Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-10-08

On one of the islands is a herd Of
wild buffalo and on the eastern
shore is. a stock yard for the con-
yenience of shipping cattle from the
near mountains. Many streams flow
into the great salt lake, but as yet
no outlet has been discovered Re-
Gently the waters receded several
feet, but have regained their former
expansion with a slight rise
might here revert to the NOR
mon mecca long enough to commend
the perfect system Of organization
pursued by the leaders The state
is divided into "stakes" with its
centre of work and each ward of
the city has a chapel and Industrial
center The young people as we'll
as adults are kept busy-or were
before gentle influence peryaded
the state. One would scarcely ex
pect NE to commend any system of
religion, but no one has yet found
TEN of industry and service for all,
but it is the idleness and hypocrisy,
and tyranny of the tso-called elect of
orthodoxy which should be scourged
to the death Mormon missionaries
are penetrating TO the uttermost
parts of the earth. Utah is S. per
cent Mormon and the adjoining
states nearly the same, and the claim
is made that the increase is con-
stant and healthy instead of an in
|termittent fiactuation which charac-
terizes the evangelical churches. The
system of tithing tone tenth of the
iHcome) insrres an equitable distri-
button for church support.
For miles, and miles after leaving
the lake there is a desert Of salt and
sand and sage brush which does not
delight the eye of a Webster Cityite,
but occasionally districts are cover
ed with verdue and vegetation. West
of Ogden irrigation helps to produce
the fine fields or alfalfa and sugar
beets along the way. The ground
for artificial irrigation must be per-
fectly level with bitches around and
with cross sections through. Along
the line Of service the patrons are
allowed but SO much water and if
the supply is short the fellow at the
tail end,of the line gets no moisture
and at other times he must rise at
all lhours OF the night to open his
water gates or he loses the supply.
Orchards are usually irrigated by
blowing three burrows between the
tree rows and this supplies the
roots, and 4 must say the result is
good, but the heat and dust from
these sandy rlninS is most distress
ing TO the newly initiated
The railway which we are travel
ing tsouthern Pacihc1 is the origin
al route TO the coast. In Nevada we
cross several rivers which disappear
into the earth but the valleys OF
which are prolific with orchards. At
5000 feet elevation we pass Lake
Tahoe Summer hunting resort
where the limit of ducks to be kill
ed BY one man is twenty, which pre-
.cllgdes the possibility Of big duck
stories. The lake is said to be 1000
feet deep, and We begin to specu-
late as TO orr chances of escape from
the 'bottomless lake, of fire and
birthstone toward which we are
grayitating
The towns along this line seem to
spring up in the desert quite as
readily as they do in Iowa, but the
wonderment is, what do the people
subsist upon? The Nevada mines
are, however, good producers, and
gold has a very attractive quality in
bringing the material benefits OF
life. Even Reno is we'll known as 3
gold center. not alone because Of the
divorce colony. hut as the prize
lighting Headquarters Whether the
contestants Ia domestic encounters
would be equal TO the strenuous
bouts Of the prize ring | do not
know but certain it is that the en-
durance OF some of them ought TO
qualify them MS winners The
.canuns OF the sierre Neyada's show
81 preponderance Of green IN the
.ronk coioria@ instead Of the yellows
aud niaroons Of the Rockies Blue
.GaHon, so-tal.ed because Of the blue.
haze all about ends the 10 mile run
through snow sheds which did ser
gtce as protection for through their
lerGtR snow fell profusely These
snow sheds ars copstrueted iiSe the.
cora crib 4 home with cracks be-
tween she boards and an opeu space
Qit ona s.de beneath tlle root. which
provides ventilntion ana light, and
as coftapopnd engines tcoal and oil
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