Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-09-06
A GREAT MORMON TEMPLE
DR.. BERT. TAINTER SEES WESTERN
SIGHTS.
Colorado Springs and the Great Temple
and Salt Lake City are Written Of
Mormons are Very Wealthy.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. Aug 25.

weeks in Colorado Springs with the
Iales and couple of my college friends.
1t is beautiful little city OF about 40,
900 inhabitants and about that many
tourists who are coming and going the
year round. The streets are wide and
there are irrigating bitches on each side
with flowing water in them. The pub.
lie buildings are mostly made of white
compressed stone. There are no high
buildings TO speak of and houses are Us.
ually not more than story and half
in height. Houses not built Of brick are
sided with shingles, for lumber is very
high there and lumber firms have
t:ust all to themselves. You take q
drive from city of about six miles over
to the gateway of both north and south
Cheyenna Canyon. There You will find
quite q settlement1of tents where most Of
the tubarcular patients live AS you go
mp these canyons, either on a burro L
afoot, You See huge formations of rocks
and caves As a rule If you are going
up with a burro, you will have good
deal to contend with and one win find
that 1t usually taxes their patience to a
good extent They are not easy to ride
and not very comfortable At intervals
we would run across springs c1 " ater
and place where stream. of water dash
ed over the edge of mountain q dis
tance of from 800 to 500 feet. The seen
cry is just grand and one could hardly
believe that the mountains would be of
so many beautiful colors and shades in
day, during the time the suns rays
are shining upon them. North Chey-
enne Canyon has been given TO the city
by General Palmer, who used to own it
and in earlier years owned most all the
land in and around Colorado Springs.
came to Salt Lake to visit relatives
of my mothers whom had never seen
before. Salt Lake is very pretty city,
similar to Colorado Springs They get
their water supply from the melting Of
snow in the mountains, same as Colora-
do Springs does. Streets are very wide
and have irrigating bitches on each side.
don't believe there Is another city in
the United States that has as large
blocks. They are In fact too large. Most
everybody here has a fiowing well in
their back yard. Ny aunt with whom
am staying now, has one. A number
Eof times a day / take a glass or dipper
and drink until get my fill, Water is
very cold and contains much iron There
are great number of very large smelt-
ers in and around here that put out from
fifty to hundred and over tons Of cop
per and lead each day. / was taken
through one that is owned mostly by
John ID. Rockefeller IL refnes it's own
ore only and puts out over ninety tons
of copper in day. IL is lun into cakes
of $50 pounds. They contain 30 4 per
cent pure copper and remainder is gold
and other metal. Ii Is sent to New Jer-
sey and there goes through an electric
process that takes the gold out. They
| tell me enough gold is taken out TO more
than pay for shipping the metal These
| smelters run day and night They use
three shifts il twenty-fouT hours Thee
is SO much sulphuric acid found in The
ore that the acid goes for fuel while ore
is in washing process Very little coal
is needed, Just enough to start It, The
smoke from these smelters i. very harm
full 10 vegetation. Farmers are trying
hard TO get them away, bat the only
| thing they ian do is 10 cause them 10
put on smoke extinguishers which they
| ale now doing.
will try and tell You what have
| learned about Mormonism, what they
own and what they do This city Is
made up of forty per cent of Mormons
Every Mormon and even their children
who make money pledge themselves to
| give one-tenth of their gross earning TO
the church every year. They never take
| up any collection in their meeting
houses or any place of worship. They
care for their own poor. When going
| to church they never know who Is going
to preach to them Ii may be one of the
members who is sitting in the audience.
| The priest will either 90 down and ask
a member to give sermon as he thinks
he ought, or he will send an usher TO dc
| that task They are all made TO be pre-
| pared TO give a sermon in their way.
| They have three pulpits, one above the
other. The priests set in the higher one,
| the apostles In the middle or second one,
| then in the one below sits lower order
of priesthood. The tabernacle has seat
ing capacity Of over ten thousand.
| They have an unpaid choir of five hun.
dred voices, which indeed Is something
grand. Most every voice is cultured
one. The organ is claimed 10 have the
finest tone of any instrument in the
world. There is larger one in the In
tied States, in Catholic church =
Pittsburg This organ was constructed
originally over thirty years ago. entire
| ly by Utah artists and mostly from na
tive material A few years ago W W.
Kimball q Co. of Chicago, placed new
mechanism in 1t. The front towers have
an altitude of IS feet and the dimensions
of the organ are 30 by 80 feet II has
| l10 stops and 5, 500 pipes, ranging in
| length from one-fourth inch TO 81 feet.
1t comprises FIVE complete organs--solo.
| swell, great choir, pedal, or ia other
words, four complete key boards. It IS
capable of four hundred tonal varieties.
The organ is blown by q ten horse power
electric motor and her gauges furnish
5000 cubic feet of air a minute while
playing. One part Of this organ when
played sounds like human voice sing
| ing solo.
On February IA, 1853, the temple site
was dedicated, Just six years after the
pioneers came here The building was
completed and dedicated April 6, 1898
1t is 1884 feet long and % feet wide,
covering t,n area Of 1862 feet. The
cost OK construction was about a. JO0
000 1t is built of granite taken from a
| quarry Of about twenty miles distance.
Before the advent Of railway to quarry
in 1878, the huge blocks Of stone were
| transported By teame. IL took four
yoke Of oxen fonr days to haul single
stone from quarry to temple grounds.
| The temple faces east and has six tow.
ers, three on east a2d three on west end
The west central tower is 204 feet high
and the east central tower 30 feet, the
walls Of the building 1871 feet; thickness
| of walls varies from TO feet the foot
I ing wall on which building rests, is Is
feet wide ard is feet deep; the temple
block Is fory rods squire and contains