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

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 113

`I". was pestered in the parlor by some of the same class of min- ing speculators who beset him at Salt Lake City. There were also plain farmers who had come to seek counsel of "Brother Brigham," whether to sell their farms to speculators, or to go shares with them in seeking minerals, or simply to plod on, using their coal only for family purposes. These gaped with open mouths at the glib, eager man, who had his pocket full of specimens from this and that neighboring mountain, and who pressed upon T. a share in his enterprise in return for a loan of the capital his worn boots showed his need of. These men had some really fine specimens, though their value was impaired to experienced eyes by their having been "doctored." Still, I do not mean to say that Cedar City has not a great future before it, pos- sessing as it does, coal, lime, and iron ores in convenient prox- imity to each other. I hope Mr. Hunt's boys may share the prosperity of their birthplace ! T. presently made his escape to a more interesting group. Out- side the windows near the big bell, stood all the winter afternoon a patient cluster of Indians. One sat on a rough pony, who stood motionless with drooping head, tired apparently by a long jour- ney. The rider had his foot in a bloody bandage, and glanced from time to time at the parlor window. Did he hope the Great Medicine "Bigham" would come out and cure him? He never said anything, and rode quietly away at dusk. I knew "Bigham" couldn't cure him, but felt half-provoked that he didn't come out and make-believe to do so. The leader, a well-built, and, for a Ute, rather handsome man, could speak a few words of Mexican-Spanish. He bore a name common to many chiefs in Utah, but not then known to fame. He was a, but not the I13