Show I The Wonders V of America By Br T. T 7 T. T MAXEY THE GREAT CREAT ORGAN OF THE THc MORMONS MUSIC and song son on lon long have havo h wp parl parla a prominent part In the expression expression sion ion Q of religion The Tile Litter I Latter Day tt r Day Saints are no exception to the rule rulf President Brigham 1 Young lri l It It impossible sible t to preach th the gospel without with fl out nut good music In ht the early emly sixties plan plans were wen laid 11 I for the building of or a suitable or organ for their in Salt Lake Inko City The of the state l wore were re searched for th the most satisfactory Proper t tools os had trig tp 1 lie he e ded d dev sed and made Glue had to lit IM oh- oh tamed There were n n no I hs in to toI nI inI I I Utah in tho those c lots days The i W s snot not an nn easy one it t 11 thit the the- best hest wood grew three hundred miles or more south Routh of or the city It It was hauled the entire distance over o rough roads and through the wilder wilder- ness nes- by by ox teams Glue was made by hy boiling strips of cow hide over oyer tire fire pots About one hundred men were employed Some of the immense pipes of the great instrument were 32 feet long But nut music was what they want wanted d and have it they did cud The organ organ or or- gan is said suld to be the toned sweetest and the largest save one In the world The Tho original organ has ns been re rebuilt anc and enlar enlarged until It now l ha hue seven eYen divisIons divisions the main organ hero heln h ln GO CO feet felt wide 26 20 feet teet deep and 03 53 j feet high having over pipes The mechanism mechanism I ism m is electrically driven nea two thousand magnets employed In Inthe the ithe control of the Wirt v tonal tonnI resources of the thC Instrument It hunt hasn't a rival in n AI America Its It's music Is h beyond yond d description You must hear it for y yourself |