The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-12-14
Scenes In Utah.

SCCHcS LII Utah. |
EDITOR ACANTHA: Dec.8 1899.
Through your paper permit me to
address myself to the many friends as to !
my trip south. Having left there the
1st Oct. / kept in advance of the storm
SO that / did not experience any of the
blizzard that SO unusually early visited
Teton county. We reached Salt Lake
City twenty-four hours from Great Falls,
spentstwo days there very pleasantly.
This city Of sixty five thousand is blest
with more shade trees than any city in
the U. S. with even surface, almost level,
just grade enough to be desirable. The
streets are wide, 12O feet and laid
off at right angles, with a stream of
water down each side of pure
and living beauty. Along the side
walks in either direction you may look,
and as far rs you can see, you will note
the majestic poplar in its natural beauty
and symmetry giving shade and comfort
to the passeT by. Here is the Mormon
Temple, built OF granite, which has cost
anywhere from 4 to 10 millions of dollars,
Those only in good standing and of NOR
mon faith are permitted to enter it. 1t
is used for solemnizing marriages and
also the baptizing of the living and the
dead While | was there an old gentle
man who had cine all the way from
England had his parents, who are dead,
remarked and ba tized; also, many of
his ancestors who are dead. | visited
the Tabernacle which seats ten thousand
people. 1t has an organ made of Utah
woods, said to be the End largest organ
in the world. Here is one of the finest
ch0irs in the country. 1t attended, in a
body, the Worlds Fair at Chicago by in
vi5ation of the Worlds Fair Committee.
and sang two days there. | attended
their annual conference which was in
session and heard soine of their bishops
and apostles preach. After Salt Lake
we next came to Lehi City with popula-
ton OF three thousand, o3 per cent being
Mormon. This city like salt axe City
shows the same directing spirit in its
shade trees and the Construction of its
streets. There is bat one lawyer in the
city and ne has little to do, SO it is said.
The city Jail Was unoccupied W weeks
while l was there. / was
told there had been but one illegi-
innate birth in the city during the last
5 years. There are no saloons in the
t;tx,. Tho tur, I.,,,r r,+,ro,J> tj,a 5f,>op
sing OF the "spiritus frumentum" ana no
doubt sufficient for all purposes is issued.
Here is one OF the largest beet sugar
factories in the country. FOR the month
of Sept. it made $4,000 sacks, 600 It's.
oucn) OF granulated sugar. Beet raisers
get $3.50 per ton FOR beets, AMI they
count Oh ten to twenty III per acre.
rle company furnishes the seed to the
farmers at 10 cents per pound.
rais factory cost one million and Il h,4f.
Here is the Lake Utah"l5 miles wide
md 81 in length. Into this lake quite d
number of hot springs empty on the
west side OF the lake. Good cold wafer
is found on the east side of the lake from
"artesian wells, while none but hot
springs flow on the west side. Here IS d
oath house with reservoir 80 by Is feet
and four feet deep around which are 40
,reS5iug 70 nus lot tile accolnmo ia.ion OF
adde's and gentlemen. Near by is a
).vilion and dance huli with grounds
Tor games AID bi :ycle a44uae, onts and
- tie lake near by are sail boats to
pl4ase the lnosC las i .iHls. The Jordan
river a sm III stream llo2s from lake
Utah to "a Lake. There IRE 40 other
churcuo5 beside Mormon in Deni, except
an organization. tn New West as they
Germ themselves but OF little influence.
Every five or six miles along this lake
!. are situated towns of 3, 6, ana $1,000 in
: habitants for thirty miles. The farmers
, in general are engaged In beet culture,
in my next | shall do Colorado etc.
Yours.
II. A. GILLETT,
De Fuaiak Springs, Florida.