Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-10-27
MAYOR A. NJ. HALL
TELLS SOMETHING
OF WESTERN TRIP
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known to the modern world. A very
notable thing in connection with the
park is the accommodations made for
the automobile tourists. A great
building is turned over to their exclu-
sive use. In it they have stoves, rest
rooms, etc, where the tourists can
stop and cook their meals, rest and
even camp out for the night if they
desire. Near to the camping place
is good grocery where tourists can
supply all their wants, as meat, cof
fee, sugar, etc., at moderate price.
The morning we were at the park
more than one hundred automobiles
were parked there.
"In Salt Lake City everything is
free practically. Even the guides and
hotel porters are not allowed to take
even tip for their services. Every
thing is done to make the tourist COM
Portable. While there we visited the
big Mormon tabernacle. This build
ing is two hundred and fifty feet in
length and is one hundred and fifty
feet in width. The building, plan
ned and partially constructed by Brig
ham Young, required forty years to
build. The roof is made of wood, of
the self-supporting style and is ten
feet thick. Some mammoth timbers
are found in the roof. They were
brought from the mountains at great
expense. The tabernacle will seat TO-
900 people and is so constructed that
you can drop a pin in one end of the
room and ii can be plainly heard in
the other end. Yet there is no echo
in the room when one is talking. In
one end of the tabernacle is the pipe
organ, built by a German Mormon
who spent many years at the work
"A musical is given in the taber-
nacle every morning to which all peo-
pie desiring have free admission. We
attended the morning we were in the
city. The Mormons do not beg. 1t
is their contention that a man who
works should have enough to keep him
if he is not able to work he should
be kept by the others.
"The streets of Salt Lake City are
all 1872 feet wide. One hundred feet
is used for street and the rest is side
walk. This necessarily makes the
street and walks very wide, but it
surely makes the city look beautiful
In the residence sections the streets
are of the same width, but instead of
the walks being so wide, sixteen feet
between the street and the walks is
left for parking. This is set in flow
ers and shrubbery and beautiful
lawns. The streets of the business
section face the mountains, and along
each edge is gutter. The water is
brought down from the mountains and
the streets are washed, allowing the
water and filth to run off in the gut
tiers. This water, as is also all the
sewage from the city, is passed
through alteration plant and then
used to irrigate the land surrounding
the city.
We also visited the birthplace of
Maude Adams. 1t is a beautiful
place. Maude's mother and grand
mother were at home and took pleas
ure in showing us about. We also
saw the theatre where Maude made
her debut. Later we saw the Utah
Hotel, one of the finest hostelries in
the United States. 1t is just being
completed, and was constructed by the
proprietors of the Waldorf Astoria.
when we left Salt Lake City we
passed over the Great Salt Lake on
the Southern Pacafic. The trestle
on which the train runs is twenty-four
miles long. Thirteen miles Of it is tres
tie work and eleven miles is fill. When
out on the lake you cannot see land
either to the right or left, although
you can see it before and behind. The
water in the lake carries so much salt
that five gallons of it evaporated will
leave a gallon of pure salt.
1--WE also saw Lake Donnor and
Lake Tahoe. Lake Donnor was NAM
ed after the famous Donnor exploring
party that persisted near it's border.
Only one small child was found alive
in the whole party. Lake Tahoe was
named after a famous Indian of that
country. Near these lakes we passed
under a long snow shed, extending
forty-two miles along the side of the
mountains. These sheds are built to
the mountain side in such a manner
that the snow, in its descent of the
mountain side passes over the track.
The train passes along under the shed
the entire length. The shed roof is
constructed of timbers eighteen inches
thick.
another interesting feature of the
country near there is the gold mining.
We saw the waters carried from the
mountains directed on the mountains
side with such force that it washed
away the rock and earth and broke
it into small particles. The water
flows away and the residue is picked
up as crude gold. AS our train NOV
ed on we were not able to see much of
the process.