Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-06
stssLske citr-I,s AprsatsRee.
We take the following from letter if tke
New York Herald:

J SSES A41A I'LL appearances
We take the following from letter RfEst
/ New York Herald:
SALr LALE Cry. June ts. 1853.
Imagine perfectly level plain, apparent l.
ly twenty miles wide and one hundred mil es
long, almost surrounded by rlgoGntafss: CO
the esst of tie plain, corfceive a section oi
laud six miles squire laid out as city, the
streets, all of which are much wider than
Broadway, regularly laid oui, aud running
exactly ut right angles to each orFerj eftff-
er dee North ard souiF or ditse EDS, amd west ;
they are ofle hundred and thirteen feet wide !;
the sidewalks are twenty feet wide; the
Etocks are very isrge, often containing te n
acres of land: The city has fifteen streets
in one direction, and eigt.sen Iii HE other:
they are unpafed, ard II much irampled du-
ring wet weather must be very tttuddy. The
site Of The city gradually slopes ftofH Tie
north TO the south; at the present time
there Is fresh stream of water running
down tfie aides OF every street lying north
and sotfths water from these streams is con-
veyed into alttioat every garden iii the city;
for irrgating purposes. Cotton wood and
other trees have been set out along every
stfeet; their bright-green verdure and shade
give peculiar charm to the smooth and
regular thoroughfares.
Small foot bridges have been built over the
streams where they intersect the sidewalks.
The town is very sparsely covered with hou-
ses; in the major part oft, there are only
two or three little habitations on a square
block, and it will be remembered that 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 gardens and
fields. Thus the city at present contains
numerous small fields of wheat and some
very ffne gardens. tt houses are all built
of adobe snn-dried brick; they are about five
inches wide, ten inches long, and four inch
es thick; they are made of a superior quail
ify of clay for building purposes, and seem
10 form very substantial structures The
color of the buildings is sort of slate white
and though, with an individual house, il is
not very agreeable, yet it gives to the tout
of the city very lively and pleas
ant appearance. The buildings look neat
and comfortable; they are generally small
modest structures, laying no claim TO archi-
tectural beauty; their style is variegated, but
in the world Of this size presents to fhe eye
of the approaching voyageur es magnificent
a prospect; the exact space it occupies, the
streets set as it were in jewel of rippling
brooks, which gistens bright as silver in the
sunlight, their breadth and regularity, the
rows of young verdant trees that border up-
on them. the lively color of the houses the
beautiful garden aud orchards, with the
small fields thickIy covered with Towering
wheat, give to it an aspect singularilY at
tractiye, especially when ii is contrasted with
the bordering bleak and barren mountains.
This city, SO beautiful, so isolated from the
rest Of the world, at present SO full of inter-
est to the world, with its pleasant orchards
and gardens, is the work of but ten years,
a1d that too Id the barren Wiley, without
spontaneous vegetation higher than willow
bush. There were abopt l6,0gg inhabitants.
in the city before it was depopuluted by or.
der of Brigham.