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Show SIGHTS ra M How the Visitor to I'tnVi Capital can Occupy His Time to the Best Advantage. BATHING AT GARFIELD BEACH. The Great Temple taxi Taliernacls Brigham Young'i Houses Othar Pleasant Scenes. Salt Lake City at the present lime is attracting more attention In the world at large than any other town in this Union, and every day letter nro received re-ceived from all poluts of the compass, Inquiring as to the resource of this growing metropolis. It is for the purpose pur-pose of replying to all these epistle at one time that this article is written. In the tirst place, gentle reader. Salt Lake is a city of 50.000 inhabitants, composed of men, women and children, and the population Is being added to daily, Immigration and nature being tho leading causes of Increase. ' The city is laid out ill blocks uilli streets running north, south, -east aud west. The streets aforetaid are oixj hundred and thirty-two feet In width aud all sidewalks are thirty feet from the lot line to the curb. No in at tor how lovely a session may have occurred at tho lodge, a man can nW'ars get home if he makes an honest effort. The street ear sysleni is second Id none in the world. It Is a dual affair, the major portion being electric line, Hie ears on which run around tnwn like a bug on a hot gridiron. A man can ride out to Buena Vista addition on an electric car and enjoy his simple meal in less time than it takes a hash-house hash-house waller to bring an order of ham ami eggs. The other part of the tent is a relic of by gone days when a man had to call the loll to ascertain if 1 I I. i . t .,!..... I If.., -I' I.-. After a person tskes a plunite in the salt w ater he feuh like a nw man sort of bora yesterday expression of thought sweeping orrr his rejuvenated frame TIib crowds at the beach are composed of good looking girt from various tious tf the country, and affable young men. A baud plays sweet m;uio all the time, and one can late his person to the tune of "Atiuln Lauriu" and several olhr melodi. The sight eer io Salt Lake city can occupy his time In many ways. He can stand and i at thc.vi grand old mountain prak coterud with snow, even In July, or watch the bricklayers aud rarpntrt s they rreel the handsome hand-some Im-hir. blocks that are going up all over town. If he llk, ha ran vivit Knit IMiikI.m at ilreu parade time aod listen to the adjutant a he command "Hear open oidfth! March!" And if military ladles bo not to his liking. h ran go over and ask to look at th Temple, which was begun iu IM3, aud which has cost M WO.OoOup to date, and Is not yet complete The Temple U d.tudy building, aud knock Solomon's ouk IioI'sc affair cold. The three men now working ou it rvpret lo eompletit it liisldo Ihu next ten years, and then they w ill be ready for the wludUig Of (Jabrlepg trumpet Alongside thu Tcirpl' on the west, Is the Tabcnusl. whh'lt has a pipe oigan. ami a etlatf capacity of lJ.ooo popl. It lo has the lurged unsupported arch trxjf iu the wet 1'u the sunt u( tlix Trm pie U Iho old tithing office, where In the hnlcymi days of long gu tho chief tl the s lots of iic' rwot tluitt re-'iTipted re-'iTipted for omileutli of everybody! income, which was applied to iho spread of llinitiii trili' sof Joseph Smith, deceased. A One meanders east ard b will notice the Lion house and the Itee Hi v the resilience of tho lain Itriljhaiii Young. Al ios the street Is the palatial residence of his f.ttil spouse, Amelia. It I a daisy, and If the defuiK't piophefi affection for hrr was expiessrd In that building she must have Im-cii very solid with him V, est of the Tabernacle I a b&lh house called tin) lialalol iuin, ntutm tor a quarter, one cau sIkik how u a greaoeu plank ordivii from a Irapcfo bar Into pool of m.iiiu sulphur -chared water, and li.-tv more fun trun soy. iM'dy. In the south part of the tow n the tsl lor t ail see the several smelting work wlieie the men mold iler Into bar Hold Into Ijiieks and lead into plgi. This is a great slithl Down at Gal Held t'ily is lot of buffalo buf-falo and other w ild animal that aoort, cHort, and paw Ihe tjinuud for t'wi upeclator'ii cdiil, alioii. They ate very amusing. The old papa blf)B Will rli.i the calves, and the big lk girU-hols girU-hols w ilh the kid antelope. The grUlly lieai' and the mountain lion frolic with each other and Ime xood times. Young mothers, liowcvi-r. should berareful U"(. to drop their babies in til pit, as both thew beasts are v cry partial toward tedder ted-der sileetib lit Infall's On the return trip, which occurs about 4 n i io. k. the siht M-er can vlttt lilt TlMM office, aud efl the ed.lots edit, tho reporters n pott, the printer print, the piesotieu pn-, and the carrier car-rier boysiairv. In addition to thi. thev can lock at the big perli;iiug prc Ml off l.'.oou jap.-r per hour Then ther van g" to 'tT. atel ifterward the theater or uk a . alk or drive eqt to the Hot .Sulpfiiir ."springs. When till is ovi-r. the rrsl of th-' nlbt iiould be spent in allowing tin-it nature' we restorer ! get a' -eit cw-a or e!h hours' W'uii ao-l liied.iy U vi r an nis laiuiiy wem ui oii-hki.isi. i n--motive power Is furnished by descendants descen-dants of the quadruped that carried the holy family down into I'gypl These last, however, will be retired from circulation us soon as the new dynamos for the power boiiso are put in position. Since the above paragraph was written, writ-ten, the mules have disappeared, having hav-ing been kuoehed out by elecll icily. It was a quite a shock lo them. 'I his is another evidence of llui progressive spirit of Salt Lake. While a new spaper man is writing a paragraph about a pro posed improvement, the improvement Is accomplished almost before lie puts the period at the cud of his last sentence. sen-tence. There are four newspaper in theriiy, of which the one you are now perusing Is a good sample. It's a young journal, but it' getting there lit great shape. Keep your eye on TllK TlMM The climate here is superb The sun shines every day in the year, including Sundays, and the weather ss a rule is very mild. The lowest point the mercury ever registered was zero, which occurred two years ago w hen E!ialielh Cvly Slanton protmsed i to charter the Tabernacle, to d liver a lecture ou the subject of "Ono Husband, Hus-band, One Wife." The soil is exceedingly fertile, ami nearly all known vegetable-,, fruit and grain grow here in rich abundance. The human ia e doe very well h!m. A m an boasted in the writer's .-le arlng it day or two since that ho was the father of thirty-six children, lour of whom were born on the same da v. 'Ibis record rec-ord is pointed to w;th pride by hi-n ai being excelled only by tin; hah df petia. The city is located ou the shore of America's Dead Sea. the Great Salt Lake, which is a body of water 100 m!! ' long and sixty miles wide, dotted w .tli j ! uiiuieioiis pictuicque island of rare j I -uic beauty. Salt Lake is urroiifjH. d j bv numerous bathing leitise, ! where for two bit one can leave his clothe with a p"r but ' honest young man, who furnishes a broad belt to tic arouad one waist I w hile ho floats on the briny bosom of j this vast expanvi of natur:.! pickle 'fU f water supply of this lake i ti.o river j Jordan, aud its outlet i the evapor vj tioau produced by the sun. The w altr i is eighty-four percent aqua pura and i sixteen per cent salt. Anybody can! j w ini ill the lake, for it i irnpoM.bk- M i i sink, nnle.s you tie a mill stone around j 'your neck. A person cau get in) mou'.h full cf brine and make all the j lluswhe please, but he cannot drown. I Everybody bathes in summer, and iu j ' consequence the people here are a fair j and pure aggregation of human being. J 4 |