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Show 96 SALT LAKE VALLEY, & c of other firms who have no sympathy with Mormonism, that conduct a large and profitable business. The firm I first mentioned have apostatized from the faith and left the church. The immediate cause of the rupture was Brig-ham Young's dissatisfaction with the amount of tithing they paid, he claiming that it was not one- tenth of their entire profits. This is one striking instance of a growing dissatis faction arising from this church extortion. The amount of business done in Salt Lake City will probably astonish most of my readers. In 1865 the purchases of Jennings amounted to $ 460,000 ; while there are half- a- dozen firms at least, that exceeded $ 200,000 in their purchases, and this is the cost of the goods in the East, to which must be add ed the immense cost of transportation from the Atlantic almost across the continent. There are also several photographic establishments in the city, all owned by Mormons. Savage & Ottinger have the best, and are really good artists. They probably realize a much larger income from the sale of views, and cards of the distinguished men in the church, than from the work they do for individuals. They charge five dollars a dozen for the cards they keep for sale, and the same if an individ ual has a sitting. Large as is the business done by these merchants, many will be surprised to learn that their stores are conducted upon the plan of country and village stores in the States. Every variety of goods, wares and implements are sold in each establishment, and to Jennings' is added the business of the broker also. In the same store, a customer may purchase anything, from a threshing- machine to a box of Ayers' pills; from a costly silk dress, or pair of white satin slippers, to a sack of potatoes or a pound of brown soap ; and the articles purchased may be paid for in coin, gold dust, greenbacks, Mormon shinplasters, flour, grain, pump kins, cabbages, etc. Such articles of produce form the cir culating medium everywhere. A saint from the country will bring in a load of pumpkins, and cabbage, and first he will turn in the tenth of them to the tithing office ; then he will make his purchases at the stores, and pay for them in the |