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6 ABOUND THE WORLD.
UTAH, AND SALT LAKE.
With a mongrel population of some twenty thousand, Salt
Lake is claimed and considered the " Zion of our God."
The location, in some respects, is admirable.
Each city lot, originally containing an acre and a quarter,
blossoms now something like the poet's Eden. Irrigation
from a pure mountain stream is the secret of this luxuriant
growth. Externally, Salt Lake may be considered the city
of crystal streams, and handsome fruit-orchards. Industry is
the rule, rather than the exception, among these Mormons.
Let us approve where we can. Successful co-operative stores
have been formed in nearly all tlie districts. TKey are
modeled largely after those in England.
The railway from Ogden passes along the shores of Salt
Lake, the " Dead Sea " of America. The farms, irrigated
and well tilled the whole distance, were burdened with
ripened grain, and the orchards loaded with inviting fruit.
Such cultivation quite surprised us. Only one mile from the
Tal)ernacle, there is a full-flowing, warm sulphur spring
while the twin peaks of the Wahsatch Mountains, a few miles
distant, are white with perpetual snows. They are eleven
thousand feet high,
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This inland Salt Lake, nearly a hundred miles in length,
and forty in width, has seven islands, three of which are well
adapted to grazing. The Mormon Church owns them. The
waters of this lake are so excessively salt, that nine
pailfuls
will make one of salt. In 1850 it required only from three
to five. Swarming with insect life, this rippling l:)ody has
risen from twelve to fifteen feet within a few years. This
has freshened the waters. Utah Lake should not be confounded
with Salt Lake. The former is a beautiful sheet of
fresh water, whose outlet is the River Jordan. The Territory
abounds in scriptural names. There are over thirty incorporated
cities in Utah ; and the mineral wealth is inexhaustible.