Show penitentiary LIBRARY the prisoners earnest in desires for a good collection the inmates of the utah penitentiary are striving to establish a library their should i ccone hearty and every person should do all in his power to promote generous and effective action on the part of the public in asking for aid the librarian gives the following particulars of the work we the prisoners have expended over 60 of our own money in getting the library under dav and think it makes quite a respectable showing we now number nearly volumes we have dickens Dic kons scott charlotte young complete Macau lays england chambers encyclopedia chols latest edition mormon theological works a variety of united states histories numerous re and temperance works etc etc we are largely indebted to the W C T U of utah which organization has presented us with some 80 volumes as well as to a good many private individuals in lake city who have generously contributed we have the nucleus noar of a good library every prisoner who enters the institution can have access to it free and wo are naturally anxious to increase the number of volumes and thereby increase its usefulness we wish contributions of books of sll kinds except the blood and thunder dima novel wo carefully discriminate against |