TEBRTTOBIE8, U. 8. 



TEXAS. 



713 



acres of land under cultivation, and tho total 

 iBnOfl T I vain.- of property, ival and personal, is 

 -, 1 is. 'Vh,'. dcl.i is $57,555.10. 



I'll' 1 ' but little attention in tli-- 



ritory, til.- people being too busy to i 



do Mot, colic. Tli tli.-ir pri\a'" inl.T- 



the election in September the 

 1 l,ti'J'J. \vhicli was larger than any 

 :>.>!lcd by a Territory wc-t of i : 

 River previous to a State organization. Tliis 

 :i population of over 85,000. 

 : .iirh. Di'inocrat, was elected to Congress 

 rijority of 1,108. The Legislature is cn- 

 Demooratio in both branches, with the 

 ion of one Republican member of tho 

 Ho . 



New Mexico. An election was held in this 



Territory during the year fora Delegate to Con- 



Tlio total vote given was 17,685, of 



which Charles P. Glover, Democrat, received 



votes, and J. F. Oliaves, Republican, 



8,794 votes; majority for Clever, 97. The 



prosperity of tho Territory is increasing, and 



its civil and political affairs continue without 



i;ny important change since the previous year. 



* Utah. The Territory or' Utah has increased 

 in .population and thrift during the year, but 

 no change has occurred in civil or public affairs. 

 The principal city is Salt Lake. Its inhabit- 

 ants, institutions, and architecture are regu- 

 lated by tho great authorities of the Mormon 

 religious faith. The most important buildings 

 are tho Temple and the Tabernacle. The Tem- 

 ple block is fortyrods square and contains ten 

 acres. Tho centre of the Temple is one hun- 

 dred and fifty-six and a half feet west of the 

 east line of the block. Tho entire length of 

 the building is one hundred and eighty-six and 

 a half feet, including towers, and the width 

 ninety-nine feet. On tho east or front end 

 there are three towers, and corresponding to 

 these are three towers on the west or rear end. 

 The north and south walls are eight feet thick, 

 clear of pedestal. They stand upon a foot wall 

 sixteen feet wide at the bottom, which slopes 

 three feet on eacli side to tho height of seven 

 and a half. feet. The footings of the towers" 

 rise to the same height as those of the sides, 

 and consist of a solid piece of masonry of rough 

 ashlars laid in good mortar. The basement of 

 the main building is divided into many apart- 

 ments by walls all resting on broad footings. 

 The line of the basement and floor is six inches 

 above tho top of tho footings. Of the towers 

 named there are four, one at each corner of the 

 building, cylindrical in shape, seventeen feet ill 

 diameter inside, within which stairs ascend 

 five feet wide, with landings at the various sec- 

 tions of the building. The whole house covers 

 an area of 21,850 square foot. The m:iv-ive 

 blocks of stone on which tho foundations of the 

 Temple are built are granite, hauled a distance 

 of nearly twenty miles, the teams and the labor 

 being furnished by the Saints. It was at one 

 time the purpose of Brigham Young to turn a 

 neighboring river over to the quarry, and 



build a canal on which to transport tho 



ktolle. 



<,uite as interesting as tho Temple U the 

 Mormon 'I'a'u-niacle, which is built for the Hie 

 of the immense Mormon congregations \ 



.day to hear preaching from the 

 Prophet Hrighaiu Young and his associated 

 apo.-tl.-. It N in i,ian\ : <o most re- 



markable building on the continent of America. 

 It stands on the, Temple block, west of the Tem- 

 pi . Wo may state that it is oval in shape, tbo 

 interior b.-ing. above and below, and all around, 

 shaped b'ko the inside of an egg. It is two 

 hundred and eighty-two feet lonur by one, hun- 

 dred and thirty-two wide in the clear. The 

 height from floor to ceiling is sixty-five feet; 

 running lengthwise of this egg-shaped affair are 

 forty-four pillars, averaging fourteen feet in 

 height, and three feet thick. Resting upon 

 these pillars are arches of lattice-work and 

 ribs, and each rib requires twenty-four thou- 

 sand feet of lumber. Each rib has a rise in 

 the centre of fifty-five feet. Tho entire Tab- 

 ernacle consumed one and a half million feet 

 of lumber in the building. It will seat ten 

 thousand people. The stand from which the 

 apostles deliver themselves is advanced about 

 sixty-five feet from the west end, being about 

 in one of the foci of the elliptical structure. 

 This stand is divided into sections for tho bish- 

 ops, tho president, tho twelve apostles, and the 

 first president. 



One remarkable structure inside this immense 

 building is the grand organ, standing upon a 

 base twenty-three feet wide by thirty deep. 

 Tho 'front of the organ is octagonal in form, 

 rising to the height of forty-five feet. It con- 

 tains twenty-two hundred pipes, two banks of 

 keys, and thirty-five stops on the register. It 

 contains three thousand five hundred feet of 

 lumber, which was brought on wagons from 

 Iron County, a distance of three hundred miles. 

 The longest piece of lumber used in the pipes 

 of the organ is thirty-five feet. 



Washington. Tho valleys in this Territory 

 are very productive, and already large crops of 

 wheat and other grains are produced. The es- 

 timated population is 15,000. At the election 

 in June the total vote for Delegate to Congress 

 was 4,640. Alvan Flanders, Republican, was 

 chosen by a majority of 96. The Legislature is 

 divided thus: Council Democrats 53, Re- 

 publicans 4 ; House Democrats 16, Repub- 

 licans 14. 



TEXAS. Owing to the unsettled condition 

 of political affairs, the material interests of this 

 State have not been greatly advanced during 

 the year. Reliable labor has been obtained 

 with difficulty, and crops have suffered from 

 untoward seasons and tho depredations of in- 

 sects. In some portions of the State cotton 

 was greatly injured by the worm, while in 

 others grasshoppers almost entirely destroyed 

 tho products of tho field. The yellow fever 

 prevailed with groat fatality at Galveston and 

 other cities, and many fell victims to its viru- 



