Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

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the gorge of the "Little Cottonwood." It was hard to realize that thousands of men were busy in the recesses of that wild and desolate-looking ravine. Yet the famous, or infamous, Emma Mine" is there; and opposite, across the sunny Jordan Valley, some twelve or fifteen miles of&-though seeming scarcely three miles distant in the clear atmosphere-we saw Bingham Canon, another noted mining locality. A little dis- tance down the line, clouds of smoke were pouring from the tall chimneys of another smelting establishment.5 So far we were still in "Gentile" country. The Mormon presi- dent discourages mining among his people, but I suspect that a great many of his richer followers are interested in mining speculations. We left the train at LEHI. It was not an attractive-looking place, and I went no farther than the depot, where a crowd of stages, baggage-wagons, and hurrying men intercepted the view. As I sat warming myself at the ticket-office stove, a young lady, chief telegrapher from the Salt Lake of&e, with her dress neatly looped over her balmoral skirt, tripped up to the table where sat the Lehi telegraph clerk, a woman, too;6 and, after an effusive greeting, the pair subsided into business. The Lehi 4There has been considerable writing about the Emma Mine, which was a rich producer of silver ore in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Shortly after it was sold to a British concern in 1872, the ores played out and there was an international inci- dent over the "swindle." The story is well told by W. Turrentine Jackson, "The Infamous Emma Mine: A British Interest in the Little Cottonwood District, Utah Territory," Utah Historical Quarterly 23 ( 1965) : 339-62. 5This was probably the Francklyn Smelter about one mile south of the Ger- mania. It had a capacity of fifty-five tons a day. Bancroft, History of Utah, p. 749. "Leonard J. Ar 1 g r'n ton in his Great Basin Kingdom, An Economic History of