The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-13
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on the $40 train-but we did-and
arrived in Ogden. While there we
discovered the Central Pacific train
standing waiting for passengers !;
so we got on. 1t is solid
fact, we did get in, and the
train moving slowly off took US
with 1t. We remained on until it
stopped at Kelton. and so did we.
we were strangers in a strange
land. We found the KeltOn House
and dropped our baggage. The
landlord informed us the house was
full and did not know what to do
with us, but we innocently sat still.
The landlord looked wise and so did
we. Being good natured, as all men
of that class should be, he walked
across the floor several times,
scratched his head and said he would
do the best he could for us, and he
did. In a few minutes he came
down the marcy staircase and said
all was ready y we were. He
made us dizzy twisting round the
/" corners" but we found ourselves
in the parlor; there was our bed.
We shed our clothes and found he
had dissected lounge by fiattening
1t out. By prOpping we managed
to hold it level. In one room was
a sick baby. and it was sick child !;
adjoining was young lady coughing
every seventeen ticks of the clock !;
II she keeps on coughin she will
soon get coffin she can't shake off.
Trains passing through mot our
room, but the station), all night,
made the night musical. Somewhere
in the building man was rehears-
ing for snoring concert. He will
yet beco re star.
But like all nights, morning came
and SO did the stage, baggage,
fright and express all over out
side and inside. There were
four passengers of us. We
rolled and tumbled through the
alkali dust until we reached the
foot hills. Here our troubles COM
Imenced, at every revolution of
the wheels over cobbles from the
size Of a marble to that of a pump
kin. Cold; oh, how cold Wraps,
rags, coats, ties and all surplus
clothing were brought into use, and
still it was cold weather. Rolling
country, we'll cut up. [ omitted to
mention one of the passengers was
the wife of Mr.. Thatcher, of
Goose Greek, superintendent
of the southern division of the stage
line. Raft River crossed, the Black
Pine passed, Jews Ranch ditto, and
and CaSSia Creek reached, which
ends the first fifty miles. Here we
lose our good natured driver-a mid
dle-aged man-have forgotten his
name. Dinner was announced;
being cOldand hungry, did not notice
closely; but the keeneSt appetite
will yield in time. If you never eat
there it may not be amiss to de-
scribe the meal Steak (tOugh) q
of an inch thick, and average So
inches each way; potatoes, seasoned
with water; milk, good; biscuit,
medium, but. owing To the weat her.
felt sad; butter. good; the cabbage
one OF the passing rs mist0ok for
onions, ana eat heartily; TIE desse
Il bowl Of plumbS, must b we beef.
good, for thu flies he'd posse
sion. and none of US though
ii wisdom to disturb them
ine cOffee was warm ALI moist, but
some what devoid of t.,,tt-. To con-
vince us it was coffee. Il mil Was
set in motion in an adjoining roo
that reSembled one of those %
fashioned endless revolving III. g..
ing machines. We had AL th4S
dishes for zone dollar"
We met a few more cObbles c. =
ing over to Albion, a small but D ~
town, located at the north ell o
side of a beautiful and well water d
valley; down the canyon. i rough
Goose Greek Valley. The p inciple
crop is sage brush, and that of a
good growth.
On the divide we met a team
driven by some kind of formation,
it was dimly animated. The body
was proportional like we'll devel-
oped and oft used mop handle. The
FACET cannot do it justice. 1t
looked about eight inches long from
ear to nose, seven inches at three
quarter pitch, hair straight to the
back of the head as though regret
ting the journey through life, and,
like Lots wife, looked back. The
gray dust had Swelled each hair to
the proportions of small telegraph
wires. | drop silent tear as [
think of his Il guess it was he) ears,
for they are larger than mine. In
looking for its mouth, about one
inch below the the case knife nose,
was a dark spot about one-and-a-
half by two inches. While
looking, a stream of tobacco
juice started, as one who
never saw would imagine a mud
gyser would start; from that hole
and Immediately iii the rear Of the
liquid mass came voice from some
unknown subterranean cavity that
lstartled the team, | will not tell, but
the vision faded.
On arriving at Goose Creek we
found supper waiting aud Mrs.
Thatcher presiding. AS we were
ushered into the dining room
we were all dumb-feunded for
the table was spread as for