The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-05-21

eye but high mountains, deep gulches, and
small tenements, until you arrive at the
town of Echo, where there is number OF
stores and other houses, beside the neces.
sary Railroad buildings, winding along
Bear and Weber Rivers. You view some
wild and interesting mountain and river
scenery-noticed at some length m the
Trans Continental Railroad Guide, which,
by the way, is book atfording a very cor
rect accoun. Of the various points all along
the route from Chicago to San Francisco.
No traveller should be without it after leav-
ing Chicago Price, in the cars, so cents.
1t affords more information for the cost
than any book ever saw. The narrow
valley all the way from Wasatch to Ogden,
by way of Echo, Morgan, DEVILS Gate,
Uinta, &C., does not present many objects
of attraction apart from the DEVILS Slide,
1000 mile tree, and the high and rugged
Junction, the terminus of the T. P. and C.
p, as we'll as that of the Utah Central
running from here to Salt Lake City. Og-
den is a Mormon town, of some 5000 in
habitants, with low houses, mostly one
story, but quite number, recently buJa
are two-story. 1t has wide streets, and is
nicely shaded with cottonwood trees; it
! extends along the foot of the mountain,
about three miles, and has many very neat
| and comfortable residences, with beautiful
vegetable and fruit gardens and nice yards,
| showing much taste and comfort, fit tokens
of the abodes of the Latter Day Saints.
| AS all travellers are required to stop here
to change cars and re-check baggage, &C.,
! there are many inquiries with regard to
the population, hight of the mountains,
&c. We have stated the population. The
distance from the station, although it looks
! to be not more than mile to the foot of
the mountain, is 81 miles. The hight of
the mountain, which many would suppose
was some 800 to 400 feet, is 1000 feet
| Trees near the top of the mountain, which
would seem to be small bushes, are really
/ good size, saving timber 12 to IS inches
thick. Early in the morning the clouds
are frequently much below the top of the
full view, as the tops are mostly covered
with snow, while everything in the valley
is beautifully green, and fruit trees and
shrubbery, are now in full bloom.
This being the depot for shipping freight
of various kinds to Montana, many teams
are now here loading every conceivable
kind Of merchandise for the different towns
in that Territory. We recognize some
familiar names Oh the various kinds of
boxes from the eastern cities. After trans
porting by railroad so many thousand miles,
those goods have to be hauled by oxen some
500 miles. This would seem to he tedious
process, but many tons leave here daily by
that process, and wend their way leisurely
along the plains and over and around those
Rocky Mountains, which many read of,
but few have seen.
The travellers over the L. p and C. p.
r. r. are increasing all the while, not a
few of whom stop and visit the city of Salt
Lake, brought SO wildly before the public
during the present session of Congress.
But few, we presume, leave the city,
without entertaining different views of
Mormonism to those they had when they
| left their homes in the East. Such men as
Bishop Andrews, the blind orator, Milburn,
| and many others, distinguished for their
ability and piety, have lately preached to
| immense congregations of the Latter Day
Saints, as we'll as Gentles in the great Nor
mon Temple, in their idol city, the abode
of their much-reverenced President. Brig
ham Young.
1t is not remarkable that those persons
should consider their prime leader and
Bishop their great benefactor. By his SUI
perior tact and management, he has sue
ceeded in emigrating thousands of his fel-
| low countrymen, and many others from
European countries, from comparative serf-
dom, and furnished them home with
| facilities to make comfortable living for
themselves and families, without cost to
the emigrant in the first place. And after
they acquire the means, it is no more than
debt of gratitude, they consider, to pay
tithes money, as they understand it, to their
Church of which he is the great centre, and
l never saw people more welded to a
Church than they are to theirs.
Pardon my long yarn, and be assured
am truly yours. OCCASIONAL.