What to see in America . low or cotton-wood. One of the women was so overcome by the desolationthat she said, Weak and weary as I am, I would rather goa thousand miles farther than stop in this forsaken the company at once began the work of permanentlyestablishing themselves. They irrigated and plowed, andtrees were hauled from the mountains to use in constructingthe embryo town of Salt Lake City. They built huts oflogs and adobe, and a bowery which for a time was church,courthouse, and capitol. Only three months after the pioneerentry a school was opened in a tent with hewn slabs an
What to see in America . low or cotton-wood. One of the women was so overcome by the desolationthat she said, Weak and weary as I am, I would rather goa thousand miles farther than stop in this forsaken the company at once began the work of permanentlyestablishing themselves. They irrigated and plowed, andtrees were hauled from the mountains to use in constructingthe embryo town of Salt Lake City. They built huts oflogs and adobe, and a bowery which for a time was church,courthouse, and capitol. Only three months after the pioneerentry a school was opened in a tent with hewn slabs andsections of logs for seats and desks. In May and June of thenext year the settlers had to fight a scourge of Rocky Moun-tain crickets which in-vaded the fields and gar-dens in countless people had been re-duced to despair when agreat flight of gulls ar-rived and devoured thecrickets with such vo-racity that few then the gulls havebeen sacred in spring they come tothe land that is being. Balance Rock on Wilson Mesa Utah 389
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