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Show is progressing fii.ely. Tne walls of the second stories are now being laid; in fact only about 15 feet remain to be laid to bring them up to the caves. Many hundred men, with tools nnd teams, are at work on it; some in the quarry, some with teams hauling rock and Iunibor, aomo as mechanics on tho various materials, and others working at oilier work; all swarming around their assigned duties :is diligent dili-gent as bees. The temple is 147 feet long and 0 feet wide in the clear; tho base is built of black basaltic rock, and the upper walls and main structure of red sandstone, or, as it is called in the east, free stone or brown stone, such as new Filth avonue is built of. It is to have its basement Btory, its main auditory or grand lecture room, its second story for council chambers, its offices, ante-rooms, vestibules, etc., with all the modern improvements in architecture and temple building. It will bo a magnificent structure; but, you know, I don't take much interest in temples.' I am somewhat like a young lady I met on my way down, who had converted her bible into a scrap book; had cut anecdoten, stories and poetry out of newspapers and pasted them on tho leaves of her bible, "so as to have some good reading read-ing in it," she said. HOETIC ULTD RE is the main feature of this country. Large vineyards of grapes are seen everywhere in the settlements, and wine is plentiful: Fruit orchards are also abundant and fruit plentiful. Tho area of good laud is quitelimited and the population small. All in all, : it is not much of a country. The , cotton raising is mostly confined to a I few patches of land along the Rio , j Virgcu. I am not struck after this country. ' j THE TOPOGRAPHY of the country is a mixture of tho terrible ter-rible and sublime; high terraces of long barren-like bills; high elevations or plateaus on bald blufli of blood-red sands lono with corrugated bases; deep wash-outs in the beds of red clay; high, dug-out, hollow roads along the sides of the hills, above deep ravines and over great precipices; high, round, isolated but tea; great conic sections of red hills; rolling, undulating ridges, hills and hog-backs of red sandstone, red Band and red clay; great bold barriers bar-riers of eeriated stratas of red sandstone, sand-stone, rising, one above another, until they form a mountain that slopes to the north, supporting a high -and apparently ap-parently level plateau that seems to meet the sky; great dykes and ridges of whito, yellow and greenish porphyry por-phyry cutting tho mountain formation; forma-tion; towering mountains of rough, ragged, cragged and torn basalt and black plutonic rocks, crumbling and scattering down to tho ravines; immense im-mense red wind-riven hills of sandstones sand-stones and wind-driven sand hills; a broken, Volcano-tormented country, with the Rio Virgen winding its tortuous tor-tuous course through' its midst, affording af-fording a few fertile Bpots on which to iaiso fruits, grapes and cotton and build temples, and all surrounded by high chains of mountains in the distance dis-tance that seem like great walls, or barricades, with here and there a BUgar-loaf peak, or a turret capped with snow, standing sentry over the acenery below. This beautiful country, for a native vegetation, supports the tall prickly cactus, that stands up like young cedar trees, the thorny muskeet, chapparel, rabbit-bush, grease wood and the omnipresent sagebrush. sage-brush. For animal life, there are lizards, liz-ards, horn-toads and snakes. All in all, you see I am not in lovo with this country. It is beautiful, picturesque, grand and even sublime, topographically; but, gracious I it would not be worth a cent, were it not for the mines that these distorted hills contain. THE MINKS are, to me, the only redeeming I feature; to me of far more account than the horticulture, grapes, cotton, cot-ton, pasturage, temple and everything else. The mines are, so far as I have seen specimens of ores, strictly copper mines. Some little galena and evidence evi-dence of bismuth are lound, and cinnabar cin-nabar and told are talked of, but they are all " away over yonder." Copper is to a certainty a metal that exists in the ore abundantly in these hills. The Adams mine, Bentley district, is over the line, in Arizona, on the side of the Colorado river, about forty miles distant from St. George, on a direct line. This mine is certainly a wonder in its way. Of course, I have not been to it, but have seen abundance abund-ance of the ore here, and saw the few tons of it that were sent to Salt Lake city last summer, and rely upon tho description given of the premises by reliable persons. It crops out about 600 feet in width, at least 100 feet of which is solid ore. The croppings extend over the surface for a distance of about 1,500 feet, all the way pro-duciug pro-duciug fine ore, There is a shaft on it sixty-five feet deep, with a drift from the bottom six feet all in clean ore, thus demonstrating the existence at that depth of at least twelve feet of solid ore. and no knowing how much more. The ore is a beautiful azurito, with mixtures of some red oxide or horseflesh ore, and a little silicate, and at times some grey eulpburcls and native coppers Thu ore should average lar above 40 per cant., but even at that figure, with the vast quanity in sight or near the iurface, tho little expense ot mining min-ing and other advantages, with usualf sized ono-cupola furnace, the mine will render a neL profit of over-$2,000 over-$2,000 per day. John Williams, the copper smelter, from Lake Superior, and moro recently form the Oopper-opolis Oopper-opolis mine in Tin tic, is now over at the mines working at them with a view of putting up furnaces, and he is tho very man to do it. The owners of tin's Adams mine will be fortunate |