Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

SALT LAKE C ITY.
peaked gable, narrow pointed garret windows projecting from
the steep roof, attract our notice. That house is occ )ied by
some seventeen or eighteen of Brigham Young's;~ (see
chapter on Brigham at Home). This house cost l over
$30,000, and would have cost more but for his mi^ od of
building it. It was completed and ready for shi!i;mig in
1845. The shingles were ready and waiting. At a Sunday
meeting in the Tabernacle, Brigham announced that le had a
mission for all the carpenters, and demanded if t!,:, would
accept it. They raised their hands, and were then clci commanded to "shingle the Lion House in the name of: Lord,
and by the authority of the holy priesthood." So BI:ham's
Lion House was shingled, for although the carpenters -,rumbled still they obeyed. A range of neat offices net please
the evye, and speak well of Mormon architectural ta.!e and
we arrive at Brigham's mansion. This is a large, hL. some
adobe6 building, excellently plastered, and dazzlingly. It
is balconied from ground to roof; on the top is an:,,servatory, and surmounting all is a bee-hive, the Morino: 5ymbol
of industry. This cost over $65,000, and is the beas edifice
in the Territory. It is occupied by Brigham's senio -be and
her family. Orchards and gardens lie behind and:( lnd it
On the hill to our right is the "White House," imerly
Brigham's. This and its adjoining grounds he late sold to
a rich Englishman for $25,500 in English sovereigns id presented the money to liquidate an old Church debt, Li for
money borrowed in emigrating the poor Saints to S Lake
City from Europe.
Struck with the fact that all the eligible property appears
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