Show IN THE FIFTIES AND THE SIXTIES We vVe have all heard our fathers and mothers use the expression When I was young an and very often it is a signal for those delightful reminiscences of thirty or or- forty years ago which call up to ones one's mind visions of spinning wheels by deep deep- fire places of capacious linen closets lav lav- scented ender-scented chests a store tore of recipes for cakes and pre preserves erves all the surroundings of peaceful gently flowing lives which seem to belong e especially to Eastern existence existence existence exist exist- j ence in the first an and middle parts of the the- j J I century But the Western Vestern mothers mother's When I Iwas Iwas Iwas was young has but a few faint memories memories- of this kind clinging to it The journey across the plains the camp life the miners miners' miners miners' miners miners' min r ers' ers settlement the ranch or the cabin nestling down in a rocky gorge of the mountains mountains all all these the pioneers of this Western country who had their homes yet yetto yetto yetto to build have known the meaning of of of- Perhaps this home-building home was easier in Utah than other places for there were no miners miners' claims here or gold hunters' hunters tents but farms and at least the semblance of a city a few stores squares where the newcomers newcomers newcomers new new- comers drove their teams of oxen and made a temporary shelter out of their wagon covers covert until the ground for the the- home was decided upon and the house built The family once established there there- the careful house wives unfolded their u ij stores of linen fresh and white as when they were so carefully packed away be before before be- be fore the journey placed on the rude pine shelves the china which it had been their F r pride to keep without a nick or crack for forso forso forso so many years shook out the sheets and spreads they had woven themselves and laid away and put them on the rough bedsteads set up their spinning wheel in ina a corner and the home was found There were many little settlements then which begun in this way thrived and grew al almost almost almost al- al most like a New England town where quilting bees and spelling matches were held in the old New England way But there were many too who discouraged and disgusted worked at anything to earn money to go back to the States with Even those who stayed who plowed and planted their farms lived in log houses cooked over a broken and cracked stove or over a camp fire whose cherished china was broken in the rough life who could not spin because the alkali spoiled the flax and who could therefore no longer keep dainty linen on hand and who yet helped to make the homes of which they are today today to to- day the happy masters and mistresses sigh over the lost advantages of their childhood and tell of the days before ore they crossed the plains longingly They had no way to renew their household goods save at an enormous expense the expense the slow slow- moving wagons might be taken by the Indians or might be lost supplies seldom came from the States There Thel was one man who gave a wagon and team for a aset aset aset set of teeth for fOl his wife Trade indeed was almost always carried on with farm produce nearly everybody was a farmer There was in 1850 but O one oie le drug storo in inthe the Territory and that was Even at the dances to which the farmers came from far and near admi admission sion was wasI I paid for in vegetables One might have seen in the misty moonlight groups groups coming coming com com- ing from all directions to the ball a tall figure gure with a bundle at either side on r closer view these turned out to be the lady on the one arm a pumpkin n or squash on if i the other If the pumpkin was an especially especially espe espe- dally fine one there might be change in carrots or radishes They had not all been brought up tip as farmers these h home There were re sons of famous men among them educated gentlemen at least one noble family from England whose ancestral halls are are still unoccupied and waiting for its master it itis itis itis is said And so the Territory grew The railroad railroad rail rail- road came further West comforts were more easily imported the stage which ran from Salt Lake to Fort Bridger and back again in six weeks brought mail and n new new- w- w comers How it must have gladdened t the e hearts of those waiting for news from friends in the East to hear the music of Mr lVIr Golightly's bugle ring out from the mouth of Emigration canyon across the valley on the still frosty air The valley has changed a great deal since then Old settlers will point out suburbs where they remember marshes cover covered d with willows and tell you what a task it was to drain them for pasture ture ground Its the booms perhaps he will say ay as one old man who had been from Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- to California around the world carefully explained An theres there's men makes a business of booming Look at Los Angeles down on the coa coast t wa want t nothing till they run it up on climate and oranges Then they went up to Frisco and to Portland and give it a hi hist t an down to Boise City and helped it along It takes booms to make cities grow From the few Mormon settlers who first camped out in a square barricaded from fear of the Indians in 45 the city has grown to one of inhabitants and andon on the block where in 57 the immigrant t wagons stopped and their owners camped while looking for a home the U University nive was built and has flourished B. 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