Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-01-17
Across the Continent

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| Mr.. Bowies, the editor of the Sprint.
/ field Repu lican, and the companion OF
| Speaker Coiax in his overland journey.
to the Pacifc coast, has mate very read
able record Il ms observations The
| journey, though not official, was made IN,
der advantages secured by the high position
! OF hr ColtaX. lt was HOt permitted 20
the party OF tourists to enter tn e,n,n! Is
vi Brigham Young vulnerable y tn~
-'22e approached Salt Lake iry y : az.
ne ,'"rmou au'h" les They -. ered
u>, >ays u Bo~ies q usssnount; we were
tHdlVld 1ally introduced to each of twenty
oi them; We received long speech; we
made i long One-staDding IN the hot
sand with the sun of forty thousand lens
power concentrated upon us. tired ana
dirty with weeks coach ride; Was it won
der that the mjldest OF tenpers rebelled?
! rrans lerred to other carriages, our hos;
drove Us thr ugh the city to the hotel; and
then-blesS their Mormon hearts-they
tou& Us at pnce to Il hot sulphur bath, that
nature literally offers just on the confines
OF the city, and there we washed out all
remembrance OF the morning suffering ami
all the accumulated CRIME and fatigue of
10 Journey; and anne out baptized in
,,,s..rcs- aud self-respect. Clean clothes,
lue }iormon tabernacle in the afternoon,
@aa Congregational Geatiie') meeting
guo sermon IN the eveuIng, were the other
prec. e4lngs of our first day Id Utah
Sy"ce, a0d still ctntsaGed, Mr.. Colfax
-, -, l. 1. l.
generous aud tn ghtful hospitality
They are the guests OF the city; but the
military authorities and citizens vie togeth
er as W II to please their Visitors and make
them pleased with Utah and its people
The MOrmons are eager to prove their 10y
atty 10 the Cover ament, their sympathy
with its bereavement, their joy in its final
trlumph-which sAeir silence or their slants
aui sneers her esDt0re had certainly put in
some doubt-an4 they leave nothing unsaid
or undune now towards Mr. Collax as the
representative OF that Government, or
toward the yRbilc, to give assurance of
their rIghtnIiededness Also they wish us
to know tn@a they are not monsters and
lnurderers, bat men Of Intelligence, virtue,
good man Gers and fine tastes, They put
their pol lygamy on high moral and religious
grounds; and for the rest, anyhow, are not
willing 10 be thought otherwise than our
peers, And certainly we do find here a
great deal of truth and good human Nature
aud sCeial culture; great deal of business
intelligence and activity; a great deal of
genezOus hospitality-besides most excel
lent strawberries and green peas, and the
mos0 promising orchards of apricots, peach
es, plums, aud apples that these eyes ever
heheld anywhere
Salt Lake City appears to have charmed
the whole party. IT'S location is exqulsitely
beautiful. 1t is regularly laid out, and
/ abounds in gardens carefully cultivated.
The region OF which it is the, centre, with
the aid OF irrigation, produces most bouns
tiful harvests. Fifty and sixty bushels OF
wheat to the acre are an ordinary yield
Brigham Young, preeminent here as IN all
else. has raised from an acre Of ground
ninety three and half bushels Of wheat.
All the ordinary fruits OF the temperate
zone are produced luxuriantly and in great
perfection. In the opinion of Mr BoWles,
Salt Lake City is destined to rank with st.
Louis and Chicago.
The Lake is miniature ocean, about
fifteen miles from the city, Fifty miles wide
by one hundred long-the brinest sheet
of water known on the contlneDt-se salt
that no fish can live in it, and that three