This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... sells for fifteen to twenty dollars per cord. The scarcity and wretchedness of the timber--(I have not seen the raw material for a decent ax-hclve growing in all my last thousand miles of travel)--are the great discouragement and drawback with regard to all this region. The parched sandy clay, or clayey sand ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... sells for fifteen to twenty dollars per cord. The scarcity and wretchedness of the timber--(I have not seen the raw material for a decent ax-hclve growing in all my last thousand miles of travel)--are the great discouragement and drawback with regard to all this region. The parched sandy clay, or clayey sand of the plains disappeared many miles back; there has been rich, black soil, at least in the valleys, ever since we crossed Weber River; but the timber is still scarce, small, and poor, in the ravines, while ninety-nine hundredths of the surface of the mountains is utterly bare of it. In the absence of coal, how can a region so unblest ever be thickly settled, and profitably cultivated? The descent of the mountain on this side is but two miles in length, with the mail company's station at the bottom. Here (thirteen miles from the city, twentyseven from Bear River) we had expected to stop for the night; but our new conductor, seeing that there were still two or three hours of good daylight, resolved to come on. So, with fresh teams, we soon crossed the "little mountain "--steep, but hardly a mile in ascent, and but half a mile in immediate descent--and ran rapidly down some ten miles through the narrow ravine known as " Emigration Carton," where the road, though much traversed by Mormons as well as emigrants and merchant-trains, is utterly abominable; and, passing over but two or three miles of intervening plain, were in this city just as twilight was deepening into night. Salt Lake City wears a pleasant aspect to the emigrant or traveler, weary, dusty, and browned with a thousand miles of jolting, fording, camping, through the scorched and naked American Desert. It is located mainly on the bench of hard gravel that slopes...
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