Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . chdevelops the predisposition—asthma and phthisis meet withimmediate relief, and from my personal experience, it is evidentthe air tends to expand, strengthen, and give tonic force to thelungs. But rheumatism and neuralgia are by no means un-common ; as in other bracing climates, they aifect the poor, andthose from any cause, insufficiently fed, housed, or clothedduring the winter. For all who would avoid humidity, eitherin soil or air; who seek re
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . chdevelops the predisposition—asthma and phthisis meet withimmediate relief, and from my personal experience, it is evidentthe air tends to expand, strengthen, and give tonic force to thelungs. But rheumatism and neuralgia are by no means un-common ; as in other bracing climates, they aifect the poor, andthose from any cause, insufficiently fed, housed, or clothedduring the winter. For all who would avoid humidity, eitherin soil or air; who seek relief from pulmonary diseases ordyspepsia, the climate is unsurpassed; but for inflammatorydiseases it seems unfavorable; and for eruptive troubles,such as eczema, erysipelas, etc., it is certainly very bad. Thetendency seems to be to draw the blood to the surface; and thenatural complexion of an open-air man is very florid. So ithelps a man of defective circulation, and injures one whoseblood already tends to inflammation. At least one-half of the Great Basin is a complete desert;much of the rest is of slight value for timber or grass, and. 37d .376 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES perhaps one-tenth could be made fertile by an abundant watersupply. The most marked feature of the interior plains is thescarcity of timber; for, with the exception of a few scantwillows along two or three of the streams, the whole valley ofSalt Lake was originally as bare of trees as if blasted by thebreath of a volcano. The nearest timber to the city was upCity Creek Canon—granted by the first Legislature toBrigham Young, who took every third load brought out astoll, and complained of persecution when government offi-cials objected. Before 1870 most of the citys fuel had to bebrought twenty-five miles, and sold at from twelve to twentydollars per cord. This evil has been greatly increased by theirstripping the heights more bare every year, and many conjec-ture that this prevents the former heavy acc
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