. Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see . er if the scenes before youare not real. The painter has touched the pio-THE neer picture with the spirit of the PIONEERS moment when the white-covered OF 1847 ox-drawn wagons of the First Com- pany were halted at the mouth ofEmigration Canon, and Brigham Young exclaimed, ashe recognized the distant lake and the arid valleythat he had seen in his dreams, This is the place;drive on! The other picture is of the sceneTHE DRIVING at Promontory, Utah, on May 10,OF THE 1869—the wedding-day of the GOLDEN Pacific Railroads—the day upon SPIKE which The L
. Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see . er if the scenes before youare not real. The painter has touched the pio-THE neer picture with the spirit of the PIONEERS moment when the white-covered OF 1847 ox-drawn wagons of the First Com- pany were halted at the mouth ofEmigration Canon, and Brigham Young exclaimed, ashe recognized the distant lake and the arid valleythat he had seen in his dreams, This is the place;drive on! The other picture is of the sceneTHE DRIVING at Promontory, Utah, on May 10,OF THE 1869—the wedding-day of the GOLDEN Pacific Railroads—the day upon SPIKE which The Last Golden Spike was driven to complete the firstall-rail route from ocean to ocean. In the centerstands steaming the old funnel-stack engine, Number60, that was present at the ceremonies, and, beforeit, sledge in hand, Leland Stanford ready to drive thespike. Grouped around Stanford are the men whosemighty minds conceived and completed the greatundertaking. Facing him, on the right, are SidneyDillon, Charles Crocker, and Oakes Ames, in the. SALT LAKE CITY order named, and, on his left, are C. P. Huntington—the man with the cape—and, next to him, with armsfolded, Charles Hopkins. From the time that it was a littleTHE OLD huddle of wagons in the wilder- SALT LAKE ness, more than three generations CITY ago, Salt Lake City has been almost constantly in the public eye. Thebeauty of its situation and environment; the charmsof its scenery and its proximity to many naturalwonders, have given it distinction. The present-day city is largely the work of cre-ative forces set in motion by the mining and railroaddevelopment around it during the last decade, andthe old Salt Lake with its crude homes and fadingland-marks—the one around which the romance ofhistory clings—has almost passed away. Old SaltLake has been written up and down and pictured sooften and so well, that to dress it now anew in printwould be an impossible task. But it is still the subjectof so much human interes
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