The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-26
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CONTINUED FROM FIRST FACE.
tonc--a brother returning to his kin.
dred from afar off, blessing God that he
finds all safe and commencing all to IN,
God who has built up our Zion.
In the evening our whole party was
invited to the theatre, where saw tho
celebrated rocking-chair-paced in one
of the aisles-on which Young sits and
his own private box, which was occu.
pied by nine or ten young girls and
some young men, who, we were told
were Brigham's children. Two of his
married daughters took prominent parts
In the play. The house was thin; and
during the performance three officers
quietly removed an escaped prisoner
who had sought safety in the theatre.
The next day, of course, we saw the
lions Of Salt Lake City. The place is
laid out with very broad streets, and
lies on hillside. What strikes you as
pleasant arrangement is that down
every gutter torrent of water rushes.
This is for irrigation, and is turned off
into the gardens by the way, doing its
work by the watchful care of "Water-
Masters, in turn for every one, poor and
rich alike.
The dwellings are generally small,
mostly of adobe, or unburned brick, and
placed in gardens, in which fruit.trees
of various kinds were budding and bios.
soming. l ate here apples better by far
than any have tasted for years in the
East; and Salt Lake Is famous for its
fine peaches, pears and apples. In one
garden saw strawberry plants in mag
niiicent condition, and the fruit-trees
everywhere looked very healthful,
though they have now for five years
suffered from grasshoppers.
In the upper part of the city--some-
what overlooking it, and speading along
almost its whole breath-lie first the
Tabernacle, then the vast granite foun-
dations of the Temple, then the Tithing
House and (jealously enclosed in high
wall of stone) Brigham Young's houses,
and further on his stables, his wooden
mills, and the houses of some of his
wives.
This enclosure, within which you get
peeps only, through one or two narrow
and half-closed doors, and which you
cannot overlook from any convenient
place above, has the air of an eastern
harem. All is still and apparently life
less within. The two largest houses are
marked, one by beehive and the other
by a lion, and with an odd frankness, if
it was not mere heedlessness, Brigham
has put over the gate which leads to his
enclosure and to his factories, beehive
in the claws of an enormous and rapa-
clous-looking eagle.
AS mean to be in some sort a guide
for those who may travel this way here.
after, may as we'll say here that Salt
Lake need not hold any mere pleasure
traveller more than day. You can
drive all over it in two hours; and when
you have seen Tabernacle-an admira.
bly, arranged and every ugly building
which contains an organ, built in Salt
Lake by an English workman, Nor
hiOh hahAOd ltlu9SS, WblCl 10 oGC-
ond in size only to the Boston organ,
and far sweeter in tone than the organ
Of Plymouth Church; the menagerie
within Brigham Young's enclosure,
which contains several bears, some
lynxes and wild cats, natives of these
mountains, and small but valuable
collection of minerals and Indian re-
mains, and Of the manufactures of the
Mormons, the temple block, and enjoy
ed the magnificent view, which is seen
from the back of the city, of the valley
and the snow-capped peaks, which lie
on the other side-a view which you
carry with you, all over the place, you
have done Salt Lake City, and have
time IL you have risen early to bathe at
the sulphur spring. The lake lies too
far away to be visited in one day. If
you stop, as our party did, at the Nor
mon hotel, the Townsend, House it is
called, you will find an abundance of
good food, admirably cooked, and plain.
ly but well served; and you may per.
haps, if you keep your eyes open, see
an active.looking, vigorous young wo.
man eating her break fast alone, who is
one of the three wives of the proprie-
tor. Scandal relates that this one man
ages the cooking and service-one of
the others being too old, and another
too pretty, to work. Thus at the Town.
send you may chance to get peep at
MOrmOndOm,
For my part, rose-thanks to the
boisterous care off friend-at o'clock,
walked over nearly the whole place be-
tween that hour and eight, and drove
over it all again later in the day, and 1
give you here, with some diffidence, the
impression it made upon me.
In the first place, considering what
an immense quantity of good land there
is in these United States, l should say
that Brigham Young made what they
call in the West "a mighty poor land
speculation" for his people. "If we
would stop irrigation for ninety days,
rot tree, shrub or vine would remain
alive in our country" said Mormon
TO me as l walked through his garden.
"Not tree grew in our plains when
we came here, and we had and have to
haul our wood and timber fourteen to
twenty miles, out of the mountains"
said another. The soil, though good,
is full of stones, and saw a terraced
garden of about three acres, built up
against the hillside, which must have
cost ten or twelve thousand dollars to
prepare.
That is to say, Young took his people
a thousand miles through desert to
settle them in valley where every
acre must have cost them In labor and
money to get it ready for agricultural
use, should say, not less than from one
to two hundred dollars. An Illinois,or
Iowa, or Missouri, or Minnesota farmer