The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . y, noted for its tortuous, windingcourse. After flowing about 150 miles it joins theOhio, 17 miles of Louisville. The derivation ofthe phrase sent up Salt River or rowed upSalt River, as applied to a defeated politicalparty, has been variously explained,one of the bestexplanations placing the origin of the phrase in1832, when Henry Clay, candidate for President,having an engagement to speak in Louisville,Kentucky, hired a boatman, who turned out tobe a Jacksonian Democrat, to row him up theOhio River.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . y, noted for its tortuous, windingcourse. After flowing about 150 miles it joins theOhio, 17 miles of Louisville. The derivation ofthe phrase sent up Salt River or rowed upSalt River, as applied to a defeated politicalparty, has been variously explained,one of the bestexplanations placing the origin of the phrase in1832, when Henry Clay, candidate for President,having an engagement to speak in Louisville,Kentucky, hired a boatman, who turned out tobe a Jacksonian Democrat, to row him up theOhio River. The boatman, pretending to lose hisway, rowed Clay up Salt River instead, so that thelatter did not reach his destination till the nextday—just in time ta hear of his defeat. SALT LAKE. See Utah, Vol. XXIV, pp. 19,20. SALT LAKE CITY, a city of Utah. Salt LakeCity in 1890 was the center of five railroads, theGreat Salt Lake and Hot Springs, the Rio GrandeWestern, the Salt Lake and Los Angeles, the Union * Illinois, Kentucky,West Virginia. Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Texas and. MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE CITY. Pacific and the Utah Central. Since 1880 two nota-ble buildings have been completed: the city andcounty building, completed in 1894 at a cost of$900,000, and the Great Temple, a massive struc-ture of granite, 40 years in course of construc-tion, estimated to have cost not far from $12,-000,000, completed April 6, 1892, and formallydedicated just one year later, on the sixty-thirdanniversary of the organization of the Mormonchurch. The Temple is one of a group of build-ings, including the assembly hall and tabernacle,I occupying a tract of ten acres in the heart of the SALTO —SALTUS- 657 city, and the building from beginning to end wasthe work of Mormons. It has an extreme lengthof 186^ feet, a width of 99 feet, and with thetowers covers an area of 21,850 square feet. Theloftiest tower is 222 feet 6 inches high, 26 feetsquare at the base, and is surmounted by astatue
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