Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-12-21


number OF doors across the broad fronts
of the one-storied house. Saints and
Gentiles alike can be married in Utah
without the expense of marriage-li-
cense, but each wife costs the former
front door. Our
ARCHITECTURAL REQUIREMENTS
are p,imitively simple. The houses are
small, built in the cheapest style; plas-
tered and papered, to be sure, but minus
mantles, CRATES, shutters, or cisterns.-
These are supplied by brackets, base
burners, and wire-nets. Cellars are dis
pensed with almost entirely, where but
ter, eggs, and meats will keep Indefinite
ly in the dry, pure air. Cisterns would
be useless in these Mormon towns, where
we never remember to have seen a Joint
Of tin-spouting or an eaves-trough.-
Street bitches supply soft water from the
mountains during the summer and au-
tumn months. Men are employed, call
ed "water-masters," to equalize the sup
ply to families once week, and the day
our quota flows through the yard is call
ed 'irrigation-day." To one coming
from country where the rain falls on
the just and the unjust, the most strik-
ing popularity of Utah Is the irrigation
process. Water! water! is the cry. If
a man is so fortunate as to have q spring
on his land, or to own water-right, aud
the Saints do not inveigle it from him,
his fortune is secured. The sage-brush
disappears; cloves and lucerne blossoms
like Aaron's rod. Verify water Is more
precious than gold. 1t maketh the bar
rem valley fruitful; it also makes the
carrots grow, and they are Utah's great
crop. Brigham Young should have
sung, Glove me, love my carrota." He
used in old times, before money was
used in the Territory, to oblige the man
ayers Of his theatre to receive so many
pounds Of carrots in payment for tick
ct to the play. Apropos Of amusements,
there Is novel form of invitation to
public places prevalent in Utah, whose
origin is explained by the
CODE OF DOMESTIC MORALS
of the Territory. Printed invitations TO
places of amusement, and with cordial
"Yourself and ladies' are invited to at
tend" This form is necessary that the
plural wives may not feel slighted.-
Brigham Young encouraged his flock TO
indulge in all manner of amusements,
especially theatrical and dancing. This
latter amusement is by 10 means aban-
doned during the summer months, for
the hottest days are succeeded by nights
so delightfully."- cool and breezy that the
pastime is not considered of TOO lively q
kind.
Though the thermometer here often
stands as high as In the eastern States,
the beat Is not felt to he so Intense, and
causes little loss Of strength by perspi-
ration, the air being so dry and bracillg.
Sunstroke is said TO be unknown here;
so Is also that terror Of citizens father
east during the heated tern-hydropho-
bia. The winters are mllder IN Utah
than those in the same latitude east Of
the Rocky Mountains. The temperature
is moderated by the waters of Salt Lake.
We light our fires late in October, and .
medium sized base-burner stove viii
amply heat house of five or six rooms.
Two kinds Of coal, both soft, from neigh
boring mines, are used the Red Canon,
which lights slowly and burns long, and
the Rock Spring, width burns ont quick
ly. Dwclling-hOuses In Utah are fur-
nished much In the sty lie of plain houses
In the States. Books and musical insiru-
ments are rare, owing to the expense of
TRANSPORTATION. Ladies', here, as else
where, are fond of pretty things and
Tancy work, and try to make their homes
attractive and refined.
The West affords novelties or lasting
interest TO persons reared In the States,
where prairies are the rule, mountains
the exception. Every mountain, with
iis naked cliffs and dcsOlale peaks, lis
mossy cIefts and waterfall canons, is
SEALED BOOK,
n romance too delightful TO be scanned,
n history too rich 60 bc rudcly opcncd.--
The traveller, seated beside mountain
spring. under the grateful shades of VIII
lows. box-clders, and cottonwoOda, " he
Inc more speculative than actively In
clIncd. wonders II That huge mass Of
rocks, with the crags, AMI ridges, ahd
pculpturedssidcP, and dark red ores, con-
Trims golden veins or silver beds, whose
shccn. II brought to light, would dazzle
even The experienced eyes OF q wall
street broker.
RIGHT here ut Ogden prOspectors have
opened the mountaip-sides, but whether
the golden harvest ia ready TO be cot j. q
question of time. Every night The lights
from the miners camps high up the
Wasatch shine down like stars. We trust
these miners may bc paid scvan-iold'
and their successors after them, as long
no the Wasatch range grapplcs success
fully among the clouds 10 keep up the
walers OF the great Salt lake.