The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-14
inch king 1t is the Mount of
the Holy Cross, bearing the sa-
cred sym boil in such heroic char
aotars as dwarf all human enorav


ing, and set on the pinacle of the
world as though in sign of pos
session forever. The Jessuits
went hand in hand with the Chew
aiier Dubois, proclaiming Chris
tan Gospel in the northern for
ests; the Puritan brought his
testament to New England; tho
Spanish banners of victery on the
golden shores of the Pacific were
upheld by the fiery zeal of the
frlars of San Francisco; the froz-
en- Ale skan cliffs resounded to the
chanting of the monks Of st. Pc
ter and St. Paul. On every side
the virgin continent was taken in
the name of Christ, and with all
the eclat of religious conquest.
Yet from ages unnum bered, be-
fore any of them, centuries obllv-
ious in the past time, the Cross
had been planted here. AS a
prophecy during unmeasured
generations, as a sign of glorious
fultillment during nineteen CEN
turies, from always and to eterni-
ty, a reminder of our fealty to
heaven, this divine seal has been
set upon our proudest eminence,
&C" Its altitude is IA, 176 feet.
AS we mounted to the summit in
len 1essee Pass, at an altitude OF
twomlles, our ears were swapping
and creaking, aid some suffered
from heart trouble. But the
strenuous throbbing of engines
here gave place to rapidly, nols
less gliding, or coasting down
ward into The valley of the Grand,
and we woke up in a cheer!ess
looking country between the
Grand and Green Rivers, the bed
of which IN ages past was a grea,
inland sea, the northern shore o.
which is now represented ano
outlined by the Book Clifis-des
ert and lifeless looking, multi
1orm and colored piles of ap
pearant clay or scoria. For near
ly two hundred miles we travers
ed mountain desert. Then fol
ninety miles we climbed the Wa
satch mountains, the scenery
growing wilder and more varlet
and still more so as we descen(
into the Utah Valley, the home o
the Mormons. This favored spo
has an Arcadian beauty, and Ii
said to resem ble the Wales of Scot
land. In Its center lies Utal
Lake, the Mormons' Sea of Cali
lee, which emptles through tn
Jordon into the Great Salt Lake
verltable Dead Sea. The vale.
is like a well kept garden, water
ed by crystal streams thickl'
crowded with trim farms having
neat white houses and fruit tree
In profusion, all testlfying to tn
industry and frugallty of tn
Mormon farmer. AS we locke,
upon these neatly appearing col
tage homes, we had curiosity t
know what was the condition O
domestic life within. But in sey
, eral days spent in Salt Lake City
we observed little difference IN it
people from that of other cities
though the city is different il
many respects. 1t is beautiful
city, having paved streets 1872 fl
wide, with a stream of clea
mountain water flowing in tn
curb ditch on either side, an
, bordered with long rows of shad
? trees; modern business blocks @
. splendid structure, and fine an
rapidly growing residence dis
tricts. The finest residence POI
t tion occupies the mountain bench
q once the shore of the Great Sal
/, Lake, now eighteen miles distan
from the water lines, yet plalnl
J. to be seen above the city. Th
J. six million dollar Mormon Ten
4 pie, with walls of granite ten fee
v thick; the Tabernacle, Assembl
l. Hall, and other buildings OF Tea
g pie Square; together With tn
8 Bee Hive and Lion House, forme
Il homes of Brigham Young and h
|, many wives, are all interesting
Y but not all open to the visito
9 r,he street railway, water an