The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-22
SODA SPRINGS.
/ ONE Censure and Some Sugges
tiOns.

SODA SPRINGS, IDAHO, July Is, 'S3
Special Correspondence of THE HERALD.
The season has at last opened, or
rather, tshas budded. with prospect
of full bloom. Hitherto a few stray
drummers only have visited US, their
huge trunks turned out from the bag
gage car at the station appealing to the
| Imagination as Saratoga three -deckers
of ladies wear ng apparel, but vainiy
have we pried into tie caboose for the
ladies themselves who were to faunt
their dresses on our uroad sidewalks
and shady avenues. The common
method Of arrival here, when peopl
arrive at all, is by freight train
in company with empty soda water
bottles which constitute the bulk of our
imports; when the drummers depart
they general y leave in freight train
with the bottles filed again, for the
| passenger trains come st such unsea
sonable hours Cf the night, because of
their through connections. that they
are of little use to US. Upto the pres
ent time, or rather within few days,
| it was hardly to be expected that the
new and well appointed hotel would be
profitable enterprise. ludeed with |. ore
| favorable opportunities TOR travel we
could scarcely count UPON many guests
| for the month of June, in the early
part of which it was opened. 1t is only
| when the heat of July and August
| make life in Salt Lake City burden,
that its baked. roasted and stewed in
habitants can be prevailed upon to sec k
our cool mountain air in order to pro-
long their existence. 1t will not be
great while, therefore, efore the large
and small hotels and the numerous
boarding houses will be crowded with
visitors.
In order to make this watering place
designed by nature to be attrac-
tive, as attractive as it should
be. other improvements besides those OF
railroad accommodations are demanded
The square designed for park
should be laid out in walks and planted
with trees. The walks might be easily
made, for there is an abundance of good
gravel within easy reach. To line them
with exotic trees is more difficult, and
without more care than is likely to be
bestowed upon them, is impossible. A
few OF the people having some slight
claim to enterpris3 and some regard 10
taste and beauty. have set out poplar,
| balm of Gilead and cottonwood trees
about their premises. Most of the pop
lars have been failures. A few balm Ct
Gilead and q few cOttonwoods survive,
| but even ttese cannot be pronounced 8
success. There remains for trial, with
assured certainty, the great, bushy, in
digenous willow, really prettler tree
than any of them, although one that is
despised merely because it is so com
mon. But they are susceptible of won
derful Improvement by careful trim
ming. have some upon my grounds
which would probably have attained no
great size il they had not been trans
planted from their native swamps, but
are now stately and beautiful for the
eve to rest upon, while they serYe
their chief purpose of affording a
grateful shade. II our proposed park
could be planted with rows of them.
and it could be done at very small
expense-and if their dead limbs
should be periodically cut off, the en-
closure would become charming re-
sort, and its avenues would be fire.
quented by our own townspeople and
By appreciative guests. AT g very
small cost a drive could be laid out
which would take in the principal
springs and cross the divide from
which a magnificent view of the
valley is obtained. This is now ptacti-
cable only on horseback, and even then
there is CANCER to the inexperienced OF
being mired in the ford. Bridges are
things almost unknoWn, or if known,
known only for few days, and then
they are broken dovn. because badly
built. They end by serving 8 traps for
the legs of horses. The roads are for
the most part ae9minable, some of the
streets are used as cowyards, aud the
springs as often as they are cleaned
out by any public spirited indivir uai
are filled again with stones, brok u
bottles, Bones and cast off shoes. while
by the overflow of bitches the hui row
holes along the railroad become pools Of
stagnant water. Surely the owners OF
tire property and the people OF the
town should be ashamed OF their neg
NgenCe i'll the matters to which alluslor
he's been made. am aware of the dill
ti;ulty of regulating the railroad time
table TO suit one little town With0u
arrangement of more important traffic
and l know that Soda Springs is no
vet enough of a Saratoea to Justify tbs
running of express trains. 1t is simply
misfortune which diminishei
' or inconvenience summer visit
ors, and which must be borne
with becoming equanimlty-but that /;
no reason for not supplementipg: the
natural advantages of Soda Springs
with some little care and expenditure
. That will make them more attractive
On the contrary every effort should BIZ
made 10 offer such inducements ha
the railroad company may find it pre-
6table to increase the convenience @
travel. e.
Worth Knowing,
Mr.. w. II. Morgan, merchant, Lax