NỌMBA NKE ABỤỌ The mormon City by Daylight— Its Location and Surroundings -- The Tabernacle -- A Polygamist In Theory, But Not in Practice -- The Mormon Banker -- Bishop and Colonel Little--Lo, the Poor Indian--Not for Joe--No Outsiders Admitted--The Bishop's Benediction--Interview with Brigham Young--He Is Not Posted in Politics--But too Shrewd to be caught Napping-Solution of the Mommon Problem [Special Correspondence of the Cleveland Leader]
[SALT LAKE CITY, October 27, 1870]
Dịka m rutere ebe a n'abalị ka chi jiri, naanị echiche n'ezughi oke gbasara ọdịdị na oyiyi nke obodo ahụ bụihe na-abata m n'isi. Na-ewere mmalite dị n'oge n'ụtụtụ a, ọ tụrụ m n'anya ma jukwa m afọ bụ oke mma nke ebe a na-ahụ anya gbara ya gburugburu. Obodo ahụ dị n'etiti ọwara buru ibu, ugwu Wahastch dị na mgbago ugwu nakwa ọwụwa anyanwụ
—
Interview
With Brigham Young— He
Is
Not
Posted in Pohtics--But too Shrewd to be Caught Napping— Solution of the Mormon Problem. [Special Correspondence of the Cleveland
Salt Lake City, October
Leader.]
27, 1870.
As 1 arrived here last night after dark I could form but an imperfect idea of the location and appearance of the city. Taking an early start this morning I am surprised beauty and impressed with the grandeur of the surrounding scenery. The city is located in the center of a broad basin, the Wahsatch Mountains on the north and east, a spur of the same range extending across the southern horizon— on the west, perhaps ten miles distant, is the great Salt Lake, a body of water eighty miles long by forty to fifty in width, and so salty that at the
it
is
literally
a
"dead sea."
No
living
thing can be found in its waters. Lofty promontories on the further side jut out into the lake and bound our view in that direction. The city covers a space of three by four miles, and is laid out in squares of ten acres. The squares are subdivided into eight lots of about one and a quarter acres each. Water is brought from the mountains on the
and flows through every street on It is pure and cold, and never tails in the dryest season. Double rows of shade trees line the streets and the water is conducted into the gardens and orchards. This is the secret of the wonderful fruitful ness of this land, which, without artificial irrigation, would be an arid desert. When the Mormons came down through the this into canon of the Wahsatch north
either side.
valley,
twenty-three
years
ago,
it
was
