The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-08-23
TooELE, UTAH, Aug. 8, 1888.

TOoELE, UTAH, Aug. 9, 1885,
To the Editors of the Standard:
Iwrite according to promise. have Just returned
from Conference at Provo, in Utah county, over
which Bishop Wiley presided. left home July 31st,
stopping at Garfield to bathe in the crystal water of
the reat Inland Sea of America. The booths and
sheds all full and crowded every day at this time
of year, and though 20 miles from Salt Lake City,
excursion train to that point every evening,
carrying hundreds of pleasure and health seekers.
Nowhere in the lake is the water very Deep and here
for quite distance it is not or feet in depth,
making of the finest bathing places in the world,
and is fast becoming very fashionable resort.
The bathing train is called returns to the city
by O'Clock. After staying over night with good
Scandinavian Missionary, Rev. Franklin, we board
the Denver and Rio Grande R. R. and soon
spinning southwark toward destination the road
lying it does the banks of the Jordan ofcourse
passes through the part of Utah. Jordan Valley
Is in width 25 miles, average, perfectly leve
plain from the Wahsatch to the Oquirrh Mountains
and dotted here and there by towns, villages and
farms.
The d. & r. G. R. r. is narrow gauge, but how
she travels! 1t almost makes your head SWIM Now
dart by the Franklin smeter-you folks would call
1t a lead furnace-hardly giving time to get a
glimpse of the piles of shining pig lead piled up like
pig iron and through oats fields, some green
grass, some almost ripe, wheat fields just ripe
cut, some standing.
Now, our way grows narrower, the Oquirrh and
Wahsatch ranges closing in upon that are
10 cross pass TO get INTO the great
Utah Valley, in which lies Utah lake. 80 miles long,
and IL to Is miles wide The pass crossed and the
mountains again separate, the plain wdens and the
farms set in again.
Here is Utah Lake. point of it, It's smooth CLASSY
water, stretching away southwark away to Mt. Nebo
40 miles away.
Hello Here is old Indian fort, or perhaps anti
Indian should say, for when the people of God"
came to this place they had to camp the banks
Jordan and fight the Philistine host in patriarch
al style. But the most exciting of those times
gone and apparently, peace reigns within and
throughout her borders, far the Indians
cerned at least for there plenty of them through
the Territory-the Goshutes, Pahutes Pitutes, Utes
and other tribes. squaw from Scull Valley of the
Goshutes, came to our house day two before
left for Conference inqufring for the white squaw-
my wife-to get some bread and "hoggy'' meat; and
yesterday when landed in Salt Lake City on my re-
turn from Provo, there standing the platform
side by side, Negro, Chinaman, an Indian and a
white man; peace to all the nations and holy union in
Zion.
Battle Creek is passed now; Nephf is behind us !;
American Fork and other towns lie between u.s. and
the city and Provo is here. The town-a Mormon
city-everything is city-contains possibly $500 peo
pie, mostly Mormons. 1t lies in very picturesque
place. just between the lake and the mountain range
nesting close to the foot of the perpendicular cliffs
and sloping down close to the waters edge but like
all the Utah towns it is scattered all the country
each town lot a farm. Considerable industry finds
place, does large work. counted 81 looms in one
room.
Conference sessions pleasant and interest
ing.
Bishop Wiley not able TO preach, but Rev. A.
w. Atkinson, (Indiana Conferelce,) stationed at Og
den, admirably filed his pulpit on Sunday morning
Your correspondent, Rev. Peter A. H. Franklin, and
Rev. Erastus smith, all three readers of the Standard
spoke on Temperance Friday night. Sunday night
Rev. T. G. Ilff, the Superintendent of the Mission,
Buckeye, shook the foundations of Mormonism, and
his theme being the Sufctency of the Revelation of
the Bible.''
Conference appointments read Monday noon
Aug 9th. Miss Frances E. Willard spoke at Salt
Lake that night but did not get to go the city
that day. but had to wait until Tuesday. missed a
great and treat.
Our circuits here are somewhat large; mine, for
instance includes the whole of Tooee county, which
is as large the portion Of Ohio starting with COlum
directly west and directly south, including that
whole southwestern corner.
Yours truly,
j. d. GILLIAN.