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.
SANpErE, July 10Th, 1882.

Editors Herald:
1.-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 I am. for Nephi.
Here you enter at 2.05 the narrow
guage TO Wales. Over a splendid
Toadbed you bowl along up pleas
ing and lolerably romantic canyon,
once thought to be uninhabita Die
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.
1 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, you 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 APO. Here the hurry
and hustle of a depot is met and the
people disperse; but l keep my seat,
intent on explorations on the coal
question, for Dame RumOr had said,
and I had given it voice, that the
coal of this region was ''petering
out" 1 arrive presently at the new
works of the company in a new can
yon, the company having temporar
lily abandoned the old Welch 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
company thought to abandon this
canon and resort to the original de-
velopment. Hence the saying has
gone abroad that tee coal was "pe-
terring 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 slaughtered 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 in
the morning at 9.05 arrive in Salt
Lake at SOB, 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 I am now reading at Mantl,
in the snowflake House." kept by
that prince or good fellows Warren
S. Snow. ably assisted by the Mrs. s.
and daughters.
The June frost was deemed to
have played havoc with the whea,
and potatoes, and some were 10
duced from the prospect to lay up
grain at & good fair figure, Others to
offer the crops at bushels 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 TO praise the
new mail contractor, August An
derson, for you are at his mercy by
sta &c, from Wales to elsewhere.
| His wagons are light and comfort
able, and you are put through with
certainty, celebrity and dispatch.
With patience we wait the crack
Of doom, said to arrive presently per
political commissioners, who L see
have, at Chicago, arrived at the
conclusion they have not much to
do when they get here, and If Con
| gress does not before adjournment
ampIify their powers and duties by
new and appropriate legislation
things will run III the same grooves
till the by and W.
In the meantime the Lords house
as it is termed, grows apace; the
people thrive, the grass grows, the
udder gives its grateful product, the
bread seems to be sure, and who
shall say "this people" are not won
derfullv blessed. l have now Wis
tied the fifteen places in this de
HghtfuI granery; [ have heard OF
no law suit, no crime, seen no loaf
ers, but sweet peace reigns IN all
the borders of the Sandpltchers.
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