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Show SALT LAKE CITY. Bights and SoenM in and Around th iBtermountain Metropolis Information Infor-mation for Our Visitors. 1 GUIDE TO THE TOUEIiT, Bait Lake's Looatioa. Attractions aad Olimats Qarfiald Beaoh and Other Places of Interest. The city of Salt Lake has a famt which reaches around the world. The population is about 55,000, and is Increasing In-creasing at a rapid rate. It is situated at the base of the Wasatch mountain iu a loYoly valley, rich in agricultural resources re-sources and is eighteen miles distant from Great Salt Lake. Its elevation above sea level is 4,350 feet. There are many points of interest to visitors in the city aud near it. Here are some of them: Tha Tarn pie. This magnificent cream-whito granite Structure was began April 6, 1858. It Is 100x200 feet, the walls are 100 feet high, and the towers, when completed, will be 200 feet height. Over $8,500,000 have been expended on the temple, and It is now nearing completion. In the lame square with the temple is the spacious spa-cious building called Tka iTmDaraMIa. le are held the services of the mormon mor-mon church and thes6 are attended ever Sunday by an immense congregation congrega-tion of people, both mormon and gentile. gen-tile. The structure ia oval in shape, seventy five feet high and 250x150 feet In length and breadth. It has a seating capacity of 12,000 people, and here may be heard what is claimed to be the finest fin-est organ in the world. Patti once sang in the tahernacle, and demonstrated that Its acoustic powers are very tine. Tha Garde Home st Amelia palace, was built by Brigham Young who willed that it could be the residence of his favorite wife. Amelia Folsom Young, but since his death it has beeu usetfas the official residence of dignitaries of the church. Brlffkam Tonne's Bealdaaoe known as the Bee-Hive and the Lion House are old-fashioned structures, curious from associations. These are situated in what was once Brigham Young's domain, all of which has passed Int.) other hands, save the large lot In in which is Brigham Young's grave. Proapeot Hill with ito lookout tower commands a splendid view of the city and its surroundings. sur-roundings. rue Tlthlnc BmldlBB Sossesses interest as being the general epot for taxes collected by the mormon church from its disciples. Llbartr Park, In the southeastern portion of the city is a beautiful resort and can be reached by rapid transit trains. Tht Chamber of Commerce. on Second South street is visited by those who take an interest in the commercial com-mercial standing of the city. There are several large cases containing specimens speci-mens of Utah's mineralogy which attract at-tract much attention. Bait i.ake Theater. '-Il.t" latter pTaCe""':! amusement win I uilt by Brigham Young over thirty I ears ago. It is a large and heautilul I ismple and comfortably arranged. Aiiembly Hall, pear the temple, is used in winter for firorship by the mormons, the tabernacle taberna-cle being too large to admit of proper heating. Assembly hall is 120x08 feer, IM eoat $150,000." The ceiling is dec-arated dec-arated which church pictures among 'hem the Angel Moroni disclosing the hiding place of the golden plates to Josepn Smith. Camp Doosiei. three miles east of the city and over 400 feet above it is beautifully laid out in the midst of lawns and orchards, anil the barracks and houses of the officers ere built of stone. The post commands s wide view of the city and beyond where Great Salt Lake lies molten silver sil-ver at the foot of the western mountains. moun-tains. Reok'e Hot Springe are in the northern part of the city about three miles from the business center. Thoy issue from the base of the mountains, moun-tains, and are regarded as a very valuable valua-ble aid in oases of rheumatism dyspepsia dyspep-sia and scrofulla. The waters are used iboth internally and externally, and there is an excellent bath house and (necessary appointment for the comfort of patients. The Warm Snlphnr Springe are between the Hot Springs and tho city, about one mile from the postofBoa. There is a good hotel and comfortable both house in connection with the springs, and they can be reached by street railway. The Monntalna are unsurpassed in magnificent conons. and at least a dozen of the grandest are within reach of the city. These invite the tourist to spend days, weeks or months among their wild recesses to fish, to hunt, to scale the peaks and ridges, and to gather wild (lowers by the mossy springs, beneath the shade of umbrageous piues. Big Cottonwood canon should be seen by every tourist. Here are lake Mary and Martha from which flows the turbulent Cottonwood river, and at the base of the mountains arc lakes Blanche, Florence and Lilian. Besides these are Mills creek, Parley's Emigration, and City Creek canons, all extremely picturesque and delightfully romautfa Plaeesnl Drive abound in scores around the outskirts of the city; along the quiet country roads, aud" through the lanes dividing mead own of rich green alfalfa and fields of grain; while the majestic mountains are never entirely lost sight of. From under the branches of trees and above hedges of the wild dog-rose glimpses are caught of snow covered peaks. A drive to Fort Douglas, and then a mile farther out to the mouth of Emigration cannu i almost delightful. It was hare that t lie sight of the mormon pioneers was ti: made glad by the vast expanse of Salt Lake valley suddenly burst upon then, on the 24th of July, 1847. The Orrat Salt Lake. "I thiuk," says Ernest Ingersoll. "few persons reallite how wonderfully, trangcly beautiful this island sea is," and Baking ol Its sunsets Phi H. Inn-son Inn-son i ad said; Where have 1 nut seen Itwsets, by land and sea, in Asia, Africa Af-rica Europe and America, and whero can I say I have ever seen more won-derenr, won-derenr, coloring, mora electrifying effects than In the sunset on th' (ire-it Salt Lakeo: Utah." Salt Lake is as oeautl-fnl oeautl-fnl a sheet of water as can be found anywhere The waves are bright bine Vgrei n and as they dance on itssurfate kt would be hard to tell whioh color pre-ails pre-ails It is dotted with beautiful atlands, and it affords the finest salr SraU'i- in the worl . |