Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-01
VALE AND MOUNTAIN.


Your correspondent has been making
excursions through the villages Of Salt
Lake county over country roads that
he travelled five years ago. The thing
that impressed him most was the
PRESENCE OF weeds These politicians
of the vegetable world are becoming
among the farms what the politicians
are in the world of man. a dangerous
enemy. In many places large tracts
Of good soil are entirely covered by
weeds, and in many other places crops
are completely destroyed by them.
There ought TO be State law secur-
ing the destruction of weeds Leave
them to spread for fifty years and the
Utah Centennial will find no farms to
glorify.
As to mining. I find that the reports
published concerning districts through
which | have Travelled are so errone-
GUS as to suggest the suspicion that
they have been purposely procured
by Interested parties with fraudulent
intent For instance, found in re-
cent Salt Lake paper glowing ac-
count of "a group of claims at the head
OF Big Cottonwood cayon. The state
ment boldly made that ore is now be-
ing mined at different tunnels on the
L.
there has not been pick struck in the
property this year and not enough
work done ON 1t to cover the ASSESS
ment since 1894 Substantially tho
same is true of certain claims in Lit
tie Cottonwood canyon. The papers
have been giving enthusiastic reports
OF so-cnlled mines that have never
been anything but prospects and of
alleged shippers that have never paid
expenses.
IL would be better for Utah to say
nothing about mining than to SAY
what must necessarily deceive those
who might make investigations on
the strength Of such reports. II men
have a good property it will advertise
Itself just as fast as its owners make
II worth knowing. If men have pros
poets that they are playing with for
the purpose Of procuring provisions
from grocers and clothing from
tailors through fraudulent advertis-
Ing from cheap reports or careless
papers, with promise of pay IL sale
can be made to some unlucky tender
foot, they are injuring the emporium
tiles for honest men as We'll rs doing
n positive harm to the State. IL wOuld
be well for managing editors to he
more careful in the selection OF re-
porefs, or more discriminating in the
use of the stun they write.
The canyons have been very beauti-
ful TINS season, especially Little Cot
tonwodd. The warm summer called
forth the wild flowers in more than or
binary abundance, and the absence of
forest about the head of the canyon
gives the flowers full opportunity to
paint the landscape in glory that II
would be difficult to surpass. But the
sheep are inveterate enemies OF these
grand gardens of God on the heights.
The old camp OF Alta, like n man
who has passed his allotted term OF
life, appears to grow more feeble year
by year. The old cabins are one after
another tumbling down. The only
building that shows any improvement
Is the Emma boarding house. which
Mr., John Stillwell. the careful and
efficient Waterman OF the Emma and
Flagstaff, had shingled year ago.
AS an evidence Of the purity OF the air
up here ! might say that those shin
giles are still so clean and bright that I
thought they had been put on this
summer. But II the cabins I'm Alta are
old the people are young. The plling
years do not burden them. Families