Chapter II.
- "The big mountain"
- Emigration kanyon
- The benches
- Great Salt Lake
- The city wall
- The city
- The inhabitants
- The houses of the leading men near Temple block
- Kimball's city property
- Brigham's Lion house
- The Mansion and White House
- Mormon theater and dancing hall
- Public buildings
- Tithing office and system of tithing
- Communism and consecration
- Public lands
- Temple block
- Tabernacle and Sabbath services
- Endowment house and Temple
- The soil
- Capacity to support increased population
- Starvation
- Manufactories
- Liquor making and consuming
- Iron and coal for the Pacific railroad
- Minerals
- Weapon manufactories
- The Mormon census and lying
- Mormon prosperity and purity.
Between the western border of the States on the Atlantic side, and the Pacific States of this great continent, there are vast prairies, dreary and treeless, sand-hills, mud flats, rocky mountains, and rapid rivers. Sixteen hundred and sixty-seven miles of travel from St. Louis, Mo., vid Council Bluffs City, brings one to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. A journey through tortuous mountain defiles, crossing creeks with precipitous banks, over roads that terrify even expert Jehus; wearied with a monotony more fatiguing than a sea voyage, any valley would seem lovely, and any respite would be hailed as a paradise. This fact accounts for the joy with which travelers hail the first glimpse of the barren and bare-valleyed home of the Saints. Will the reader make the tour with me?
We have just climbed up a steep, rocky hill. Three or
