The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-30
SANPETE VALLEY.
A Huge Granary- Coal Beds "A
Reign Of Sweet Peace.

Editors Herald:
If the purpose is to see one of the
granaries of Utah, and that by rail,
YOU take the Utah Central cars at
salt Lake City at am. for Nephi.
Here you enter at 2.05 the narrow
guage 10 Wales. Over d splendid
Toadbed you bowl along up a pleas
ing and Iolerably romantic canyon,
once thought TO be uninhabita0le
from severity of early frost; but
time and perseverance have demon
strated that seasons change, or
places are, by the industry of man,
made habitable. Homes are found
in the curves and bends of this lux
uriant gorge in the mountains.
| noticed that man had to step in
and NOW down the stalwart weeds,
for meeting across the track they
impeded the progress of the engine,
which crushed them, and thus, as it
were. by their sap, CREASED the track
and rendered our engine stationary.
By no jolts or jars, so smooth and
gravelled is the road, yeu arrive at
the summit, and the Valley of the
Sanpitch opens before you and,
passing by the famous "Dougal'
Mill, you arrive at Wales, the pres
ent terminus of the Sanpete Valley
Railroad, at 4.20. Here the hurry
and hustle of a depot is met and the
people dispense; but keep my seat,
intent on explorations on the coal
question, for Dame Rumor had said,
and l had given it voice, that the
coal of this region was ''petering
out" l arrive presently at the new
works Of the company In new can
yOn, the company having tempOrar-
lily abandoned the old WEIGH dig
gings.
Here you are courtOusly met and
shown the emboweled elephant,
huge seams of coal gladden. the eye
and If the term inexhaustible is
too vast, we may safely say the
quantity is prodigiOus, but the
cruel waters dispute the point, and
Only by expensive machinery can
this be stayed, if at all possible. 1t
is that last item that has given the
lcOmpany thought to abandon this
canon and resort to the original de-
velOpment. Hence the saying has
gone abroad that tee coal was "pe-
Iterring out" where as it was only Il
change of base.
| Everything about the road indi
Gates solidity and to stay. Some Of
its curves may be Strengthened out
by a new line right through the
very heart of the county, and per
haps for while linger at Manti,
the county seat somewhere rear her
beautiful court house square, west
of town. This leaving Sanpete 10
the morning at 9.05 arrive in Salt
Lake at COB, do your business and
return next day is too great treat
to be stlngily met by the shrewd
Sanpitchers in business and other
wise.
Why sirs, your paper of this
morning | am now reading at Mantl,
lin the Snowflake House" kept by
that prince or good fellows Warren
S. Snow. ably assisted by the Mrs. 5
and daughters.
! The June frost was deemed t
have played havoc with the whea
and potatoes, and some were 10
duced from the prospect to lay vi
grain at good fair figure, Others t
offer the crops at buSheIS per acre,
but rains watering and sunshine
seems to revive grain and hopes
while it is thought to-day areasOna
bly, fair crop may yet bless the hus
bandman.
Unjust not forget 10 praise the
new mail contractor, August An
derson, for you are at his mercy b.
stage, from Wales to elsewhere
His wagons are light and comfort
A able, and you are put through Will
certainty, celebrity and dispatch.
With patience We wait the cracl
, OF doom, said to arrive presently pc
political commissioners, who 1 st
Ihave, at Chicago, arrived at tn
conclusion they have not much I
do when they get here, and If Cor
gress does not before adJOurnmen
amplify their powers and duties b
new and appropriate Legislation
things will run liz the same groove
till the by and ".
In the meantime theLords houS'
as it is termed, grOws apace; tn
people thrive, the grass grows, Ia
udder gives its grateful product, To
bread seems to be sure, and VIII
shall say "this people" are not wor
derfuIly blessed. l have now vi
tied the fifteen places in this III
lightful granery; L have heard
no law suit, no crime, seen no Ioa
ers, but sweet peace reigns IN q
the borderS Of the Sandpltchers.
ID. c.