Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-13

upon the beautiful panorama spread
out before me.
Never go TO Salt Lake City without
visiting Immigration Canyon and TAX
ing view of the valley. 1t will well
repay you for the trip. Ii the Latter
Day Saints were transported with JOY
at the time they looked down upon it,
beautiful even then IN It's untouched,
natural condition, now should it be
regarded TO day after undergoing the
improvements and changes Of forty
seven years? saw the lake, the is
lands and the low-lying mountains in
the distance exactly as they saw them.
There, too, were the rivers and the
numerous ponds glistening like burn
ished silver in the sunshine. There al
so were the two valleys opening out
of the main one as depicted in the
story And there we're the sloping
hills, the meadows, and the mellow
sunshine with it's atmospheric effects
rejecting soft shadows, lines and del
icate colors, that must be seen to be
fully appreciated. So natural did
everything appear, and SO like as they
must have seen it upon that afternoon
in June, that, to make the picture
more complete, I should not have
been surprised to have heard the hum
of the crickets wings, or to have seen
that long procession of white winged
gulls rising up out Of the blue of the
dim distance.
But saw more than the Mormons
saw at that early day-aye! much
more than they could ever have eX-
pected to have seen. Now, white sails
besprinkled the waters of the broad
lake. Boulevards reached down to Sal
tair Beach; and from Stansbury's and
Carrington's Island on the left, to An
telope Island in the center, over to
the Promontory, Hot Spring Lake and
Fremont's Island on the right, were
pavilions, bath houses, hotels and
summer resorts that had sprung up
like mushrooms in night. [ saw rail
roads reaching down to Garfield
mountains, ana off across the broad
meadows. There, too, were canals and
irrigating bitches which had reduced
the river Jordan to half of it's origin
al size. Long rows Of cotton wood and
Lombard poplar trees were seen. Fac
tories and ranches dotted the broad
meadows on my left. Over toward my
right, at the foot Of the Wasatch range,
were copper mines, and smelling
works in course of reconstruction. Fort
Douglass with it's barracks and we'll
dressed soldiers rested at my feet;
and little beyond, covering those
same plague infested fields and
portion of the rising ground, was now
beautiful city with a population Of
over $4,000. Up above that city, rising
higher than the tallest buildings,
doomed the Mormon Temple, finished
and perfect in every detail; and from
it's lofJiest towers, glistening in its
coat of bronze int the clear sunshine,
stood the angel Woronis with it's long
brazen trumpet reaching out toward
me. All of these things, combined with
terraces and flower bedecked lawns
and gardens 1 looked down upon,
which, forty seven years ago must
have been as chimerical to that suf-
fering company Of Mormons as was
Rome to Romulus in the days of his
boyhood.
Let me give you short description
OF Salt Lake City as I stand at the
mouth of the Canyon looking down
upon it. The city is laid out at the
southeastern base of the foothills,
with the majestic Wasatch range close
behind it, the lake far in front, and
Oquirrh range Of mountains more to
the west. To the south is the river Jor-
dan up to the shores Of which the
streets are slowly creeping. The
streets are laid out alright angles, 1913
feet in width, and run north and south,
east and west. Many of them especial
ly outside from the general thorough
fare, are decorated with beautiful
trees. Two electric railways run
through most of the streets, and a
double highway besides. I noticed in
many Of the streets that all telegraph
and telephone poles, the waterworls
and drainage pipes run in a straight
line directly through the middle, a
system of arrangement [ very much
admired. I left the highway as well as
the sidewalks free and unobstructed,
and when repairs were needed the dali
Iy traffic was not disturbed. The bus
mess portion Of the city was at East
Temple Street and Temple Block
sometimes called Main Street. The