The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-07
"FREE LANCE" NOTES..


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For the Miner, by n Special Correspondent. IA
] found, when in the vicinity of Ogden, that
many of the farmers were engaged in transport
ing fruit sHnd yegetablesto Gaehesvaliey, and in
thedirection of Bear Lake, for the purpose of
selling them there at a high rate per pound.
This business is increasing and gives employ
ment to a large number of teams. The huck-
sters buy and salt fish at Bear Lake, -pcddle it
out on their way h~omewards, and thus make
both ends meet"
IN HOT WATER. y 3 q q
An extensive, salt water, hot springs bathing
establishment has been opened recently on the
road betweensO Ogden and Brigham City. 1t is
well patronfzed on Sundays particularly when
the farmers and their families, and many of the
city residents, gather there to take a dip. The
open-air pool has a superficial area of about an
acre and an inclined or sloping bottom. There
are also tubs for bathing, in small, neatly fur
nished rooms inside the main building. The
springs burst forth at the foot of the mountain
range near by whence the water is conducted to
the bathing establishment through pipes. This
pIdCc " COHuC W " = IcSuTueu as GHc lHSIllOn-
able, summer resort for Ogdenites-Gentiles as
well as Mornons. The Sunday I was there, the
main building was almost literally surrounded
with vehicles, from the heavy, numbering farm
wagon 10 the light, hobby and beautifully var
nished two-thirder.
There are many ~
HANDSOME BRICK &
on the line of the wagon road from Ogden to
Brigham City. Several of them have been COM
pleted within Il short time past and have taken
the place of log cabins. They are now sur
rounded by well-trimmed shrubbery, beautiful
trees and, in some instances, literally embow-
cred in The most exquisite and attractive plants
and flowers. Other residences, on the line Of the
same road, are in course of construction. The
finest view of the valley, between Ogden and
Brigham City, is obtained from the narrow
guage cars, as they pass through a very fertile
part of it, made SO by irrigation.
NEW LABOR
has been introduced in Cache valley, at PrOvi-
dence. which is near Logan. 1t consists of bux-
ON, well-tanned German women whom I saw
in q field engaged in the refining and elegant
pastime of digging a canal to be used as a con-
duit for water. The first installment of twenty
three of these athletic beauties has already ar
rived and three of them have entered into the
marital relation with the enterprising Mormon
who had them brought over from Deutschland.
Whether he will marry the whole bevy is unde-
termined yet but it Is thought he villas soon
as their wages become due.
This remarkable story in some respects, was
told to me as a fact: .... ''
A prepossessing English girl went to work for
a Mormon who had two wives. He never gave
her any money when she needed articles to wear
but bought them for her at a coop store. At
last she demanded a settlement as he was owing
her a considerable sum. ''Oh you do not need
money, - he said vivaciously. 81 am going to
make you my third and most loved wife," She
declined the honor at first but consented subse-
quently and for the reason that after they had
been "united' a short time she eloped with a
sufficient abstraction from his cash-box 10 cover
her expenses to England and remunerate her for
all the services she had rendered his family as a
domestic. "
LOGAN AND NoRTHwARD.
The new paper started in Logan is supported
by The so-called Church. Adrunming circular,
signed by prominent Mormon churchmen, has
been semi-privately distributed among the
faithful requesting them to bestow ON it ali the
patronage they can as it has the confidence of
President Taylor and the twelve apostles. Its
conductors should certainly congratulate them
selves on the exalted character OF their indors-
II as IL Is llOt OlIen GnaJ country newspaper
enterprises obtain apostolic hackers.
The ground between Oxford and Logan, on the
west side of Bear river, had been SO unusually
dry, for several months previously, that herders
had to abandon their homes and drive the stock
under their care where food and water were OBJ
taina bic for them therefore, there were many
ranches temporarily abandoned along the main
wagon road. Fires were raging in the noun
tains and the atmosphere of the valley was rem
dered opaque with smoke. Wolves had been
driven from their lairs, and having descended
into the valley and become quite ravenous for
something to eat, We're attacking the sheep in
their ~corrals, at. night. Some of the herders
were compelled to sleep alongside of the corrals
to drive the wolves away.
BRIEF INTERVIEWS.
lhad u conversation at Oneida with Mr.. O.
II. Hardness the banker and Oneida toll-road
proprietor. .. .... T.. .I".. H.s-. IT,
sob yes ~ he said In answer to an interroga-
tory I propouneed to him, 1.-The toll-road bust
ness is very dull, just now. The railroad has
seriously affected it. However, there is some
travel left yet and it may increase now that /
have reduced the rates about forty per cent"
When l called his attention to the large num-
Der of fires existing in the mountains, he said
they resulted from carelessness and did not
credit the rumor they had been set by Indians.
He had lost a large quantity of timber by these
fires, even III the face of all that had been done
to prevent the spreading of the flames. Bears
had come down near his residence that had been
driven by the fires from their old providing
places.
Other persons with whom l conversed said the
railroad had ruined them. They were very des-
pondent and intimated they would sell out
''cheap for cash." These were persons who had
obtained a fair living by catering to the wants
OF the frcighters and Others who passed to and
fro with teams. The demand for hay and grain
at their ranches is about nil now.
NOT DEAD BUT sLEEpING-ETc.