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Show 26 EMIGRANTS' AND SETTLERS' GUIDE - THE TERRITORY OF UTAH. Area, I 00,382 Square Miles 68 386 o60 Capital, Great Salt Lak~ City' pacrols-. Population, no,ooo. - opu atwn, 15,000. theU tya h t Terrhit ory' so caI I e d fir om I. ts Indi.a n settlers n a-t ose that dwell in th . ' organized by Act f C e mountains-was prises a large exte~t ~nf{ess, Sept. 9, 1850. It com" great basin of N tho A e ?ountry lying within the M . or mer1ca " west of th R k Te~~~~~i~:· ol~~l~~~~~ll!n~n~~~:~a~ portion o/the ~e~ BOUNDARIES. It is bounded on the north b th . Montanad, on the east by Coloralo, 0 : ~:: s~:iliitoyr~ ~f zona, an on the west by Nevada. II-HISTORY, SETTLEMENT, ETC. meTnht eo Mf Noarmuvoonos ' ianf tIelrr the. i r expu1 S ·i on fir om their settle-and having loc~ted o~lO;:' e~ugdated to this Territory, Lake, assumed a provision~! zr ers f of the Great Salt gave to their Territory the nam~r::; ~e ~~_;ern~~Ient, and In 1850, as above stated this :D • f G ate o Deseret. surrendered, and the na~e of t~mTo . overnment was Utah. e errltory changed to Settlements were made in Utah 1 It originally formed part of M ~sea~ Y as July, 1847. of Guadalupe Hidal 0 in exi.co, ut by the peace United States. "Th~ ' 184 ~, It was ceded to the 184'7 has grown and l~~m&a::ttvely 8!llall beginning in ments extend a distance ~f 50~d, ~1ntll now the settle .. mi es north and south· ' TO THE NEW STATES AND TERRITORIES. 27 and wherever a valley can be found that can be watered, there you will find the industrious, uncomplaining settler, making an honest living in the way most congenial to nature and most conducive to health, by the culti vation of the soil. Not only are the ordinary vegetables and cereals produced, but in the southern part of the Territory they are raising cotton, and last year exported some tons to the States, the product of free white lauor, thereby removing the objection of some of our Eastern friends to the use of this necessary article. In a 'vord, the desert has been converted into the fruitful field, and the frowns of nature exchanged for smiles and gladness." PHYSICAL ASPECT, CLIMATE, AND SOIL. The country for the most part is mountainous, interspersed with valleys, which can only be cultivated by irrigation. The melting of the snow in the mountains affords in ordinary seasons sufficient water to cultivate the valleys successfully. The summers are very warm and dry ; the winters mild and open. The fall of snow is light in the valleys and heavy in the mountains. The climate may be said to be invigorating and healthful, fevers and pulmonary complaints being almost unknown. The soil, which, to a very great extent, is formed of the mountain washings, consists principally of a gravelly loam, and is well adapted to the growth of wheat and other cereals. PRODUCTS, ETC. Wheat is indeed tlie great staple product of the Territory. In good seasons the average yield per acre is about forty bushels. Sixty to seventy bushels arc not unfrequently obtained; and in son1e instances as high as eighty bushels have been raised from a single acre. Reports of the present season (1864) represent the summer as cool and moist, and the prospects favorable for abundant crops. . |