Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-29
ZION, CITY OF THE SAINTS.
Clustered in Green and SCI in Giant
Walls Of Granite Peaks.
n rusy, Hospitabie People 10 Wei.
come tho Stranger Within lh"'r
Gates INV Iubiipo OF finy Years.
[salidn ,colJ Mail July 81 ]


seen TO be appreciated. True. the
traveller having passed across our
plains, over our mountains anu
through our valleys is in measure
prepared to see Zion, yet her reveln-
tious are marvellous and grandeur yet
undrea med Is to be uufolded. y
We glide ut last over the summit OF
tho barren ridge that has walled us In
and begin steep decent. We enter
canyon that at intervals wiuebs out
and email farms are seen, and now
and then n town where miners dig
from the precI pitous craRs surrounding
the minerals Of commerce.,
Here and there branch Topds come
in from valleys hidden among tho ny
pareutiy inaccessible mountains. On-
ward we glue until, with a sndden
sweep, the train rouads curve and
oasbes out up5n all exphnse OF Fertile
valley too vaet for the ieye 10 meature
or for the uniniormed to comprehend.
Spell-bound by the sudden tranefor-
nation, speeohIein with Amusement
and awe struck by the immensely Of u
all we gaze In silent admiration upon
Divine Power who hollis the world,
as It wsre, In tho hollow Of His hand
and feeds His children from His boun-
teous store.
We ore In the great Utah valley.
You have heard OF, you have seen
Colorado's sunny San Lui you may
have seen the fertile feide OF Illinois
or the budding orchards OF Indiana,
you may have wandered through
quaint and mosB.grown New England
Villages where nature contends with
the arts OF man ana embellisbes bis
accom- plishments with her oveTgrowth
OF green.
But to zee oil these COMMUNICATIVE
fertile pIaine, the sparkling irrigatlDg
water, the fruitful orchards, the quaint
old town oil overgrown and sodded
with rauk vegetation and MI set la a
framework OF rugged mountains that
rise above the vslley-soemlngIy us
level rs m artificial law fs-ln pre-
ciPitous and mighty wall.
And this lie u OIL Like q revelation
OF productive beauty 1t comes upon us
anu we wonder n the Prophet Joseph
Smith in his dreams saw all OF this or
even dared to hope for 60 great c0u-
summation OF his plans.
1t IL iike a couotry village all the
way, 30 teeming With life Is the val.
ley. Tho very railroad Ia oveTgrowD
with the untsmed life OF nature.
In the dim distance is Utah Lake,
beautiful body OF fresh water
teeming with flnpy lie. We speed
on through verdant fields until in the
dista nee, nestled uesr the mountains
ana all but hidden by forest Of trees
10 Zion's capital. Itis gsy in colors OF
gleen, yellow AMI red and the red,
white and blue, for It Is time OF
jubilee aud The valley resounds with
the olse OF enthuslasm anu patriot.
lam that has Just for fly years been
accommodating In this far western
haven OF rest.
But We 10 not linger. On we speed
to the north, on the one hand strip
of green with rugged gray wall ris-
ing beyond, on tho other misty line
Of blue iringed with white lying be-
yond stretch Of msrsny meadow. Ii
10 the Great Salt Lake.
More miles OF fertile green aud then
n busy Commercial center. The city
OF Ogden 10 city o interest anu 70.
vesls "a story of progress ana enterprises
WONDERFUL to contemplate. Her
twenty thousand people Joy almost
the entire catalogue OF usual muuic.-
pal advantages. Fine schools, church az
and public buildings ornament hrT
Btreetr. Iu the suburbs is the new
plant OF the Pioneer Electric company,
largest but one In ali the world using
maurice ready provided water power
rs a force Y " y
AND then we return to ziou's capt.
tai, the wonderful city OF the unce
desert, now fertile plain. Salt Lake
Cry Is glorious In her jubilee cOiors.
Her marveiously wide siIeete nre
tnronged with vset concouIse Of
people, good natuted aud friendly,
gathered TO celebrate in Utah's nAme
tho hitieth anniversary OF the arrival
OF the nrst band oil pioneers vino, wi lea
Brigham Young at their head, founded
the city and begun the wonderful
transformation from desert into IeT-
tile plain. And from toe seed sown by
that struggling but sturdy and deter
mined little band has sptung this vOst ,
rich, happy anu enlightened comunl.
~.
And to what shall we IJken Salt
Lake Ciiy2 IL is queer Admixture
Of far weat and far east. There 10 the
push and energy of the west aud slow
Flooding OF the east. There Is the
clear, sparkling muuntsin water flow.
Ing on either eide OF the street and
with II 10 also seen the old mOss-gtoVn
house set far back and literally buried
In IA tangle OF luXursnt vegetation.
The suburban streets are gtass.gr0wn,
the are no buulders nor sand, and the
sOil, rich loan, docs not watt 'Or
every epot to ne waiered, but slu.
irrigation makes II green with rank
erase.
From the buelle OF city he one
drOIs suddenly into the quiet rural
street and may easily imagine that ho
has in moment been carrisd from
the heart OF a busy western city into
some quiet New England village
where lac lie never more scllvs than a
slueglsh, careless evistenUs requires.
And the teppl,l Equsled oy lew
ana surpassed ~ nun IA architecture
in our nation. Then the
Tabernacle with its oRs-iIRe dome ana
lis wonderful organ and It's choir cf
more than lhOgssnd voices, ami It's
vast RudiIOf;"1, The beautiful AZ.
sembly nail neaE by, the l'wns auG
wake, the iountait1, rnd AJwers all
within the square tbnt Is itse en-.
cloesd by sturdy brick wal anu
when the gates are closed tuu eyes Of
the enTious Gsntile can penetrate NJ
iarther.
Antiquity in the far west! Who
could imagine such thing? but here
II lie. Here, near me Tempt. ere tnu
ola walls thpt opce rnolpssu the