The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-26
ON BRIGHTON BEAUH.
The Summer at Silver Lake.
A Historic Spot-City Toilers
Amid Country Joys.
HEAD OF BIG CoTToNwooD,
July 23d, 1884.

Since the time when, amid party
Of eager boys and girls fresh from
Miss Cookies seminary, for a brie
visit we were brought as a reward
of merit to theee surroundings, our
Imagination has ever turned to the
spot as the ore place Of all others
most desirable as a retreat from the
dust, heat and turmoils OF the city.
Since then few years have elapsed
without finding us on a revisit to
these scenes, and the temptations of
Soda Springs. the praises so often
sung of the Weber, Pleasant Valley,
Parley's, and other places of resort,
have had no power to weaken our
allegiance to Brighton's and Silver
Lake. This year our party, reduced
to folr through the late financial
agitationa, camel up by way of
Sandy. the Tramway and Ala, miss
ing the scenery that abounds in Big
Cotton wood, but gaining the ex-
perience of a ride through The snow
sheds and al observation OF the
City of Slides, with a view Of
the scenes where the terrific SHOWS
descended last winter and envel-
oped SO many Inflated victims. In
most of these places the snow is
still many feet deep, and tits doubt.
full whether 1t will entirely disap-
pear before the frosts of another
winter are upon the canyon. Such
cabins as the snowsli les have spared
are still dotting the hill sides, and
mark the location OF those mines
which have made the name Of Lit.
tie Cottonwood famous. The Joab
Lawrence tramWay was idle when
we passed it, but there was activity
enough, we were told, going on un-
dergound. The presence Of Mr..
Harker in the camp had given rise
to some rumors concerning the re-
suscitation Of the almost forgotten
Mackay and Revoluti n, and there
were some hopes flying about (shay
were not traceable enough to be
called rumors) Of continuation of
the work on the Emma, Other
mining intelligence there was none
to be met with at the depot.
The brief moments we passed in
Alta before taking horse over chs
divide to Brighton's, were spent in
convincing the ladies that they had
gained no appreciabIe weight in
flesh since leaving the city. This is
one of our invariabie routines on
Cottonwood trips, and if Mr.. Strick-
ley could hear the terms ia which
his scales are yearly referred to
as our fair ones slip down from
them, it might CAUSE him TO doubt
the efficiency Of the Eealer OF
weights and measures for this dis
trict. In Ate, as it was Sunday,
they were having a gala time;
across the threshold OF the store we
entered, a man lay in the sweet
sleep of beastly intoXicatiOn, and
boy kneeling near him employed the
time in idly attempting to hitch his
boot to the cellar tramWay chain:
this spectacle might have raised in
the ladies difidencs about proceed
ing further, had not the gentleman
we were following assured them
that it was all quite en- regle; with.
inEthe store, the evidences OF pay
day were everywhere visible; out of
eight or nine men who were seated
or lounging on the counters, five or
eek were quite beyond help; two
men were in deep slumber, and the
others were just able to manifest an
interest in what the scales recorded
under the weight Of the ladies'; in
the middle Of the process we were
startled by the heavy sound of one
OF the sleepers falling from the
counter to the floor; an agile bounu
from the lady whose dress he had
brushed in falling, however, was the
only notice taken of the little cpl
sode until he began to mutter some
peculiar forms OF speech in his slum-
Der, when. thecleIk very quietly lifted
him up, escorted him to the door,
and with an air Of monotone which
told how little any such occurrence
was out of the ordinary, thrust him
against q post outside, when he took
up the broken threads of his dreams
and continued to slumber on as
peacefully as before. We rode out of
Alta a short time af er, mentally re-
solving to post Mr.. Scott Anderson
as to tue existence of so tremendous
field for one Of his laudab.e
Branches.
1t is taking US longer to get to
Brjghton's on paper, however, than
it did no horseback. A three mile
ride (up hill and down being equally
divided by the ridge that separates
the two canyons,) over several deep
snow drifts too hardly packed TO
yield more than the impress OF a
horse shoe, and alongside those
grandl3 quiet bodies of wster-the
Twin Lakes, with their majestic
surroundings, brought US 10 the first
lofty point from whence our valley
is visible; stretched in its green and
grassy circle, hemmed in by the
stately pines that surrounded en-
every mountain slope, with
not a sign Of the winter
thst had fingered everywhere else
along our route, aud with IFS bsauti.
full Silver Lake glistening in the
sunlight on its western extremity,it
| lay far below Us, the fairest spot it
seemed to our eyes that nature had
left to bear record of her happy