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

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 007

fourteen, their perfectly-reliable driver. After `theirs, came var- ious other vehicles, containing the superintendent of telegraph- ing in Utah, with his pretty wife; a blue-eyed, white-headed bishop from Pennsylvania-a Mormon bishop, I mean-and three or four other gentlemen in their own carriages, who were to accompany President Young for the remainder of the trip. Not least, in his own estimation, followed a "colored gem- man, "* an importation to Utah from Philadelphia, whose airs and ailments were henceforward to engross to distraction the time of the kind--hearted elder who withdrew him from the teamsters' company to give him a seat in his own carriage. When the last vehicle had started, President Young stepped into his own light coupe, which carried him at a brisk trot to his place at the head of the line. Our afternoon drive to Provo followed the margin of Utah or Timpanogos Lake, a shining sheet of fresh water, which came into view when the exigencies of the landscape demanded. Near its shore were several flourishing villages, appearing in the distance as large fruit-orchards, with detached dwellings scattered through them. Hardly any "clap-boarded" houses are to be seen in Utah. The Mormons have an ugly, English-looking, burnt brick; but adobe ("dobies") or unburnt brick is most commonly used. I prefer the adobe-its general tint is of a soft dove-color, which looks well under the trees. Sometimes the Mormons coat the adobe walls with plaster of Paris, which, in their dry climate, 8The Kane& black servant John accompanied the family to care for the ailing Thomas L. Kane. 7