Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-07-28
INrEREsrIEe FRoM UTAH.
SALT LAKE CTTY-BRI6HANs LION HOUSE.
TBEPLB-APPEARANCE OF THE CI1T-H
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TBEPLE-APPEARANCE OF tbs CI1Y-HOw
GENTILEs LIvg THERE, &C.
The fact that Great Salt Lake City-the city
Of The " Saints lis now in full possession Of
he " Gentiles '-for General Jobnston's army
no doubt entered it before the end Of June
renders some account Of It particularly inter
esting Just now. We therefore take The fol-
lowing from 4 letter in the New York Herald :
SALT LAKE CITY June Is. 1873.
Imagine a perfectly level plain, apparently
twenty miles wide aud one hundred miles long.
almost surrounded by mountains. Near to the
mountains, on the east Of the plain, conceive a
section Of land SIX miles square laid out as a
city, the streets, all Of which are much wideT
han Broadway, regularly laid cut and running
exactly at right angles to each other, either due
north and south or due east and west; they are
100 feet wide the sidewalks are 20 feet wide /;
the blocks are very large, often containing ten
acres of land. The city has fifteen streets in
one direction, and eighteen in the other they
are unpsYed and if much trsmpied during 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 a fresh
stream of water running down the sides OF
every street lying north aid south water from
these streams is conveyed into almost every
garden OF the city, for irigstng purposes.
Cotton wood and other trees have been set out
along every street their bright green verdure
and shade give a peculiar charm to the smooth
and regular ~thoroUghfares.
Small foot bridges have been built over the
streams where they ~inteTseet the sidewalks.
The town is very sparsely csvered with houses;
in the msior part Of il there are Only two OF
three little habitations on a square block, and
Il 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 40 gardens and FIELDS; thus the city at
present contains numerous smallhelds Of wheat
and some very fine gardens. The houses are
all built Of adobe sun-dried brick they are
about i've inches wide, ten inches long. and
four inches thick they are made Of a supe.
riOr quality Of clay for building purposes, and
seem to form very substantial structures. Ihe
color Of the bulldogs is a sort Of slate white,
and though with an individual house 1t is not
very agreeable, yet 1t gives to the tout eHseable
Of the city a very lively and pleasant appear
snce. The buildings look neat and comforts-
bic they are generally small, modest struc-
lures, laying no claim to architectural beauty ;
their style is vsriegatsd, but lot remarkably
so. Probably no other city 10 the world OF
this size presents to the eye Of the approach
ing UOyGgegT 90 magnificent a prospect the
exact space IL occupies, the streets set as It
we're Ia a Jewel Of ripping brooks, which
glisten bright as silver IN the sunlight, their
breadth and regularity, the lows of young YER
dant trees that border upon them, the lively
color Of tbe houses, The beautiful gardens and
orchards with the small fields thickly covered
with Towering wheat, give to it an aspect
.singularly attractive, especially when It lie con-
traSted with the bordering bleak and barren
This city, 90 beautiful, 90 isolated
from the rest Of the world, at present 90 full
Of interest to the world, with its pleasant
orchards and gardens, is the work Of but ten
years, and that, too, ia the barren valley,
without spontaneous vegetation higher than a
willow bush. There were about 16, 000inhsbi-
rants in the city before it wss dsPOpulsted by
order Of Brigham.
10 oming INTO the city yesterday morning, I
were particularly struck BY its quietness
There was none Of the hum and stir Of business
hat characterize Gentle towns. The streets
Eere deserted, the houses were deserted, the
was deserted. Though surrounded BY
louses, we were nevertheless in place Of desert
.oneliness. This quietness Of the grave prevail
d where il seemed that thronging thousands
md rushing ought to pour their tides
ilong. The windows bad been taken out Of a
major part Of the houses; the doors were lock-
3 everything had been made ready for burn
az the Mormons tell US, IL peace bad not
,een achieved before the arrival Of the troops.
50 much for the city In general; now for the
,reat and marvellous buildings. First, there
ire:
BRIGHAHs LION BOUsE AED BIS MANSION.
They are the first prominent specific objects
attract the travellers eye on descending
rom the mountains; they are near the centre
u the city, on the square adjoining the Ten
pie, and with It occupy the best sites in the
Own.
Brigham's home, in the most densely ~popuIa-
ed part Of TIE city, occupies q square contain
- - II L.
by a stone wall, ten feet high. two
wide al the top, and four or five feet broad
It the bottom. Al either side Of ali the gates.
md at short distances along The wall, columns
Ire built up. They are rounded and extend one
beyond the wall. They are also built two
higher than the wall. The wall is very
Il Is built Of cut and cobbIe stone.
with mortar and sand. Il must have been con-
tructed A. an immense expenditure Of time and
abOr. Continuing east to the centre Of the
block, We come to Brigham's Lion House.
{ is two stories high, aud about twenty-five (
in front andone hundred feet deep ; is built
u the Gothic style, with peaked gables and
lsuow pointed windows projecting from the
teep roof. The high stone wall in front Of It
completely obstructed M view Of the lower
Of the house. The first story is built, I
'%elieve, of stone, on the ridge Of which, In
ront. is a well-sc8lptured lion, sresting, but
7atchfuL" This is understood 10 Indicate the
h~srscter Of Brigham, for be is known among {
be Saints ss " the Lion Of the Lords The {
Onss is said 10 have cost over $50 600, and I
Tould have cost much more, but for Brigham's {
ocular method os completing It, which is thus I
BY an apostate:
"lt (the house, was completed and ready for
10 1875 the shingles were ready and :
At a Sunday meeting Of the Tsbsrns-
Ie, Brigham announced that be bad a mission
1r all The carpenters, and demanded II they
accept of it. They rsises their hands,
I'D were then coolly commanded to single tbs =
ion House, in TIE name Of the Lord, and By
ls authority Of the holy priesthood So Brig :
lion hoase was singled, for althoughthe !
lrpsntsTs grnnblei, still they obeyed." I
Close BY the east aide OF the Lion House .
lers is a small structure which contains Brig !,
Inns ohcs and bis clerks rooms. The build !
g resembles . gentisnan's sumner house, B