Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-06-26
A Voice From Mormondom.

MR.. c. w, MARLIN.-I will attempt to
.eil M you something of my western trip in
ing the principal objects of interest along
the way: We arrived at Omaha on Tues.
day, day June I'd, and spent the remainder of
the the Day Y in ng sight seeing about the city. We
saw the Misses Louise Welch and Rose
PoWell f,1,V IN a cab on their way to Fremont,
I,a1o Eikhorn 1. .as.Missouri Valley Railway depot
where they took the train for Douglas,
Wyoming. In the evening we purchased
sickets S 3 fftorFIeemont, ft Nebraska, which is
try between these two points is almost the
same as Iowa, only little,more level, and
the crops in that section looked very pros
evening and started for Denver The next
forenoon l went fishing over in the Big
MUG! Muddy but did not even succeed in get.
and in the afternoon took the train for
Grand Island, where / arrived about ten
o'clock. After looking around town for a
few G hours took the. next train for North
Platte where we arrived at eight O'clock in
the morning. The first thing we noticed
when getting off the train was the i'm
haps they did not bother the people Who
Hxea thes .nere @ put upon inquiring we found
people at work We're obliged to wear hand
kerchlefs under their hats and allow them
to fall loosely about the shoulders to keep
them from tornenting them almost to
death. Ihey bother person worse about
the ears than any other place The old set
tiers tiers l say M that during the month Of June
mosquitoes bother them at night until
the there Ell is no rest. We left North Platte in
route to Julesburg rain and hail storm
came which was the heaviest have ever
witnessed. % The rain did not confine itself
person could hardly see twenty-five feet
before them. The streams, or depressions,
which but a short time before were dry
now became swollen torrents and rushed
along at terrific speed and spread out
over the vast sandy expanse, on the north
SIDE OF the track, which moment before
looked like mighty river but instead of
water 1T was filled with gray sand upon
which not the least sign of vegetation
g,e,s grew except &c there here and there We're little
miniature islands. The hail was nearly as
large as good sized egg. From Jules
ail eilg 4 Ie Sb+ wen. we 70 Sidney where we STAYED
tiful scenery enroute to Cheyenne. After
we were little distance out of Cheyenne
l! an trees ana houses disappeared from our
er's. wagon, with the herder tending the
flock was the only sign of life. The never
ending prairie stretched out as far as the
eye could reach. and the hundreds and
hundreds ofprairie dogs playing along the
track Sc served as an object, Of amusement
our eyes we discerned the snow-capped
| range of the Rocky Mountains and almost
at the same instant we could feel the chill
ing breeze from them. The first sight of
these mountains is one that person will
never be able to forget, for it seems to be
something grand and majestic. We spent
the sights of the capital of Wyoming. The
gilded dome of the capitol looked very
PRETTY IN the be bbeaming Of the morning
there is .piped down from the mountains,
about six or eight miles above the city. 1t
IS collected IN big reservoir and then
| pumped up into stand-pipe for use. The
water is as clear as spring water and looks
as as cold as ice, but the temperature is about
the same % as @ our well water, We left Chey-
enne about tive O'clock and got into Lara
mie about ten. Between these two points
it took two engines to haul the train as for
twensyhheIdrt NV TN mites les It is upgrade. When
| known as Sherman Hill, we made up for
all time lost as one of the train men said
seventy miles an hour. whirling through
deep canons and around sharp curves and
lust after rounding sharp curve we no.
thought was train robbers but we after
wards learned was a warning of the ap-
proach to tunnel which we then plunged
daIkness put we soon emerged into the
light as the tunnel was only about one
hundred y yards long. On Saturday after
| noon we left Laramie behind us and arriv-
ed at Rawlins the same afternoon after
| several stops and a run ofNthree or four
hours. We ct took through train Saturday
some very beautiful scenery, great rocks
that lowered far above the train and some
OF tne1n looked so natural that they looked
as though they had been placed there by
human hands instead of being only the
work of nature. At different places where
cuts had been made you could see the diff
erent layers or strataS of the earth which
was very interesting. Some places these
layers run along horizontal, at other plac-
es they were almost vertical and at other
places they We're straight up and down, all
manner of rocks and different formations
predominated. The rocks which we used
in building seemed to be in evidence in
nearly all places, and once in while you
could see thin veins of coal. spent Sun
| day in Ogden, out at Greenwood Park,
watching the different amusements and
there saw the first street cars since leav-
ing Omaha, distance of eleven hundred
miles. left Sunday evening for Salt Lake
City and met a fellow from Iowa who in
sisted on my staying all night with him
and taking breakfast the next day: Ivis-
| tied many places of amusement in Salt
Lake of which will tell you at some fu-
ture time: | expect to be at home by the
Fourth of July, perhaps, as. there is no
work here for short time. / was offered
work here at three dollars day, but you
are obliged to work nearly six weeks be-
| fore you get you pay while working by tn e
month Mould. like. to hear from you at
| Casper, wyoming, in care of Frank Stur-
| geOn, as / will leave here abort WeduaS-