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Show most capricious shapes. la tha productions of this work tke . most opposite powers of nature hare hecli laid trader eon-tribution. eon-tribution. The awtul work of tha voiaaao, tha immense boulders of rock whiek Ha piled up to the) clouds in irregu lar manses have been clothed is a brilliant web of tropical vegetation spu from sunshine and mist. - Many others have tried to describe." the beauties of the place, and they all agree, that it is wonderful wonder-ful ; but if our new short boulevard is finished, np back of Capitol hill, we rather think that we could present to people who come here a view which would be quite as majestic, if not quite' so beautiful, beau-tiful, as the view from the height above Rio Janeiro. Ja-neiro. We. could not. give them a picture of the beautiful bay and the ocean" rolling beyond, but we could give them a view of a beautiful city, a wonderful valley, a marvelous lake ans! as stately mountains as ever rose behind any city in the world, unless it be Naples. We wish that the public pub-lic spirited men, in the council and outside, would club together and assert the influence necessary to secure us that view. People would come a long way to see it, and one of these days, when we become be-come fully enlightened, we will have the hot springs caparisond in a way to attract attention and visitors; we will have the heights fixed so that visitors can see the glories of mountain and valley and lake, and, with, the proper expenditure of money in getting ready, then a little money in advertising, we have natural attraction that will draw people here ; we will have such preparations madeforth9xecepfioa of people thrt -.rant thebea-efita thebea-efita of the salt lake rind the hot springs that people peo-ple will begin to come ; they will begin to cometo stay a day and stay a week ;thrme who stay a week will decide to atay a month ; those that obtain the relief that they want will, many ' of them, buy homes, or buy lot and build homes, and from the scenery and the benefits that go with it we can duplicate this, city in size, duplicate the number of its inhabitants, duplicate the wealth. Through those things alone we can become great, even a Los Angeles has become great not from her industries, in-dustries, but simply from her soft air and from the attractions which she draws around visitors. There is no city in the United States thai can compare com-pare in scenery with Salt Lake And, except for the barbarous wind that is blowing as we write, we would say some kind things about the climate. But the climate will have to reform before it get any more praise from us, because people who have come here in the last two months have upbraided u for claiming that this is a elimate to be sought after and enjoyed. We do not think that Utah is to blame, or Salt Lake City ; but the world seems out of joint, and the star and planet overhead seem to have had a family disturbance and to be punishing us for their own' sins. . We can hope, however, that that will pass away pretty soon; that the- old harmony will be 'restored and the old climate will come back to Salt Lake and be a it used to be the wonder of all visitor. SCENERY AND CLIMAYE. vf rrone "irhnr vijt Ri inne'ir? go into t?rstv t over' (he' beauty jof that huy. and there i a road outside that up t summit from which the'.whole eitr ni bay cm be seen. Some year ago Ldy. Flora Dixon wrote of Rio. A iSeeae From the. Summit of Coreovado an follow. 'whm-c hav tb rue?H mni lb tmdr, lb wild and th toft ba KidH into wa f iqmif mina as at Ki, and H ia taw uJitr of airivalvl rutrata that, to mv wind, ft' to that aerr ita rharni af iiaanrrta.tM-d tot it hsaa. .Nnwher is tbr Mtrh ati1-.tv, tutvli i-rver ra r nt)iffv, rMiplfd with mrb vmltil'ora aplndor of rrjifr, njffe airrtika &yuy of detail. Aa a prmnipm mi m ii -rujiT, try thr w-tariM rtm-kt tho miline hav em-ir t'c-1 1 .y. aing .n.ataioB of roJowtal pro port .na aad tkr |