| Show 1 the twenty fourth of ju july at AT vie THE headwaters OF BIG cottonwood we have attended many celebrations both loth here and in other rew reg regions 0 lons fons but it lla ila hag q never before been our oar fortune to participate in one so fraught with unalloyed high wrought joy as that sie ive we were favored with in the tops of the mounta mountains his hib the blending 0 and alternating on either hand of scenery grand picturesque and ever varying i the gradual ascent smoothed by consummate art and untiring energy the rushing waters the lovely vale and lake la kewith with their placid beauties surrounded by craggy peaks the emotions caused by the locality the day and the company and the reminiscences of the past contrasted with the fruition of the present are all beyond the power of our tongue and pen lien one year ago last september under instructions from prest brigham young lt gen wells bishop F kesier kesler and a small party penetrated the fastnesses fast nesses of big cottonwood kanyon and soon after the present valuable and extensive improvements were comme commenced aced at f first a trail was brushed out and pack animals used for transporting provisions mill irons and other requisite articles from that small beginning and in so brief a period in a locality where experienced mountain and lumber men had P pronounced pronounces a road im impracticable able abie have arisen as if by magic 0 three well finished fini phed saw mills one of them having a large circular i sa saw win in addition to the upright t and each provided with comfortable dwellings dw ellins for the laborer ers and som some 17 miles of toad road has been located and worked with a judgment and perseverance we have never seen surpassed and so well has this been done that pleasure carriages can pass thereon without the risk of brea breakage breakage kae a while the religious gi 0 v s a and n d po political I 1 atmo atmospheres s p h ere 9 are somewhat clear while a voice from the i mountains may be heard amid the roar of the worlds tumult and before fury and persecution gain the ascendancy we ive most roost candidly as asic the reflecting to duly consider ere they provoke a causeless strife with a people isolated by deserts and surrounded by i mountains amid whose fastnesses fast nesses they have the tiie skill skol and energy to make their homes j judging 0 by our works which I 1 ia scripture rule righteous polygamy so far from enerva I 1 I 1 ting as the world represent steels the nerves and muscles with great additional power and i clears the minds vision for seeing 0 afar this has been repeatedly exhibited not pot only oaly in in our 1 exodus from nauvoo and its accompanying I 1 history and hardship is s not only in subduing wastes and building cities where the wicked could not even now be induced to occupy but finally in grappling with and overcoming the rugged L crags and roaring waters of bi big dig g C cottonwood tt onwood and opening their rich treasures to promote the comfort comforts of civilized life then 0 ye wise of the earth cease your puling folly of ranking 0 gov youn young and and the 1 saints of the most high with wibb those renda rendered ered 1 i i effeminate by vile abominations and learn to conciliate concil I 1 I 1 that man and that people who ar arc are on the path to true progression i |
