The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
4 UTAH BOYS TRIP.
4 He Runs Against an Old Resident
in Chicago.
SALT LAKE THE COMING PLACE
ALI the East Have Their Eyes Upon Us,
and Will Pour in Their
Money Very Soon.


of the glorious protectors we have in the
shane and contour Of the mountains, beau
tifuI sll but u.s. The first morning after
leaving Utah, awoke to find the sun com
ing apparently out of the ground with nc
sign of a tree, hill or mountain, and houses
even at this late day in very distant rela
tions with each other and cities still more
so. While spinning over the 'plains, y
under the swift impetus of the safe old
railroad, the Union Pacific, of which our
own Utah Central is relative a wnirl OF
emotions passed over me in contrasting
THE OLD PIONEER DAYS,
when it required from eight to twelve
kseeks to cover the distance that now only
requires four days of ever delightful
changes of scenery, the traveller dreading
the cloak of night to shut off the beautiful
panorama stretching out in all directions.
In the old days our fathers and mothers
were glad when night fell to allow them
the well-merited repose of weary days
tramp. In those days the only people seen
for weeks at a time were the red men OF
dime novel fame, and the buffalos which
furnished food and fuel. Now, although
far distant from each other the face Of the
settler is seen and the ever changing com
partnership of the passengers on the train
causes no feeling of loneliness to exist.
There was one thing l noticed decided
absence of, this was the beautiful checker
board that is presented to view by any one
D in Utah, taking trip on the hillside and
gazing on the brilliant spectacle presented
by the light colored grain fields, forming
the white squares, to the darker-hued lu-
Germ fields the dark squares; this will be
observed at almost any part of the year.
Luceru is something that is entirely IN
known anywhere east of Utah; that
is, in my travels, found the farmers
deeply interested in the experiment of CIV
ing it trial and l think we are about to
have "boom'' in lucern seed as well as
in real estate.
In Omaha, found the people bewailing
come to realize that
81 UTAH IS THE BEST PLACE
to live in, had concluded to make it his
= home Omaha is a big city, and l think
has arrived at the stage of manhood and
will not grow any more, at least not till
Salt Lake city is up to and even past it.
J think many who have been helping
Omaha will now turn their attention TO
Utah. / noticed that her wide awake citi-
zens realized that she was now contribut-
ing 10 our boom" and consequently feel a
little "blue." One and all spoke of Salt
Lake as being the next and only permanent
"boom.n
Chicago was my next stopping place
OF this what can l say? Who has not heard
of Chicago's immensities, OF her immorals,
of her black and gloomy buildings, of her
busting and busy people, all intent after
the dollar and lat presently the Worlds
Fair in 1892. So much has been said OF her
broad and high buildings, some as high as
sixteen stories; even the Auditorium has
been heard of by almost everyone, being
the largest building in the world. Our
temple and tabernacle could be put in it
and still have room for the assembly hall.
Adelina Patti had the honor of being the
first one to open there, with one of her
concerts, on the Sth inst. The only thing
l might say of Chicago is that even they
can stop in their rush to notice man from
Utah and all realize that this is the next
place for
THE GIANT PROGRESS"
to place his next foot steps as he did from
New York to Chicago, now to Salt Lake
city and with foot that will extend from
Ogden to Provo and in width only pre-
vented by the mountains on either side.
1 found an old Utah man in the person of
DIR. r. Greer, 49er of Salt Lake, and his
nts6n J. H. Greer, late of Payson. They
footh have a yelrning interest in Utah and
IF they find any one from Utah the next
order comes Bring your grip up to the
house" They are doing well in Chicago
and this is all that prevents their coming to
Utah and again making it their home.
Lyon & Healy, the music manufacturers
and dealers, are deeply interested in Utah,
and paid the people of Utah compliment
that would make the constituents of the
Liberal party open their eyes to the merits
mons are the most honest people they have
any dealings with and would always trust
them in preference to any other class Of
people They think the prospects for hon
est government are better with the Nor
mons than the so-called Liberals"
OF course every one in Chicago feels con-
fident of securing
THE WORLDS FAIR
and certainly deserve commentator for
the extreme and lavish expenditure of time
and means. Il is thought that Chicago has
the support OF all the country west of
Washinsto,. u. G. l did not think l could
make my choice of home in Chicago, il
preference to our beautiful city of Provo,
on any preteXt unless it IS the hustle and
rush of business even which | thought
phere is very dense, holding the smoke and
SCOT IL a black cloud which rarely leaves
and gives the buildings very grimy ap-
pearance and causes ones white shirt to
very soon assume an appearance of its ur-
gent nece ssity for the wash-tub, conse-
uuently laundrieS, Cinnamon and saloons
are on the boom" Well so much for Chi
,Sago. My next visit was made TO
Z NIAGARA FALLS.
Before arriving there I had an experience
with one of those fellows that every true
American (even woman) feels sort of
aversion to; this was custom house officer
a fellow who can rifle and examine your
valise, bundles, etc, before you go on
British soil" This fellow we met just as
we were crossing into Canada. happened
to be in doze wnen he made his adve Mt in
our car, but this didn't matter. He CON-
menced going through my valise when
awoke aud soon resented his familiarity,
but found he had "a right to do So"
] found the falls a very cold and disa-
greeable place at this time of the year,
It has been said that New York is great
city" Yes, l think it is, especially mas
muchi l never saw anything like ships,
large bodies of water or one half the num-
Der of Italians that are characteristic of
New York. The crowded and blockaded |
condition Of the streets, the hustle, the |
lam, the rushing of people hither and |
thither the lodging and necessity for |
1slookiug OUT for teams are a new expert |
ence to me, as were the open signs of immo-
rality that were every where present, es-
ueeially in the lower class of people.
found very few people who cared much
about the practice of polygamy. 1t was
really our very credit+Dle habit of beng