Palisadian., 1922-11-25
AN EDITORIAL JAUNT
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The Nevada country having lost it
self to the traveller through nights
trail over it's big area, we come next
into that mammoth state, Utah, over
two-thirds mountains, yet with an ag-
ricultural variety of land crops and
fruit almost phenomenal Almost ev-
erything grows in Utah, including
wonderful variety of small fruits and
melons, including the honeydew, that
modern propagation that delights the
fastidious palate of all lands. Utah is
famous for several things of world
wide interest, including the Utah
Desert, the Great Salt Lake and the
Mormons.
In getting into Utah from west or
east the traveller wants first to see
Salt Lake City. This is the Mecca for
all. for the feeling is general that to
see Salt Lake City is to see the most
there is to Utah. And this is approx
mately true in sense. Salt Lake
City is the metropolis of the state,
though the population is only about
10000, over 25 per cent of the state
total. The next largest town is Og-
den, $4,000, forty miles north, almost
wholly Mormon, while Salt Lake City
is only one-third Mormon. Of course
the first impulse one feels upon en-
tering Salt Lake is to wonder what
Mormon city is going to look like.
Well, it's just like any other modern
city Gt is two-thirds Gentile), with
ultra wide streets and not an unusual
number of modern sky-scrapers. In
deed, the sky-scraper is more con-
spicuous by its absence.
Right in the literal heart of Salt
Lake is the concentration of Mormon
interests. At the intersection of the
city's two main thoroughfares stands
a heroic statue of Brigham Young on
a pedestal of stone forty-five feet
high, dominating that section Of the
city as nothing else does or could.
Adjacent to this statue, not erected TO
Brigham Young the Mormon, but to
Brigham Young the Pioneer, is the
home Of the Mormon Church, occupy
ing square space of 600 feet or more,
or nearly ten acres, surrounded by
ten foot stone wall. Within this large
enclosure are the great Mormon tenn
ple and the tabernacle and other
buildings of the organized Mormon
cult. The temple is opened only once
a month to the inner line of Mormons
the elect-only. The structure is an
imposing one and looks like a huge
cathedral with it's two stone towers.
The tabernacle is suggestive or tur-
tie back, the roof being halved con-
cav-convex dome, covering the big
arena that seats 10000. At one end
of the tabernacle is huge organ, the
fourth in size in the country, Dullt
years ago by man brought to Salt
Lake for this purpose. Every day at
noon they hold free organ recital by
a professional of fine skill. Always
there are large audiences at these re-
citals, especially in summer. They
allow no one out at these MONDAY re-
citals. the doors being closed. The
great square is adorned with attrac-
tive shrubbery, and in summer fioW-
ers bloom in profusion. 1t is as at
tractive as artistic gardening can
make it.
Near the Mormon temple square is
another Mormon enterprise, the Utah
hotel, a modern structure of wonder
full beauty, made of white tiling and
modern in every particular The in
fluence of the Mormons in Salt Lake
is. of course, large. They do much
that is good and noteworthy, their or
ganized charities being non-sectarian.
c. T. L.