. Salt Lake City: where to go and what to see . Palace, glitter-ing with crystals from the Great Salt Lake, stands atthe foot of Main Street, and, north of the city, arehot and warm springs which would be far-famed fortheir baths and curative properties were they locatedin some difficult-to-reach place. The house in whichMaude Adams was born is only a short distance fromthe business center, and, near the Temple, under thelabel of the All-Seeing Eye, is the great Cooperativestore of the Mormons—the largest mercantile insti-tution in the West. The beauty and breadth of Salt Lakes streets,with th
. Salt Lake City: where to go and what to see . Palace, glitter-ing with crystals from the Great Salt Lake, stands atthe foot of Main Street, and, north of the city, arehot and warm springs which would be far-famed fortheir baths and curative properties were they locatedin some difficult-to-reach place. The house in whichMaude Adams was born is only a short distance fromthe business center, and, near the Temple, under thelabel of the All-Seeing Eye, is the great Cooperativestore of the Mormons—the largest mercantile insti-tution in the West. The beauty and breadth of Salt Lakes streets,with their trimmings of trees and running streams,have long been the admiration of travelers. Theseconnect with canon drives that lead through pictur-esque scenes to never-melting snows, and shadedroads that thread the fruitful valley of the Jordan. The Utah Light and Railway Com-SIGHT-SEEING pany operates a system of sight-CARS seeing cars that afford an inex- pensive and comfortable means ofcovering the principal points of interest in Salt Lake;. SALT LAKE CITY and this service is recommended to those whose timefor going about is limited. The cars, in charge ofwell-informed guides, start from the leading hotelsat 10:00 oclock in the morning and 2:00 oclock inthe afternoon. Eleven miles west of the city, andUTAHS easily reached by rail, lies the DEAD SEA Great Salt Lake, Utahs star attrac- tion—the grand, gloomy, peculiarfeature of the topography. This water-wonder hasalways been more or less of a mystery to man-kind. Geologists trace it back to Lake Bonneville —an inland sea larger than Lake Huron — that oneprimordial day washed over Utah and, ages ago,broke down its mountain barriers and flowed awayto the Pacific, The remnant of that sea, reduced bycenturies of evaporation, now lies dead and desolateout in the desert. Vague accounts of the lake dateback to the sixteenth century; but its real discoveryis credited to Jim Bridger, who first saw it from thesouth of Bear River,
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