Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-16
SALT LAKE TO TORONTO.
HE ST. Norris RlcIIy Describes his
Journey.
Crops on the piaius branded CaY uses
Unpopular IN irriaud-A Good
word Tor Utah.

During the past few weeks the NEWS
has hai the pleasure Of publishing a
humber VI poems and o,hcs contfttu-
tons from Mr. Charles ~. Morris.
The gentleman recently undertook .
business trlp TO Canada. Hnd here ls
an account 4 his journey:
My DAr MI Cannou--G arrived
here on the lob. having come 10y way
Of Denver over tue RIO Grando Aud
thence per Rock leland 4 Chicago
limo TO Chicago. We were to have
made connections at Colorado Springs
OF Pueblo, but In the mountain. the
cowoaluhef pokod IL nose into huge
rock, and the rock getting the best "
IT,, the cOwcalohcr furnished splintcred
souvenirs for a party Of school ma'adis.
by the time the officials had patched
| up the wounded, wired Tor another
engine (which uiI not GOMEZ and had
game or two on the eide, We hai
lost about two hUufs. 81 We jolIed on
10 Denver. The road We came over
was very much Toughor than I have
been gwen 20 understand, the road to
Halrs 10. when lott Salt Lake CITY
Saturday night / weighed us pounds,
| but when on Wednesday morning I
reached Toronto and tri,d new Fair
/ banks, | scaled only 1913 pounds. Had
/ | had much more Of u Journey ON that
line there would nave been only
| grease srpt on the Pullman nlyr 81
| show that your humble servant had
| A -
| I checked small caUia-iruuk icon
tanning my wearing Erpsrcl, Ntaugilng
| book, uLCnl 10 ChiCA.H, lut when |
reached the city OF "bulli AMI bears
no Trunk had turned up, nor could
| get any satisfaction regarding ", nor
| mas Il yet turned up, Perhaps some
day Il viii turn up Ia tho density o.
| Darkest Africa or be- one Oi tho dis
cJycflrs Of the twentieth century.
| think when return o. Salt
LAKE. that II tho use VI
tue Tabernacle he granted me | will
/ lecture on "Iho humbug ~ M1Jefn
Railroads ani Railroadlng," the pro.
cruis NJ tho lecture to be devoted
towsrds helping the "dcsorvlug poor"
including yours truly,
Coming through Nebraska, Just a
lew miles from Lincoln, VUlut 10
| tillrT " the soil, dressed In test Bib aud
| tucker, boarded the train, | had my
telf noticed that the country was A.
/ most NJ smiling NJ the sChUOlma'ams,
| whose name was Legion, but my IN.
| fotmAut gave mo 10 understand that
the crops by the wAysids were but
weeds compared with those that were
not poisoned by the foul smoke VI the
| railroad engines Said he, at bleed
ing Kansas will only keep her hot
| winds 10 herself We shall have the beet
returns We have ever had; wheat ami
| Ost-, will 20 from twelve 10 TWEEN y
four bushels, and corn viii average
| pretty well sixty uushelg."
The next day, at Chicago, farmer
| from Hknkina1u, North DakOtA--uhiu.
chiuurd with ne on the q. +. H., aud
as We howlcd along through Illinois
and Indiana, he And l could not help
fumaTking upon tho bACkwRTdness Of
the crops anu the drynu's Of thu cOun-
try. "At HEnkinsOn wo shall hsve
the finest returns that the country has
seen IN fourteen ysAIs. Wheat will 70
fifteen 10 Thirty, oats up to fUTty aud
siIty sud corn sixty" This Informant
IL the county assessor for his part VI the
world, and therefore IN An exception.
ally good position to Judge.
Another fellow passenger | bumped
against was J. N. Johnson, Ol New.
market Lodge, Knock Belfast, irulaI,I.
lie was returning from Chicago,
whore no had purchased 4 number Of
carriage and vtu horsra tor export 10
the Emerald lslo. For Oas lot OF ten ne
had given $500. The lowest pTiur lie
had given Tor any uf biz purchssss
had been $500. lie spoke In high
terms OF certain breeds " American
ana Canadian bred horses, 1--WE have
no use for horsas that are branded IN
any way IN Belfast" hu said.
"why9"
"Because some years ago some enter
prlsing American Skipped IA mob Of
oayusts, all OF which were branded, 10
our city. They found ready market,
but they were devils, AMI jauuliug
cars were knocked to sPliutvrs In tue
twiuEling Of an eye, while these who
were courageous enough 10 mount
soon went on visit To the moon.
BRANDED horses are always associated
with cayusts Ia Belfast They wont
20 down"
You have no ldeA how different the
climate Is here from that OF glorious
] SAT- Inns NlNls ANlo wv SIT mas n
depressing effect upon one's spirits,
while Ia Salt Lake one II carried Awsy
on the light morning breeze ~
WasstOh snoW.Cnpped heighla or the
oEOnic waves VI that great dead sea
whose charms Aud wonders have
never yet neon half untoldoj. One
misses, too, the pooling, sparkling
waters, which, like 20 many happy
nllt, laugh along the streets Of your
charming and orderly city. May the
| Powers that be anu this energies AMI
Thrift Of her citizens raise her 70 the
topmo,t mount OF substantial pros
VVutyl
la tao provluce Of OhtarIO the
weather has been very hot and dry,
and consequently the crops, fruits anu
vegetables are u failure,
VITA kind regards,
l