The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1895-10-05


ancial Secretary; Ewing Herbert, of
Kansas. recording secretary; 4. G. ROg-
non OF Utah, attorney. Each state re-
presented elected vice president, Mr..
l.. A. SandOz Of OpelOusas. being chosen
for Louisiana.
The Louisiana members on the COM
mittee of organization were L. S. Scott,
Of Crowley. John j. Darrieu, Of New Or
leans, and Albert Bienvenu of st. Mar.
tinville. L. A. Sandoz of Opelousas, was
OH the committee Of resolutions.
The next meeting will be held in Den
yer. Colorado.
When the transaction Of all business
was over. the editors took a special train
to 60 to Ogden and Park City to visit
the Silver mines. At Park City which
is over one hundred miles from Salt
Lake City. the party divided. going to
the several mines. The writer went to
the King Silver Mine. On arriving at
the mining camp the party was met by
the courteous officers Of the mines. and
entertained in most royal manner.
Dinner was served, aud o good dinner
too. after dinner the whole party dom ned
mining suits, took supply Of call
dies ami down the shaft they went. TO
depth of some nine hundred feet. When
the landing was made our candles were
lit and a search for the precious metal
was commenced. The tunnels were nu-
merOus and long and the whole evening
was spent in the bowels of tho earth
locking at its marvels.
We followed the guide who took us
through every interesting place in the
great mine. After some time we came
to a narrow shaft. about two feet in dia-
meter and went down this shaft on lad
ders one hundred feet below. stopping
on the way to look at the miners who
followed rich veins Of silver, digging
the precious metal and dropping it into
the shaft below. We went down several
Of these narrow shafts until we were
twelve hundred feet below the surface
: The effect Of the lights we carried on
the bright metal imbedded everywhere
in the earth was pretty aud interesting
> and every member Of the party dug a
, piece of silver ore to bring home as q
= souvenir Of the trip down the bosom OF
G the. earth.
1 Returning from the mines the train
stopped four hours at Ogden which is q
$ pretty little city of 1900 people, WI
were allowed the free use Of the street
cars to visit the city.
+ The day following was spent in Sal
;. Lake City, sight seeing. and we visited
O all interesting places including thu
Penitentiary and Fort Douglas. ;
y United States Military post, where ;
n grand Dress parade was made in homo
q of the newspaper people. The parad
and music were very much appreciated
# This same evening, the last nigh
4 spent In the city of the Saints, was pas.
4 sed at the Mormon tabernacle. where |
!. grand musical and vocal concert wa
l. rendered TIE visiting guests ty the Nor
- mons. The seating capacity of thi
% large edifce. the work Of Brigham
Young. is fourteen thousand, the chOi
q consists of three hundred Voices and tn
ID great organ in this building is q mai
m vel Of beauty and greatness, aud Is sal
II to have cost one hudred thousand dollar
l. We will now give our readers ShOl
~ history OF Salt Lake City.
r.. In July. Is47. Brigham Young stood o
IN Easign Peak. the Mount Of Prophesy
m ami announced to his followers til;
nd down in the valley below should
a founded the new City Of Zion," the Fl
he ture home of the Latter Day Saints.
ch Up to 1871 the original settlers, VII
rs tually lived apart from the rest Of Il
Nc world. This was owing to the religion
All views Of the MormOns, which made the
a peculiar and isolated people. To mi
he ing il due the first iucursiOn Of Gent
u population, which population has ste
Oily Increased. until at present the col
,as munity Of Salt Lake City differs b
NO little from any other In its social or I
on ligiOus aspect. except that it possess
Df- in addition to the accepted religious 9
VS.: sociations which exist, elsewhere, o