Show TRE HALT LAKE B stirring with tie I 1 boom at the capia special to tax SALT LAK CITY april 8 ISM lest you may have heard that are bently left brigham city and possibly ba acx ous ily alivin ofa I 1 I 1 I 1 hasten to pencil and transmit these few lines on I 1 made up my mind and body anti taking an adieu of my smal but interesting fam ily 1 1 well consists of seven loving chi 1 1 ren and a doting m ife I 1 left illy my quiet rural honie A athin the corporate limits of the flat of box ader and turned my face this may a Rin gular destination but as you will remember this place was at one time called great salt lake city of ter wards changed to salt laiq city and now bo again changed to great Doo usually trips as these I 1 find myself late oil r aching ilia depot but in this one in stance I 1 found raybell about one hour too early oming to ilia tran being one hour late unfortunate cir cuni I 1 glided A ill an cx post mamer an attorney A county felece man a missionary it tailor a drum alessanda aler sandA STANDA iLD representative frola the hour awn sped by as also did tha ir A in and a found ou melves speeding along at a rate that beat time wid spice aind as noon approached me found ourselves fast approaching salt lake city A short distance die tance north of the home of the boom a approached tile aio doubtless recognized we as a approach log the m and offered to drive me through salt lake city fit a carriage as soon ar the train arr vo at the depot I 1 thanked him but declined the offer as I 1 lied some certai n mat estate in my minds eye which I 1 intended to birtt inspect with no view however of wresting arriving at tile depot I 1 avoided the acrond of real estate agents and pro ceedee on my way in bearch of tile boom I 1 was lot long in finding it as from numerous indications it appeared that nearly alternate piece of property was beyerl or sale at allm prices I 1 was a most abe mildered wil dered as this was tile first time I 1 lied been in the vicinity of a boom at my destination I 1 lied ng y lied time to say flow do do and take a fresh breath bo tou in d was nearly all shutoff ag ath a i n that my mother had been offered for tier arty my father in law lied r a offered for my brother in iasha sold a lot in the lower part of the city which had been considered ittle better than it nin dhole for lied also been offered 1350 per foot for an other small parcel of land and 5 0 for a ilace lie omis in the seventh ward a lot As I 1 was juat recovering illy respiration I 1 was told that my brother lied bein offered about for ilia small place in ilia tenth mard by this time my nervous system lied been sufficiently tried and found wanting on tile boom question and I 1 concluded that for the present I 1 discard the boom and give my attention to conference which I 1 have done with much pleasure and I 1 trust profit J D |