Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-29


the over forty years rgIiouce In TINS
city, and II is really difficult under
present sufroundinas 10 reproduce from
memory q thousand thugs we kno"
were trus. Maiu street, Tot instance
then IN he crude condition. was llneu
with quakluz-as poles for fence ofou-
ards and gardens flllng ia the tqoat'h'
Here sni thore was q fesilencs twenty
foot or more back rom the line, aua
small store, or un shop talioi
shop, or shoemaker, was asking Tor
business, rs the local resident or the
emigfant passed by. Trailing was IN
ils infancy, as was everything else'
Goods Of all kinds were precious ana
high: Imperial gunpowlor tea, five
dollars per pound; cJficc, ono dollar
sugar, when 10 could be had, about the
same; cslicoos, my cents per yard;
dOmes,ics, sevonty-hvo cuuisi an axe
with handle, hve dOl.afsi ah1e, three
10 three nity; spade % shovel, iour u
i've dollars; most other things Ia tue
same proportion. The ARRIVAL OF met'
chaudlso was an event, nor was tho
market Tor many years after supplied
all the year round; aut when euoft
was made to roplonisl ir1m California
during the winter monIlH, the pilinnoo
thus brought In vauishrd almost a.
soon ~ exposed. The success Of some
Of the early eastern or western border
men really attracted attoutioui aud
new claimants pushed out ior thio
cen,er-sslt Lake Ciy.
Considerable supplies had been left
mere by tue continuous stream OF gold
seekers, who, coming thus far, light'
ened up In exchange for such provis'
ions, grain, ETC., us thv struggling
colonisIs could spare. Gold they has,
but only a few wanted gold. II tue
farmer. the wagon member, the har-
urss maker, had a job, money was
little OF temptation. Il % POUND o
butter a few cygs, or vegetables were
to be disposed ", or some dusty gar
munt 30 be- WASHED, the housewife
want, anything but cash. Aud
where persons uid take coin, there
WIS more Of a rush to pot lid Of II when
goods came ina. y goods, than there
T., even now, to get 10. A piece Of
hickory or denim vas a. oommou Tor
best as Il is now raro. Whether those
earlier settlers were nauscato1 with tht
smell OF these gnods, or their service
able character cuuuo. DO told, but save
iu mining camps or on tho arms they
arc now but rare y seen.
Every one Aimgti knew Of or has
READ since, how gol coin was gathered
In buckets and exported by the load
with mulo outfits to the frontiers Tor
goods-moro gO0lj but change was
continuous, spectators Increased In
numbers, Tor sales were made of.haud
by doubling the invoices, and the
owners cit out" for greater supplies.
one OF those trains OF "prairio achoOn.
ersD from ten to forty each, drawn by
six yoke Of cattle, would DO a signt To-
day, hut they have gone with the
buffalo, beyond reproduction. The
signal failure Of orops IN $50 was Oh
much Of a trial almost BE- In the days
OF the Pioneos. There was little 90
choose between oriokets and grass.
hoppers-bolh meant enforced econo.
my. use Of any thing for food, aud up.
proximate starvation. Yot there was
but little dependency or absolute
suffering, though many-indisu-.ike-
had 10 tighten the belt, II they had
one, to stay the guawing OF hunger.
Barely escaped from famine,
goodly few mad gone to celebrate
At tho headwAtoH Of Cotton.
wood. There was general feel.
ing Of rest and euioymgnt Of b.ess.
iug anu delivenuco aud Of Trust In the
overruling Hand. But during that
visit word was brought that the gov
eminent had concluded 10 send an
army here to rc.ealabllsh CD ils authot.
ity. with malls three months apart,
more or less, no note Of this had Teen
received, but after brIoi counsel, the
1ayalclde OF visitors, thus cut short In
their program, were all enroute Tor
home. 10 cay that there was exotic
ment was not to tell tho story. Men
VINO had been maddenoi by eKpalrla-
ton, who had been driven from home
aitor home, had seen their associates
aud members Of their families dying
by tho waysiIe, were la no mood for
,uhlug; aud when tue vote was taken
on the situation, every hand was lifted
IN token that the people would a0aE-
don everything, move south, and leave
the north desert, rather than submit
again 70 the iniamies enacted in Mis-
souri, and Illinois. Those who were
prusent " hen that vote was taken will !
remember. the startling uuauimity |
o.. that great oOngr,gl ton. Then came |
prtparatlons Tor war Of defense;
then weeks spent In Echo canyon aud |
elsewhere, until winter made II im-
possible for ,helnvading army to travel, |
when all save a low Of the home guards |
rgturned, having without bl00dsued !
(ls had been predlcled) kept nj bay an |
enemy bent on plumber and Inspired |
ot fraudulent misrepresentation.
Then with early spring, mid rain |