Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-28
SALTLAKE CITY.
The Headquarters of the Modern AbOm
nation Called MOrmOnlsm-Its Tenn
pie and It's Homes, and Its
Peculiar People, Gathered from the Ends
of the Earth In the Fold Of Joseph
Smith and Brigham Young.
The GlOrles of the Wasatch Range-Back
to Denver, the Young Giant Of
the Foothills.


IooRREsPoSDENoE OF TIN APPEAL.I
DENVER, Col, June 24-The traveller
from Memphis by way of Kansas City,
/ Pueblo and Gunnifon has arrived at Salt
| Lake City, which IL 1873 miles from Mem
phis and 1927 feet above the sea. As the
omnibus hurries one through the streets
he wonders whether the houses he passes
/ are harems and the women he gees 'plu-
ral' wives. He thinks of Joe Smith, Brig
/ ham Young, the Mountain Meadow mRssa-
/ ere, and the Edmunds law. His first walk
| is naturally to the Temples tall handsome
stone structure on which the workmen are
/ yet engaged. 1t is within an inclosure Of
a whole block in space, which is surround
ed by rough, high stone wall, and within
/ it is the building where the Mormons wor-
/ ship at present, an odd-iooking structure
/ of Immense dimensions known as "the
| Turtle" from the resemblance Of the roof
| to a mammoth turtles back. There is also
q third building that looks ike a college,
| where occasional meetings are held. The
/ endowment house is just north OF this
/ square, and east of it are the buildings and
extensive grounds of the tithing house, to
which farmers wagons are continually
| bringing produce, showing that the re-
| ceipts of the priests are vast in kind
as well as in money. The streets
are very wide, making the city
| delightfully."- airy and open. Along the
! curbstone of each spacious footwalk flows
q rill, foot wide and eight or ten inches
| deep, of clear mountain water. From this
1 the pavement can be watered, and a
igiream admitted into grounds gives water
| for grass plots and gardens where 1t is not
supplied from the WaterwoTks. The same
| streams keep green the plentiful shade
trees, whose overhsngirg boughs make
/ promenading delightful. IT, stores are
| handsome, the houses su bstautial and gen.
/ orally roomy. Fine public buildings, state
( " churches, and noble residences abound.
| OF the latter the president of the Nor
mons, Taylor, has one that is quite of the
| palace order. Nowhere will the traveller
( find more beautifully arranged grounds,
around the many splendid residences, than
| here. The grass plots are OF vivid green,
/ being regularly watered by aid of rubber
| hose with rose-sprinkler attached. Green
live fences are frequent, and the whole APP
| pearance of these grounds with the ele-
sant shrubs and gorgeous fower-beds is
bright, fresh, cheerful, and beautiful
| in the extreme. In the streets
! dressed, generally without any great
/ display. In the business part many Of
| those spoken with are found to have for
1 eign information, especially will frequently
/ be noticed the broad and deep sounds Of
| English country dialect. The women of
| the working class commonly give signs Of
| hard work, especially those in from the
surrounding country. The old look
| Tr nkled and haggaTd, and want of
| prightliness among the working class is
| apparent; Lard work and endurance are
written on grave faces and DO 6ed forms.
! Taking the women generally, We know no
American city where as large proportion
| Of uninteresting, communicating faces,
with little or no expression, are to be
/ found. Here and there are exceptions,
and sometimes among the girls can be seen
| an independence III the fIee gait, and a
| gleam in the obseTvant eyes that breed a
| suspicion that a day will come when the
| true American spirit will reach these IN
| fortunate victims of vile superstition.
| Then they will assert the rights of their
WOmsnhood, and compel the coarse,
sensual, sullen-looking men about them TO
| respect them and their sex. We could write
much OF beautiful Salt Lake City, and
OF what We learned about the MormOns, but
our object in Writing is to give the traveller
an idea Of Rocky mountain scenery, and
to that we must turn our attention.
Around Salt Lake City there is attraction
I everywhere. @ the south stretches the
| beautiful level ALLEY by which we have
/ reached the home of the saints on the
west lies at no great distance the waters of
| the Great Salt Lake; the north and east
are bounded, close by, by the Wasstch
! mountains, but in every direction mount
ain peaks and chains show themselves,
| giving everywhere picturesque outlines to
the horizon, above which rise the pearl
lest Of blue skies, ard from which blow
fresh and invigorating breezes that II is a
| privilege and Joy to breathe. Extending
| from beyond the southern horizon, and
! passing further than the eye can see on
the north, stands the majestic Wasatch
| range. One day We wandered northWard
and after a thTee or four miles walking
among the ssge-brusb, made toilsome as
cent to the tall summit of one OF the emf
nences there. Arrived at the top, We
! turned toward the main Wasatch
range, and never can we forget the
awe that sub6Ced Us as the sight of thai
serried rank of gigantic peaks hurled itself
as it were, upon our view, extending right
and left FROM horizon to horizon. Peaks
rising from 10000 to $4,000 feet into thu
sky, were all covered, above well defined
line, with q mantle ofsnog Of vivid white
below that line hoary walls OF granite
corrugated, rsvined, throwing out might!
towers here, showing deep eletts yondeI
| lone cliffs overhan2ing SIS II filled witt
impendingrainf for the plain below-silent
treeless, angular, stern with a grandnes
that appeared almost unesrthly, there wa
! something threatening in the dread sub
; Unity. The effect upon the mind was, 10
, a few moments, almost appalling. A sens
Of danger, OF coming destruction, OF ths
I gigantic array being on a march beneatl
| whose fearful advance the spectator mus
. be crushed Ike a puny worm, weighe
, upOn the very brain. An emotion G
/ reverence impressed the inn10st soul. Al
: impulse ta lneel and implore Him VIII
! makes the winds Lis messengers, bore al
8 most irresistibly upon the shrinking, ovel
aWed frame. The whole emot 3nwas eyane,
scent, enduring some seconds, or perhap
/ some minutes-who, under such clrcum
! / stances, could compute time? But tn
-, whole impression, the complete subjuga
ton OF the snt,rs being IN the presence {
that substantial, yss etheTial, ponderou
vet sublimely soaring array o. mountain
! I that dominating array of mighty peaLg an
Z I ssy-piercing SUBMITS, no words can pos
tray. II tie poet wish to know somethin
of the emotions that moved Milton whe
2 he wrote portions of his Sndying poem, l.
r him stand where we did, unsocosr panied
I amid the mountain silence and the viii
| solitude, and ne vii understand WhaI sue
!. emotion is in a way be hes never eaugt
= sight of before. forming in an opposit
: direction, the American Dead Sea. th
{ heavy waters of the Great Salt Lake Ia
before ~, throwing back the brigt
Z rays Of the afternoon sun. But W
y may not linger to 1escribe the absorbin
K | scene that awoke rapture - re gazed, an
0 still gszed as though the greedy soal cou
+. never drink in enough OF such bis
= With this brief glance at what is as in
' mense as it Is tn5escribsbly grand, we mul
' pass on, our space "a ss-al' and there is {
!. much we should love to dWeh @Eon.
:, OGDEN.
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