Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-12
Andrew Jensen Gives News"
Readers the Benefit of His
Observations,
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY EN- ROUTE.
Work Of the Missionaries at Kansas
city aud st. Louis Utah at
The Fair
spooIal Correspondonlo.


ON subsequent trips ne often sleeps or
engages in conversation with a follow
passenger to While thc time aWay, but
such is not the case In going over the
Denver q Rio Gmnde Railway The
scenery along that road is So immense
ly grand and interesting that Il matters
but little how often one passes over a..
he always finds new objects or points
Of interest and only regrets when night
approaches, that IL is not day contln-
uously $50 that he might without inter-
tuptlon feast his eyes on beautiful ma
ture and the ever changing scenery.
Taking leave once more Of friends at
home to start ON another foreign mis-
sion, | left SAT- Lake city Aug. a. and
travelled by way Of Pueblo and Kansas
city to 81. Louis. Mo-. where J. accom-
panied by my wife, arrived on the 3Oth
Aside from the beautiful scenery the
railway Journey over the mountains
Is instructive as well as interesting.
Leaving Salt Lake city. which has am
altitude OF 4.225 feet above the level OF
the sea, we travel bp hill for dts
lance OF 100 miles until We reach
0WlNltIN summit ~ wv h'hA ~ -
tributary of the Spanish Fork river.
This Is the river OF the great interior
basin and the altitude here ~ 746i feet |
above sea level or 3,25g feet higher than
Salt Lake city Thence we go down
hill, following Price river, a tributary
Of Green river. The latter stream, to-
gether with Grand river, forms the
mighty Colorado river that finds It's
way to the Pacific ocean by cutting
"cross-lots" through the mountains and
desert. At Green river we are only
1850 feet above sea leyel-3.3M feet low
er than Soldiers Summit, and conse-
uently we have here a climate similar
to that Of Salt Lake valley After
passing Grand Junction 1892 miles from
Salt Lake city, we again commence
to ascend, and IN journey Of 1868 miles
along Grand river and It's tributaries,
we reach the Tennessee pass, when we
cross the backbone Of the continent
at an elevation Of i04lS feet above the
level OF the sea, and Immediately after
that we commence our descent along |
tributaries Of the Arkansas river As
we leave the mountains at Pueblo, we |
are 1865 feet above sea level, and from |
here on 10 81, Louis, Mo, iourneying !
across the immense plains, We
travel almost continuously down hill
KANSAS CITY MISSIONARIES.
In passing through Kansas city we
called al the headquarters Of the South |
western States Mission, 1905 Locust |
street where we found faithful band |
of missionary workers, with whom we
spent "A pleasant time. There were Ell |
ders Albert r.. Stratford, secretary Of |
the mission, George Q. Krkman, Joseph |
n. Jensen, Arthur Liymgton, Charles H. |
French and Walter w. Morrison, ana |
Sisters Mary T.. Ockander and Nellie G,
Thomas also Brother MahOnri ThOn- |
son, on his return to Utah from Quincy |
ILL., where he has attended school
President John G. Duffin was out In the
field holding conference. Successful
missionary work is being carried on IN
Missouri nj the present Time and |
was exceedingly well pleased with the
shirt and zeal which the missionaries
I'm Kansas CITY manifested. We also
paid short visit to Independence,
where the Church recently has pur-
chased % acres OF land lying across the
street from the Temple lot
WORK IN ST. LOUIS.
At 81. Louis, Mo-, We found four OF
our Elders Attawall WOOtton Jrr Dan
Tel o. Larsen, BaulettrC FarnsWorth
and Archie T. Spilsbury and three Sis
tiers, Josephine Cluf, Laura Boley and
Jeuette Mckay engaged IN missionary
labors they are meeting with some
success and hold Sunday school every
Sunday morning and general meeting
OF htraN hun n tho i
corner OF Thirteenth and BentOn
streets. besides open-alr meetings near
is every evening. when the weather
permits. Some Of the missionaries also
spend their time a the Utah building,
and the other Utah departments on the
fair grounds, there engaging In Gospel
conversations and imparting informa-
ton regarding Utah affairs generally.
AN OLD MISSION FIELD.
ST. Louis, Mo, has been associated
with the history OF the Church Of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints since Janu-
airy, 1881. when Oliver Cowdery, Farley
p. Pratt and three other missionaries
first visited the city ION their mission
10 the Lamanites' In the summer OF
that year also. Joseph the Prophet and
many others Of the early Elders Of the
Church passed through st. Louis on
therdourney 10 Jackson county. Soon
afterwards a tlourishing branch
OF the Church was organized
here and finally stake Of Zion.
Thousands OF Saints emigrathg !
from Europe to Utah, In early days,
made st. Louis their temporary home.
and earned means whereWith To con-
tinue their journey to the valley on !
the other hand many a weary Latter
day Saint pilgrim. succumbed to the !
hardships Of the long and hazardous
Journey after arriving In ST. Louis and
vicinity and never reached the noun
talns Many Of the readers Of the
"News' will also remember that a
Church paper called the "LummarN'
was AT one time published at ST. Louis
by the late Apostle Erastus Snow,
TO FAIR VISITORS.
For the benefit Of Utah visitors 10 the
worlds fair, now being held In ST.
Louis desire to say that no one need
Ia pay exhorhltant prices FOR food and
lodging while attending the fair II
two or more persons 10 together good
rooms can be had all over the city for
80 cents per night and upwards. and
meals can be had for from l5c and zoe
at the restaurants 10 soc and moro nt
the hotels. Ia Ihc immediate VIZ
clnity ~ the fair ground prices
are higher than IN the heart Of tho city.
The exposition Is certainly grand, and
even some OF the concessions on the
"Plke" and elsewhere on the ground are
wen worth the money asked for adj
mission. such. for instance. as 'Jerusa-
lem" From New York TO the North
Pole, Under and over the Sea. THE
Galveston Flood, 1.-THE Battle Abbey"
The Philippines Villages" 'The Esqui-
mauX Village etc,
UrAH's SHOWING.
The Utah exposition az the fair has
received many favorable comments by
visitors, their panoramic
View OF Utah valley a. O.. a section OF
he Rio Vlrgen valley, in southern
Utah attracts the attention OF thous-