| Show DENVER colorado june juno 7 1683 editor deseret we aws upon closing my letter to you yea ter ten clay we had just commenced our descent of the eastern slope of the ever famous rocky bocky mountains far above arkansas fo fountains bains eto etc as we usei to aing sing thirty seyen beyen years ago when exiled from our home and journeying towards the tho land of our promised irest iest lest the grand canyon of the tho arlinn arllan sas bas although not varying in so scenery enry to the extent of the ulac canyon of the presenta a scene tind and produce a a sensation ling haa han any thing it has been my lot heretofore to experience when e capt a passage I 1 once made through tho the grand canyon ot thel thet Co colorado orado arado some years since bince in on gin oid old scow in company with bix blk others over numerous rapids rapid R fearing our cur I 1 frail tub like ilke bo boat atwould would bo be dashed to pieces every few minutes bas while the precipitous mountains towering up op on either side thousands of feet the holes in the rocks studded with flowers of varied hues and in great V variety and profusion and that early in january passengers who wished were invited to take seats in an observation car at the rear of the train when old and young clung dung to each other and whatever eise else their bands could clutch dutch while the iron horse dashed along fuming and screeching amid the breathless silence of the passengers many of whom grew dizzy as they flem flew along the rapid flowing river and across an ein iron bridge while the rocky heights of feet made us ur feel exceedingly small one elderly gentleman on vacating the ear car of observation was vas heard to esy say they certainly are too reckless in the care of human life to suit me I 1 never want to pass through there again at that speed I 1 believe that they did not go less than 40 miles an hour A mile or two below we passed canon city where the state penitentiary tent fary iary is erected of massive proportions and of beautiful white stone other buildings of goodside sign were to be ba seen at a distance of miles from your city we passed in the dark the old mexican town of pueblo where it la Is said the infirm of our battalion were left to winter on their memo bablo march in 1846 it Is evidently destined to be quite a place af pf busl husi ness as aa Lr averal everal railroads alread already form a junction there presidents smith fand patty arrived in this city olty this morning and were by the kindness of W N babcock tnt esq sq agent of the chicago fc N W by co ca taken in carriages to tile the different places of note after which they with elder john morgan who I 1 failed to mention before as of their party will visit the saints in the neighborhood of manassa manassas conejos county of this state and Elders eiders Angus TA cannon thomas E taylor and arthur stayner blayner Bt ayner jr will vii take their departure east the two former on busi bust nees nebs connected with the deseret NEWS bews company while elder stay nez ner goes coes to familiarize himself with th the tho manufacture ot of sugar denver is a city of about inhabitants with public buildings and private dwellings that indicate indi ease eave enterprise hag haq not been begu lacking and they have not been curbed cursed as utah has by the pre prefaces hecea hecen of a horde of lying whining canting hypocritical priests and impecunious adventurers whose sole object is to live by plunder and to frighten capital away from her borders her buildings compare favorably with those of much older eastern cities their taxes I 1 am told are now a 3 and 4 10 per cent per annum and water for a roh noh loi lot of 50 feet front costs coats 10 for six montha compare your taxes with these and rind ahk nek capitalists if utah can complain of excessive taxation |
