White, Uintah and San Rafael are tributary to Green river. The Rio Virgin, in the southwest, joins the Colorado in Nevada. Among the lakes, the largest is the Great Salt Lake in the Northwest, which is seventy-five miles long and about thirty broad. Utah Lake is a beautiful sheet of fresh water, having an area of about 130 square miles, and closely hemmed in by mountains. It is connected with the Great Salt Lake by the Jordan river.
Bear Lake is on the Idaho border, and partly in that Territory.
The Sevier river, rising in the southern part of Utah, flows north for 150 miles, receiving the San Pete and other smaller streams, then bends southwest and forms Sevier Lake, about 100 miles south west of the Great Salt Lake. The climate for the most part is mild and healthful. The rainfall averages fifteen to sixteen inches per annum, and sometimes reaches twenty inches in the north. In the mountainous districts the winters are severe, and the snowfall is heavy. The manner of its settlement differed widely from that of other divisions of the Union.