Show VISIT T TO SALT laeb LAKE 1 hax ban SAN ri nancisco cal i august august ath 1875 V the scenery all along ang and an through th rough weber canyon i is wonderfully grand acro across ss trestle bridges eg over the weber river biver winding along the mountain side past the serrated rocks known as devils slide consisting of a series of narrow slabs rising up tip like tike tombstones to tb the height of 50 to feet feyt through a tunnel of feet anu ana across a beautiful valley beyond then dashing into wilder scenery and over a bridge 50 feet abobo the tho rushing waters of the weber wo we now enter the groat sait salt laho lake val ley and what a contrast A fertile plain flourishing agriculture land I 1 abounding with riches the sudden transition is like emerging from imvris to liberty from terr terrible ible ibie to the beautiful from stupendous power and frowning peril to a sense af security and the assurance of gentleness and love to look upon the awfully grand generates the emotion of fear and a sense of infinity in the contemplation of 41 mighty almighty power but to view the beautiful the sweet landscape the lovely plain the cultivated fields t irid ibid and the ordered mansions of plenty inspires the spirit of love anu arid generous sentiment for here it is seen that the good creator has spread out before us facilities for human sustenance and the opportunities tuni ties for steady improvement and favoring development but we I 1 must hurry on arrived at ogden we e perceive evidences of some business activity here is of the union and central pacific roads the distance to san ban francisco lb 0 is miles the place has about population three fourths mormon ogden presents an air of thrift and permanence as though it were built to last and people were settled here to remain we take the train for salt lake city distance 36 miles the day is beautiful the scenery is charming I 1 here is salt lake the road runs along its banks for a distance arrived at salt lake city wo stop at the mormon Bl ormon hotel known a as s the townsend house rhe rho tho city is situated at the foot of a spur of the Wali Walf sateh satch mountains the location is delightful snowcap snow cap ped mountains 15 and 18 miles distant are clearly soen seen with all their distinctive outlines the city is set as it were in a basin and under the shadows of great mountains brigham young certainly had an eye to tho the beautiful in selecting the site tho the city is admirably laid out the streets are wide and at right angles angled with running streams on oither cither aide olde of these avenues the water irater 13 broucht brought from the tha moun mountain tahl tabi creeks and after su supplying plying the arity uy and irrigating t the a adjacent country it is carried off into the liver jordan below salt lahe lake olty city as a population of about 0 of which are niora mormons cormons ons an and gentiles there are fine line business blocks and imposing private mansions the tho activities of trade and industry prevail as in our most prosperous towns of the east all the institutions and ways of bustling city life are here apparent the people mormons cormons and all bear the characteristics of our american life and civilization and the yankee way of doing things and driving ahead prevails as in troy and in other wideawake wide awake places I 1 X visiting this mormon zion for the first time I 1 may say that chati am impressed with the religious zeal zealor or as it ift would bo be characterized by most of us gentiles the persistent fanaticism and earnest superstition of the mormon people As aswell wall as with their industrial achievements and bu business siness sineAs enterprise this valley was all till a desert waste prior to their thelt settlement here iu 1817 now there is a 41 1 rapidly growing citti and through the agency of irrigation barlen bar neri reri lands have been made fertil leand eland for miles around I 1 pre pro all the richness and blooming thrift of skilful garden gardon kuluva tion the yield v af pf f crop crops is remarkable wheat 30 to 60 bushels tofiel tp to jho aho giet tho acre and other cereals an ju proportion with grass beavy heavy ag as at rit J pan cail stand there ar esome extending a length of more than thau rods and irrigating upwards of acres the costoe thea canals including dams is put down at alid and gwo canals of the estimated cost af pf arenow are now being constructed all this in the of sal sai t lake olty city but there are many thrifty villages springing up in Vix tiu various iotis sections of the territory and mining ng agricultural and manufacturing enterprises nrc arc working out cateral wealth and developments on all ali sides the enterprises pr is too are worth 70 em br bracing a g the narrow guage ikno n agthe as the tho utah northern from to F franklin in idaho atcho held heid head beld of cache cacho valley 75 through a rich agricultural regi region 0 jl i inhabited almost mons the tho utah central fromon fro mOg den to halb salt lake lie lle tho the utah sout Bout southern lierni 76 70 tto 0 york city now only a hamlet hamiet a city in embryo to as now cow contemplated th I 1 e territory to llos lios angelos hag Aag GlOSs to southern california f in ing the e heavy grades Q of thi tho me BY eiras r ubo the utah weslea PA MW gauge running along the gutu autu of ophir diat that district riet and dry canon n hei hew ane anc fi d to be continued west twenty oyo oto miles now being belag completed bing gingham canyo ri rall rail railroad load toad narro gauge commencing ten mile mlle from salt bait lake lako on utah lutah southern roa road dind and conned connecting ting iylah tyr mines of Bing ning Bingham lland liand canyon vests Us taht u sixteen or eighteen miles point another deother narrow marrow gauge gaugl Ps f fifteen miles through cottonwood 0 canyon to the celebrated fm emm m h and flagstaff mines still further south from the southern central rood 33 miles from salt lake inke narrow gauga gauge running catt east up to the arne american amerlean rican F fork ork mining ulli til dil brict miles the coalville Co alville narrow gauge running hromcho from eho cho I 1 on tho the union Pacific to the tho coal mines ot of coalville Co alville eight milea horse railroads or tramway it in sal salt t lake city eight to ten tenille mile mlle here are miles af railroads in the territory all completed within 11 the tho past six years all mormon enterprises with tho exception of the american fork and bingham canyon narrow gauges of about thirty miles in length I 1 I 1 EFFECT OF OV if the effect of railroads as great greit of the ago Is to be to root out tha the peculiar pecullar institution of the latter day baines then it must be aseen seeri ein jin in the light of bf the facts before us lus that the cormons mormons have themselves vEis vels established b as they are still extending the agency for the the ele elb element in their religion that we gentiles do most earnestly object tb and denounce as a grievous evil and this suggests the inquiry iv hother whether the forces of our civilization brought f to bear by railroad communication muil muni catlon cation and consequent commercial interchanges as well as as social attrition and christian example may inay not prove fat afe potent aud and effective in lh accomplishing moral religious ana and social ja re form than any attempted enfa enforcement of penal statues against the doctrines and usages of f a great community for one ifould apply law with all its stringency for the punishment of conscious 3 wanton crime but nut the evil of a great community hurtful As as it may be yet still upheld as a religious lous ious i e element e under the sanctity of church approval as with the mccans and mormons cormons Mor mons cannot in thib thin the judgment of many gi good 0 0 d sound and enlightened religionists e 11 zionists ts and statesmen be crushed d out by the pains and pen ailles allies of law armed with the hand band of violence while the influence of association the cIvIll zer of railway communication and the force of a just social system under the inspirations of generous charit charlt charity v and the influences of kindly teachings and conscientious example will steadily and surely work out thorough and radical reform the mormons cormons have certainly effected remarkable material results jn ihla this valley mailey within a quarter of a century cerit tiry they have made thet very vory desert to blossom li ike kethe rose they we ale here in this territory strong for most patt stalwart vigorous vIgo rous usand aud very industrious dust dUt hlous rious men laen zin tiu and d women vitha kitha with a jade leadership 1 possessed pass essed certainly of ireat practical ability they are herb ere from froin nearly all quarters of the globe settled down in their avocations of industry and as with other chulch chuich powers that might be named yielding reverential obedi ence to their c church 9 as the dud durf hut authority hority that to them Is infallible and their numbers are constantly increasing increasing b by thousands yearly from front immigration they cannot whatever congress may bay say be cast into prisons and punished for social de relict ions lons they are too numerous for that even were such sueh a ailcy policy advisable iam aam I 1 am firmly persuaded that objectionable tio and repugnant alit allt as one tenet of marmon doctrine is to us and our dur civilization the error the of crime as fis wo we regard it call cati i liot riot be too wiped out and destroyed by a simple legal crusade that has h as been tried and has failed I 1 will not longer dwell on this theme it suggests discussion far beyond ahe aha limits of newspaper cor eor correspondence andi touches the philosophy of ilfe life and tho the faith underlying reli relf religious ulous sentiment and conviction which the tho ablest publicists haite have failed to render on entirely clear but wo we may be safe in founding actions ana and and abd de upon the golden rule arld and bearing osgood will win to mon vaoa rather thao than hatred and all manner of evil I 1 E have hope for this people because 1 bave have h rauh raub in humanity I 1 hane have because they conati a is our now that ehdy ahre no longer isolated they ther wust must eomme borne under the influences which mark our common civilization I 1 have havid hope for them because of what they have accomplished plis pil lied shed fri iri a maternal material bense sense show ing that thought and progress are working revolution here as elsewhere brij this but Iha vb hope for them be causel causal believe relieve them thein to be earnest earnest and honest in their intentions I 1 speak of the masses biases with them as I 1 would of the great body of the people with us who whether conscious or unconscious of the fact are under ever increasing educato educational onal flimin influences j eedes that must bear the fruit of or righteousness in higher and nobler living we attended 13 abbath sabbath services at the great tabernacle the audience must have numbered full five ishou thousand rand sand thirds women and childre children ii 1 eider elder tay lor ene of the apostolic twelve preached he isaman of nota not a little educational culture and when aroused speaks with something of bf the fervor of real eloquence he dwelt upon P on the uses of tabernacles the duty of building to the most the achievements of bf gods elect the latter lutter day saints bain sain tsin in one cf the out provinces fidfl of the mormon ziona and nd the favorable signs and promises for the church there and elsewhere the choir of sang very well indeed the great organ thoUr the largest gest vr ornest next tot e largest in the country was admirably played the opening and aud closing prayers by two of the apost apostles les ies were after the manner of prayers generally with special supplications ions however in behalf of brigham young the ceremony of the nords lords supper 11 was db observed served the apostles dividing be the labor labo laboroi of breaking bread bradd and distributing it avith water vater substituted torchi for wine among the people there is no pre previous precious lous ious preparation by mormon preachers so I 1 am assured they speak adibe as the spirit moves aview A view of the audience presents a motley picture it is at once seen that the 9 great reat mass are of very humble life and inured to toil scandinavian and english coun terlan terian tenancies ten anees ances eed ced largely prevail the women inen the older portion of them es p peul specially eel eci ally aily are dressed and bonneted in the queerest styles imaginable scarcely half a dozen alike while some of the younger females are gaily rigged out with the prevailing dil hii fashions I 1 should not say from my observation that these people aogle are characterized by a very K high order of intelligence but there was an expression of devoutness devout ness of faith of solemn reliance upon their religion a simple simpie dedication to it even though martyrdom should come that would be likely to impress any intelligent observer A great many of the audience men as well as women bore the appearance of poor people overworked and broken down but then if we should gather into our own church churches eg a full representation of the working classes the sons and daughters of tolland foil and tha victim of improvidence and poverty as well lam iam lam not sure surer that this great mor mon audience would compare compare un favorably with them in appearance it is a fact that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ilves nor does it know how it would ap appear eat in all its protean phases if alk it could be brought to tor gether ance for observation but inthis in this immense tabernacle of the latter day doy saints on a may be seen a fair re representation of the mormon world from high to low and a curious and novel sight bight it is for one who cares to study forms form and sand faces styles of dress and the manfre manire manifestations stations of religious feeling uhe THE TEMPIE temple we visit the mormon temple near the great tabernacle ills itis not yet one third completed but enough ia is done to show the architectural tee tec tural plan pian which if carried out to completion will furnish an edi fic nice fice both costly and magnificent the building will be of nine fine utah granite with cia cla elaborate borato ornamentation and finish and 99 by feet in dimensions A drive about the city presents pie pre some fine views of bf mountain and valley scenery there are not a few handsome residences esl esi dences donces and a number of elegant mansions with beautiful grounds arounds and gardens x brigham young has fort forty Y nin nine e jiving children and they have the credit of bearing the palm in the matter of personal comeliness ive we were introduced to several of them and aud they wei wull wel abla tepu tation one of the tho sons has just graduated at west point with considerable honor standing noumi num noum 1 ber her four in the class the mormon mormons 4 claim that their educational system is very thorough and band they point to thia thi young gentleman as an illustration tra tion his preparatory studies for westpoint west point having been jadoin made in their schools on invitation of mr dillon president of the union pacific railroad and president brigham young the latter is always ad act dressed as president we accompanied a party consisting of those gentlemen and several prominent mormons cormons Mor mons with quite a number of ladies wives and sons and daughters of the latter on a special excursion over the utah sout southern hern herd railroad to york city the prose present nt terminus of the road 75 miles distant the road runs along the niver river jordan Jordann a distance of some bome 40 miles to utah lake labo and abd thence 35 miles further 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