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Show THE BEE ft latitude of 1 enjoy a climate balmy ami r fourteen year the mean ill Salt Lake City wan about teinjw-ratur- o degrees, miximum being ninety sewn the the average minimum miuui out, ami the mean daily range of the mercury but twenty aw-rag- fifty-tw- de-gree- e degree. s, one of the world' great uatural sanitarium. Nearly every variety of medicinal waters Known is found someu hero in this pharma Hot Springs junir hissing cojMuan wonderland. and steaming from the dills at Ogden, Salt Lake and a score of other places. Lithia City, Springs, and sulpher springs of every kind-wh- ite, red, black, blue and yellow, hot and cold as well as soda, magnesia and alum. What is the one infallible test of the invigorating qualities of climate, atmosphere, and general conditions? Abundance of chileren and old people: and Salt Lake City is the only place of sixty thousand jxop!e in the United States, if not in the world, where are by the train load, and where they have the over even the electric cars. 1 tali i Ca-til- la baby-wagon- s right-of-wa- im-porte- y d waters are six times as salt as thoe of the ocean ; and, while it has no outlet, four rivers jHiiiug floods of fresh water into it without raising it mysterious surface a fraction of a inch, or even diminishing, so far as chemical analysis can dehere d termine, its indescribable saltiness. all the water go? Where does all the salt come from? Where are thevat saline magazines from which it draws its everlasting supplies? One thou-an- d may stand upon its shores and ask a such questions, but no answer comes fro.n it inysterous depths, in which nothing lives but death and silence. When, in February, ISM, twenty thou-an- d Mormons, under the leadership of Hrigham Young, started from Xauvoo, Illinois, on their two thousand mile pilgrimage they priclaimed themselves the modern Israel in search of the promised laud. It was a strange fate, or destiny, or Providence, that led them to a region so similar to the Land of Promise of Israel of old. There, the lake, of (bniiearet, or sea of Galilee, was fresh water and full of iih. The Jordon Kiver flowed out of it and emptied into the Dead Sea, which is m salt and acrid that no living -V- '; i-g' V - v , jmi V'1'. g; , V . 5 4 . V - Y'-- Si (j - jTV ':fV .. - V fJU 4 A' f I- - J, !r; TOraJr, , vfex It v - Vkv i. -- X Than Salt Lake there is no more picturesque lxnlv of water. The Wasatch mountains wall it in on the eat and southeast ; tin Oquirrli bathe their feet in its southern margin : the great salt desert stretches baie and desolate from its western shore, and the Promontory Kange plunges into it waves for thirty miles on the north. He tween the Wasatch mountains and its eastern beach, lies the valley, while fifteen miles away, on one of its ancient shelving beaches, Salt Lake in Citv, with domes and towers foliage, nestles at the feet of the mountain ; and a hum ml miles to the southward rises the snowy summit of Xebo to lend a far-of- f grandeur to the scene. It may seem preposterous to talk of the finest -ea bathing on earth a thousand miles from the ocean ; but the truth is no less true because it appears absurd. The sea bathing in Great Salt Lake surpasses anything of the kind on either the Atlantic or Pacific coast. It is a tonic and invigorant of body and mind, and then there is no end of fun in getting acquainted with its peculiarities. A first bath is always as good as a circus, the bather being his or her own amusing trick mule. The specific gravity is but a trifle less than that of the Holy Laud Dead Sea, the actual figures with distilltd wafer as unity being, for the ocean 1.027, for Salt Lake 1.107, and for the Dead Sea 1.110. The human body will not and cannot sink in it. You can walk out in it where it is fifty feet deep, and your body will stick up out of it like a finshiug cork from the shoulders upward. You can sit down in it perfectly secure. Men lie on top of it with their, arms crossed under their heads and smoke their cigars. Its buoyancy is indescribable and unimaginable. Any one can float upon it at the first trial ; there is nothing to do but lie down gently upon it and float. Salt Lake City abounds in monuments and mementoes. The original city was laid out in squares, six hundred and sixty feet in length ; each square containing ten acres. The streets are a hundred and thirty feet wide. Along both sides of every street flow streams of mountain water. The Temple block stands first among the things that must be seen . It is a square, surrounded by a massive wall fifteen feet high and five feet thick. In it stands the magnificent Mormon Temple, the Tabernacle and the Assembly Hall. The Temple is, with the single St. Patricks Cathedral in Xew York, the grandest and costliest ecclesiastical structure in the country. It was begun in 1853, and completed in 1891, and cost nearly 80,000,000. It is built wholly of snow-whitgranite from the Cottonwood canyon ; and it can be seen for fifty miles up and down the valley. half-hidde- The most wonderful feature of all, the marvel of all marvelous Utah, an ocean of majestic mystery clad in beauty divine, is Great Salt Lake, the American Dead Sea. Among all earths weird wonders in water it has but one rival or peer the miracle-madsea whose waves of doom and oblivion roll over Sodom and Gomorrah, the Chicagos of forty centuries ago. Think of a lake from twenty-fiv- e hundred to three thousand square miles in area, lying a thousand miles island, at an altitude of four thousand, two hundred and fifty feet above the sea level, whose e hing is found in the waters Here, Provo or Utah Lake is fresh and sweet Out of it flows the Mormon Kiver Jordon, and pours its silvery tide into Great Salt Lake, the saltiest body of water on the globe. In the Holy Land the Jordon flows from north to south, while the Utah Jordon flows from south to north. Mount Xebo stood like a giant sentinel overlooking the ancient land flowing with milk and honey, and here Mount Xebo, lifting its crown of eternal snow twelve thousand feet heavenward, stands guard forever over a fairer Canaan than Moses viewed, but never entered, . ten-acr- e ex-ceptio- e |