main portion of the city is laid out in blocks of 10 acres each; the streets run at right angles and are 132 feet wide. Being in the arid belt, all vegetation depends upon irrigation, but nevertheless it is a city of gardens, shadetrees and flowers. The city is a central station for the Rio Grande Western Railroad, the southern terminus of the Oregon Short Line Railroad of the Union Pacific system, the eastern terminus for the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and the Western Pacific from San Francisco.

The trade of the city is very great, extending over Utah, western Wyoming, southern Idaho and eastern Nevada. The great mining districts of Park City, Big Cottonwood, Tintic, Bingham, are none of them more than three or four hours' ride from the city; the great smelters are in the valley only eight miles away. and Salt Lake is the general depot and clearing-house for their business. The miners from all over Utah and far into Nevada and Idaho send their ores to Salt Lake smelters for reduction, and purchase their supplies in the city. The bullion purchased in the city aggregates $25,000,000 annually. There are 20 banks in the clearing-house, five savings banks and several loan associations. The total clearings for all the banks in 1915 amounted to $350,000,000. The Salt Lake Mining and Stock Exchange, one year, sold 10,169,741 shares that aggregated $6,165,323.15. The Lehi Sugar Factory, the chief ownership and business of which is in Salt Lake, one year made from 70,000 tons of beets, 23,000,000 pounds of sugar. The Salt Works on the lake shore, and owned in the city, manufacture annually 60,000,000 pounds of salt, valued at $300,000. The Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution sells goods to the amount of about $6,000,000 annually. The product of its shoe factory amounts to over $1,000,000. The manufacturing establishments include car shops, boot and shoe factories, machine shops, foundries, cement and lime works, harness works, lumber yards, cigar and tobacco factories, and confectionery plants. The total products exceed $30,000,000 annually and employment is furnished about 10,000 persons.

The city has many fine structures. The joint city and county building is a most attractive building and cost, with furnishments, $800,000. The Mormon Church has recently constructed their Administration Building costing about $1,000,000. It is 165 feet in length by 102 feet in width, and four stories in height. For architectural effect it is one of the most beautiful office buildings in the United States. It is built of white Utah granite and the interior is finished in marble and onyx. The city has many imposing business blocks; some of the homes are palatial; the public schoolhouses are among the noblest in the country. Both the Episcopal and Catholic denominations have great hospitals, and the Latter Day Saints have a commodious hospital. There are private hospitals, as well as beautiful homes, for the poor and needy. The Saint Ann's orphanage, just south of the city, is a home and school for orphans and indigent children. The first known surgical operation for the removal of gall stones was performed in Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City. The Latter Day Saints' College occupies several imposing structures, one of which

is a Memorial Hall built in honor of Brigham Young. The Utah State University has a commanding site on the bench east of the city. The Military Post of Fort Douglas is three miles east of the centre of the city at an altitude 600 feet above Main street. There are two theatres in Salt Lake, one built by the people several years ago, prior to the coming of the railroad. A Home Dramatic Company was formed; instructors were sent for; there was plenty of native talent; the theatre was a success; the Home Dramatic Company still flourishes. One result has been that Salt Lake has more firstclass musical talent than any other city of its size in America. The tabernacle choir of 500 voices has a national reputation. The organist in the tabernacle, the leader of the orchestra in the theatre, are both native Utahans. At the great jubilee celebration in 1897 there were 18 native martial bands in the procession.

Since 1847 Salt Lake City has been the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (see MORMONS), the home of the president and many of the high officers of the Church; the place where the semi-annual general conferences of the Church meet in April and October. The temple, the tabernacle and assembly hall (for winter services and for meetings of the priesthood and consultation), with the temple annex, occupy a square. The tabernacle is a unique structure, 150 feet by 250 feet in size, roofed like a beehive, the roof arches being without support over the structure, with comfortable seating capacity for 8,000 people, though not infrequently 10,000 people gather there. It has one of the finest pipe organs in America. It is the chief place of worship for the Mormon people. though each of the wards of the city has a meeting-house where services and Sunday schools are held every Sabbath morning, and evening meetings during the week. The temple is one of the most splendid structures in America. Its walls are of gray Wasatch granite, in solid blocks nine feet thick at the bottom, six feet thick at the top, with a foundation 16 feet thick and 16 feet deep. The building is 1861⁄2 feet long by 99 feet wide, and is 1072 feet high from foundation to cap stone, while towers and pinnacles extend 50 feet higher. The ground was consecrated and work begun in 1853; it was finished and dedicated in 1893. It is used for marriages, baptisms and all the rites and ceremonials of the Mormon Church. Since its dedication only the faithful are permitted to enter it. It cost, with furnishments, about $4,000,000.

About half of the people are Latter Day Saints. They have over 40 places for public worship. In 1876 the Roman Catholics established a mission in Salt Lake, a little later built a church and hospital. They now have charge of the great Holy Cross Hospital, the Saint Ann Orphanage, Saint Mary's Academy. Their cathedral is one of the finest and largest in the West - fully completed. A Protestant Episcopal Church was founded in Salt Lake in 1867, and two years later a hospital. It now conducts the hospital, has a church and a cathedral and carries on Rowland Hall, a modern highclass seminary for girls and young women. The Methodists came in 1869. They have five churches in the city, and a number of lesser

Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Mormon Temple, at the right, Tabernacle in centre, Assembly Hall at the left, Pioneer (Brigham Young) Monument in foreground