily ribbed tile valley was half sagebrush sage brush and half alkali forty years ago an old lake bed no doubt and yet today to day it is a glorious garden asbury park which has been buit built in a forest by cutting streets ts and building 0 sites out from among tile trees lias has not a tenth so many forest trunks and not a thousandth part such beautiful or such kalua abie abic ones tices cices which no man can reach around have been planted in lines along each curb and within each dooryard door yard behind these in every yard and garden are still other trees so BO thickly scattered that the pretty little cottages of the town are arc more than half hid bid amone amona leafage and a view of the town from tiie the nearest moun tain side is a sight hialit 0 of clouds of foliage broken only by the towering granite spires of the mormon lormon L temple and the massive bulk of the 0 granite tabernacle the sparkling water of the logan river tapped upon a mountain side is led so cleverly through the town that each 0 gutter atter on each side eido of every street is a rushing plash ing mountain rill gates which look to the lay beholder like tiny cataracts are opposite each garden and the melody of rippling singing water fills the air that air already so freighted with the sweet br breathings brea C athing things 05 of the trees and the mingling essence of a million flowers the great broad streets with the electric wires on poles in the middle of each roadway the small and cozy dwellings the thick orchards the flower flowerbeds beds the shade trees the walled in tithing douse giouse the rat tat of frequent saddle horses borses 11 1 the cows streaming stream in g t h r agh t town own at dusk the fierce gi glare are of the sun in the clear sky sk tile the purpling blushing ever changing moun mountains bains these are but a few of tile the details that memory sends leaping back to my iny eyes the busy trading street the neatly dressed hardy men and plump and rather saucy seeming mormon lasses come next in view and I 1 think that if I 1 had to describe both men and women I 1 would say that they form just uch such a population as is one finds in out of the way eastern places like gettysburg or whitehall ali ah I 1 but to climb the near mountain and look down is the best of the things to do then the valley is seen to be checkered with villages 0 and farms al alternately now a tow town n and now great tracts of farm land there are twenty one villages in sight and each is but the huddling p place lace of so EO many farmers the they y live as their kind do in turkey and the orient generally building all to together ether and going to the outlying farms tu to do each days work before returning 0 to the houses where the women have had each others company and that of the old men and children it was in 1859 CO 60 that seventeen young men with younger c wives and a baby that came caine at about the same time moved into the valley and built close by one another on both sides of what is now the depot street 1 each ach took ten or twenty acres of farm land a mile or more up the valley with five acres for pasturage in yet another locality some men wanted more land even sixty acres illow how will you cultivate it they IT were cre asked why we are 9 going to have sons they said then wait till you 0 get them and there will be land for them in their turn all together the settlers built an irrigating ditch each digging liis his part accord according itic 0 to the land ho he held they washed the salt out of the earth and it blossomed under the iame bame ditches thus t led through the farms and c every cry year these men with pick and fc hovel cleared out ell ellone habit his bit of the main ditch after the winter had heaped and choked it today to day that water goes with the land and the hired meu men keep the ditch in repair for the owners how allow different dif from fr orn the t h c usual american plan whereby one man seizes a water right and calls his grab a dukedom and extorts so many dollars a year from all settlers for himself and his children even unto the fourth and fifth generation |