i 2 I ^ BANCROFT LIBRARY < THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA In and About Salt Lake City The Mormon Paradise THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK R. E A H D V I A H An Ideal Vacation Trip. Here amid the grandeur of Alpine scenery, tinted with colors of indescribable variety and beauty, are geysers spouting at precise intervals their scalding waters skyward; terrace-buildmg fountains; pools of learning clay; everlasting springs iced in earth's depths or boiling from her turnaces; and the great Yellowstone Lake a mile and a half above sea level; and romantic vales and shaded glens; and all else that prodigal creative genius could furnish to fill the land with wonders. With the completion of the new branch from St. Anthony, Idaho, tourists will be enabled to travel by rail to the western border of the Park, within seventeen miles of the famous Fountain Hotel. This, will permit of A COMPLETE TOUR OF THE PARK IN FIVE DAYS. 9 Write for Beautiful Illustrated Folder. W. H. BANCROFT V. P.-& G. M. D. E. BURLEY G. P. A. D. S. SPENCER A. G. P. A. , IN AND ABOUT SALT LAKE CITY The Mormon Paradise *-fce< W.:A. MORTON P u bVi h c r Sail Like Cily F THE MORMON TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY Tlie Tabernacle is an oval-shaped b aiding with an arched roof, resembling the back of a tortoise. It is 830 feet long. 151) feet wide and 80 feet high. About H.ooo people can be comfortably seated within its walls. It is remarkable for its acoustic properties: a low whisper or the dropping of a pin in one end of the building can be heard clearly at the opposite end. 340 feet distant. BANCROFT LIBRARY THK TKMI'r.K HIXM'K A srnniHAN URIVK MON- ASSEMBLY n.M.r, Religious meetings not so numerously an- - of the Tuberniu-le are usually held in Ibis building, long by 68 feet wide, and 130 feet to tbe top of the central tower. The of erection Tbe Assembly Hall Is l*> feet ran 180,000. THE LION HOUSE RESIDENCE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, BUILT IN 1835. This is tlie House in which Brlghtim Young died, August 29, 1877. I HKIOI1AM YOI-Xii's built a> :i place of niiiiisciin-iit :i^ w.-li :i^ :iu attraction to visitors, to exhibit I'tah's mineral and industrial products. It is situated in the southern pan of the cit.v, and may Ix.' readied either by State or Main Street car li DR. W. H. GROVES LATTER-DAY SAINTS HOSPITAL BIRDSKYE VIEW OF SALT LAKE CITY SALTAIH SF.ACII PAV:L:ON. J1ATH!N<; AT .SAl/1'AIR, Tf}E WASATCH MOUNTAINS, FROM LIBERTY I.ACCiOX SI-M.MKK Th' LaKiMin pleasure res.iri is situated about twenty miles north of the city. It is reached l>y tin- Sail Lake ami Ogilcn Railway. LEHI SUGAR FACTORY, LEHI, UTAH MAIN PLANT OF THE UTAH SUGAR COMPANY This is one of the largest Ueet sugar factories in America, The cost of erection was five hundred thousand dollars. Its output of sugar for 1903 was sixteen million pounds. l.KAK HlVKlt fAN'YOX. The raniu> Hear Kivcr caniil runs ihrmiit ., this canyon unit irrigates muny ilimisuncl ncri's nf luntl. Hear River is shown in the center of the picture and the Oregon Short Line R. R. on the right. MERCUR, ONE OF UTAH'S PROSPEROUS MINING CAMPS KfKKKA. I'TAH'S I'AMoPS MINING (AMI 1 TOUKISTS ON THEIR WAY TO Z1ON, VIA D & K. G. K. K, THE OUDEN-LUCIN CUT-OFF SOUTHERN PACIFIC: R. R. The Cui-.jlt i- HM mill in lenKlli. 7i miles on lunJ and :*> miles nn treslli'work anil llll-in'< o\vr the waUT-. of (Jrtal SaJt Luke. The cost was about seven million dollars. SOME OF THE UREAT SALT BEDS The waters of the Great Salt Lake carry about twenty per cent, of salt. Around the lake are salt farms, where ponds are formed by building levees, to obtain salt by solar evaporation. This salt is stacked in piles and is ready for market as coarse salt for stock and for the BtttftiflMBfrtfug works throughout the mining regions. |.<>AI>IN'. THI: > U.T ivm <-.\KS About une bunilrnl ili.u-unllr> ITT annum. ECHO CLIFFS. THK UOYAL UOKOE D. & U. U. HAILWAY. JACKSON SCHOOL, ONE OF SALT LAKE CIT\ 'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SEGO LILY UTAH'S STATE FLOWER. *t * 2ft. A UTAH KoriiH H1IIKK >' KM-.- IN IH;HK.N. I'TAH QU3 FOLKS' DAY AT LAQOON, UTAH. .IliSKI'll SMITH. Til!: Ilurn ;. l-ll. JOSKl-II !'. SMlTII President of tbc Chun-b of .]-- CbrUt of Lalter-ilny Saint v THE ARTICLES OF FAITH A TYPICAL MORMON HYMN. OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER- DAY SAINTS. 1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesua Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. 2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression. 3. We believe that through the atonement of Christ.all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: (1) Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; (2) Repentance; (3) Baptism by immer- sion for the remission of sins; (4) Laying on of hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost. 5. We believed that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying- on of bands, by those who are in authority, to "preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof. G. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, etc. 7. We believe in the gift of tongues, j.rjphecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, etc. 8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God. as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. 9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that he does now reveal, and we believe that he will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10. We believe in the literal gathering of Isarel, and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes: that Zion will be built upon this (the American) continent: that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaical glory. 11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our concience, and allow all men the same privilage, let them worship how, where, or what they may. 12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magis- trates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. I.'!. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men: indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, we believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, love- ly, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. JOSEPH SMITH. O MY FATHER. O my Father, Thou that dwellest In the high and glorious place! When shall I regain Thy presence, And again behold Thy face? In Thy holy habitation, Did my spirit once reside! In my first, primeval childhood, Was I nurtured near Thv side! For a wise and glorious purpose Thou hast placed me here on earth, And withheld the recollection Of my former friends and birth. Yet oft-times a secret something Whispered, Your a stranger here, And 1 felt that I had wandered From a more exalted sphere. I had learned to call Thee Father. Through Thy Spirit from on high But, until the Key of Knowledge Was restored, I knew not why. In the heavens are parents single? No: the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason: truth eternal Tells me I've a mother there. When I leave this frail existence, When I lay this mortal by, Father, mother, may I meet you In your royal courts on high? Then at length, when I've completed All you sent me forth to do, With your mutual approbation Let me come and dwell with you. Eliza R. Snow. A SKETCH OF UTAH AND MORMONISM BY O. F. WHITNEY |TAH owes her existence to a religious movement similar Uin some of its phases to that which peopled the shores I of New England with representatives of the Anglo- Saxon race and laid the foundation of the mightiest gov- ernment of modern times. No complete history of the I'nited Stales could be written without some reference to the Pilgrims or Puritans who fled from the i>ersecution in the Old World to find religious freedom in the New. No sketch of I'tah would be i-omplete, or even possible, without some reference to the, .Mormons, or, to give them their proper title, the Church of .lesiis < 'hrist of latter-day S;iints: for it was that Church, per- secuted in the East and pausing midway in its westward (light from Nauvoo its last foothold within the confines of civili/ation (hat sent forth the Pioneers who founded I" tali, and has ever since fur- nished the hulk of the hone and sinew that lias built up the State. Moriiioiiisin and I'tah an- inseparable themes: as much so as any coupling of cause and effect. The founder of the Church was Joseph Smith, a native of Vermont, who as a boy of fourteen, in the lores! fringed districts of Western New York, received visitations from on high, apprising him of the apostate condition of Christendom and aulhori/ing him to establish anew upon earth the true Church of Christ. His first ation was in the spring of 1820, when the Father and Son appeared to him, opening the new gospel dispensation. Subse- quently he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed to him the existence of some golden plates, hidden in a hill near the village of Manchester. These plates, tem|x>rarily entrusted to him by the angel, were covered with ancient hieroglyphics. which .Joseph Smith, by means of the Trim and Thummim also delivered to him by the angel- translated, and gave to the world MS a result the Book of Mormon. It is a record of the ancient in- habitants of America, from the time of the Tower of Kabel down to the early part of the fifth century of the Christian Era, and Is mostly the history of a people called Nephites, a branch of the house of Israel, who, led by Lehi and his son Nephi, of the tribe of Manass.-ih, and followed by some of the chil- dren of Judith, came from Jerusalem about the year 600 B.C. and peopled South and North America. To these descendants of Abraham the Savior api>eared, after his resurrection, and taught the fulness of his Gospel, supplementing and preceding the teachings of other prophets, the last of whom was Moroni. afterwards the angel custodian of the golden plates, who, while yet a mortal, about 420 A. D., hid them in the hill from which they were taken by Joseph Smith. This place of dejwsit was called by the Nephites, Cumorah. The Book of Mormon takes its name from Mormon, the father of Moroni, who recorded upon the plates the history of his people, the white progenitors of the dusky and degenerate American Indians. Among the angelic visitants connected with the rise of the Latter-day Church, was John the Baptist, who, on May 15, 1829, conferred upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery the Aaronic Priesthood, empowering them to preach faith and re|>entance and to baptize by immersion for the remission of sins. This was fol- lowed by a visiialion from Peter, James and John, who conferred upon Joseph and Oliver the Melchisedek Priesthood, which gave them power to liestow the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands. Thus equipped with the Bible and Book of Mormon as their doc- trinal standards, supplemented by immediate and continuous revelation, this twain known as the First and Second Elders of the Church with others ordained by them, went forth preaching amid the hottest persecution the restored gospel, healing the sick, cast- ing out devils, and otherwise "confirming the words with signs following." Their first converts were made from Western and Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nicknamed "Mormons" for their belief in the Book of Mormon was organi/.ed at Fayette, Seneca County. New York, on the 6th day of April, 18.'!0. Within a year it moved bodily to Kirtland. Ohio, which be- came during the next seven years its headquarters. In 18.'!!, it es- tablished a colony in Jackson County, Missouri, the site of the future City of Zion, the New Jerusalem, which the Saints, who are of Israel, mostly of the seed of Ephraim, gathered out from all nations, expect to rear in fulfillment of prophecy, preparatory to the second coming of the Savior. Persecution followed them both to Ohio and Missouri. In the fall of 18.'!.'! they were expelled with fire and sword from Jackson County, and early in 1838 the main body of the Church, having lost some of its prominent members by apostasy, abandoned Kirt- land, with the temple they had built there, and concentrated twelve to fifteen thousand strong, in and around Caldwell County, Mis- souri, where they founded Far West and other nourishing settle- ments. There trouble again arose, caused by religious and politi- cal differences between them and the other settlers, and in the fall and winter succeeding, the Jackson County tragedy was repeated ona larger scale. Under on order issued by Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, and executed by Major-General John B. Clark and others, in command of an overwhelming force of militia, the entire Mormon community, after many of them had been killed in battle and massacred, their leaders imprisoned, their homes devastated, were driven in mid-winter from the confines of the State. Kindly received by the people of Illinois, the expatriated com- munity settled on the east shore of the Mississippi, in Hancock County, where they founded their beautiful city of Nauvoo, sur- rounded by other Mormon settlements, both in Illinois and Iowa. There they remained for seven years, increasing rapidly by im- migration from the Eastern States, Canada and Great Britain until they aggregated twenty thousand souls. Religious and political animosity still pursued them, and finally on the 2"th day of June, 1844, their Prophet Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum, the. Patriarch of the Church, who had surrendered for trial on a trumped up charge of treason and riot, were murdered in Carthage jail by an anti-Mormon mob, while under the pledged protection of the Governor of the State. Justice was never done on the murderers. Under Brigham Young, the successor to Joseph Smith, the Mormon people, in February, 1846. began the famous exodus from Illinois, leaving Nauvoo with its Temple, which had just been dedicated, to be pillaged and desecrated by their enemies. From their scattered camps in Iowa, and on the Missouri, in the summer of that year, went forth at the call of their country the Mormon Battalion, 500 strong, to assist the United States in its war against Mexico. In the spring of 1847 the Mormon pioneers (one hundred and forty three men, three women and two children) led by Brigham Young in person, leaving the main body encamped upon the frontier, started upon their historic journey to the Rocky Mountains. Traversing trackless plains and snow-clad mountains lying between the Missouri river and the great American Desert, on the 24th day of July they entered Salt Lake Valley, where, in the midst of desolation, surrounded by savage tribes and suffering untold hard- ships and privation, they founded Salt Lake City, the metropolis of the Inter-Mountain region; the parent of more than two hun- dred cities, towns and villages, that owe their existence to the Mormon people and their great leader, Brigham Young. The residue of the migrating Church followed the Pioneers to their new-found home in the wilderness: thenceforth the gathering place of the Mormon people. The LOS ANGELES LIMITED HERE TODAY, THERE TOMORROW IN ALL THE WORLD NO TRAIN LIKE THIS CjJ Leaving Salt Lake City, the line skirts the shore oH great inland sea, afloi a perfect view of valley, water and mountains; train passes Garfield, site of the lai copper smelter in the country, via Stockton and Tintic mining districts. Dinner in the superb dining car, a book, a night of repose, tj Awake with the sun in glorious Cali- fornia. CJI Through miles of orange groves to Los Angeles and the broad Pa CJ Many other trains, too, Cj I he very best local service in Utah and Nevada. CITY TICKET OFFICE, 169 South Main Street, 'Phones 1986 J. A. SCOTT, City Ticket Agent J. L. MOORE, District Pawenger Agent KENNETH C. KERR, Trailing Pa,cngr Agent THE SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD A Panorama of Natural Beauty all the Way CASTLE GATE CANYON OF THE GRANDE GARDEN OF THE GODS WAGON WHEEL GAP GLENWOOD SPRINGS MARSHALL PASS ROYAL GORGE ANIMAS CANYON When I rhyme about the river, the laughing limpid slream, Whose ripples seem to shiver as they glide and glow and gleam. Of the waves that beat the boulders that are strewn upon the Strand, You will recognize the river in the Canyon of the Grand. God was good to make the mountains, the valleys and the hills, Put the rose upon the cactus, the ripple on the rills, But if I had all the words of all the worlds at my command, I couldn't paint a pidure of the Canyon of the Grand. K. HOOPER, G.P.&T.A. Denver, Colorado F. A. WADLEIGH, A. G. P. & T. A. Denver, Colorado I. A. BENTON, G. A. P. D* Salt Lake City, Utah