Show CITIES KAYSVILLE sixteen miles from ogden Is the little village of twenty oue ore miles it was for diek dick and me selecting the most attractive house near which a farmer with six or eight stalwart sons rous was threshing out his wheat approached and asked if my horse could be fed gor of cof course he can said mr enhart dont you want something theat to eat too 11 most certainly he surmised we the truth so one of the young men took charge of dick andl and I 1 walked into tile the house which more resembled a hollander ers cottage for scrupulous cleanliness than han anything I 1 ever eyer rawln rawin saw in our country there were two matrons matrona mat rons evidently sisters and two you younger n or ladies ladles all about their bouse house household J old oid duties there were children belonging ito to them collectively besides the great lads outside girls of sixteen to twenty years and younger ones of a more tender age and babies of scarcely any age at all A bountiful repast of bread and butter milk and honey was spread be ore me and while I 1 sat at the table two gentle young es kept the flies away gracefully moving green switches ver my head what captivating addenda to a breakfast babies are the great delight and to bear them is the great ambition of mormon women child murder I 1 thel the barbarous custom of civilized ilfe lire practiced practised to an almost incredible extent in out large cities where it is found too expensive to have a family cannot at any rate be laid hild to the charge of the twin relic of barbarism in utah here at least among we the coun country try people it is economy to fo have a large family they all work mork the little busy bee ig not more mom active than a mormon child one oneff bf tile the mrs showed me a very neatly sewed patchwork quilt made by ivinno vinny at the agu agg of nine yes 11 exclaimed another mrs enhart my josie made one of them when she was only seven after breakfast I 1 strolled llod in the garden where two twi of the young bebes were picking gooseberries goose berries so I 1 picked gooseberries goose berries and abid when I 1 talked with one young lady they both answered they knew little of the outside world nor did they care caro to know their they were happy in their ignorance of it the garden I 1 could not help thinking of the garden of eden only there were two eves eved instead of one in it was an acre dere in lii extent and was full of most delicious fruit gooseberries goose berries currant 0 blackberries apricots pears apples peache sand band grapes all but the latter quite ripe and of larger jarger size and more abundant on the trees and vines than we ever have them at home these women tempted me and I 1 did eat P and the good lord did not take nence otence of at any rate he did not send any angel with a two edged sword after us the eldest mrs enhart gave me a most interesting account or of their early experience in utah she was inthe in the first band that came after the pioneers the story of the plymouth pilgrims is riot liot more replete with the memories nae rae mories morles of hardship s and danger what a long tramp trump those zealous cormons mormons had over a tr trackless ackles ackies desert sterile plains and rocky mountains w worse orse to endure surrounded as they were not riot only by natural obstacles es but by mortal foes a thousand times worse than the atlantic Atlant iq storms that beat upon the mayflower mrs enhart said that as they tiley tolled toiled along the road they all su supposed that as soon as they arrias arrived they would find rich prairies and green meadows overy every everything thing ready to plant their heed seed and to commence raising their herds ad and lucky it was we did not know what was before us she added for when we got through E emigration in 1 canon and saw nothing but sagebrush sand and alkali if we had not had faith we should have died but brother Bilg brig biggham ilam liam told asit us it casall was wag all nil right this was tile the place it was a desert but god would make it blossom ast agthe he rose and thanks be to him he has blessed us as he never blessed any people before anyway I 1 am happy when I 1 ti think ink what wo we have been through the first year wo we planted our at seed beed ed nothing came of it the second the crickets destroyed everything then came the grasshopper peni peri plague in that thata 7 year ear in one dabour da day your our boys bo s shoveled them into sacks and buried over fifty bushels of them in a hole the air was full of the horrid smell of the dead insect insects and we all feared a plague in addition to the loss joss of the crop but look at things now president young right we vvo have always found his advice right because he has revelations from god and what you see all around here liere proves it far was it from me to dispute with the good lady or to attempt to weaken her hen er falth faith in the divine mission of brigham young because she could D not 0 t ilg disconnect won aon U cc t it from faith in god I 1 thanked her for her story and thanked them all old and young for their kindness and hospitality and dick then jogged bogged along with his paunch filled with oats and I 1 had as many apricots and gooseberries goose berries as my pockets wo would uld hold T TOO 0 0 EL EJ E nearly halfway half balf way across the tile valley at a distance of ten miles from either ran range the oquirrh and the ophir is t the city of tooele thoele it is literally an oasis in the desert from far away it seeing n like a little green patch of grass As we approach it its proportions are enlar eniar enlarged 9 and when we enter it we find a minature salt lake city like it in its wide streets with streams of water and houses and gardens on eclis ench side ide andy and like all the mormon cities exceedingly quiet and neat wll wil while lie lle we were changing horses 4 I 1 strayed into the grounds of a house near by the proprietor was an englishman the lady she might have been one by herself cr one of many lauy was a roy rosty cheeked checked englishwoman english woman they gave me some fine peaches and plum and as they were sociably inclined they gave me also some or of their religious experience 11 they were fully impressed with the divine ivine character of what they the they y termed their blessed religion 1 I and like all other mormons cormons Mor mons they had the mos most t implicit faith in Bri brigham oliam wliam young UI BING iram ItAM the village of Bi bingham bindham five miles within tho canon is remarkable for nothing especially dlf dif different from other othen mining camps already described excepting that murden murder 4 are rather more common A few days daya before our arrival there was a lively family difficulty in which a father and his three sons were killed their relations contemplate killing the murderer when they catch him film and as in that case the tile murderers friends will ago go for them and as that going corwill for will be avenged there thero is likely to be a diminution of the population of the camp bingham I 1 is a healthy locality as t to climate but there are other influences fluen ces ees which make life quite as insecure as where yellow fever and cholera prevail whiskey kills a great many people not accounted for in the little cemetery as murdered the number or of headstones telling of violent death by the pistol and knife is quite appalling the burying ground is getting to be a little respectable now theres There fj two fellers in there said byln my informant who died a natural death all the rest or of yem lem eln ein era would have been alive now if kept clear of whiskey and lived peaceable the scenery of this canon is very picturesque although it can call scarcely compare with that of the valleys of the opposite range SALT LAKE CITY bingham canyon has this advantage over little cottonwood the region of agthe the emma and other valuable mines on the wasatch range that the operation of the in mines ines is not impeded by snow the entrance of the canyon is twenty five miles from salt lake r city ity distances are so deceptive i in this ramified rarified atmosphere that on emerging at the plain it seemed that only a few miles were before Us its until we should reach the beautiful city so clearly distinguished nestling under the wasatch mountains surrounded Surround edas as eve every ry dwelling is by garden trees the appearance was rather that of a forest dotted here and there with white houses bouses certainly salt lake city from any point is beautiful and it never looked more lovely than as we approached it on this bright noon ne zhe mormon murmon country by john jonn codman |