Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-26
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Hon. William Seymour Edwards who
recently visited this city, contributes
very interesting article to a recent
issue Of the Charleston, w. Va, Daily
Mail. After describing his pilgrimage
through California and Nevada Mr..
Edwards tells Of his arrival in Utah,
of which he says:
We We're in the land Of Mormon
COM and beheld their works. Now the
whole country became green, irrigating
bitches everywhere, substantial farm
houses, large well built barns and out
houses, and miles Of thrifty lombardy
poplars marking the roadways and the
boundaries OF the fields.
AT Ogden, where We We're three
hours late our sleeper was taken on
the through train to Cheyenne and
attached TO the express for Salt Lax
CITY. We made no further stops, but
for an hour whirled through a green,
fruitful patiently TILED, landscape
whose fertility and productiveness de-
lighted eye and brain. Many or
ehards, large comfortable farmsteads,
wide meadows, green and abundant as
- AiNlANiht WIN tdtllt anu HntSto
leedlng upon them, stubble wheat
nelds with flocks of sheep, great beet
nels and Kitchen gardens In full
Wops and water, water in a thousand
Gltches everywhere. Big farm wagons
dawn by large strong horses we saw
upol the highways, and farmers In
wen found vehicles returning from the
Guy to their homes.
~ oh al
use doomed group OF gray spires,
nAe the distant view Of the dominat-
ms plhnacles OF the Minister'S and
@tnedrals OF England and OF France
VI Oh Cologne. They were the spires
VI NJ lne great towers OF the Mormon"
nymple, mat strange. imposing and
ipHeiuld creation of the brain of
brigham Young.
~ was deep dusk when we REACHED
W., We CITY Electric lights were twink
"s along the wide streets as we drove
o, our motel. We have not yet seen the
elss,l except Tor a short stroll under the
neas lights. But already Il has
m,nI an lndelible impression on our
tlraa" Vnly two cities upon this con-
h",enl-citles of magnitude-have ever
I'll III created and laid out by systematic
o,ouiousht before being entered and
io,d ppled by men. One, Washington,
si' o GUY according to a comprehen-
Sal, ana Wei digested plan, the other,
eIs Lake City, the creatlon--as ali
ny here--of Brigham Young.
All e streets OF Salt Lake City are
TSo 40 vide as Pennsylvania avenue.
R", DOCKS OF 10 acres each, immense.
are mese streets--the chief ones
0orI VIiectly asphalted, running water
.-lonSo W every gutter side; great trees
Ma ago planted shade every wide
ON malk' the electric tram cars run
thoro,eAs along the middle of the
wavs SUI mare and the two wide road
ints,soon'i either side are quite free from
great hug Wires and poles. Many
along y'VVhs OF hne buildings now rise
stores ,ne business sections, and the
Of gooda VscH' as sumptuous displays
have g. ana fabrics as anything we
H. rs OF New York The town hears
i,s marks OF great cltv. Great in
prsapd hi great In its deyelonment
m ~, ~ It's destiny. Truly a capital
and ue seat OF power OF the potent
>oNiprehending Mormon" Church
TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.
hg co ,ne morning we have been View
end INV eye practical 'Mormondom,"
live ne sight has been most instruc-
clty nBh above the buildings of the
nacles "sr me Imposing spires and pin-
mense VI the Temple. the most i'm
Notth etVIesiaslical structure on the
Years american continent. Thirty
Ernni,, vas Il In building, ali OF native
nnnons Snu costing more than four
central ol dollars. 1t stands in the
By sSuare of the city surrounded
"'sh adobe wall. and gentle