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Show 142 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. of Indians. The Timpanagos mountains are near the city: " Emigration Canon" is the gate (a low depression in the mountains) through which the great tide of emigration flows into the Yalley of Great Salt Lake. The River Jordan runs through the valley and empties into Great Salt Lake. The city is thirty miles from the Lake, and the valley is entirely surrounded with high mountains topped with snow, winter and summer. The governor's residence, a large wooden building of sufficient capacity to contain his extensive family-nineteen wives and thirty-three children, was nearly finished. I made a daguerreotype view of it, and also a drawing. The court house is a large square building, on the east side, opposite the Temple square. The post office occupies the corner on the south side; The Tabernacle, an unpretending one story building, occupies a portion of the Temple square. The Temple is in course of building-the foundation, is laid-and I was allowed to see the plan projected by a Mr. Angell, who by inspiration has succeeded in producing an exact model of the one used by the Mel-chizedek Priesthood, in older times. The theatre, a well built modern building, is opposite to the governor's house on the north, and is the property of the church as are all the public buildings. I may say all the real estate in the valley is the property of the church, for proprietors have only an interest in property so long as they are members of the Mormon Church, and reside in the valley. The moment they leave or apostatize, they are obliged to abandon their property, and are precluded from selling it, or if they do give the bill of sale it is not valid-it is not tenable |