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Show • a a narrow strip of arable land between the Lake and the mountains. To the east things are rather better. To the south are th3 lovely valleys of the Jordan and the Tuilla, well watered and covered with rich grass. Then it rains in the valleys, snow frequently lies in the ravines to the depth of a hundred feet. The pasture land in the valley bottoms is adapted to agriculture. Potatoes ... and turnips flourish. If we assume that the acre of ploughed land will yield two thousand pounds of wheat flour, each square mile will support about "< four thousand persons, deducting one half for pasturage, and thus covering the demand for meat. The territory .. can support a million souls. " In central Utah there are three salt lakes, the largest of which is so strongly impregnated with salt that persons bathing in its waters only sink in to their shoulders. ... At various spots springs of different temperature are found close together, some hot, some cold, some saline - others sulpurlc or containing iron, while others are good for drinking." |