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Show A GRIND SIGHT. How the Recent Storm has Piled Up the Ice. A Crowd Goes Down to the Lake to Witness one of Nature's Pictures. This afternoon a party, chaperoned by Superintendent Probert,of the Street Railroad Company, and consisting of R. II. Dodd, Jacob F. Gates, Oscar B. Young, Col. Moore, II. E. Rawlings, Thos. Martin, Ike Fordonski, Ed. L. Jones, Jos. F. Thompson, Engineer De Moisey, Don R. Coray, Charles Poynter, of Eureka, and B. B. Mann, of Salt Lake city, and TnE Dispatch man, went down to the lake. Col. Moore presided at the throttle, and how "Little Kate" did go! She fairly flew, and the passengers held their breath thinking every moment they would find themselves and the whole business off the track. The party finally arrived at the lake, and were permitted to behold one of the finest scenes that nature is in the habit of painting the regions nearer j the North Pole than Provo is. Iloge I blocks of ice, weighing several tons, were piled several feet high, putting one in mind of the frigid region of the north. "That's a sight that people would travel hundreds of miles to seel" said one of the party. It was indeed a gfaifu Btwaio -voiit x wuiig rotnrsed to the company how, in the winter of 1859-60, he was driving a herd of cattle from Battle Creek,when the ice on the lake shore stood in piles of twenty to thirty feet high. - The next good wind that comes the ice will just stack itself up. Joseph Thompson said he stood on the shore and-watched it come in. He said when it cracked, it sounded like an earthquake, and almost made the earth tremble. We understand the street car will make regular trips to the lake to allow the public to witness this grand sight. Due notice will be , giyen. |
