hat Mormon industries should be patronised to the
exclusion of all others. The salt industry also is of much importance,
the Inland Crystal Salt Company having at great expense erected
elaborate machinery in order to work the salt marshes around the Great
Lake, and to obtain, under the best possible conditions, grey salt
which is converted into white in their refineries. Other corporations
under the presidency of the supreme head of the Mormon Church are the
"Consolidated Company of Railway Carriages and Engines," the "Sion
Savings Bank," the "Co-operative Society for Lighting and Transport,"
and the chief Mormon paper, the _Desert Evening News_, which is the
official organ of the church, and has a considerable circulation.

IV

These corporations are not only commercial or industrial institutions,
but are animated by a spirit that is pre-eminently fraternal. Their
heads are concerned with the well-being of every member, and material,
moral or intellectual assistance is given to all according to their
needs.

To each corporation is attached a "delegate," whose functions do not
appear to be of great importance, but who renders, in reality, services
of considerable value. The man who holds this post is one of
unimpeachable honesty and integrity, with a kind and conciliatory
disposition, chosen for these qualities to act as intermediary between
the bishop and the "saints" of all classes, from the highest to the
lowest. He has free entry into the Mormon homes, and is always ready
to give advice and counsel to any member of the church in his district;
and he even penetrates into the houses of the Gentiles, wherever a
Mormon, man or woman, may happen to be employed. Take, for instance,
the case of a young Scandinavian servant-girl, living with
"unbelievers." The mother, who had remained in Europe, wished to
rejoin her daughter, but the girl had not been able to raise more than
a third of the sum necessary to pay the expenses of the journey. The
delegate took note of this and referred the case to the bishop, who,
after inquiry, sent the old mother the required amount.

Again, two neighbours might be disputing over the question of the
boundary between their respective properties. The delegate would do
all in his power to settle the affair amicably, and to restore harmony;
and failing in this would bring the two parties concerned before the
bishop. Or there might be an invalid requiring medicine and treatment,
a