The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-13
RESOURCES AND ATfRAC-
TIONS OF UTAH.
AS Inviting the Attention of Tour
lists and Those Seeking Per-
maneHt Homes
BY o. J. HoLLIsTER.
GENERAL VIEW.

1. area, TopogrGphy.-Utah Ter
ritory lies in the latitude Of Mis-
souri,. about two-thirds of the way
from St. Louis to San Francisco. 1t
embraces ffty-four million acres
of land. Only that which can be
artiGcially watered is really arabic.
The Wasatch Mountains iRtsrseet it
from north to south, dividingit into
two substantially equal parts OF
the part lying east of this range and
drained by the Green and Colorado
Rivers and their tributaries little
use has vet been made. 1t is noun
famous, its valleys are mile above
tide-water, it has some arabic and
considerable grazing land, with ex-
fensiye coal fields lying along the
Southern slope of the Uintah and
the eastern Slope Of the Wasatch
ranges. The settlements are few
and small. The Denver and Rio
Grande Western is now construct
ing a railroad through it, Joining
Colorado and Utah, Which Will
make it accessible and its resources
available.
.. SettZenaei1tS.-The settled part
lies along the western base of the
Wasatch Mountains, between them
and Salt Lake and Lake Utah, in
Cache, Sanpete and a score Of val
leys: wherever indeed a stream
flashes into the sunshine from the
gloom of mountain gorge, is caught
and trailed in thousand rills upon
the thirsty land. Salt Lake Basin
extends from beyond Nephi to Bear
River Gates, two hundred miles. 1t
includes Salt Lake ana Utah Lake,
has the general altitude Of the ALE
ghany Mountains, and is the para
disc of the farmer, the horticulture
ist, and the fruit-grOwer. Cache
Valley lies to the northeast, San
pete Valley to the southeast, OF Salt
Lake Valley. They are noted grain
producing sections, but having
colder winters and shorter seasons
are not so we'll adapted to fruit
growing as Salt Lake Basin. The
Sewer River rises in Panguitch
Lake. far south, and flows north
ward, finally breaking out Of the
mountains and losing itselfin the
sink Of Sewer Lake. It's upper
course is settled, wherever tribu-
taries enter from adjoining noun
tain ranges.
3. The Desert.-The western third
Of Utah is mountain, desert, sink,
and lake, with few GASES OF graz .ng
or of possible arabic land. In the !
northern part Of the territory the |
Wasatch is high and massive, there
is large accumulation Of snow in |
winter, and the streams are cores |
pondingly large and numerous. In |
the southern part the range is lower |
and less in mass, it is warmer and
there is little snow, smaller and
fewer streams, and more desert in |
proportion. The isolated ranges in |
the Great Basin give rise to no |
streams Of importance, and the val |
Ieys are largely desert. But all the
mountains appear to be full OF min
eral ores, and there is usually water
enough to mine and reduce them.
CLIMATE.
1. Statie teal. In the lower val
.evs the climate is mild and salubTi-
Gus. The atmosphere is dry, elastic,
transparent, and bracIng. The tenn
compares favoTably in re-
5pect Of equability with that Of the
country at large. and certainly with
hat Of adjacent territories. The
table gives the annual and |
mean temperature; its
maximum. minimum, and range;
the annual and seasonal rainfall,
of moisture and
lumber of days on which there
S precipitation-all being the mean
# the eight years1873-168O, obser-
rations at United States Signal
Service Station, Salt Lake City: