Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-08-05

men,
Numerous salt bo;lcries are erected on
the shores; from four gallons of water they
obtain nearly one gallon of pure dry salt.
Nature in her great labratory produces
thousands of bushels Of coarse chrystals,
and deposits them on shore. Teams and
wagons come from the cities and shovel it
up, and it sells often as low as fifty cents
per 100 lbs.
WALL ROUND THE CITY.
We turn our ewes from the Salt Lake
back to the city, which is just peeping from
under the hill. We are stopped by amud
wall twelve feet high, six feet wide at the
base, two and hal feet on the top; in front
Of it is wide deep ditch, and it is defend
ed by seven bastions at half musl1et range.
These are pierced with loopholcs to afford
a front and flank fire in. cases of attack 1t
was pretendelly built 70 keep out the In
dams but, as il encompasses the city. which
covers an area of six SQUARE miles, all its
male population could hot thoroughly de-
fend it. The hills riseIabrubtly around it.
and there are abundance of eminences where
a rifeman could kill persons in the city,
and the wall Lc but as wall of paper be-
meath him. 1t was btult in 1851 its de-
sign was to give to thel people something
to do. as to keep the mind and hands occu-
pied is the. best means 70 prevent imperti-
nent inquiry and leave no time for rebcll-
ion. The wall above described does not
extend more than half svound the city
DESCRIPTION or TIE CITY.
We still condense from the Herald:
Imagine perfectly level plain, apparent
lv twenty miles wide and one hundred miles
long. almost surrounded by mountains
/ Near TO the mountains, on the east side of
the plain, conceive section of land, six
miles square, laid ont as city, the streets.
all of which are much wider than Broad
way, regularly laid out and running at
right angles to each other either due north
and south or due east aud west; they are
130 feet wilc; the side walks are twenty
feet wide; the blocks arc very large, often
containing ten acres of land. The city has
/ fifteen streets in one direction and eighteen
in the other; they are unpaved. and if much
trampled in wet weather must be very
muddy. The site of the city gradually
slopes from the north to the south; at the
/ present time there is fresh stream ofw water
running down the sides of every street lay
i'm north and south; water from these
streams is conveyed into almost every gar
den in the city. for irriyating purposes
Cotton wood and other trees have been set
! out along every street their bright green
ver,lure and shade give a peculiar charm TO
/ the smooth AMI regular thoroughiares.--
/ Small foot bridges have been built over
the streams where they intcrsect the side
walks. The town is very s,arscly cover
+. ell with hnnSes: in the major part of it there
are only two or three IFlc I,abita,io.s ON
q square block, and it viii be remembered
tla, the blocks are very large. The houses
are built close TO the sides of the blocks,
the rest of the ten acres being titled as gar
I j dps anl fields; thus the city at present
contains numerous small fields of wheat
and some very fine gardens The houses
/ are all built Of adobe sun-dried brick; they
/ are about five inches wide; ten inches long
anl four inches thick; they are made OF a
superior quality of clay for building pur-
poses, and seem to form very substantial
structures. The color of the buildings is a
sort of slate white. ami though with an in
lIvIlual house it is not very agreeable, yet
it gives to the tout ensemble of the city a
very lively and pleasant appearance. The
builiirg 'ook eft AMI comfortable; they
are generally small modest structures, Law
ing no claim to architectural beauty: their
style Is variegate,l. but not remarkably So
/ Probably no other city in the world of the
size precent to the eye of the approaching
royngeur magnificent prospect the ex-
act space it occupies, the streets set as it
were IN jewel of rip linz brooks which
glisten bright as silver in the sunlight,
their breaith and regularity. the rows of
young verdant trees that border upon them.
the lively color of the houses, the beauti-
ful gardens and orchards with the small
fields thick covered with flowing wheat,
give to it an aspect singularly attractive.
especially when it is contrasted with the
bordering bleak anil barren mountains.-
This city, SO beautiful, so isolated from the
rest of the world, at present so full of in
tercst to the world, with its pleasant or
chards and gardens, is the work of but ten
years, and that too in barren valley, with
out spontaneous vegetation higher than
willow bush There were l.b nut ID 900 in
habitants in this city before it was depop-
ulated by order of Brigham.
In coming into the city yesterday morn
ing we were particularly struck by its
quietness There was none of the hum and
stir of business that characterize Gentle
towns. The streets were deserted, the houses
were deserted. the city was deserted. Tho
surrounded by houses we were neverthe-
less in place Of desert loneliness. The
quietncss Of the grave prevailed where it
seemed that thronging thousands and rush.
ing commerce ought to pour their tides
along. The windows had been taken out
of majority Of the houses: the doors
were locked: everything had been made
ready for burning, as the Mormons tell
us, if peace had not been achieved before
the arrival of the troops. So much for
the city in general.
BRIGHAM S LION HOUSE AND MANSION
They are the first prominent specific OBJ
jects that attract the travellers eye on dcs-
ccuding from the mountains they are near
the centre of the city, on the square ad-
Joining the Temple, and with It occupy
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