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Show 9o SALT LAKE VALLEY people had passed, the work was stopped, and the defences of the city were not completed. We cannot now " walk about Zion and consider her bulwarks," for even those that once existed have been allowed to crumble, and wash away,, and only fragments remain to mark the places where the de fences were once building. The large majority of the houses in Salt Lake City are small, one- story frame or adobe tenements, but there are many handsome residences and fine stores. The latter are built of red sandstone, obtained in the vicinity, or of adobes, plastered and painted in imitation of masonry. There are residences in Salt Lake City that would attract attention, from their fine appearance, in the western district of New Orleans, and the store of Mr. Jennings, a Mormon mer chant, would be creditable to Canal street. A very large proportion of the houses, off the business streets, are sur rounded by gardens, varying in size from the original lots to a quarter of an acre, and in these grow fruit- trees of several varieties, often entirely surrounding the houses, which, ex cept on Main street, are required to be set back several feet from the front line of the lot. Almost every family raises its own table vegetables, and the market is supplied with all kinds of fruit and berries, in season, from the gardens within the city limits. But little rain falls in Salt Lake City, or indeed anywhere in the valley, hence it is necessary to secure moisture for vegetation in some other way. This is done by irrigation. The gardens in the city are watered by streams from the mountains, to the east and northeast, which are so con ducted as to run along the streets. The ditches cut for these streams make it as unpleasant to drive through the streets of Salt Lake City, as in the national capital, where they are about as badly cut up with uncovered gutters. Little drains are dug leading into all the gardens, and water conducted to them according to the demands of the things cultivated. For this irrigating water the property- holder is charged just as he would be for Croton water on his premi ses in New York. The supply as at^ present conducted to |