Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-12-13
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4 Trip to California. No. II.

quarters in The "Silyer Lake car, which, on the
Central Pacific, takes the place Of the Pullman, "
but does not iiIi t-only "m,tlos around in it,
we notice many of our late companions turning
their mces in the direction Of a train that stands
on the left Of the depot They are the tourists
of Che route people who are making business
Of the journey overland and hence can stop by the
way to 90 down % Salt Lake City, forty miles
away, on the border Of the Lake, under the shad
ow Of the white capped Wahsatch peaks while
/, who.c call is 50 imperative rs b make my
journey westward as straight on and as contnu
Gus as the sun b, turning neither 10 the right
hand nor the LEFT, must solaee myself by think
ing that IL ! were in with the tourists, Brigham
Young would seem b me just as taurinc and
unctious-thc Mormon women Just as ugly Of
look and sad Of men-the Mormon home Just a.
bare of all the little uiceties that so embelish
and make cheerful Vermont home-the Nor.
mon married life just as poor in all the grace
and amenitie. with which pure, couiugal love
crowns our dear Vermont life. as they DO to all
who, stopping OIL at Ogden day or two, 10 down
% visit that strange city of a stranger people,
dwelling there under the lea Of the strangest Of
GUS, - '"O su''o VI '"e
'''nsoS' 'l a'i ner lhlAhu seas VINE we are
BUSY HNin4 our traps Tor The journey OF two
nights and two days that is between little Ogden
/ hy Salt Lake and great san Francisco of the Pa.
cilic sh1re-ie. u, Justify ourselves for speaking
Oh the M'imoIS' thelr CITY, themselves then
mountains ana their Lake, as combination Of
what Us strange stranger and stnngost w,
may speak of their CITY thus for il il n city in
tne desert and not all a city either 1t Is gar
zen" grove ana an orchard and all m the desert,
''"n "uicn' as u stretches away and away Tor
uuu1'''' oi mics % the west none other Of earth
desert, o'uid LOOK more repellant' drearier or
more uun' here the temperature Is ever mild :
no sn1" ever mU-' ~ iro,t- ever .ere' II would
seem liht the mountains gather adj the cold, the
9n'" ana iro'ls TO themselves, aud there they
r'-e' ony lew hundred yards away, loaded al
most inc ye" r'nni from base TO summit with
sn'" \ month iater' on our return over thu
p'''n tnefe' just under yonder loot hills We shall
see inc phenomenon OF peach ana plum orchard
n gorgeous sprlhgl'he array Just on the edge
o' "'' 'l''!e''se sn'" ''"nN'
Mountain side and bosom Of plain are all Sc
white, so free from all that can attract the sun
rays, it can get no firm and abiding grasp upon IN,
snow and SD, not ell Of sudden, as in spring.
time in Vermont, at the call Of the returning SUI
and South wind, does the Utah snow pour itsel
from bill and upland into valley brook and low
'anl river Out win tr'ekling drops day by day
"' '' 'u'N'''r ,'"s uoes u u'S''l i''ei upon th'
p'''u "'''" anu "na' seems curse 70 Inc
3'''''' Is d" ''"'''S d" noli'uIaO'e o'essihg'-
''u'' N'' "' 'u'0"niV l'g'n' Ano
ui''" "'o" SUN
"'''' '''' anu ''c RUE NOUS goou every
.o ''," "i'u 'ue moun'a"
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a practice which died in the history Of our rae.
centuries ago. But as they have trenrhed IN,
plain back up into the mountain. to bring theme
what will give them physical life. and 40 tina,
life is ali complete 50 have they trenched tb,
! plain of humanity lie back to the dark deGe,
Of barbarisln, to draw theme what shall civ,
them social and religious life and SO that life j,
| all incompeted-all ,hryelled up, sero and dead
On the earths dun plain their city is a Twin.
oasis On lite's green plain they are dead oasis
| But the Lake their city borders il tho strono
ct thing of ALL II stretches o,vav tbro,,b m,
desert one hundred and t,yentt.6ye miles Iono
BIS forty-fye wide. and it has no comparison will
other bodies Of water that. like the Atlantic
and Pacific. hy virtue Of their composition. hay,
won the respect of all who know them. Ii lisa
much saltedas Brigham Young in comparison will
a respectable Vermont husband is - much mar
red ~ So salt are its water, that they are nea,
enough a solid To float those of the solid me,
Of Boston" in that great excursion of year ano
half ago who tried bathing in them. Wear,
justified in concluding that its waters are yer,
salt. for some of the batbers we know nersonalI,
to be the solidest of Bostons solid men
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