Sallying forth from Salt Lake City, we made our leisurely way north, following along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, then through Ogden, and finally we turned toward the towering ramparts of the Wasatch Mountains at Brigham City. Ascending a pass, we eventually dropped down into the most pleasant Cache Valley. All around the valley the mountain sides were ablze with the colors of autumn, from the brilliant yellow of aspens to the bright reds on the maples.

We paused to photograph an old barn, with an advertisment for Dr. Pierce's elixer for women.

The following is from the Ann Arbor Register, October 10, 1895:

The two most critical times in a woman’s life are the times which makes the girl a woman, and the woman a mother. At these times, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is of incalculable value. It strengthens and invigorates the organs distinctly feminine, promotes regularity of the functions, allays irritation and inflammation, checks unnatural, exhausting drains, and puts the whole delicate organism into perfect condition. Almost all the ills of womankind are traceable to some form of what is known as “female complaint.” There are not three cases in a hundred of woman’s peculiar diseases that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will not cure.

Dr. Ray Vaughn Pierce was a patent medicine salesman who operated the World's Dispensary, out of Buffalo, New York, from 1867 until 1880. Dr. Pierce graduated from The Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and five years later became a resident of Buffalo.

The ladies in our party have never imbibed, as far as I am aware, any of the good doctor's several nostrums he marketed.