The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-11-09
SALT LAKE CITY.
.+eresting Talk About u tab and the Nor
mons.
Elisabeth Cumings in Eorrard.
mons.

q gslt Lake Wv
T.1 Ua of exquisite majesty, and from
q ''';, ';,n.tion and its history is one Of
''. aost interesting places iE our
' Fifty years ago, driven out
|i s'IM, I,,;oois and Missouri, because OF
"a :. 49, ,eligiop, the Mormons crossed
. ''n .,.;os. and on July twenty-fourth,
81. ~ Brigham Young, with g COM
~ :, # one hundred and forty-three
& r., '':ons. the vanguard Of Mormonism, ,
81 s''' through the defile in the Wasatch
.I.n,,.ips, ' called Emigration Canon,
Il y ,,mped upon the spot where now
l,pds the city.
a 'u rhey had been months on the jour
:, Encounters with big wolves,
.'otain lions, and Indians had
.,led the way. Sometimes they
4 \ been compelled to make q wide
!. $,tuit to avoid great herd of buffa-
81. Brigham Young was i'll with
g,,ntain fever. But the first day,
81, Mormons will tell you, he went
!I.,b and, having surveyed the scene,
81 ns, his cane down into what is now
very centre Of the Temple. and
sS;d "Here will be the house of our
odr' Five days later two hundred
,,e emigrants arrived, and the com
.S,v now possessed twenty horses,
q; five oxen, and seventy-five cows.
e. country was on the confines of
Ss.,ico, but in February, l848, it was
Il finally ceded to the United States.
There was suffering among the peo-
the first few years. Water must
s. tr.jled from the canons, for all the
i, ,sa,,. bright summer the rain did not
']lI; and when the first crops came UP,
lands and clouds of crickets came
,o and threatened to eat up every
sleeu thing. But down from the
/ & bat Salt Lake swept myriads of long
psed white gulls and they ate the
i.kets. The first crop, however,
( !, scanty, and the people had to exc
out with roots Of wild plants. The
}lSorite was the bulb Of q butterfly
81, known to botanists as the "Calo--
saor!us-nuttallii," and named by the
pruons, "the Scgo lily" This IS
reason why q fine Of fifty dollars
o!ects the head Of every pretty gull
8autah, and the Sego lily is its State
|Szsr.
$At the close Of the first year there
Il = be over FIVE thousand people in the
lsy. April 6, 1853, the corner
Sne Of the great Temple was laid,
ga April 6, 1893. it was dedicated
lh great pomp.
AS everything in Salt Lake starts
n the Temple Block, perhaps you
uld like to have me describe it.
BE all the blocks in the city it is
IA hundred and sixty feet square.
Temple stands 30 exactly in line
h the points of the compass, that
be you to hold a plumb-line against
north star you would find it swing
J! across the eastern and principal
ade Of the edifice. Ills built Of
its granite brought all the way
{ a the Big Cottonwood Canon, and
a |ers an area of 81, $50 square feet.
s the pinnacle Of the central tower
Pie eastis beautiful angelic figure
ESS SHing trumpet toward the rising
1t is made Of hammered copper
erlald with gold, and is twelve feet
'8e and one-half inches high. 1t is q
S \ work Of art. The efest is Of a
$ng who is pausing but q moment,
a viii presently, even as you gaze,
zas away upon its shining wings.
s, the Mormons will tell you, is
oroni," the son Of Mormon.
about the Temple ia q little stretch
grass kept dazzling green, then a
'eled walk, then q flower border,
IA very high wrought.iron fence.
IN the fence, there is a grassy ter.
e OF about five feet down to the
Of the rest Of the enclospte.
syn Of the Temple is what is called
temple Annex, where all cases Of
sleh discipline are tried.
lectly west Of the Temple is the
ous Tabernacle. All the stories
81 l'' wonderful acoustic properties
you may have heard, you can
believe. It will seat ten thou
people. who can go out Of it in
8| minutes through it's well.planned
IN The gothic building to the
ss Ia OF 1t is Assembly Hall, used for
secret rites Of the. mormon church
'ne completion Of the Temple: AL
g
spaoe is beautifully kept. for with
s, @ q lowers and grass love 70 grow in
'hailne soil Of Selt Lake. Around
enclosure is o high adobe wall.
in ID painted vellor and IN ahny,t