The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-31
THE HORIZONS.
Immigrants for Utah-Tho MornaOns and
the Pacific RailrORd-The "Snings" Ia
Switzerland.

Thirteen hundred Mormon immigrants passed
through Chicago last week, on their way to
Salt Lake City. The Repubiican says:-
Two parties have passed through Chicago
the first consisting of GAG persons, 293 OF whom
were adults, and 253 children, arrived on Friday
night by the Michigan Central Railroad. The
second party, of 749 souls, of whom 1856 were
ADULTS, and 253 children, making a total of 1895
Mormons, arrived here on Sunday. They re-
manned III the city but short time, and took the
trains West as soon as practicable. Some egh-
teen car loads went out on each train. Mr..
Patrick, the iGeneral Passenger Agent Of the
Chicago and Northwestern Roads, took care that
the faithful, though they travel at emigrant
rates, should not be crowded unComtortably.
They pass over the North western Road TO Omaha,
and thence take the Union Pacific Road to the
terminus of the road at Benton, AT the crossing
of the north fork of the Platte and Will then
take wagons to Salt Lake. The majority of the
immigrants are from Lincolnshire, England,
though there are among them a few Swiss,
Welsh, and NorWegians. The women as usual,
outnumber the males, who only form about
one-thrd of the number thus Tar sent out, and
are mostly middie-aged persons. The women
declared that if it was necessary, they would go
to work on the railroad with the men,"
THE MoRMoNs AND THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The Salt Lake EUening NelcS (Mormon), of
July II, says OF the work upon tue Pacidc Rail-
road in Utah:-
"In the railroad mass meeting which was held
in this city on the 10th OF June, the Hon. George
A. Smith himself pioneer, said: we started
from NbuNOO III EeDl utIyi lc4O, 10 Nuke u IOdu
to the Rocky Mountains. A portion OF our work
was to hunt a track for the railroad. We located
a wagon road to Council Bluds, bridging the
streams and believe it has been pretty nearly
followed by the railroad. In April lS47, Presi-
dent Young and one hundred aud fOrty-three
pioneers left Council Bluffs, and located and
made the road to the site of this city. pOr-
uon OF our labor was to seek out the way for
a railroad across the continent, and every
place we found that seemed difficult for laying
the rails We searched out a way for the road TO
60 round or through it,
The route then selected was an excellent one,
and 1T is confidently believed that from the Mis-
slssippi river TO the South Pass, good line Of
easy gradients can be built without being under
the necessity OF boring q single tunnel. Presi-
dent oung is clearly the pioneer of the route
He demonstrated Its feasibility laid the tounda-
tiOn OF lourishing settlements, and some of the
deem California from Mexican rule, found the
gold in the country, aud printed the first news
paper on the western slope of the Rocky
Mountains. He, with the pioneers examined
the ground, cleared the track, and made the
project possible by opening a good road from
the Mississippi to the Missouri, and then from
| winter Quarters point six miles above
Omaha, TO this valley. He did not publish
! newspaper articles, write pamphlets, or agitate
IL as beautiful theory, but he led the van of
an intrepid, hardy and per5eVering body of
people, VINO Drldged the rivers, scaled the
! mountains, penetrated the heart of the cont!-
nent, and founded settlements which make the
Pacific Railroad enterprise one Of com parativey
easy accomplishment History will yet reude