| Show DELIGHTED WITH HIS VISIT A FRIEND has sent us a copy of the manchester england city news con a lengthy correspondence from pen of mr thomas thomaa to bongea a gea member of the late irrigation congress Con gresa held I 1 in thin city the gentleman named was formerly a resident aident re of manchester Man but la Is now located at denver colorado he to have been delighted by lite visit to salt lake and with the treatment he re received colveA this being the case he promises to come again and to stay longer than be did wh while ale here as aa a representative from colorado to the irrigation congress Con greas the nature of the made upon pon the mind of mr tonge can caa be ascertained by a perusal ot of a few extracts from his letter he says i one of our earliest expeditions in salt lake city was to take the electric street car to tort fort douglas a barrack with a reservation of foursquare four square miles bf land aud and a garrison of one tull lull regiment about abou three miles east of and several hundred feet above the city level prom this point a fine semi birds eye view is obtained of the city and valley with the blue waters of the great salt sali lake to the west the further shore ot of which cannot be seen the city is a moan ment to the genius of the men who planned it and the industry d of the men who made it standing at vo port D douglas and surveying the pre present t cai city of bover over inhabitants embosomed bosomed em some 1 in n trees with all its beautiful ful homes and fine buildings and its sixt sixty miles of ele electric otric street oar car railroad 7 it is difficult to realize that in 1847 the fir t white settlers atter after a weary journey of four months with ox teams from the missouri river defiled from the pass in the wasatch mountains which overshadow the city to the east and decided to found a city in the then barren arid desolate valley with its scanty growth of FIR sage e brush those pioneers of 1847 bullied bull ded bottei better than they knew and laid out their city on a unique plan and scale on the wednesday evening we had bad a great rest musical treat which took our minds tack back to Hal halles lelis concerts A grand concert was given in honor of the aundrel visiting delegates with a chorus of four hundred trained voices some very fine instrumental music and exceptionally good soloists sitting in the top seat oat at the back of the gallery in the middle of the end of the oval and therefore farthest removed from ahe the organ and choi had a wonderful realization of the phenomenal hano acoustics of the room and when the leading tenor sang Then remember me it seemed only th the other echer day that we listened to edward lloyd in the free trade hall manchester and the winter gardens at blackpool brackpool Black pool an encore resulted tn in yo ye banks and braes another persistent demand resulted in annie laurie and the presence of a very large british element in fix the audience was revealed in the applause that concert alone was worth the journey from denver Amon among gother other places we the co that took my mind back to the wholesale operative cooperative co Socie tys establishment in balloon street manchester and the manchester and salford operative cooperative co store in downing street where I 1 was a member years ago we went through a boot and shoe factory a shirt and overall factory and investigated local woolen mills and and other industries le the tithing house the grave of trig brigham barn young the beehive his former residence the lion house the residence of some of his wives the galdo gal do the offices of the mormon newspapers the DESERET NEWS and the homans womans jax faw I 1 C anent and finished up with dining at at his hi home ame with mr lorenzo young now e eighty gaty five years old a brother of brigham young X oung and one of the pioneers of 1847 everywhere receiving the greatest courtesy and kindness speaking of the irrigation congress mr tonge says the atthe three days proceedings groce proceedings edings weri were of a most interesting au and practical rt Al character and the convention will mark the bagi beginning 4 of a movement which will result in the addition the united states of a vast further agricultural empire in the arid and or aemi arid regions west of the missouri river biver |
