Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-21
AGAIN IN MICHIGAN.
stevenson's Notes on the Scenes Of His
Early Life.

spread Of the Gospel. IL Is where
Martin Harris came to visit HE sister,
Mrs. Sophia Harris Kellogg, and
where Martin bore HE powerful iesti.
mony a. a witness Of tho angel who
presented 10 the young man Joserh
smith the records Of tho Mound Build.
en-A nation Loaf 10 their history 10
the people who followed Columbus 10
America.
This testimony f. not without its
good results to the present lay. This
is the town where Mother Smith visit
ed the Mack family In the earlier days
Of the rise oi tho Church. Joseph aud
Hyfum Smith, also, in 1888, vis.tsd
Pontiac, ana Father Smith, the hrai
Patriarch In the Church, came aud
exercised the powers OF mis- high call.
lug In the early days Of his being
ordained. This was In the year 1884.
was oneoi the favored ones 10 receive
a PatfiafcbAl blessiug under be hauda
IN the Pontiac branch Of She Church
only a short time br ore l Gun EIa'Uu
from this place ia tue same year. with
others who moved from OaEland
county 10 Liberty, Clay county, alo.,
soon aitur tue Sainls were driven from
Independence, jackson county, Mo.
10 was also from here that Father 5aul-
uel Bent, known here "a Deacon Bent,
Of the Presbyterian church, with him
Lyman Cuftia and bic vito anu OthafS
ubtyed the Gospel mussa.c. Lyman
10 ye, living vi POug Town, Umh
county. a Roedly number emignied
irom here " Hi0u Ia tue days Of Mis-
souri,.
After the closing Of the worl 3 Fair
and visiting friends 20 dnuuusky,
Ohio, I have awaited myseli VI the
favorable opportunity Of whiting tie
land oi my youlhiul days and the
grave Of my iather. 10 was here that
he purchased over 200 ncrrs OF land
with view Of souliuG down Tor lie.
That was IN the year 1879. In 1885,
Elders joseph, WOOD, ana Simeon
Carter, introduced the Gospel IN
Pontiac.
| left Bandutty on the morning Of
Thursday, the 0tn Inst, taking passage
onn lne steamer, the Frank H.. kifby
over Lake Erie, 50 miles to Detroit,
Michigan; from there II II 20 miles 90
Pontiac. Crossing Lake Er.u was
delightful trip EXCEPT NJ Put.lu-Bay,
where We stopped 10 take on n lev IONS
OF ffh. There We encountered heavy
fOs while loading up. l think 10 wa
pf0vidential that VIZ were detained
nj the tsh port for tho fog came on IN
severe that captain Of the steamer
City OF sanduaky, who haa piled 10
fen ~ aud from Put.ln.Bhy, IN IN
snao fog ran upon sand bar quite oul
OF the channel. Ho WINS running direct
for Gibraltar, n small leland Of shout
i've acres, upon which Perry had
strong hold 1879, and from which II
took its name. A tug boat failing 10
release tho HRnduHky, our large
steamer was called for ~ pull Il out
OF w perilous condition. The fog had
thon begun to rise. Our steamer
tugged sway for more than an hour,
having 10 put out the second hAusef
balOTr eho could release the other.
Without this timely aid there il no
telling when she would have leit the
tar.
Aner returning 70 the wharf and
concluding the loading OF ircsh fiah,
which Is quite = trade in these several
Islands, we proceeded with greater
saioiy on our Journey TO Dotfoit. By
our delay Of nearly thrco hours the
many Islands there IL great danger IN
heavy iogs, ~ Ia tho caas jus, men.
Toned. We had a pleasant journey
over the lake and up the river 10 De.
troll.
After breakfast at the Hodges house,
enjoyed walk looking over the OLD
lanu marks where giXty-ono years ago
rode encr week, carrying the mRil
rom Pontiac 10 Plymouth, Wayne
County, forty miles each way. / Was
~ that time only twelve years old and
now am "a. 1 could more readily
20 the contrast not only In the age
and lapse oi time, hut also in tho vgfl-
Qua chgngcs which had taken place IN
those few Year,. Our Old homestead
was In Waterford. In that tUwualip
alone there arc over thirty lakes, gene.
rally small once. Elizabeth lake has
about 800 aores Ia ~; Slovrnson's lake
now named Scoipa Lake, IL about
thTse.iouTtht OF a milo long and hall
nilo In Width Silver LAKE IL also the
came tiIs,pernnIa little larger. There
afo many GwAmps aud marshes. CIAu-
berries ana huohluburries used 10
abound Ia early days, ami q variety Of
nsh Hunh ~ piokcTUl, puss, EugllHh
perch, bullheAfH and species
OF catfish. TamaraC HwRmpa we're
abundant, but now AZ tho country
IL being settled up and land becoming
scarce snd dear, those Ewampa aIr
being CLEARED ny,
While on my enjoyable walk, I
called 10 see a man who had subduei
one OF those IamBrao swhmps, where
once on its borders In blyisn life, 1
picked huokleberriua and Cfanborrius,
and from the trees iurlhur in the
swamp picked Tnma rae gum. q, wha,
O. change had taken piac Mt Fred.
rick Hallna salt; "Yus, that swamp
would miTs horse. Whom / came
mere. l have fpuut S5lO, draining
with tiles, hnding an outlet one milo
away, ! dug oao YEARS. wood from the
rnota taken out. But last year tuuF
nnu sold $500 worth OF truck from
thIuo-qunr;eT Of Hn acre, mostly
celery" lie took mo through bic
celery HOUSES vhHfe be has hundreds
" dollars worth packed away 40
growing condition, Ne lakes Il Irtfh
Tor market az pleasure, any tine OF
winter He has gathered his crop.
that which he has not sola, packing BIZ
la his BloTohlusos 81 us 10 keep 10 grow.
ing and fresh, lhis Oucs nu3rly u.s..
lcss swamp, now tho most dtslIablc
land IA VI u.h hl1CH coll
The result of much labor.
The uwgmps, not ON but many Of thom
niu thus being 1ubIuud, nuu ug Gar o.
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