History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

693 SETTLEMENTS, SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION.
petrifactions, fossils, and obsidian; Indian weapons,
scalps, ornaments, pottery, wampum, and the boat in
which Kit Carson crossed the waters of great Salt
Lake—the first craft launched by white man into the
Dead Sea of the West. 21
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Other prominent buildings in Salt Lake Cit} r , and
many points of interest within easy reach of the capital,
as Great Salt Lake, the mineral springs, Fort
Douglas, Parley's park, the Cottonwoods, Ensign and
Twin peaks, Echo canon, American Fork canon—the
so called Yosemite of Utah—have been described for
the most part in other portions of this volume, and in
many of the countless volumes that have been written
concerning the Mormons.
In order to see Salt Lake City at its best, one should
stroll about three o'clock in the afternoon through
Main and Temple streets, which are to this city what
Market and Kearny streets are to San Francisco.
At that time the spacious sidewalks are crowded
with well-dressed women passing to and fro among the
shops, prominent among which stands out the Zion's
cooperative store, or, as it is usually termed, "Zion's
Coop." In no part of the city, or elsewhere in Utah,
are there signs of abject poverty, and there are few
beggars, tramps, or drones, the idle and dissolute being
discountenanced by the community. 22
a Sala's America Revisited, ii. 295; Bonwick's Mormons and Silver Mines,
18-21; Gaz. of Utah, 1S74, 178; S. L. C. Tribune, Jan. 1, 5, 1878; S. L. C.
Herald, Sept. 13, 1878. In 1S82 occurred the death of Joseph L. Barfoot, for
several years curator of the museum. Born at Warwick Castle, England, and,
as he claimed before his decease, legitimate heir to one of the greatest earldoms
in the realm, his ancestry being traced back on the father's side to
Robert Bruce of Scotland, and on the mother's to Bishop Bidley, he enlisted
in the marines, probably on account of some family quarrel. His discharge
being procured, he joined his father, who was superintendent of the Mormon
Mission in London, and in 1856 Joseph joined the Mormon church. S. L. City
Contributor, iii. 250-2; Campbell, Circular Notes, i. 62, states that his father
was merely tutor at Warwick Castle.
22 For descriptions of S. L. City in 1SS3-4, see The Mormon Metropolis;
in 1881, Sala's Amer. Revisited, 290-317 (with cut); Hollister's Res. and Attract,
of Utah, 73-6; in 1879, N. Y. Observer, in Portland Wkly Christ. Advoc,
Feb. 6, 1879; in 1S78, Marshall's Through Amer., 163-82; in 1877, Boyer's
from Orient to Occident, 61-3; Musser's Fruits of Mormonism, 3, 11; Leslie's
Cat., 7-4-5, 91-5, 103; Taylor's Summer Savory, 20-1; in 1876, Jackson's Bits
of Travel at Home, 19-22; in 1875, Williams' Pac. Tourist, 132-40, 150-2;