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December 1 .- Jedediah M. Grant died.
December 8 .- Legislature met in Fillmore, organized and adjourned to Great Salt Lake City.
December 18 .-- Legislature met in the Social Hall, Great Salt Lake City.
Beaver and Cache counties settled.
1857. January 4 .- Daniel H. Wells chosen second Coun- selor to President B. Young, in the place of J. M. Grant.
April 23 .- A company of about seventy missionaries start and cross the plains east with hand carts, making the trip in forty-eight days.
July 11 .- Alfred Cumming of Georgia appointed Governor of Utah.
July 24 .- Judge Stoddard arrives without the mails, the Postmaster at Independence having received orders not to
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forward them. General Harney, with two thousand infantry and a proportionate number of artillery and cavalry, ordered to Utah.
August 7 .- First part of the " Army of Utah," consisting of the Tenth Infantry and Phelps' Battery, arrive at Fort Kearney.
1858. March 21 .- The citizens of Great Salt Lake City, and the settlements north of it agree to abandon their homes and go south, all the information derived from eastern papers being that the approaching formidable army was sent to destroy them. Destination, when starting, supposed to be Sonora.
April 10. - Governor A. Cumming and Col. T. L. Kane, with a servant each, having left the " Army of Utah " to proceed to Salt Lake City, arrive with an escort of Mormons with whom they had accidentally met on the way.
April 15. - Governor Cumming reports having arrived and been treated everywhere " with respectful attention."
April 19. - Governor Cumming and Col. Kane visit the Utah library, where J. W. Cummings showed them the records and seal of the U. S. District Court, said to have been burnt up, which was one of the reasons why the army. was ordered to Utah.
June 7. - Powell and Mccullough, Peace Commission- ers, arrive in Great Salt Lake City.
Kane county settled.
1860. April 7. - George Q. Cannon chosen one of the Twelve Apostles.
1861. April 23. - Two hundred wagons, with four yoke of cattle each, carrying about 15,000 lbs. of flour, started for the Missouri river to bring on the poor of the immigra- tion.
October 18. - First telegram crosses the overland wire, from Utah, sent to President Abraham Lincoln by President Brigham Young.
October 24. - First telegram sent to San Francisco by President Brigham Young.
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1862. January 22. - Constitution again adopted, with memorial for admission of Utah as a State, with the name of " Deseret.". George Q. Cannon and W. H. Hooper elected to present them to Congress.
March 6. - Salt Lake Theatre dedicated.
May 21 .- Two hundred and sixty-two wagons, 293 teamsters, 2,880 oxen, carrying 143,315 lbs. of flour, sent from Utah to assist the poor of the immigration across the plains and mountains.
December 10. - Governor Harding delivers his annual message, extra copies of which the Legislature will not pub- lish, viewing it as insulting.
1863. January 29 .- Col. P. E. Connor attacks a band of Shoshone Indians in a ravine near Bear river, and defeats them. Known as Bear river battle.
March 22 .- Overland mail, with four passengers, attacked by Indians near Eight Mile Station, Tooele county. Driver killed and one passenger wounded. Judge Mott, who was in the coach, took the reins, drove for life, and escaped.
April 5 .- Battle of Spanish Fork canon, between 140 cavalry (C. V.), under Col. G. S. Evans, and 200 Indians. Lieut. F. A. Teale was killed. The Indians were defeated.
May 18 .- 384 wagons, 488 teamsters, 3,604 oxen, taking 225.969 lbs. flour, start to assist the poor of the immigration. 4,300 lbs. of Utah grown cotton sent East for sale with the teams dispatched to assist the immigration.
Rich and Wasatch counties settled.
1864. July 4 .- Daily Telegraph issued ; T. B. H. Stenhouse, proprietor and editor ; semi-weekly, issued Oct. 8, same year.
1865. January .- Sevier and Piute counties organized.
April 10 .- Proposition make to build a telegraph line in Utah.
June 5 .- Treaty made by Col. O. H. Irish with the prin- cipal chiefs in the Territory, at Spanish Fork, Reservation Farm.
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June 8 .- Hon. Schuyler Colfax and party arrive.
June 11 .- Colfax and party address the citizens in front of the Salt Lake House.
June 13 .- Governor Doty died.
July 24 .- Hon. J. M. Ashley addresses an audience in the Bowery, at the celebration on the territorial anniversary.
October .- First issue of the Deseret News, semi-weekly.
November, -First Hebrew marriage celebrated in Salt Lake city.
1866. May 31 .- First circumcision of Hebrew child in Salt Lake city.
June 11 .- Indian war. General Wells and militia start for Sanpete to protect the settlements there.
1867. March 21 .- Deseret Telegraph Company orga- nized.
July 19 .- Grasshoppers arrive in vast quantities.
October 6 .- First conference held in new Tabernacle.
November 21 .- Deseret Evening News issued.
1868. January 29 .- Act approved changing the names of Great Salt Lake city and county to Salt Lake city and Salt Lake county.
June. - Union Iron Company commence operations at Pinto, Iron county.
June 19 .- Ground broken on the U. P. R. R. in Weber cañon.
June 22 .- Heber C. Kimball, First Counselor to President Young, died.
Grasshoppers destroy a large portion of the crops in the Territory.
October 6 .- George A. Smith chosen First Counselor in place of Heber C. Kimball.
1869. January .- First General Directory of Salt Lake city compiled by E. L. Sloan.
February. - Cooperative merchandising introduced in Utah by President Brigham Young.
May 10 .- Completion of the great Pacific Railroad ; last rail laid and last spike driven at Promontory, Utah.
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May 17 .- Ground broken at Ogden for the Utah Central Railroad.
July 25 .- First shipment of Utah ore, being ten tons from the Monitor and Magnet mine, Little Cottonwood, shipped by Woodhull Bros. to T. H. Selby, San Francisco, $32.50 per ton being paid for freighting it to Uintah on the Union Pacific Railroad.
July 31 .- Woodhull Bros. make the first shipment of Utah copper ore, ten tons, from the Kingston mine, Bing- ham cañon.
August .- Grasshoppers destroy a large portion of the growing crops in Cache, Washington, Kane, and Iron coun- ties ; other parts of the Territory escape the visitation and gather abundant crops.
Mormon immigration from Europe this . season about 3,000.
October 8 .- A hundred and ninety Mormon missionaries called at the General Conference in Salt Lake City to go to. the different States of the Union and preach.
1870. January 1 .- Weekly Tribune newspaper issued.
January 10 .- Last rail of the Utah Central Railroad laid and last spike driven, at Salt Lake City, by President Brig- ham Young, in presence of 15,000 people.
January 12 .- Woodhull Bros. ship the first car-load of ore over the Utah Central Railroad.
January 13 .- Large mass meeting of and speeches by Mormon women, in the Old Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, to. protest against the passage of the Cullom anti-polygamy bill.
February 12 .- Woman suffrage bill, passed by the Utah Legislature, is approved by Acting Governor S. A. Mann, and becomes law.
March 29 .- J. Wilson Shaffer, recently appointed Gov- ernor of Utah, arrives.
June 5 .- First issue of the Salt Lake Daily Herald.
July .- S. A. Mann, Secretary, and C. C. Wilson, Chief Justice of Utah, removed by President Grant, Jas. B.
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McKean being appointed Chief Justice, and Vernon H. Vaughn, Secretary.
August 12 .- Discussion on polygamy between Rev. J. P. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, and Elder Orson Pratt, of the Mormon Twelve Apostles, commences in the New Tabernacle in Salt Lake City and continues three days.
September 1 .- First issue of the Salt Lake Herald, semi- weekly edition.
September 15 .- Governor Shaffer issues a proclamation forbidding the assembling of any body of armed men for drill as militia. The militia had been organized and had drilled regularly for eighteen years previously.
September 20 .- First run of crude bullion at the first smelting works built in Utalı, erected six miles south of Salt Lake by Woodhull Brothers.
October 3 .- Governor Shaffer dies and is succeeded by Vernon H. Vaughn.
1871. February 17 .- Governor George L. Woods, ap- pointed to succeed Governor Vaughn, arrives.
April 15 .- First issue of the Daily Tribune.
May 1 .- Ground broken for the Utah Southern railroad.
June 1 .- Seventieth birthday of President Brigham Young.
June 13 .- Great Methodist Camp Meeting ; closed on the 18th.
July 3 .- Militia forbidden to celebrate the national anni- versary of independence, by proclamation of Acting-Gover- nor Black.
July 20 .- Pioneer Mill, Ophir mining district - the first stamp mill erected in Utah - commenced running ; Walker Bro's, proprietors.
Type foundry started in connection with the Deseret News office.
First Utah edition - 2,500 copies- of the Book of Mor- mon printed.
October 2 .- President Brigham Young and others arrested
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on indietments charging them with lascivious cohabitation with their polygamous wives.
October 28 .- Daniel H. Wells, Mayor of Salt Lake City, arrested, charged with murder, on the testimony of the out- law Bill Hickman.
November 27. - Summit county Railroad Company organized.
1872. January 31 .- Concurrent resolution passed the Legislative Assembly for the election of delegates to a Convention to adopt a State Constitution.
Salt Lake City Street Railroad Company organized.
March 2 .- The Constitutional Convention adopt a Con- stitution and a Memorial to Congress, asking for the admis- sion of Utah into the Union as a State.
March 18. - Vote taken on adopting the Constitution, and sending the Memorial for Statehood to Congress : "For the Constitution," 25,324; " Against the Constitution," 368. Frank Fuller elected Representative in Congress in the event of admission.
April 6. - W. H. Hooper and Thomas Fitch elected United States Senators from the proposed State of Deseret, should it be admitted into the Union.
April 15. - Engelbrecht decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States, overturning the judicial proceed- ings in Utah for a year and a half, and declaring null indiet- ments against over a hundred and twenty persons.
May 2. - Constitution of the "State of Deseret " pre- sented to both branches of Congress without favorable action.
May 20. - Ground broken for the American Fork (nar- row gauge) railroad.
Territorial reports show valuation of taxable property in Utah at $17,590,560. Exports of ore and bullion for the twelve months, ending May 1st, $2,947,891 ; of wool, tallow, hides, pelts, peaches and salt, $127,000.
May 25. - Salt Lake City Gas Works Company organized.
June 1. - Woman's Exponent commenced publication.
July 1. - Salt Lake City street railroad opened.
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September 10. - Bingham Cañon & Camp Floyd railroad company organized.
October 14. - Wasatch & Jordan Valley railroad company organized.
November 26. - Germania Smelting and Refining Works, first of the kind in Utah, commenced operations. American Fork railroad completed to Deer Creek, its present terminus.
1873. January 31. - Utah Northern railroad completed to Logan.
May 3. - Wasatch & Jordan Valley railroad completed to Granite, mouth of Little Cottonwood cañon.
May 14. - First car load of coal shipped from Coalville over the Summit County railroad.
June 30. - Salt Lake City Gas Works manufacture gas.
July 7. - Salt Lake City first lighted with gas. Branch of U. N. R. R. to Corinne completed.
September 28. - Wasatch & Jordan Valley railroad makes its terminus at Fairfield Flat, in Little Cottonwood.
November 21. - U. S. R. R. makes its terminus at Provo. B. C. & C. F. R. R. completed to Bingham.
December. - Utah Posten, Danish, the first paper in Utah published in a foreign tongue, commences to issue.
1874. February 5. - Direct railroad connection between Ogden and Logan made by the U. N. R. R.
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NEW MAP OF UTAH.
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New Sectional, Topographical and Mineralogical
MAP OF UTAH TERRITORY,
1874.
Size, 40x56 inches. Scale, 8 miles to the inch. Elegantly engraved, and colored in Counties, mounted on cloth, half-mounted, and in pocket form.
Compiled by B. A. M. FROISETH, of the United States Surveyor General's Office, Salt Lake City, author of the first published map of Utah Ter., which was received with so much favor by the public.
THE SECOND EDITION will be issued on or about the Ist day of June, thoroughly revised, re-engraved and brought down to date, 1874.
This large and splendid Map, embracing the general topo- graphy of the Territory, was endorsed by the Territorial Legislature, and a subsidy granted to aid in its publication at their recent session, approved by his Excellency the Governor, and 100 copies ordered for the use of the Territory.
It will show 155 full and fractional townships of additional surveys which brings into market 1,760,968 acres of public land, that includes large tracts of coal and iron, besides other minerals, also the New Boundary Surveys between Utah, Idaho and Nevada, all the organized mining districts, routes of railroads complete, projected and under construction, etc., etc. ; and will be the only complete and reliable Map of the kind published, therefore, it should be in every office, library, college, school house and dwell- ing in Utah. For sale by all stationers. Orders supplied by the publisher,
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TERRITORY OF UTAH.
UTAH TERRITORY extends from the 37th to the 42d parallel of north latitude, and from the 109th to the 114th degree of west longitude, containing a superficial area of about 65,000 square miles. The surface of the country is very much broken, and the Territory consists mainly of mountain ranges with intervening valleys ; the latter very productive where sufficient water can be procured for irrigation, the aridity of the climate precluding the growing of crops by any other means. The mountains, so far as prospected, are found to contain extensive and valuable deposits of silver, lead, cop- per, iron, coal, zinc, cinnabar, antimony, and other minerals important in the arts and sciences, including gold in various parts of the Territory, found in sufficient quantity to pay for working ; while brimstone, saltpetre, gypsum, plumbago, and soda have also been discovered, and fire-rock, fire-clay, marble, granite, slate, red and white sandstone, limestone, and kindred formations, exist to an almost unlimited extent. Salt can be shoveled up in its crude state on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, the waters of the lake also yielding, by evaporation, almost a quarter of their weight in pure saline matter ; and rock salt abounds in different parts of the Ter- ritory, the southern extremity especially containing a remark- ably pure and transparent quality. The mineral products of the Territory will be found treated on more in detail, under the head MINING DISTRICTS.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, ETC.
During the session of the Legislature which met in Janu- ary, 1874, an act was passed establishing a Bureau of Statis- tics for Utah, through which, in future years, exact figures
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of the products of the Territory will be obtained. But, at present, only an approximation can be reached. In 1873, from data received by the Deseret Agricultural and Manu- facturing Society - Hon. Wilford Woodruff, President, Miss Joan M. Campbell, Secretary -it is estimated that 187,000 acres were under cultivation in Utah, of which about 110,000 acres were planted in cereals, nearly 12,000 acres in root crops, some 2,500 acres in fruit, and perhaps 50,000 acres in meadow. The average productiveness, per acre, is thus given from the same authority ; wheat, 22 bushels ; barley, 28₺ bushels ; oats, 32 bushels; corn 24 bushels ; potatoes, 122 bushels ; carrots, 797 bushels ; beets, 412 bushels ; hay, 12 tons. In some localities, 40 bushels of wheat to the acre is an average crop, while as high as 60 to 70 bushels have been harvested; in other localities, 1,000 bushels of carrots to the acre are frequently gathered, but an average taken from returns from the whole Territory, gives the figures furnished above. Fish culture has, within the past three years, been receiving some attention, and a Coöper- ative Fish Association formed, with Gen. A. P. Rockwood Superintendent of its fish farm, which is located a few miles from Salt Lake City, in a south-easterly direction. Super- intendent Rockwood's last report announces that 6,000 fry shad, received by him from Deputy U. S. Commissioner Livingstone Stone, have been planted in the Jordan river, running on the west side of Salt Lake City; that of 40,000 salmon eggs received from California, ninety per cent. had hatched out and are doing well ; that of a package of salmon trout eggs received from Seth Green, the American pioneer in fish culture, 651 had hatched out ; while a hatch of 8,000 native trout was doing well. This source of food-supply for the Territory promises to become important in a few years.
Mining, since 1870, has become one of the leading pursuits of Utah, which is, perhaps, the richest base-metal region in the world; the precious metals, particularly silver, yield- ing wealth which may be increased by development to a
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fabulous extent. The following, published a little over four years ago, is as correct now as it was then :
" Settlements were made in Utah as early as July, 1847. It originally formed part of Mexico, but by the treaty of Gaudaloupe Hidalgo, in 1848, it was ceded to the United States. The comparatively small beginning in 1847 has grown and lengthened, until now the settlements extend to a distance of three hundred miles north and south; and wherever a valley can be found that can be watered, there you will find the industrious, uncomplaining settlers, making an honest living in a way most congenial to nature and most conducive to health, by the cultivation of the soil. Not only are the ordinary vegetables and cereals produced, but in the southern part of the Territory they are raising cotton, the product of free white labor, thereby removing the ob- jection of some of our eastern friends to the use of this necessary article. In a word the desert has been converted into the fruitful field, and the frowns of nature exchanged for smiles of gladness.
" The country for the most part is mountainous, inter- spersed 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 generally 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 gravelly loam, and is well adapted to the growth of wheat and other cereals.
" Wheat is indeed the great staple product of the Territory. In good seasons the average yield per acre is about twenty- five bushels. Sixty to seventy bushels are not unfrequently
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obtained ; and in some instances as high as eighty bushels have been raised from a single acre.
" Oats, barley, rye, and flax are cultivated with great success.
" All kinds of vegetables grow astonishingly large, and of a superior quality.
"In Washington county, in the southern part of the Territory, large fields of cotton are cultivated, the growth of which will be sufficient in a few years to supply all the wants of the people. In 1863 quite a considerable quantity of cotton was exported to the States at remunerative prices.
" Madder, indigo, figs, grapes, and other tropical fruits are also raised in this part of the country.
" Timber is scarce, and being found only in the mountains and ' kanyons,' is very difficult of access. As a consequence of this, houses are costly to build, and rents are proportion- ately high.
" The climate and soil of Utah are particularly adapted to the production of fruit; and her citizens, no doubt, feel- ing the promptings of an internal as well as external nature, have improved their opportunities for cultivation. Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, grapes, currants and other fruits are produced, not only in great abundance, but of a superior quality.
" In addition to flouring and other mills necessary for the support of the Territory, woolen and cotton factories are being established in different parts of the country for home supplies."
PROPERTY VALUATION.
The Auditor's Reports for 1872-3 give the total value of assessed property in the Territory, in the former year, at $17,590,560, on which a territorial tax of $43,976.40 was levied; in the latter year at $21,548,348, on which the territorial tax assessed was $53,870.87. The assessed prop- erty value of the Territory has more than doubled in the past five years, being $10,533,872 in 1868, and $21,548,348
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in 1873. In 1858, the assessed property of Salt Lake county was $4,379,652.80, or a little over forty-one per cent. of that of the whole Territory. In 1872, it was $7,694,908 -about forty-three and a-half per cent .; while in 1873, it was $9,960,956, or forty-five per cent. of the whole. At the close of 1873, the Territory was unencum- bered with debt of any kind, and had in the Treasury $35,- 655.47. The relative wealth in assessed property of the several counties will be seen by the following valuation for 1873 :
COUNTY.
Total value of assessed property.
Total tax Territorial.
Salt Lake,
$9,960,956.00
$24,902:39
Box Elder,
1,549,008.00
3,872.52
Utah,
1,423,692.00
3,559.23
Weber,
1,411,744.00
3,529.36
Tooele.
956,700.00
2,391.75
Cache,
909,156.00
2,272.89
Summit,
706,576.00
1,766.44
Davis,
692,088.00
1,730.22
Sanpete,
656,728.00
1,641.82
Washington,
545,840.00
1,364.60
Millard,
462,368.00
1,155.92
Morgan,
461,172.00
1,152.93
Juab,
440,732.00
1,101.83
Iron,
377,772.00
944.43
Kane,
293,344.00
733.36
Beaver,
261,848.00
654.62
Wasatch,
176,636.00
441.59
Sevier,
144,668.00
361.67
Rich,
80,000.00
200.00
Piute,
37,320.00
93.30
Total,
$21,548,348.00
$53,870.87
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EDUCATIONAL.
In the Territory are 202 school districts, having 251 com- mon schools, with 8,210 male, and 7,860 female, scholars enrolled ; there being an average daily attendance of 11,- 842. This is independent of the students in the University of Deseret, St. Mark's Schools, Morgan's Commercial Col- lege, and the Rocky Mountain Seminary, in Salt Lake city,
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in which over 1,100 were enrolled in 1873. For the Com- mon Schools, 177 male and 178 female teachers were em- ployed, the former being paid $55,092.41, the latter $27,- 803.50 ; giving a total of 355 teachers receiving $82,895.91. During the year, $44,582.22 was raised of school building funds ; and $12,885.41 was appropriated, of taxes, for the use of schools.
GOVERNMENTAL.
The population of the Territory is estimated at 136,000.
The government is vested in Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Departments.
The Executive consists of a Governor and Secretary ; the Judicial of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices ; and the Legislative of an Assembly composed of thirteen Coun- cilors and twenty-six Representatives.
FEDERAL OFFICERS.
Governor .- George L. Woods, of Oregon.
Secretary .- George A. Black, of Utah.
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