The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

| five per cent. OF the 6oc1duOus Iru1bs
of the State are grown within a ra-
dius of fifty miles from Sacramento
City. It has no sunstrokes, snow or
billiards.. The climate averages
about the same temperature as that
of Los Angeles. Palms, oleanders,
magnolias, pomegranates, arbor-
vitaes and every kind of plant and
shrub in California grow and thrive
here.
On August the 9Th, we babe our
dear friends goodbye, and once
more started with our faces home
ward. We kept going steadily up
ward as we entered the Sierra Nevada
range. 1t required three engines to
run the train. We went through
about ninety miles of snow-sheds
along here. About night we reached
the summit, and owing to a wash
out, we spent most of the night on
top of the mountains. It was very
cool, but we slept we'll, and a little
before daylight the train moved on.
The scenery along here through the
mountains was grand. We passed
through Nevada with it's deserts and
great bare mountains and hot
springs, and then through fine grassy
ranches, we'll watered and teem1ng
with herds of fat cattle and horses.
We then entered Utah, which also
has it's full share of deserts and
mountains.
We changed trains at Ogden and
two hours later reached Salt Lake
City. Here we stopped to see the
''City of the, Latter Day Saints,
as they call themselves. It is built
at the foot of the Wasatch range of
mountains. The site on which it
was built ffty-four years ago. was
then a desolate waste, Astounding
only in sage bushes, and alkaline
swamps. It is now assuming the
appearance of q first class CITY with
all modern conveniences and i'm
provements.i The most imposing
building, and the one that attracts
the most interest in the city, is the
Salt Lake Temple. 1t is built OF
solid blocks of native granite. The
walls at the basement r eight feet
thick, but taper to six feet at the
top. It is one hundred and eighty
feet long and one hundred and twenty
wide. The height of the center
tower from the ground to the top
of the statue on it is two hundred
and twenty-five and a half feet. 1t
cost three and a half million dollars.
The great Mormon Tabernacle is
directly west of the Temple on the
same square. It is an o~val-shaped
building, resembling the back of a
tortoise. 1t is two hundred and fifty
feet long, and one hundred and fifty
feet wide. Eight thousand people
can be seated comfortably within the
walls. The great organ noted as one
of the largest and finest toned in
the world, is in the west end of the
tabernacle. It is 3Ox33 feet in width
and length and forty eight feet high.
1t contains 81 stops, three keybOards,
and 2.648 pipes, ranging in length
from q of an inch to 80 feet. We
were in the Tabernacle for some
time, and looked at the Temple, but
no one is admitted there except the
Mormon Apostles and Elders, and
the widows of Brigham Young who
go there daily to work for the saliva
ton of the dead. We went to Brig
ham Young's graveyard, and saw the
place where he and a number of his
wives we're buried. He married
twenty-six women and had fifty
five children. He married two
women the same day at differ
emit times. When he died he left
seventeen weeping widows and forty
four orphans. But he left them we'll
provided with earthly goods, as he
was a shrewd business man, and man
aged his financial affairs with as
much ability as his country aod re,
ligion. We saw Lion House and the
Bee Hive House, the first houses he
built for his numerous families, and
the building he had used for a private
school for his own children, and the
beautiful palace he had built for a
favorite wife, also went to the Eagle
Gate he had erected, and near it we
saw a fine monument put up in honor