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Show Salt Lake City Eighty-Three Years Ago fortune. Two men can do more threshing here with flails than the best machine can there. If I had a machine I would go no farther toward California, for I could make as much as I want here. ; Cattle and horses need no feed hers, scarcely, in the winter. As soon as the snow falls, the grass grows better. There is snow here all the year around in the mountains. moun-tains. I have kept a journal since the day I left. I can tell you a great many things after I get horns, if I am spared to get back. Gold Seeker Describes Z'on In Interesting Letter WHITER DIED OF CHOLERA Tells of Big Celebration Held By The Mormons Salt Lake City as seen in 1850 by a gold seeker on his way to California is described in a letter which has just come to light. The epistle is dated at Salt Lake City, July 24, 1850. It .was written by Andrew J. Conrad of Logansport, Ind., to his father, David H. Conrad, Con-rad, of that place. Shortly after writing the letter Mr. Conrad died of cholera before rsaching California. Cali-fornia. The letter was preserved over a half a century in a family Bible. It was discov?red there a short timer ago by Stephen G. Conrad, brother of the writer, and was published in the Logansport Pharos of last Wednesday, a copy of which was received in Salt Lake last week by Henry Welling. The letter is as follows: Dear father: We have seen (some of the country so far. Some-j Some-j times the hills are so steep that I we had to let the wagons down by ropes, and before we got into the valley we came through a canyon that was not more then fifty yards wide at the widest and the rocks so high that they would make one's head swim to look at the top of them. I would suppose them to be from 2,000 to 5,000 feet high by the looks of the mountains around the valley, which are 6,500 feet high, with plenty of grizzly bear, mountain moun-tain sheep, black tail deer, etc. We arrived in the valley on the 6th day of July, and found it to be one of the nicest places in the United States and very healthful. The Mormons say they never knew a case of fever or ague since they lived here. The creek water is as pure and cold as the well water in the states, and they all have springs by their doors. They have no rain here in the summer; they have to irrigate their land, but still they can raise more wheat than we can in the states. They raise from 50 to 75 bushels an acre. One man raised 180 bushels from one bushel of wheat; another raised 120 bushels bush-els on one and a half acres. It may seem to be a bis; story, but it is true. Wheat is worth from 6$ to $8. Flour, 25 cents per pound. I It sold as high as $1 a pound when we, came in. Butter, 50 cents; corn, $4; and all other things accordingly. according-ly. We can make from $5 to $10 j a day. We have a strong notion to stay here till spring and take a two-ox team and a year's provisions with us to the mines. The cholera is very bad on the road and we expect it has reached j the min3s. We have heard no , .news from California since we leftj the state,, and, in fact, from any place else. One might think it hard, but we take it patiently, hoping hop-ing to see better times some day. As long as one has his health he can get along well, but it is no place for sick folks. I know that by experience myself, and many a poor fellaw has laid his bones by the roadside. j I just returned this evening from I the great Mormon celebration, and it caps anything I ever saw. I suppose that there were about! 1,500 men, women and children. It' Is a queer way of serving the Lord, I think, Thev HnH a whnlA hanH of music, and more too, when they marched to escort the president, or the prophet as you might say. Th3 band preceded twenty-four ladies, all dressed in white with blue scarfs on, carrying a flag with the words: "All Hail to Our Chieftain." They were followed by tweny-four) bishops, each carrying a flag, and they were follewed by a number of soldiers, some dressed in most splendid splen-did style They had two cannons, which they discharged every few minutes. They had a large flag hoisted. It was 80 feet long and 20 feet wide, but it fell down in the afternoon on account of the pole .breaking. They Intended to have a concert in the evening, but I did not stay. Eli and George remained. The men have from one to forty- four, wives each, and it beats all places for children that I have ever seen. They say that there has been but one boy bom in the valley in two years. They think this is the promised land which shall flow with milk and honey, but I think it will flow wHth milk, butter and cheese. You need not expect to hear from us again until next summer sum-mer if we stay here, but I want you to write to California; we will be there by the first of June, if not sooner. Wheat is worth 50 cents per bushel for threshing. Tell Joseph White if he had his thresh-machine thresh-machine here he could make a |