, 1868-02-07

SALT LAKE CRY, Jan 7. 1868.


safely last night and concluded TO lay over a
day and rest To-day have taken stroll
around the ciiy and into the Tabernacle which
is now nearly completed. The building is
enclosed and plastered inside the wOrkmeu
are putting up the seats, the altar and the
organ The building is an immense oblong
dome, $50 feet wide, 250 feet long and 65
feet high to the ceiling, plastered and finish
ed with hard glazed finish, so that it cons
stitutrs one immense whispering gallery,
combining all of the acoustic principles of
concentrating sounds that were ever COM
bined in the celebrated whispering galleries
of antiquity. The building will accommodate
10000 persons the stand and altar alone
will seat 2 0O0 The stand and organ are IN
the west en- 4, Immediately under the western
focus Of the ceiling; the seats rise tothe cast
erd as the parquet of a iheater. The work.
men are working 10 the west end at the or
gan. | tried what the effect would be in
different parts Of the house, from the sounds
of the hammers and saws The building, as
far as | could sec, was a complete success.
In the east cnd the effect was 50 complete
l.: collecting and concentrating the sounds
upon the floor, that / could not for some time
believe but that the noise proceeded from
beneath the floor Of the building. Tho organ
will be one of the largest in the world. and
is being put up in the building by artists
from Europe The effect of tile music from
such an organ, as the swels roll along the
arch of that building and are collected and
concentrated and showcred down upon the
audience, will certainly be. INST grand.
In my letter 10 the STATESMAN from this
place last winter mentioned all of tie par
ticuars of this place, so will say nothing fur
ther about it this time The town numbers
in the ncighborhood of 10000 inhabitants,
and is certainly very orderly place.
In coming down we came ntar very re-
markable salt spring on Lander's cut of, in
q beautiful little valley at the base of Bear
mountain, in Oneida county, Idaho. Mr.
B. w. White is the principal owner. 1t
furnishes water enough to maks ten tons of
salt every "a hours. The water is 95 per
cent. salt, and makes salt equal to the very
finest Liverpool Mr.. White tells me he can
furnish salt at the works for half a cent per
Il
of sugar maple from which parties have made
considerable sugar, the only sugar maple
know of west of the Rocky Mountains. The
formation of this country s very singular in>
deed. was tod by different parties of a
remarkable well TO The west of the lake, on |
one of the roads leading to Nevada 1t is |
nearly circular, about 60 feet in diameter,
and has been sounded TO great depth with
out finding bottom; the water is fresh and |
stands at a certain height without running |
over. 1t is said that Il teamster come along |
one hot day with four yoke of oxen aud
wagon loaded with Aonr, when The oxen
seeing the water rushed to it TO drink, it be
iag little descending, the hindmost oxen
and wagon crowded all into the water, and |
almost before the driver knew what he was
doing, the whole outfit sank and was never
scen afterwards This is as | have it from
other parties
Lost River, on the road to B Use City is |
another curiosity. A large stream of water |
gushes out from the base Of precipice, about
40 feet wide and from one to two feet deep, |
clear as crystal, and full of trout and emp.
ties into Snake river near Salmon Falls !
] he whole volume nt Snake river pOurs over |
these falls a distance Of 200 feet aud forms |
a most beautiful picture, of which they have
soue nice copies here. The artist told me
that our fellow toWnSman, DR.. Steinberger, |
was the first person that ever visite the falls |
and made an estimate of their height &c |
Lost River comes from some subteranean |
passage from the north, yet for some 80 or
10 miles to the north there il not the sign |
Of spring. | obtained a very nice photo
graph of it which will bring home. at
tended the theater one night, more from Gu
riosity to see Brigham and his family Than to
see the play. viii write you from Chey-
snne City before taking the cars Tor Omaha.
1t does look somewhat like an adventure to
start out in such a storm to travel day and !
night for more than 500 miles over the
Rocky Mountains. PHILIP RITZ.
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