The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-04-05
PILGRIM
WRITES OF
IDAHO
Tells of Deep Shows and Customs Of
Mormons and incidentally, Throws
Some side-Lights on Preachers, Po-
litics, Gold Ore and Things in General.
Editors Of Telegram

Showing to beat the band here today
The heaviest snow OF the season fell last
week. Before the last snow OF the last
few days, the snow was five feet deep
in the Galley and towns OF Roosevelt
and Thunder Mountain; on the trail in
places out, am told by people who came
out, that the snow is thirty feet deep
OH This would be fun for school boy
to come over in toboggan with a dog
attached. Lordl the thought of trip
like this makes me look like Seagliola.
Surely, some one must be in your town
selling stock in Thunder Mountain.
While this snow is on it is the best time
to mine in there; stock sells better; dia-
monds gathered from the sea are val
liable because they. are scarce, and the
scarceness makes them precious. Guess
this is why We are spoken of as Jewels
in heaven; we win be scarce there. From
the manner you speak of the vortex re-
yiyals in your city one would naturally
think that the multitudes of people are
crowding their way in to the pearly
gates, but when we get down in the
depths OF the heart of man, we do not
find him as was the Savior at the we'll,
but instead, in vulpine manner kick
him on, kick He is scarcely 1T for hell;
keep him going! Preachers would give
me the devil, if they knew that have
this kind OF opinion of them and large
chosen number or their flock, but the
preacher, or any other man who is too
high up in the world to speak to the
way-faring man on tine street, and en-
courage to better manhood and woman
hood, his fallen brother, is as much fit
for heaven as is the camel to pass
through the needles eye.
Mormons are as thick here in two or
three states as fees are in straw stack
where hogs sleep, and darn, if / approve
of their way, but one thing IRE, they do
believe in fulfilling the scriptures so far
as they are able to multiply and replen.
ISL the earth,' but they will come up
short, too, when Gabriel toots his horn.
The Jews have synagogue here. !
have not attended their church yet, but
will the first chance have; want to
hear from them as ! jag along through
this mixed-up world. come in to the
city the day the CHIMES closed up their
New Year festivities. / came pretty
nea missing it. It, was better than
Buffalo Bills show. They had CHIMES
bands out, firecrackers by the thousands.
strings twenty-five feet long, swinging
in the air by means of rope suspended
from cross, where they were lighted,
and made as much noise as the Paps
bombarding Korea. After their praise at
the temple they take roast hog and other
food and placed it their grave yard to
the honor of their dead spirits.
Well, | see that yonr city ticket, "all
parties" are pretty near as badly mixed
politically, as the world is religiously,
guess this is policy as when the man
or woman who gets in to heaven will
have been tryed by fire until they will
not know whether they were Methodists
Baptists, Catholis or Salvation Army
members here on earth, but just did the
best they could. When some of your
officers are elected, they will not know
whether they are Republicans" "Demo,
crats' or "Citizens." Pity to get mar
mixed up this way. But hurrah! fol
the winner.
/ see that my friend A. X. Thorn, j.
at the altar seeking for office. Well
his politics do not hit me best in the
world, but from his straightforward
career through life, ] will have to cast
a vote for him next fall. if he receives
the nomination, for prize an honest
man above every thing else, as I expect
to prove this to my friends before an
other winters snow fall.
Well. since I have commenced to write
it has quit showing and gone to raining
High waters are next on the program
You ought to see the mountain streams
go on a tear. They make more noise
than fussy Sunday school teacher, and
are almost as dangerous.
Adjoining one group of claims that
am interested in, company cut a ladge
over 100 feet; it runs sl40O per ton;
all kinds of rock in tunnel run on an
average better than 500 per ton, and
this is out in civilization at that. They
have bought a twenty stamp mill, and
viii build-it within 500 feet Of my stuff
They have asked to mil our ore, but