The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-15
ABOARD THE SILENT STEED.
Particulars OF a RIM Flom Salt
Lake to Manti.
SALT LAKE. CRY. August Il, 1885.

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According to promise, being safely
ensconsed once more at home. +
sharpen both ends of my Faber 70 give
Won q few struggling notes Of (per-
chance) interest to your numerous
readers. Not being able to find COM
nanion for the journey, all being either
TOO busy to go or too short notice hav-
ing been given, decided to start alone,
greatly against inclination. The start
was made at 5.ss from the clock
corner. the rain Of the previous night |
having rendered the atmosphere de-
Iiehtful. Passing down the State Road.
which was in first-clsss condition, Ger
mania was reached st ESQ. From this |
on the rain had been much more copi-
GUS than in town. and progress was
slower Sandy being reached at T.45-
thirteen miles from home-There /
stopped for breakfast and did justice TO
/ tbe viauds. Soon awheei, and pushing
on towards the Point of the Mountain.
| Here the roads became positively IN
/ ridabls, on account of the sticky nature
of the clay. which the shower
had rendered OF such consistency
that the wheel would pick up huge
Jumps of il, often making the bicycle
weigh seventy-hve pounds or more.
| Several farm houses afforded temporary
rest and refreshment in the shape OF
milk, fruit or water, and / reached
Lehi at 80 O'Clock where l take dinner,
have a pleasant chat with Bishop Cut
Ter and the boys in the Peoples Coop.
From Lshi to American Ferk l have
the finest spin on the whole trip three
miles in twenty minutes. At American
Fork 1 sop 70 chat with Chapman,
Snow Of the Coop and VIM. Grant.
/ Then on to Pleasant Grove, three miles
in twe5ty FIVE minutes For the last
mile have the. pleasure OF the com
pany Of a young man and a pair OF
pretty girls ina buggy. They stop that
| may pass, and perhaps that they may
have a better chanceto see it go" and
soon spin away into town ahead ofthem
From Pleasant Grove, across the PROVO
bench find the roads quite rough. Is
peciaily ia regard TO irrigation bitches
many OF them l ride through, but some
are so deep, and the edges so rough,
am compelled, to dismou1t time and
again. a watermelon which II met
and il was mine" did much towards
taking the sharp corners off my lac
Grated feelings towards the farming
fraternity. Nothing occurs OF note in
the ride from thence to Provo except
the frightening OF fourteen or sixteen
teams returning from the fields. Ar
rive at Smoot & Co.'S drug store at so
O'Clock, feeling first rate Supper at
Jim Deals EXCELSIOR Hotel (rather late
but ,good-natured Mrs. Deal viii not
allow me TO taKe q cold meal).
Tuesday morning, go O'Clock finds
me wheeling along merrily towards
: Springville. seven miles from Provo,
: which reach at $50 in time to have
the first breakfast of the day served AZ
the ID. Il r G.. restaurant. On to
: Spanish Fork six miles, where l stop 70
see the Coop. store, shoe and harness
, factory. q line of home manufacture
anu always pleased TO see flourish
Over to Salem and thence to Payson
where / take dinner and visit friends
: until 2.I5, when l am once more spinn-
ing along. Three miles of fair roads,
on which I indulge for short time in
riding without hands" brings me 10
Spring Lake Villa, place first settled
and named By my father. Here obtain
drink of water from veritable
"Old Oaken Bucket" from well which
nv father caused 10 be dug over
twenty-five years ago, and which now
obtains tne bsst water. l tackled anO-
Their water melon here, and felt much
refreshed. Three miles to Santsquin
four TO YORK, six TO Mona. 9Th. 10
Nephi, which 1 reached at ; %, sop =
ing in front OF the GOldsboough House,
distant ninety-six miles from the clock
corner in Salt Lake City. During the
! ride from York to Mona. whil. / Law
down 20 take a nap in the shade of a
lshrnb II am out for pleasure and ride
= walk, rest, OF sleep as l find most con
. genial to my fFeiings,) a humming bird
takes possession OF the bi, and when
: awake he is perched on the handle-bar
and puts his head one side as II TO ash
i well. what's this I've ltt upOn2n. Al
Nephi meet Miss DR.. Emma Akin
formerly Of Tooeie. who nov has an ex-
cehent practice; al hour of social chat,
and / -neander back TO the hotel anC
: turn in, with abe intention OF making
9 an extra-early start and riding up the
canyon. This, however, i sm per
suaded Will be impossible, and I wal
for the tram at - O'Clock, 70 CONVEX
me TO Moroni. Going up the canyon dis
= cover IL 10 be some Of the finest road IL
= the whole distance, and regret vzry
much taking the train. II stool ans
chance of reaching Manti thus late II
:, the day, should have got OF the TraiE
: and wheeled up 70 the summit for tb,
. pleasure Of the ride down the other side
from Moroni over 10 Chester, fv,
miles Of fair road At the Coop stor,
in the latter place, behold mercan-
tile transaction which almost makes MI
blood run cold. q boy-a very type o
% the country-bey-just -escaped-from the
v comic comes in 10 get GA
q eggs worth of candy. The transfe
u having been completed, the mercban
70 resumed the conversation with the VI
" most nonchalance.
d As / pass haryest-6eld, my at
tention is attracted by youni
5. man who requests me 20 "whoop e
up, and les see what time you eal
maker As the road is so rough tina
q, ! am fairly hanging on With grest din
Guilty, it NAV be UNNECESSARY TO stat
that do not .swhOop Ter ups I hea
, many queer remarks through this sec
- ton, among which, one small boy say
: - another, That's the funnies
p thing that ever come into Eph
X reim- From this point 20 Manti
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