Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-21
A GENTLE REVELATION.
The One That Located the q. p.
and C. P. Railroads via. the
Ogden and Weber Can
yon Route.

4 In June, 1867, there vas a grea
mass meeting at the Tabernacle
Ten thousand persons were present
Among others, the locating engi
neers of the Union Pacific railroad
and a man of whom the Salt LAX,
Reporter said: There is a man IL
town with a stove-pipe hat on"
The speakers who addressed tn,
meeting were Brigham Young
Geo. A. Smith, Geo. @. Cannon
Mormon Apostles; F. H. Head, anC
Warren Hussey, Gentiles. Several
had had revelations in 1916 and
lS47, that an ''iron band" would
connect the then unestablished peo-
pies of the Interior Mountains and
the Pacific coast with the Atlantic.
1t was to follow the old Mormon
trail from Council Bluffs to Salt
Lake City, taking in its course Emf
grant Pass, and connecting with the
c. p, via the south end of the lake.
This was the natural route, yet the
oman with the plug hat" rose, and
begged pardon for having received
A LATER REVELATION.
He said that when asleep i'm the
great Yellowstone Park, about one
year before, he had a dream that he
wa in an overland telegraph Office,
and heard a message from the may
n and aldermen of Salt Lake City.
to the mayor and aldermen of Oma-
ha, saying, eve have at last so far
Influenced the Directors of the L.
p. Railroad, as to have gotten them
to consent to the location of the
main trunk line, within forty miles
of the city, to the north, with the
promise of a branch being speedily
built to this city,"
This dream was at once sent to
the Frontier Index, the peripatetic
press then published in the Fort
Saunders garrison. Soon after the
dreamer vas in Virginia City, Mon
tana, where he received a letter from
his brother, who was i'm the conf
dence of the directors; and in it he
was requested to secure an interest
In the Soda Springs, Idaho, as it
was generally conceded that the
railroad would pass along the Valley
of Bear river, by the way of the
Springs, 120 miles north of the city.
Although the speaker had no
knowledge of the topography of the
country, and notwithstanding that
every one who was acquaint-
ed with it, said 1t would
be impossible to build a rail-
road down the Weber Canyon
forty miles to the north of the city,
and that there could be nothing to
the managers in construct
ing the U. p. by a route that would
strike the lake at its middle part and
then wind around the north end,
thence through the rugged Goose
Creek Mountains, then taking in its
the natural pass at Emigrant
Canyon and Salt Lake City, the
of the Mormons and the
commercial centre of the mountain
Territories, they could form a june
ton with the c, p. by the most adj
mirable bench land formed on pur-
pose, between the Bingham Canyon
and the south end of the
lake and, if necessary, get $780,
900 for so doing. The speaker told
the people that his revelation was
i'm the Frontier Lnder n
year before, and that a Gentle town
would grow up at the north end of
the lake.
To this Brigham Young replied
that ait would be impossible for a
rival city to grow up"
WHERE CoRINNE NOW STANDS.
Said that goods and houses did
not make cities. That Cheyenne
was only a shingie town and never
,ould be more. Added, ave have
/ city here-how did We build it?
it by keno and faro halls and
rascallion deviltry that it grew! No,
It was this, it was this." Accom-
.anying the "grand flourish" with
a working of this muscular arms.
II was the muscle of the Saints that
made "the city,"
To make a long story brief, two
months later the Salt Lake Repor-
.er published an article to the effect
hat ''the locating engineers of the
U. p. and c. p. Railroad had just
tuck their stakes on Monument
Point at the north end of the Lake.
A few months later the Reporter
was published daily In the rival
jentile town.
The dreamer meantime repuI
ished his s'later revelation" of the
before, calling the attention Of
he public to the fact that files of
he paper containing the original
'osld be found not only at the Office
,ut at the principal advertising
agencies of the large cities,
Brother Stenhouse would say that
+ the revelation was a "day dream"
he author Vas Psychological. AS
t was q night dream, Brother JO-
eph would pronounce It an inspira-
Brother Brigham would de.
ide that in either case 1t was
The "plug hat man" is your hum
lie servant, LEIGH. r. FREEMAN.
SALT WELLS, w. 7. May Is,
S74.