The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-14
THEY ALL ADMIT 1T.
The Gem City of the Rocky
Mountains.
LIGH TING UP DARK PLACES.
The Impressions of Writer Both
Before and After Whiting the
Territory.

The following correspondence ap--
pears in recent issue of the Waliing-
ford, Connecticut, Witness. 1t is but
one of many letters sent out by writers
who have come here with strong pre-
JUDGE against Utah and her peopIe,
and departed with feeling that
both had been most roundly
abused and maligned: The four
weeks intervening since our advent to
Utah have been spent in viewing this
city and It's suburbs, bathing in the
arest Salt Lake, the Dead Sea of the
Des 9rt, visiting the mines, the military
uusts, the Mormon temples, tabernacle,
meeting houces and the great agricui-
turai valleys of Salt Lake, Sanpete,
Provo, Cache, Maiad, Sewer and Utah,
tarryiog in the small hamlets ana
towns, enjoying the hospitality of Nor
mons and lamiliaTizing ourselves with
lie peculiar views OF this by ITO means
uninterestiug people. Would that
we posses Sed the faci)e pen and de-
scriptive powers Of many OF our
accomplished citizens that we could
convey 10 you in entertaining form
brief sketch of this wonderful Terri
tory. 1t is quite absurd, but there is
something that leads one to
EXPECT PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE
betW cen Mormons and others. For a
ong time Utah has been regarded as q
domain of incessant wrangling and
social strife, a hot bed of lawlessness
and turbulent Gissention, and the
opinion still prevails in the east that
the lives and liberties Of individuals are
unsafe within its confines. Such strong
efforts were made by ex-residenls or
the Tel ritory TO dIssuade us from our
proposed visit, by depicting the poverty
ana ignorance OF the people, their
hostility to all Gentiles, particu-
larry when found on the Ie-
mote frontiers, the impossibillty of
transacting business with them on &C.
count of the scarcity of currency and
ancient methods of barter and store
scrip in vogue, that our timid and
shrinking natures naturally Wayeled,
but we polished and girded on our side
arms and Waded in.
Salt Lake City at an altitude of 4 200
feet above the sea, has a population of
80 ,00O, and is situated at the imme-
diate westerly base of the dark and
rugged Wasatch range, whose snow
capped and towering peaks added to
vast stretches of lovely and fertile
Mains with the great lake itself in the
distance, givs II
A CLIMATE AND SCENERY UNSURPASSED.
Its site commands view Of the entire
valley, two ranges of mountains and
portion of the great lake, distant twenty
miles. The aspect Of the city is cspti-
waiting TO the stranger. Broad residence
streets, 80 feet in width, divide squares
OF ten acres each, lined on either
side by double and triple rows Of shade
and fruit trees, atfoTdlng long park
like vistas stretching away towards the
cool canyons from which never failing
sire ans of running water ripple, clear
and sparkling a. the front Of every
sidewalk, to be readily turned at will
into the bordering gardens, and the
summer mountain bree2eS sweeping
down from the ice fields above carry
refreshing GOODNESS to the valley and
combine to make the city delightful.
The Temple. Tabernacle; Endowment
House, Tithing Office, Assembly Hall.
Beehive House, Brigham Young's
residences and grave and Amelia
Palace, were al visited by US and all
found interesting from their associs-
tons They have been SO frequently
described by ADLER pens than ours that
it is unnecessary to refer to them
further. We attended at the Tabernacle
with an audience Of 10000,
ON PIONEERS DAY,
July 9th, the forty frst anniversary of
tue settlement of the Territory, on
which occasion the interior of the
building was elegantly decorated. After
an elaborate programme of music,
singing, Rotations and speeches of
self glorifcation had been rendered,
the vast assemblage was treated to
gratuitoQs refreshments in honor of the
occasion;
Some coneeptioa of the size of
tie building, deceptive in its
exterior, may be had when its seating
capacity is given as - GOO, and It's audi
torium as $50 feet long by 1873 feet wide,
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