Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-15

 City. At Provo we had a lair view of Utah Lake, a large fresh water lake fed by streams from the noun tains which surround 1t On all sides. From Provo, or rather from the northwest end of Utah bake, to Salt Lake City. about fortS Five miles, the railroad follows closely the meanderings of the Jordan River of the Mormons times on one bank and sometimes Oh the other. This Jordan River $ pc culiar stream, though it is no sense picturesque. From Utah Lake to where it enters the valley of the Great Salt Lake. some thirty miles, it is simply q big, national canal through a desert. 1t has a rapid current, drawing off the waters of Utah Lake, of which it is tue only outlet. aud pouring them into the Great Salt Lake. / 4 '
 We reached Salt Lake City in the afternoon, aiid spent the next two days viewing and studying the principal places and objects of in terest. t
 Salt Lake City was founded by the Mormous, July 2i, 1Si7. It now has population of 30,000 people. It also has nearly 100 miles of streets l20 feet wide. The blocks are 660 feet square. A clear stream of water and row of shade trees extend the full length of either side of every street in the city. The Temple Block is sit. mated in the central part of the city. Il is enclosed in a high adobe wall, and contains the Temple, the Tab ernacle, the Assembly Hall, and the Endowment House, The Tenn pie was commenced thirty-three years ago, and is still unfinished, though the work is and has been slowly progressing all the time. The corner stone was laid April l2. 1858, and the cost to date is S3,- 100000. It is 200 feet long by 100 wide. The walls are 100 feet high and 9 feet 9 inches thick. The two middle towers will each be 200 feet high. It is built entirely of gran ite. The Mormous say they eX- pect it to be completed in four or five years, and that when complet- ed and furnished the cost will not fal, short oi 9l0,000,000
 The Tabernacle is an object of interest to all visitors. almost as much perhaps on account of its ec- centric shape, as on account of the shocking doctrines supposed to be preached within it's walls by the Mormon Saints. It is 250 feet long by 100 feet wide and 70 high. It is oval in shape from the ground to the top It's seating capacity IS  1000, and it is heated by steam and lighted by 300 gas jets. It also contains one of the iineat organs in the world. There are 1000, 900 shingles in the roof, and 1t is the largest roof in the world without central support. The design of I building throughout, though the work of Mormon novice Ill architecture. is so nearly in perfect accord with the exceedingly diff fcult laws of acoustics that a pin dropped at one end of 1t can be heard at the other end as distinct ly as d nail can be heard across an ordinary room. saw this expert ment tried.
 The Assembly Hall is also a Mormon preaching house-a kind of winter church. It cost Sl5O.- GOO, and has d seating capacity of 2,500 people.
 The Endowment House is a low adobe building upon the cottage plan, aud is situated on one corner of the Temple Block, bat hidden from view from the outside by the high enclosure. II Is nsed for marriage and baptismal ceremonies, and, being sacred CD, no unsancti. fled (D Gentle is oi ever has been permitted to cross it's threshold
 l saw Brigham Young's grave, and where several of his widow i've, though l did not have the pleasure ot seeing single one of her. Four of the widow died be. fore Brigham did, but fifteen of her are still living
 In what appeared 10 be fash ionable part of the city, my atten- ton was called to five neat little