Twelve Mormon Homes

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Brigham young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, makes an annual journey of inspection south, Visiting the settlements of his people from the Great Salt Lake to the Arizona border. My husband was invited to join his party last winter, and I accompanied him with my two children, boys of eight and ten. We left Salt Lake City early one December morning, while the stars were still shining in the frosty dawn. At the depot a crowd of Mormons were assembled to see their leader off, and a committee of them filled the special car, on the Utah Southern Railroad, in which we made the first stage of our journey. We ran down Salt Lake Valley while the mountains on our left were still in shadow, but the golden sunrise was resting on the tops of those on our right, andgradually slanting down towards the plain. The snow had melted from all but the highest summits, and some of these were only veined with it in their ravines.