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Show 172 WHERE THE MORMONS & c. along, cried out to him to assist them ; but he was too big to stop to hear their distress. This train, which started late in the season, was overtaken by heavy snow- storms, in Novem ber and December, and many died before they reached the valley. Brigham openly cursed the man responsible for this suffering, and he could not hold up his head for a long time. The people's curse still remains on him." In addition to those who lost their lives, there are now invalids in Salt Lake City who date back their shattered health to this unfortunate experiment. When the trains reach " Emigration Canon" the pass through the Wasach Mountains by which they reach the city, or at some other point convenient to the city, the agents of the Emigration Society visit the people to settle the accounts of those who have not paid their emigration fees in advance. The notes of such delinquents are then taken, and these are held in terrorem over them if at any time they think of leaving the territory. The society expects to be reimbursed for all its expenditures for emigration. This being settled they then proceed to the city and en camp or bivouac in Emigration Square. Upon the arrival of the trains the inhabitants visit the square to find friends, servants or wives, as they may desire. Heber Kimball advises those in charge of the trains not to select all the pretty girls before they get in, but give all a chance. Very often, when the market for wives is dull, fine- looking girls are hired as servants. Not having been such at their homes they may object at first, but after being" counselled " to go they gener ally yield. Probably in a short time the employer takes a fan cy to the maiden and tells her that he has discovered that he *' kinder likes her," and is willing to exalt her to a wife in this world and glory in the next. This proposition may be as distasteful as the first was, and she is again " counselled " and again yields. Such is common experience of immi grants. After the party has been well culled over, and those who can do so have obtained places, the remainder are sent off to the settlements to be treated in like manner. It is a com- |
