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Show THE DEAD SEA OF AMERICA. 97 same, and then he will to go the theatre, with a wife hold of one arm, and a pumpkin under the other to pay for his ticket Prices are very high. An ordinary cooking- stove sells for one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy- five dollars ; common cane- seat chairs, seventy- five dollars for a set of six ; plain pine bedsteads for sixty dollars ; ingrain carpet for three and a half dollars per yard. Groceries and produce command the following prices : Good ham, one dollar per pound -> bacon, seventy- five cents ; coffee, eighty cents ; tea, from three to five dollars ; dried fruit, fifty to seventy- five cents ; syrup, six to eight dollars per gallon, & c. But the produc tions of the territory range at lower figures. Beef, fifteen to twenty cents per pound ; mutton, a few cents higher j. butter, fifty cents ; new potatoes, one and a half dollars per bushel; onions, carrots, radishes, & c., cheap. Three newspapers are published in the city. The"// f-dette" is an anti- Mormon sheet, which a few months ago was conducted with very little regard for decency or pro priety. Under its present management it does better. This paper was started by General Connor, and for a long time indulged in the most unwarranted abuse of the Mor mons. % The " Telegraph " is a Mormon paper, and the " Deseret News" the official organ of the church. The two former have daily issue, and the latter appears only weekly. CHAPTER XIII. THE DEAD SEA OF AMERICA. ON the second day after my arrival at Camp Douglas, Captain Grimes, the obliging and efficient quartermaster, furnished a handsome " turn out" of four fine horses and a Santa Fe ambulance, and, with one companion, I was soon dashing over Jordan, in the direction of the Great Salt Lake. |