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Show SALT LAKE CITY, Sights and Scenes in and Around the Intermountain Metropolis, PLACES OF IHTEEEST TO VISITORS. A GUIDE TO THE , TOURIST. Useful Information for the Investor, tha Home-Seeker and the Visitor. Salt Lake's Location, Attraction! and Cpuiate. Garfield Beach and Other Summer Resorts, The city of Salt Lake has a ram which reaches around the world. The population Is about 55.(100. and Is Increasing at a rapid rate. It Ik situated at the base or the Wasatch mountains in a lovely valley, rich in usTicil-tural usTicil-tural resource and Is eighteen miles distant Irani Great Salt Lake. Its elevation iiIhjvo sea level is i.m feet.' There are many points of Interest to visitors hi the city and near it. Here are some of them : The Temple. This magnificent cream-white granite structure struc-ture was begun April . ISfiS. It is luux'Jul) feet, the wall are KM feet high, and the towers.when completed, will be LDO feet in height. Over f3.500,nuu have ben extended on the Temple, and it is now nearing completion. In the same square with the temple is tho spacious spa-cious building called The Tabernacle. Here are held the services of the Mormon church, and these are attended every (Sunday by Immense congregations nt people, both Mormon and Gentile. The structure Is oval in shape, seventy-live feet high and SMixIftt. feet in length and breadth. It has a seiitlng capacity capa-city of w.(M) people, and here may he heard what is claimed to be the finest organ in the world. I'attl once sang ill the tabernacle, and demonstrated that Us acoustic powers are very Hue. The Gardo Houe, or Amelia Palaoe. w built bv Brighain Young who willed that It should be the residence of his favorite wile. Amelia Folsom Young, but since his death it has been used as the official residence of dignitaries of the church. Ilrigham Young Realtfencea. known as the Bee-Hive, and the Lion House are old fashioned structures, curious from ax- Bucmuoun. i new am Riiuaicu in wna. v,tt once BriRham Youutr'H domain, all of which ha n;.sscMl into other lunula, save the larjre lot In which is Brigham Young's Grave. This can be reached by pamtlUR through the Eagle (iate. an archway in the old mud wall which atorrftimeencninpassed HrlRhain'a private pri-vate property. One or two of the prophet's wives repose beside, hit. lat resting place. A slab of granite covers the itrave and Ihere la space left near by for the graves of bis other wives. Peaeret Mut.cu.ii. . This institution Is situated on South Tempie btreet. directly opposite Temple square. It contains a larjre number of interestlmr curiosities, curios-ities, chiefly pertumiiiK to the early history of Utah. It Is well worth a visit. Prospect Hill ! with its lookout tower commands a splendid I view of the city and Its surroundings. The Tithing Itullui.ifr 1 possesses interest as being the general depot for taxes collected by the Mormon church from its disciplos. Liberty Park, In the southeastern portion of the city is a beautiful resort and can be reached by rapid transit trains. The Chamber of Commerce, on Second South street, is visited by those who take an interest in the commercial slanillns! of the city. There are. several large cases containing con-taining specimens "f t'tah's mineralogy which attract much attention. The lrantl Opera House, on Second South street. Is under able management manage-ment and iR handsomely and comfortably fitted up. Some of the l)"st talent In the country coun-try is constantly passing between (he Atlantic arid the Pacific, and Salt Lake City is always made a stopping place for performances, either the opera house or tho Malt Lake Theater : , being selected. This latter plora-of atnnse-.nenfwas atnnse-.nenfwas built by Brigham Young over thirty jears ago. It Is a large and beautiful temple and Is comfortably arranged. Assembly Hall, near the temple, Is used In winter for worship by the Mormons, the tabernacle being too large to admit of proper heating. Assembly hall la kVUxIW feet, and cost JlfiO.'XH The celling is decorated dec-orated with church pictures, among them tho Angel Moroni disclosing thf hiding place of the golden plateato Joseph Smith. The Notatorlum Is a large .lrcnlar bathing house, the center of which, under a glass roof, is a swimming pool. The water Is brought In pipes from Heck's Hot Springs. There are also a large number of bathrooms. Klectnc Street Cars connect with every lH.int of Interest In the city The svstem la new and the appointments good. Rapid transit is assured. Camp Douglas, three miles east of the city and over -Mil feet above It. Is beautifully laid out In the midst of lawns and orchards, and the barracka and houses of the officers are built of stone. The nost commands a wide view of the cit y and bevond where Great Salt Lake lies like molten silver at the foot of the western mountains. neck's Hot Hpnngs are in the northern part of the city about three miles rrooi the business cenl. -r. They issue from the base of the mountains, and are regarded as a very valuable aid tu cases of rheumatism. dyspepsia and scrofula. The waters are used Imth internally in-ternally anil . externally, and there Is an ' excellent bath house and necessary appointments for the comfort of patients. The Warm Sulphur Springs are between the Hot Springs and the city, about ore mile from tho pcsiomce. There is a good hotel and comfortable b ith house in count:-t count:-t on with the spraigs. and th-y can be reached by street railway. The Mountains are unsurpassed in magnificent canyons, and atleist a doen of the grandest are within rea,Tof the city. These invite tho tourist to snend days, weeks or months among their wild rereAse to fish, t hunt, to scale the t e .L and ridges, and to g itlicr wild flowers v the aides of n.o.sy springs, bene-th the BMdeof umbnijomm p'ne. filg cottr.nw.iral canvon should be seen bv every tourist. Here are lake Mary and Martin .from which flows tho turbulent loitonw.Kxl river: and , r h m.-iiiiiln ns are lakes Hl-mche Florence and t.llllan. Besides these ire ' Mill's creek. Parley's. Kmlgration. ami City "reek canyons, all extremely plctureMpio and dellghtrully romantic. I'lesant Drives abound in scores around the outskirts of the city: along the quiet country roads and thro ugh the lanes dividing meadows of rich alfalfa and liel.ts of grain: while tbe I aiestie nouutalns are never entirely lost s ant of From under the branches ot trees and above beiges of the wild dog-rose e muses are caught, of snow.covered peaks. A r" e W Fort Douglas, and then a mile further on to the mouth of Emigration canyon Isjoost delightful It was here that the sight ot ?he Mormon pioneers was rtrst, mat e glad bv the vast expanse of Salt hake valley and-Senly and-Senly bursting upon them, on the Slth ot July, 1847, The Great Salt Lake. "I think." says Ernest Ingcrsoll, "fewp'-r-sons rea Pze how wonderfully, strangely be wtl'ul this inland sea is." aud faking f lis "unsetH Phil toblnsou has said: "Where have I not seen sunsets, by land and sea in Asia Africa. Europe and America, and where can I sav I have ever seen more wonderous coforlng more electrifying effects i than . n the sunset mi the Great Salt Lake of Utah." Salt Lake is a beautiful a sheet of water as can Is-found Is-found anywhere. The wave are a bright blue or green, and as they dance on Its surface It would be hard to tell which color preva.Is. It rdottedwithbeautlfui Islands, and ,t affords tne finest salt water bathing in the world. I f.arllelil Beach J Is within easv distanr of tbe city, being but eighteen miles of a ride by train. hert s j four" every Inxurv anil cumfort for dip '1 the mvsterions sea. and also all the things n-c- "rv for the comb.rt of the Inner man. : The cafe affords enjoyable m-alf- at Masonabie nrices and row boats are to be had for a .,met -nuir on the waters which po-si romantic interest for every llr. T?' mari..giueUt of . the a.'commodatious at (iarr.el.l Ia:n s under rhedire. tlon o? the Union Pacinc Kail- way company, a is tbat at , Lake I "ark under the superrlsion of the Bio Grande West- era This re.rt la north of the - ity. about , half way between Salt Lake and Ogden. and 1 . much frequented by vlsitora. It u. similar in j attractiveness to Garfield, and la well worUu a nslt. |