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(;i,i;.\MN(iS IN MKH CULTURE. 



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urmi'i'i'ssiiiA . IliTi' 1 lirsl fdiiml rais /uv/N'i/by 

 clci'tricily. 1 hiivc lonji Ix'cii fxpi'i-tiiig this: 

 and iu)\v. dear friciiils. clcfti-icity is hen-, ready 

 not only t(t iijilit our iioiiscs and do tiii> woi'lv. 

 but it is alffady triviii!; lu-at. Heat. lii,Mit. ami 

 power ai'<' iiivcn w lici r wanted, tliidutrli tiie 

 medium of a sintide wire. Let us liuni n|) all 

 souives of power not only our luituiul water- 

 falls and rivi'rs, but our artesian wells, tras- 

 wells - let us stither the power tliey fiive, then 

 witli a simple wire we have i)owei- to carry our- 

 selves ami our burdens from place to i)lace: 

 liilht to make our i-ities ami dwellin<is as bright 

 as day. even at inidnifihl: and last. I)ut not 

 least. )((■((/ to warm our homes comes also, along 

 tliis self-same wire. To warm a car, they have 

 a lieater in each corner, under the seat. 1 burn- 

 ed mv tinners in exploring into it. so I (Might to 

 know'. Ves. I fully believe that, through the 

 medium of eh>ctricity. this restless and at times 

 unmanageable servant of ours, the irlnd, is ul- 

 timately to give power, light, and heat; audit 

 is to In' inaih' tdinc. !<tc<i(hi. and ihicilc. Von 

 see •? 



ONE OK OIK i;NTKKri{istN(i i!i;i-;-Mt;x. 



Woodniansop is already talkingof getting pow- 

 er to run his bee-hivo inanufactory from one of 

 the street-car companies; and he says if he 

 could use tlie power all' the time (they rent it 

 by the month) it would be cheai)er than steam. 



Natural gas has just l)etMi added to the long 

 list of Utah's luitiiral products; and yesterday 

 (Dec. 7) a party of us went out by Great Salt 

 Lak<» to see a new well. The gas has a pressure 

 of over 100 lbs.: and when let off it is the great- 

 est ■■ mud-slinger." perhaps, the world ever saw. 

 Some of the papers suggest that it be utilized 

 in the next political campaign. Well, it has 

 covered the tools and derrick, and the landscape 

 for acres around, with the mud it has belched 

 forth. In some places we found great holes in 

 the ground, big enough to bury a small dog, 

 made by immense chunks of mud hurled to such 

 a height that, when they came down, they 

 buried themselves and left a hole above them. 

 After we had examined the well, as it was win- 

 ter weather our partv of about thirty adjourn- 

 ed to the nearest house, owned by E. Garn. 

 Centerville. Davis Co.. Utah, to get warm. 

 Said house is warmed by natural gas, and has 

 been for five years past. He drilled, or rather 

 drove, down an iron pipe about (JO feet. He got 

 water and gas too. and. like a Yankee, he put a 

 tight barrel over the top of the tube. Near the 

 bottom of the barrel a stream of water runs 

 out constantly; and exactly in the top he put a 

 tube, made part of iron and part of rubber hose, 

 so as to carry the gas into his cook-stove. 

 While we were tramping the mnv kind of mud 

 all over his floors I happened to look out of the 

 window and saw quite a row of bee-hives. Don't 

 it beat all, how you find a bee-man around 

 when you least expect him? Pretty soon they 

 bantered him for honey; and Ijefore the train 

 got along he had loaded up almost every last 

 man with one or more sections of alfalfa honey. 

 Our crowd had rather more knowledge of bees 

 (but a little less silver) whi-n they boarded the 

 train. I was rather glad, for it will cost him 

 something to clean up his floors. His honey 

 was all stored in J -lb. S(?ctions. of course. 



In this region artesian wells are so common 

 that, when a farmer wants water in a particu- 

 lar pastnri' lot, he just drives down an iron piije, 

 and then h^ts the water pour over into a trough. 

 In one place the well had nuide the ground so 

 swampy that they tried to plug it up: but the 

 plug didn't tit very well, and so it sent the wa- 

 ter in jets on the trees and every thing aroiuid. 

 where it had frozen in all sorts of comical 

 -shapes. I mention this otdy to illustrate how not 



only intlcr but poircr is allowed to run to waste 

 jnsi through neglect, and, shall I say— stupidi- 

 ty ? In the same locality are hot springs— al- 

 mosi as hot as you can bear your hand in the 

 water. It comes out from under a beautiful 

 iialuial tioulder a boulder so large that it is a 

 small mountain, and the w ater is most wonder- 

 fully clear and sparkling, even if it, is hot. 

 Well, the pei)bly bottom is composed of patchi'S 

 of the most brilliant blue, green, yellow, and, 

 in short, almost all the colors of the; rainbow, 

 these colors being, I suppose, caused by the. 

 pri'cipitation of tin' various cheniicals fouiid in 

 the wati-r. It boils and bubbles up in sucii vol- 

 umes that it would lill, I think, a twelve-inch 

 pipe, and then it goes steaming otT across tlie 

 fields until it linally forms a warm lake; and as 

 it doesn't freeze over, ducks and water-fowls 

 come there to sw iin all winter long, making ita 

 favorite hunting-giound. No oiii' has yet ev(!r 

 undertaken to utilize the immense qiuintities of 

 heat going to waste here. It would heat 

 greenhouses and hotbeds, miles of them, and 

 would comfortably warm all the dwellings in a 

 fair-sized city. The tenii)eratuie is absolute 

 and steady, and tin; expense nothing, after the 

 pipes are laid to lead the water. At present 

 it is utilized only for bathing-houses. 



I find I must break the thread of my luirra- 

 tive at this point in order to say something 

 more about the town of Greeley, referred to in 

 the latter part of my previous letter, Dec. 1.5, 

 and to relate a pleasant little incident which 

 happened to me there. 



When our good friend Horace Greeley said, 

 "Young man, go west."' he set the example 

 himself by going west and starting a beautiful 

 town which still bears his name, and still does 

 him honor, by being a strictly temperance town; 

 for every foot of land was so deeded that the 

 owner lo'^es it the minute he engages in the liq- 

 uor-traltic. It is inteicsting to know that a 

 town can be started and kept sober for at least 

 a long term of years, in just this way. The 

 people, buildings, and every thing about the 

 place, show the good effects of it. 



At the convention we had a good joke on Mr. 

 Theo. V. Jessup. Before he knew I was to be 

 present he was very earnestly engaged in solic- 

 iting subscriptions for Gleanixgs, and even 

 came to me, handed me a copy, and commenced 

 extolling its merits. When some mutual friend 

 came forward and introduced us, he looked em- 

 barrassed enough. 



"Never mind, good friend." said I. "You 

 needn't feel troubled. I believe this is the first 

 time in my life that I have been urged to sub- 

 scribe for iny own journal." 



The electric plant for lighting Salt Lake City 

 is, I think, the largest and finest I have ever 

 yet seen in any city. There are ten immense 

 boilers, giving, all together, 1:300 horse-power, 

 and the dynamos for generating the electricity 

 compose the latest and finest that are now 

 know'n. A smoke - consuming apparatus is 

 already attached to a number of the boilers, 

 and it w-orks .so perfectly that not a ray of black 

 smoke can be seen coming from the top of the 

 stack. If this thing really succeeds, oh what a 

 blessing it will be to the smoky, dingy, and 

 blackened cities all over our land I 



Utah not only claims to beat the world in va- 

 riety of mineral produc^ts, but she has produc- 

 ed liearly 1000 bushels of potatoes to the acre, 

 and 80 bushels of wheat. Besides producing 

 almost every thing grown in any northern 

 State, she is growing successfully both raisin 

 grapes and cotton. A new beet-sugar factory 

 is uow in succe.ssful operation, and candy is 

 shown in her confectioners' window.s, made 

 from sugar of her own production. Even 

 though her public schools are new. like her 



