The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-17
: ON Rushmore Enterprise.
Communication.
MT. NEBo, UrAH, Aug. s, 1900.

,hang0 the aQOEoSS OF QUIZ paper AIOlIA
Nj. Nebo to Vineyard, Utahl We.
will move sometime during the week
to an orchard father has recently
traded this place for. It is FIVE miles
from the city Of Provo, but Vineyard
is a posto&ce, about a mile away.
Now that I am started I would like
to do my part towards making q
permanent custom the habit former
Testimonies seem to have, Of telling
TO your paper their experiences in
strange lands, either as travellers or
citizens. Mine will be mostly Of the
former variety.
I left Minneapolis the latter part Of
June and made a three days stop at
Manitou, at the base of Pixies Peak.
To prairie boy those mountain
climbs were truly marvels. l went to
the Halfway House, onthe road TO
Pi'e's Peak, and looked over mount
all : and out east over the level plains.
l went up Cheyenne canon and eaw
the seve. waterfalls, where the wa er
no sooner falls from one than it takes
another leap, and, not tied after the
seventh leap. goes bubbling swiftly
over the rocks to get away. Higher
up is the former burial place Of Helen
Hunt (Jackson). Her body was re-
moved several years ago by her hus-
band because an admission fee was
charged to see the spot.
Many other points of interest, in
Guiding the "Garden of the Gods y
with its curious shaped rocks, 1 ex,
plored, then went on to see even
grander sights, cultimating, I be.ieve,
in the Royal gorge. 1t is needless to
describe mountain scenery for if you
have not seen it you will not realize
the vastn' SIS and beauty of this form
of nature, aud if you have been cmong
mountains you would realize that my
powers of description were weak.
Alb 'ut week after starting land
ed in Springville, Utah, and was ta4en
to Mr.. Newton's home There were
about them the three other Worthing'
ton families and they certainly seem.
ed happy set. Water is a little
short there this year, az it is every
where else in the mountain states. In
the evening I rode out to Mt. Nebc
and was soon at home, for the first
time in nearly two years. The home
was certainly in different locality
than the familiar prairies of Rush
more. We are in the southwest quar-
ter of valley about fifteen miles
wide and forty-fve miles long; thif
district is much like a prairie, except
that the slope is very gradual and al
ways toward the middle. Utah lake
seemingly the remnant of a once
mighty lake that filed the whole
valley to the water-marks' far up the
mountain sides, now occupies part o.
the north end. It has no banks in tn,
ordinary sense and no visible inlet
being fed by springs. It is the SEX
of Galilee to the "Latter Day Saints
To the north the River Jordan, il
high water, flows into Great Sal
Lake, their Dead Sea.
The soil is a yellow clay. Bacl
| east, as we speak of Minnesota, i
would be regarded as of no account
But with necessary water it produces
. wonderful crops. Grain will grow we'll
I wheat going as high as 40 and 81
bushels per acre. Corn is kept bacl
by the cool nights. It is tiresom'
! work to irrigate grain and have eee1
, only small fields. Alfalfa, or lucern
as it is called here, is the mainstay
as we'll as trees. The mines in thu
n, ighboring mountains make good
market for this as we'll as everything
else. Men have been offered $7.0(
per ton for the hay stacked in the
field, but this price is higher thar
usual, becausein most places the third
crop will not be cut and in very many
} valleys the second crop is but ANAL
one, due to failure in water. This
scarcity of water, by the way, is be-
cause little snow fell in the mountains
last winter.
Trees are the great source of in
come, or can be made so in time
Prunes, pears, peaches, plums, apples
apricots.c cherries these grow fast and
bear heavily. Small fruit that caused
my EYES to stand out with surprise
and my mouth to water in anticipa-
ton grew on Mr.. Cones and Mr.
Chaffer's places near Springville. The
others have newer places and in this
valley they don't seem to be the sue.
cess they ought to be, die perhaps "a
the newness of the soil. u, 81
Irrigation is a great institution; il
is so handy to know when the "rain''
is coming and to be able to tell the
waterman above to shut if off when