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Show MANUFACTURES- EDUCATION. 143 similarly composed and commanded, succeeded, with one hundred and thirty men and families, in planting the settlement at Little Salt Lake, which is represented as being now in a very flourishing condition. The succeeding March, a third party, with a hundred and fifty wagons, left the capital for the purpose of establishing a settlement in the southern part of California. It was to be situated at no great distance from San Diego, and near Williams's ranche and Cahone Pass, between which and Little Salt Lake it is designed to establish other settlements as speedily as possible. By means of these successive places of refreshment, the incoming emigration from the Pacific will be enabled to " go from strength to strength" till they reach the Zion of their hopes. At Salt Lake City itself, energetic measures are being taken for opening a woollen factory, the raw material being furnished from sheep raised in the'valley, to the grazing of which the mountain slopes are admirably adapted, and whose production has already attracted the attention of this energetic and far- seeing people. A pottery for the manufacture of earthenware is completed; and cutlery establishments have been successfully commenced. Extensive arrangements are going forward for raising the sugar- beet, which, under such favourable circumstances, cannot but prove successful ; and ere long it is confidently anticipated that a sufficient quantity of sugar will be manufactured from it to meet all their wants. At present they are supplied with this article and other groceries, as well as with dry- goods and clothing, from extensive stocks brought in by enterprising merchants from the States; but the policy of the people is to provide for their own wants by their own skill and industry, and to dispense, as much as possible, with the products of the labour of others. While all these exertions are making for the physical development of a new empire among, the mountains, the mental elevation of the people by education has been by no means lost sight of. Liberal appropriations of land and money have been made for the establishment of an university, the grounds for which are laid out and enclosed, being situated on one of the terraces of the mountain overlooking the city. A normal school, designed for the education of those who desire to become teachers, is already in successful operation. School- houses have been built in most of the districts, both in the city and country, which are attended by old as well as young, and every effort is made to advance the mental improvement of the people. |