Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-09-25
NUMBER 35.

pipes, is 40 feet high, while its base
is something like 33 feet square.
This wonderful instrument was
made almost entirely right in
Salt Lake City.
Our party are indebted to Prof.
Daynes for dispensing several pieces
of soul-stlrrlng musicion this magnlfi-
cent instrument. The last piece the
professor played was the most pa
thetic rendition of "Home Sweet
Home" we ever heard, and its sweet
melodious strains moistened the eyes
of several members of our party.
The temple is being built on the
plan of Solomon's temple. 1t is con-
structed OF gray granite, and its
construction was commenced in 1858
and is to be completed in 1898, and
will cost 1000, 900. Salt Lake City
has population of $4,000.
We were at the chamber of COM
merce and were shown through in
detail by Mr.. Glllispie, the secreta-
ry. We were amazed at the won
derful agricultural, horticultural and
mineral resources of Utah. Truly
the Mormons settled in a modern
Eden.
From Salt Lake City we went to
Denver over the Rio Grande West
ern railway, kindness extended by
j. H. Bennett and L. j. Kyes,
agent and assistant agent of this
splendidly equipped road at Salt
Lake.
The scenery along this road is not
equalled in this country, and 1t was
through the untIring work of our
president, E. W. Stephens, that we
we're given the esteemed pleasure of
beholding the beauties and grand
eurs along the line of this road.
The black canyon, the Curri-
can't needle, Marshall pass, the roy
al gorge, with its massive rock walls
towering 1000 feet on either side
above the railroad track, and the
swinging bridge, are far beyond the
descriptive powers of our Faber. In
climbing to the summit of Marshall
pass the railroad track was so
cIrcuitous that, looking back, at one
point the track could be seen at four
different curves besides the curve
the train was then making. The
train up this declivity was drawn by
two engines. When the top of Mar
shall pass was reached we were
10000 feet above the sea-lcvel, aud
on a train. Think of 1T At this
great altitude icicles were banging
from the side of the water tank a
yard long, and the atmosphere WIS
as pure as an editors conscience.
| We reached Denver Monday even,
Ing, September Slh, and were met at
an outlying station, some distance
from the "Queen City of the West,
by Mayor Londoner, Editor Cooper,
of the Denver Republican, and a rail
road official whose name We cannot
now recall.
We were piloted to the st. james
hv'cl. and the next morning went up
to Silver Plume via Georgetown ana
the Loop, where We explored an ex
tensive silver and lead mine, going
thousand feet back into the side oil
the mountain. We lunched at The
Loop house, and each of our party
was afterGard kindly remeDhareG
by small specimen neatly arranged
in small pasteboard box with com
pliments of the proprietor of th'
Loop house to the Missouri Pres
association. The scenery along th,
line of the Union Pacific from
Denver to Silver Plume, 81. grand
The Loop is a point just abov
, | Georgetown, at which the railrost
track crosses under u bridge SO fee
above, passes from under, and aftel
making a circle of the sides of the
mountains, comes rack ard crosse
the same bridge under which a fe'
minutes ago the train passed.
Monday night our party were tick
eted TO the Tabor Grand an
D Broadway theatres, two of the fines
: theatres in this county.
Tuesday was spent IN seeing th
, sights of Denver, her street railwa
t companies Placing their lines at Gu
, disposal.
Denver is city Of 125, 900 and
!, growing at rapid rate.
We left over the Union PacIli.
Tuesday night, for Kansas City
c where we arrived Wednesday af:el
d noon, at ) O'Clock.
e At Topeka, Kansas, we were gree
s ed by the smiling c0uutenances OF ,
;, West Goodwin, our new presider
n of the ScdalIa Bozoo, AMI San h,
+. Ter, of the Lebanon HtPubi'c;,n.
The time for good byes came, an
we never left a party for whom "
: felta warmer regard, nor from who
we separated with more regrets. "
: trust the pathway Of each maY be {
a bright and prosperous through lit
n as the Western trip Of 90," mac