Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14
RARE

ono Of the many rare pictures Of Pr
oneer days possessed by Hon. Spencer
clawson is a photographic production OF
Great salt Lake city as 1t looked IN
1852 The transformation that has been
wrought since that time is little less
than marvellous. Old timers will find
the picture immensely interesting and
will be able to find some Of the land
marks that exist now only in memory.
others they will not be able to detect
at all. The figures indicating the
principal buildings are very faint ana
are not easily read. However they az
ford opportunity for study and the en-
Tire reproduction is one that will appeal
10 the lover Of things reminiscent
Where the great Emery Holmes fiat
now stands IL marked by corral for
enclosing cattle as they were unyoked
IN e. ing home from across the plains
Whe the Deseret News build
ing stands is designated n
Council House for the People, down
the sides Of state street are shown the
young trees, which were the first green
shrubs planted to relieve the barren
brown OF the desert, and to give to salt
Lake the appearance of the blossom
ing garden in the desert to the weary
emigrant, who looked down on the val
ley from the eastern mountains.
The cut IS from m old Autograph
map, found by Spencer Clawson in
clearing out q store room on his prem.
ises and by him loaned to the Deseret
News The drawing was done by W
W. Majors, very much Of an amateur
at the draughting business fact
which accounts for the peculiar look
Of the mountains surrounding the val
ley The main gorge. however, can be
easily Identified as Parley's canyon, and
the famous Bingham canyon can be To-
Gated on the west range, which Is pic
tured as extending into the foreground
from the point of the mountain, where
Jordan river comes through from the
SOUTH
The artist sat TO make his sketch on
Arsenal hill, now known as Capitol hill
end he looked southwestward into the
Ndllty DeloW,
The Autograph work was done by A.
Mclean, Is Chestnut street st, Louis,
Mo, Under the sketch Is written in
large letters, Great Salt Lake city in
lN12.' Below that are numbers refer
rng to numbers on the sketch, with
written descriptions of the things re-
feued to-
No / is located at the nag pole shown
m the cut II Is labelled; Temple
block and liberty pole" The American
nag is dying from the pole. with the
word Utah printed across IT, The
building shown, referred to as "The
tabernacle for tho people" Is the old
adobe tabernacle, which has long
since been torn down. None Of the build
lngS now standing are shown. Those
IN me picture were carpenter shops
N'lch We're taken down after the CON
pletIon fthe Temple 70 years ago. The
willow rooted "Bowery. which was
used as a meeting place in summer
was located Just east Of the main
3uldlns shown I'm the cut In this old
LGWery, Utah's first theatrical attrac-
tlon was given, Phil Margetts, Bishop
Hiram b. Cllwson and other well known
people az pearing IN the first perform
auce
No, IN the picture is styled Clover
nor Young's house" However. the
house is shown only In part the large
building In the foreground, being what
was known as "rhe Lamb Barn" as a
"mb carved In stone surmounted the