The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08
IN FAR-OFF LANDS.
Salt Lake Being Doomed in
England.
UNCLE ROBERT NESLEN'S WORK.
He Gives Our English Friends Some Food
For Reflection Seed
Sown.
UNCLE ROBERT NESLEN'S WORK

visiting his old home in Lowestoft, Eng
land, and has written the following letter
to the Journal of that place:
Having returned to my native town
lowesuoft), after bidding it adieu thirty
irving on memorable day MAY II, about
one hour after very distinguished Wis
itor), and meeting some of the companions
of my youth, who are full of inquiries con-
corning my adopted home and country, |
VIZ, Salt Lake city, Utah, q. S. A, at
the solicitation of many friends, 1 submit a
few statistics of Salt Lake city and Utah
territory for publication, if you deem them
worthy of space in your widely circulated
and valuable paper:
SALT LAKE CITY.
Salt Lake city was founded July "a, 1S47, |
by company of Mormon pioneers, number
ing 143; absolute altitude, 4,354 feet Salt
Lake city contains $4,000 Inhabitants, and
covers over nine square miles.
THE TEMPLE.
The corner stone was laid April 6, 1855,
aud the amount expended up to the present
date is over 50, 800 000. 1t is 200 feet by
100 feet; the walls are 100 feet nigh, and the
middle tower on each end will be 200feet. 1t
is built entirely of granite.
THE TABERNACLE.
This building is $50 feet by $50 feet and
20 feet high. 1t will seat 10000, and con-
tains one of the finest organs in the world.
The assembly hall is 100 feet by GO feet;
cost Sl5O,0OO, and will seat $500.
CLIMATE.-Mean temperature is "A de-
grees. The air is soft, pure, sunny and
NolY, 70 oo1,f- i9olv r-o1l
being. "a climate not surpassed by that
Of any portion of the country, where the
rays of the summer sun are tempered by
the cool breezes from the canons. and the
severity of the winter is softened by the
mountains which shelter the valleys"
Area of city, 5,412 acres; public parks,
$50 acres.
Street railway, 80 miles; water mains, 40
miles.
Assessed for taxation, 1883, 500, 455. $50.
Percentage of absolute value, about 30.
Rate of taxation, all purposes, II per
cent.
City Indebtedness, 100000.
Annual expenditure, SOC, 900.
Manufactures, 200; different branches, go.
Capital invested, -, 100000.
Value of product, 81, 100000.
Cost of buildings erected, 1888, about
s., 250,000
Sales of real estate, 1889, S13, 355, $3.50.
Pieces handled at postoffice, 1888, 1882,
339.
Money orders and postal notes, S544, 1872.
Increase of business over 1888, 35 per
cent.
Number of banks, II.
Hotels, Is; theatres 2; libraries, 6.
Railroads, 9; trains in and out per day, 40.
Mormon churches, about Is; non Nor
mon, II.
District schools, 81; private schools, Is.
Offices and stores, 1850; total buildings,
10000.
Benevolent societies, %; hospitals, 8.
. UTAH TERRITORY.
Utah territory occupies an area of nearly
1000 square miles, and has about 100000
inhabitants; it extends from 81 to ~ paral-
lei of north latitude, and from the Tooth to
the Hath deg. longitude.
Great Salt Lake is 100 miles long by 80
wide; average depth, 40 feet; height above
sea level, APIS feet. Bathing is considered
, the finest in the world.
Its aggregate of property, real and per
sonal is Sl50,000,000.
Its land area is 81, 601, 600 acres.
Its water area is ], 179, 200 acres.
It's Salt Lake basin is 200 miles long.
) Its Great Salt Lake is II per cent salt,
and has an area of 2 900 square miles.
Its annual potato crop is 60,000, DOC
, pounds.
1 It's annual fruit and farm products are
valued at Sl0,000000.
It's invested manufacturing capital is
Sc, 000,000.
Its annual salt product is $1,000 TONS
Its live stock is valued at S32. 600, 600.
Its annual manufactures are Sl0,0O0,000
1t produces a greater variety of products
s than any like area in the world.
: These are few of the many statistics
Not wishing to cucumber your reader!
with too many figures, l desist on this part
Of my communication.
Now, your thoughtful and intelligent
readers viii see at a glance that the Nor
i mons (which is misnomer) have one o.
e finest spots in the United States of Amer
lea, and, all things considered, for its area
one of the most fourishing countries or
the globe.
The Journey took me in the year 1S5;
, nine months, with all the inconveniences
!. difficulties, privations, etc, etc, not for
getting being dismaSted in mid ocean be-
tween Liverpool and New Orleans, an(
being placed under short rations; travelling
up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, ant
taking an overland route by oxen, amids
the Indians by thousands and buffaloes b.
:, tens of thousands, distance of nearl.
81 500 miles. Think of it, this same plac
can now be reached, in elegance and case
by steamship and railway, TO my door, wit
n comfort, in fifteen days.
/. There is scarcely modern improvement
n in the world but what Salt Lake city ha
9 got. and IN some things it Is ahead, Al
u tram-roads to-day have dispensed with tn
"a horse or mule, and the street cars Of tina
4 city is now from 10 to 32-horse power, ru
II by electricity, and up TO date the most sue
81 cessful system in the United States, neve
Il vet having encountered an accident of
., serious nature Perhaps no city in tn
u great west of America has more flourish
J. ing prospect than this. Buildings are be
~ ing erected on the right and left. The
" range from four to six stories high, whic
y are easily reached by elevators. At m
y departure there were nearly 600 telephone
~ ~ in USE
n 1t is God-favored place, where healt
III abounds, where peace prevails, prosperiJ
y is spread broadcast, and where at leas
- seven-te nths OF the people own the house
u they live in. Perhaps no city in the wori
is better laid out than this, in consequent
of its wide streets and squares I'll
streets are laid due north, south, east an
nd west, great preventive from contaglor
de disease, and also from the spread OF tir
er Every street outside the business centre
or shaded on both sides by a row OF tree
kept alive by running stream, as we hay
but little rain in the summer.
Y Meat, vegetables and general provision
s, including fuel, of which coal is the prime
to pal. is cheap: clothing and the like not
cheap; but wages are higher, so that Il
workman, with temperance, energy, ski
he industrious habits, aud with a liber
amount of get-up and get in him, can
better than in this country.
Lest l infringe too much upon your spac
~ [ close, remaining, sir. your respectfully,
le r. +. NEsLEN,
as An Old Lowestoftian.
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