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Show 92 SALT LAKE VALLEY Gentile. The tithing offices, where tithes are paid in prod uce, is on the side of the square facing west, and is a long row of one- story buildings. In rear of Mr. Young's resi dence is the church store, where the faithful may purchase on credit what they require, and pay for it in produce or otherwise, as best suits their convenience, when rendering the yearly account of their stewardship. There is also a school- house in the inclosure, where the younger Youngs' young ideas are taught to shoot. Within the inclosure which surrounds all these buildings> and takes in a number of acres, grow some of the choicest variety of the peach, pear and apple. These fruit are ex cellent, and so are the strawberries and raspberries, which are also largely cultivated in the city ; but the grape has not reached that degree of excellence that characterizes the others. Most of these buildings, when erected, were palaces com pared to others in Zion, ( particularly the Lion House, which is said to have cost $ 65,000), and for neatness and solid substantial appearance, they are ahead of the more recently constructed residences of other dignitaries in the church, some of which present a very fine appearance. Some of the Mrs. Youngs, I am told, live without the defences of their husband, and occupy private residences in other parts of the city. Temple Square is next west of that in which the Prophet resides, Main street running between. It is to contain the Temple and Tabernacle. The former has been fifteen years ' building, and is now only a few feet above ground. The plan of the building makes it to be one hundred and eighty-six and a half feet long, from east to west, and ninety- nine feet from north to south. There are to be towers on the four corners, and centre towers, also, a little taller than the others, on the east and west ends, all of which project but slightly above the roof, and are to be one hundred and ninety and two hundred feet high. Cuts of the Temple as it is to be, or rather as it is planned to be, make it a massive, substantial- looking edifice, it |
