Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-18
N. Y. AGRICULTURAL EDITORIAL
 EXCURSION.
SALT LAKE CITY.

ENCUNStOHs sE
 SALT LAKE CITY.
 We reached Salt Lake City just at eve ming; fopna the people expecting ms and q good supper waiting for us-a nice hotel and every thing for our comfort. After breakfast the next morning, carriages were waiting take us to see the city We went to the hot sulpher springs where.the wa ter boils up ont of the rock, and so hot ii is impossible to hold your hand there an instant. Then we went to Brigham Young's house. were received by his first high counselor, Vice President Smith and several of the apostles (B. Y. being laid up with rheumatism), were pleasantly entertained by them for half an hour; wis ited the grounds of Mir. Jennings, and could you see them you would be filled with wonder and astonishment. You would say how could he make this ont of 8 desert? Beautiful flower gardens taste fully laid out. 8 vegetable garden, fruits in great profusion, and snch apricots as never were seen in this part of the conti- nent. and very abundant, goosberries large as plums and very sweet. His house is beautiful; we were invited in, hand somely entertained there, and found his wife pleasant company and very inteili gent. In the afternoon they took us into the Tabernacle, an oval building, seat ing twelve thousand people, it is very plain but the organ is very nice, the larg- est in the United States except the one at Boston. Their organist was there to play for us and our party were invited to try it; we went up on top of the building and had nice view of the city generally. We visited their museum which is very fine with many rare curiosities-also an inn mense cooperative store where they do $5, ,OOO, 900 business every year, with every thing in it which is needed for every day life. They are building 8 Temple, but as yet are only two feet above the founda- tion. It was commenced in 1859; it is of granite and they drew the stone seventeen miles with oxen, and of course made very slow progress. Now they have completed 9 narrow-guage railroad, and we went to the quarry. The road rises two hundred and eighty-seven feet to the mile, and turns very short curves. We also went to the American Fork canyon over a narrow guage that rises three hundred and fifteen feet to the mile. The little engine broke valve and we were drawn up nine miles with mules, but when we come down all we needed, or had, was brake. We came fifteen miles in one hour, and the road is very crooked; imagine how we came, but we enjoyed it. They provided an Aorti- cultural entertainment for us in the even ing at their common council rooms, and their wives were there and we had 0 pleas- ant social time. All the fruits of the were there, besides grapes and apples from California and oranges from the Sandwich Islands.
 Wheat grows here luxuriantly and in fact every thing does, but all has to be done by irrigation; stream of water runs on each aide of every street to make the trees grow and it is very pretty also. The Mormons have surely made lovely gar den from barren desert. .--i
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 Early Saturday morning we started for our journey home but We had long ride of three days and two, nights over the plains to Omaha. After we came to Ne braska the aspect of things changed and there was beautiful farming country. We left the railroad for few hours and were taken by the land agents to see some of their prairie land; it was very nice and pleasant, but give me hills and forests; at Omaha the same attention was shown us as had been eiseWhese. That, too, is g beautiful city; we crossed the Missouri river there: the bridge. seventy feet above the water, and the piers seventy feet be- low the water on solid rock. S E
 Then we rode by day across Iowa; too much can hardly be- said in it's praise; came over the same railroad that was rob- bed few weeks since; saw the place un- molested. There are immense fields of wheat and corn, butthe latter is said not to be very good this year; plenty of old corn; and I think we saw by the railroad as much as fifty miles of corn cribs that would hold thousands of bushels. We did not see Illinois, as we came through in the night, reaching Cbicaco about 2 a. m. We went to the Grand Pacific, the largest house now open.. magnificent in all it's appointments and in the afternoon were taken for twenty-five mile sail on the lake. At nine in the evening we Left for Pittsburg and arrived there about four o'clock the next afternoon, spent the night, and at seven in the morning the Penn. Central took us in charge with Q special train. They showed us how they fill their boilers while going at full speed, and also a sample of fast travelling thirty miles in twenty eight minutes, and four hundred and forty-tvo miles in thirteen and | half hours from P. to IN. H. At one time we ran hundred and thirty two miles without stopping, and only stopped three times between Pittsburg and Philadelphia, over three hundred miles-a road every one should ride over that enjoys travel, and fine scenery. s.i .i We reached home safe and well, having been absent six weeks and tfaveled near ly eight thousand miles without an acci- dent or detention of any kind. Our orig inal programme was carried out, and the sublimity of Rocky Mountain scenery met our grandest expectations. F. T. O..
 To make place attractive put c sailroad restaurant in fl. If there was not such . restaurant in Stamford, many of the