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FARR'S MILL.
The following are the names of the employees of the Farr Woolen Mill, residing at or near that establishment:
Bowman Isaac, spinner.
Goven D., dyer.
Bowman Jacob, weaver.
Misses Bowman, spoolers.
Curtiss George, wool sorter.
Morton C., finisher.
Dawson Isaac, spinner.
Morton Eliza, twister.
Dean J. E., carder. Dean James, piecer.
Myers E., weaver.
Peters E., wool washer.
Dean Martha, reeler.
Ramsden John, Jr., spinner.
Eggleston R., picker-boy.
Ramsden John, Sr., weaver.
Farr E., Jr., assistant.
Walker William, weaver.
Farr E., Sr., superintendent Mills. Farr F., accountant.
Wilson Richard, corder.
Witten C., piecer.
HOOSIER BROADCAST SEEDERS, Wholesale, at SIDNEY STEVENS', Ogden.
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SALT LAKE CITY.
Salt Lake City was settled by a company of Mormons, under the lead- ership of President B. Young. This company is known in local history as the "Pioneers." They were the advance guard of the large body of the Mormon people who were expatricated from Nauvoo, Hancock County, in 1846. The Pioneers left the Missouri River at Winter Quarters, (now Florence, Nebraska, ) April 7, 1847, with 73 wagons, and were joined by about a dozen other persons on the journey. Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow, of the Pioneers, entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake through Emigration Canyon, about five miles east and south of the city, July 21st of the same year, Mr. Pratt being the first to set foot on the present site of Salt Lake City. The day following, the main body of the Pioneers entered the valley, and encamped two or three miles south of the city, moving their camps northward and camping on the spot now known as Washington, or the Eighth Ward, Square, on the 23d. President Young, who had been delayed because of prostration caused by an attack of mountain fever, and the remainder of the Pioneers, entered the valley on the 24th. On the 29th, about 150 members of the Mormon Battalion, consisting of de- tachments of sick, who had wintered at Pueblo on the Arkansas River. also arrived, accompanied by a party of Mormon immigrants, numbering some fifty souls, the latter having started from Mississippi in 1846, and wintered at Pueblo. The Battalion was under charge of Captains James Brown and Nelson Higgins and Lieutenant Wesley Willis. A ten-acre fort of logs and adobies was soon built on what is now known as the Old Fort Square in the Sixth Ward. In a few months, there had been such acces- sions that the number had more than trebled. That fall-1847-the Pioneers were followed by close on 1,500 other immigrants, coming mainly from Winter Quarters and the immediate vicinity. In 1847 a survey was made for the city, when it was laid off into blocks of 10 acres cach, or 40 rods square, the streets intersecting each other at right angles, with a total width of eight rods, which included 20 feet of sidewalk on either side of the street. The shape of the city assumes something of the appearance of an irregular and broad faced L, the angle, an obtuse one, being formed by a short western spur of the Wasatch Range of mountains, the southwestern corner of which the city closely hugs. Of late years, the houses have crept gradually up the foot of the spur, or bench, as it is called. On this elevated portion of the city, the blocks are smaller and the streets narrower than in the older portion. The area of the city is about four miles cast and west by three miles north and south. In the earlier years of the settlement of the city it was governed by an ecclesiastical council of prominent residents, who assumed provisional municipal power, with the approval of the people.
Great Salt Lake City was incorporated by act of the General Assembly of the Provisional State of Deseret, approved January 19, 1851. The Legislature of the Territory of Utah, by joint resolution, approved October 4, 1851, adopted or legalized the laws of the Provisional Government of Deseret. The incorporation act of January 20, 1860, repealed the previous incorporation act, but confirmed the old boundary lines, with the exception of a few slight changes intended to secure greater definiteness. The incorpora- tion limits were about eight miles east and west, a trifle over six miles north and south. An act, approved January 18, 1867, removed the western boundary line from the banks of the Jordan River to a line running due north and south, averaging about two miles west of the river. An act, approved January 29, 1868, changed the names of Great Salt Lake City and County to Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. An act approved Feb-
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ruary 15, 1872, removed the south line, east of the Jordan River, north- ward to Tenth South Street, thus excluding nearly all of the five acre survey, and also leaving, within the municipal boundaries-and at the southwest corner thereof-a pan handle, west of the Jordan River, of about a mile and a half from north to south, and two miles from east to west. .Thus, not reckoning the pan handle, the present corporate limits of Salt Lake City are nearly ten miles from east to west, and about five miles from north to south. Out of this, however, must be taken the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, two miles square, situated immediately east of the city proper.
The city is divided into five municipal wards. It is also divided into twenty-one ecclesiastical wards.
Salt Lake City, naturally, was the capital or central point of the country in its vicinity. An act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory, however, approved October 4, 1851, made Fillmore City, in Millard County, about 130 miles south of Salt Lake, the capital of the Territory, at which place one wing of a state house was subsequently built. Later, on December 15, 1856, the seat of government was removed to Salt Lake City, and it has remained here from that date up to the present period. The increase in the population of the city and Territory has been steady and pronounced from the first, but especially for a brief period after the completion of the trans- continental railroad lines
The city is watered by a number of streams, but as much was consumed for irrigation the original streams were found to be inadeqate to existing wants and gave no opportunity for future development. Consequently, by act of the Legislature, approved February 20, 1880, the City Council was authorized to borrow $250,000 to construct a canal, tapping the Jordan River at a point above or twenty-five miles south-east of the city, to furnish the city with water and supply those needing it for irrigating purposes, at the same time releasing the nearer and better steams for culinary purposes. This canal was finished in 1881, having traversed the eastern side of the valley, and costing about $200,000. The water from City Creek Can- yon, about the mouth of which Salt Lake City has grown up, is largely consumed during the year for culinary purposes, and for the sprink- ling of lawns, made of easy avail in the more thickly settled portion of the town by means of water mains. A brief distance up the canyon are several water or settling tanks, whence the water enters the pipes at a point where the stream is not contaminated by city filth. These settling tanks, being at a point some distance above the business portion of the city, give ample pressure to throw water a considerable height and make it of incalculable value in cases of fire. There are about thirteen miles of main pipes in the city doing service for culinary, lawn and fire purposes when required. The mains are tapped at regular intervals by hydrants so as to render ever assist- ance in case of fire.
The development of the city, like that of the Territory, was necessarily slow, because of the great hardships which had to be borne from drouth and other diffiulties in earlier times, because of a lack of sufficient food for a number of years in Pioneer days, and because of the great distance-about 1,000 miles-between Salt Lake and any civilized point outside Utah. For years, nearly the only money brought into the Territory was by immigrants coming and passing through, many of whom, while on their way to Cali- fornia, were glad to dispose of surplus articles at a song almost, and in exchange for articles of food that could be had here. The approach of Johnston's army resulted in a cessation for labor, and the exodus of the northern population of Utah to points south. In the carlier years of the settle- ment of the city there was a depression in business every winter. Merchan- dise was supplied almost entirely by ox-teams from the Missouri River, 1,000 miles east, which could make the trip only twice in a summer. The
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greater portion of the goods thus brought were generally sold out as early as Christmas, or soon after, and the market was consequently bare of them until a further supply could be had, while the prices all kinds of imported articles commanded would seem fabulous in these days. The discovery and development of gold mines in Montana, Idaho, and other adjacent places in 1863, and later years, caused considerable business in Salt Lake and secured very high prices for Utah products. Wheat went as high as $5 and $6 per bushel; flour commanded prices ranging all the way from $12 to $25 per 100 pounds; while other things were held proportionately. In 1869 the con- struction and opening of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, and laterly the Utah Central, and the discovery and development of valu- able lead and silver mines in the Territory, introduced a most notable era of prosperity. This was followed by the pronounced depression in business. experienced over the whole country in 1873-4, from which Salt Lake early recovered, only to suffer a gradual but equally stringent depression ten years later.
The city is lighted both by gas and by the electric light. Between ten and twelve miles of gas mains thread the principal streets of the city, while the electric light system embraces a large area of the city limits and the company does a paying business.
The Utah Central and Denver & Rio Grande Railways connect the city with the Union Pacific and Central Pacific at Ogden, the Union Pacific con- tinuing the connection from Ogden with the Atlantic States, and the latter with the Pacific States. The Utah & Northern secures connection with Idaho and Montana. The Denver & Rio Grande also gives connection with the Atlantic States by its own route, while the Utah Central gives connection with the more southern settlements of the Territory. The Utah & Nevada gives communication with Great Salt Lake and mining camps in the Oquirrh range, as do the Salt Lake and Western, and the Bingham Canyon (narrow gauge), while the camps of Little Cottonwood can be reached over the Wasatch & Jordan · Valley, and Park City via the Utah Central, Union Pacific and Echo & Park City roads. Telegraphic communication may be had over the world by the Western Union, while by the Deseret Telegraph Company, a local line. territorial cities and towns may be reached. The street cars run to all parts of the city; telephonic and district telegraph systems are in operation. The mineral springs and various attractions and suburban places of interest are treated under the heading of Attractions.
The city government is vested in a City Council composed of a mayor. five aldermen-one for each of the five municipal wards-and nine coun- cilors, who are elected biennially by the qualified voters on the second Monday in February of each even year. At the same election a marshal, a treasurer, a recorder and an assessor and collector are also elected, and hold office for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The first election was held in April of 1851, Jedediah M. Grant being the first mayor, who held the office till his death in 1856. The first aldermen were N. H. Felt, William Snow, Jesse P. Harman and N. V. Jones; councilors. Vincent Shurtliff, Benjamin L. Clapp, Zera Pulsipher, William G. Perkins. Harrison Burgess, Jeter Clinton, J. L. Dunyan and S. W. Richards; R. Campbell was recorder and treasurer; Elam Luddington, marshal, and assessor and collector. Hon. A. O. Smoot became mayor in 1856, and served in that capacity ten years; he was followed by General D. H. Wells. who also served ten years as mayor. Hon. Feramorz Little then took the place for six years: IIon. William Jennings for two, and Hon. James Sharp was elected last February.
Salt Lake City has always been the most important city in the Territory commercially, as well as in other directions. Its natural advantages, until
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the completion of the Denver and Rio Grande to Salt Lake, were infinitely superior to any place south; but as compared with Ogden, it has not com- manded greater opportunities of a natural character. The whole of the north has been open to Ogden and Logan. The fact, however, that by far the greater number of wealthy men of the Territory resided in Salt Lake, has forced business in the direction of this city and maintained it here. The power to purchase heavily and hold the balance of the wholesale trade, has compelled trade to follow in its course; and this, together with the energy and activity of its business men, and the prestige that naturally falls to the lot of the most populous city in a commonwealth, have combined to main- tain the commercial importance of Salt Lake. In addition to these causes, the march of progress for Salt Lake has not been disturbed by the fear of injury from any railroad changes, which would be followed by a loss of trade and advantages dependant upon railroads. It has ever been the centre of mining interests and the earliest mining developments of the Terri- tory, and this fact has induced much capital to come to Salt Lake that otherwise might have gone in another direction. There is to-day no ap- parent reason why the position now occupied by Salt Lake, commercially, and in point of population, should not be maintained in the future. Other cities are growing rapidly, but in the last decade there has been no notice- able change in the relative positions of the four principal cities, and there have been as weighty reasons why some of them should make rapid strides toward rivaling Salt Lake as are likely to occur again. About the city are springing up various manufacturing industries, all calculated to win for it permanent prosperity, and maintain its future importance as a commercial centre. Recent events, showing unmistakably that permanent and stable prosperity in the future is possible only with the development of manufactur- ing interests, men of capital are turning their attention and means in this direction with renewed determination; and Salt Lake, being centrally situ- ated, possessing established trades, and other advantages, naturally offers unusual opportunities, all calculated to induce capital to found industries in this vicinity, unless weightier reasons should make it advisable to establish them elsewhere.
Salt Lake City is the capital of the county of the same name. The County Court House is situated here, but is a very inferior building, the wealth and population of the county considered. In the City Hall the Ter- ritorial Legislature convenes, there being no State House. The District Court of the Third Judicial District holds its sessions in what is known as the Wasatch Block, a large building constructed for commercial purposes; in the same structure the Postoffice is situated. The finest public buildings in the city are either religious, benevolent, educational, or for amusement. There are the Mormon Temple, Tabernacle and Stake Meeting House, or Salt Lake Assembly Hall, in the Temple Block; besides several fine meeting houses in some of the ecclesiastical wards. There are also St. Mark's Cathedral, St. Paul's Chapel, the Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, Catholic and Baptist Churches, and that of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Josephite Church, and the Jewish Synagogue. The Deseret University is a fine educational structure, barely finished as yet; there are also Hammond Hall, the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, St. Mary's Academy, Rowland Hall, St. Marks Schoolhouse and several others. One of the finest structures in the city, and of recent date, is St. Mary's Hospital, situated in the extreme eastern part of the city. The Salt Lake Theatre and the Walker Opera House are the most noted places of amusement, though there are many halls devoted to purposes of social entertainment.
Among the places of interest are the Deseret Museum and the Salt Lake Mining Institute. In the former place, opposite the Temple Block,
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south, are numberless curiosities from this and other sections, while a good idea of the wonderful resources of this section may be had by a visit. The Salt Lake Mining Institute is situated on the third floor of Commerce Block, and to one desirous of ascertaining the real status of the vast mineral re- sources of Utah, no better step can be taken than to visit this place.
There are three cemeteries: the City Cemetery, adjoining which is the Jewish; and the Mount Olivet, situated on the bench east of the city proper. The two former are northeast of the city, but all within the corporate limits.
There are in the city four public places, intended at a future time for parks; while the old Mill Farm, situated at the southeastern part of the city. was purchased a few years ago, for park purposes, and it is now known as the Liberty Park. The park proper contains 100 acres; while there are ten acres at the southeast corner, in which springs rise, and are also embraced in the resort. The work of putting it in proper condition has barely com- menced.
Fort Douglas Military Reservation is a beautiful suburban spot, located about a mile and a half east of the city proper. In the fall of 1862, Col. P. E. Connor, commanding the Third California Volunteers, and a regiment of Nevada troops, came to Salt Lake, and under orders, established a perma- nent post at Camp Douglas. The "overland travel" was at this time men- aced by Indians, and Salt Lake was selected for a permanent camp, on account of its central position and the facilities it offered for supplying the troops with what was necessary for their support. The site of the present post was selected by Col. Connor on the 20th day of October, 1862, and was named in honor of Stephen A. Douglas, the distinguished Senator from Illinois. The reservation is two miles square and contains 2,560 acres. At first it was only one mile square, but subsequently was enlarged to its present dimensions. The first flagstaff was cut in the Wasatch Mountains by the troops, and with infinite labor was brought to camp. In an address, by General Morrow, delivered December 26, 1873, on the occasion of raising the flagstaff, the following of historical interest was said, relating to the first quarters built at Fort Douglas: "There was no railroad in 1862. Everything was scarce, and if procurable at all, procurable at high prices. The troops wintered in 1862-3 in 'dug-outs,' and in 1863 the permanent quarters were begun. The work was all done by the volunteers; and it is a tribute to the ingenuity and enterprise of our volunteer soldiery, and a com- ment on our 'regular' establishment, when I say that little has been done to our quarters or barracks at the post since the volunteers left them." In 1865, Colonel George, First Nevada Volunteers, was in command of Camp Douglas. The war of rebellion ended. the "regular" troops came again to Utah, and Major William H. Lewis, Thirty-sixth Infantry, came to com- mand Camp Douglas in the summer of 1866, relieving Colonel Potter.
Since the days of the volunteer companies the fort has been rebuilt in a fine, substantial manner, and additional improvements are made yearly. It is considered, to-day, one of the most desirable posts in the country. It is delightfully situated, and possesses every facility for pleasure and comfort. The present roster of the Sixth United States Infantry shows the following names, Col. Alexander McD. McCook, Brevet Major General, in command: Majors E. G. Bush and F. Meachem; Assistant Surgeon W. H. Arthur, Dr. J. W. Jackson; Captains J. W. Powell, Jr., J. P. Schindel, T. Britton, D. H. Murdock, S. Baker, J. F. Munson, Wm. Badger, W. H. H. Crowell; First Lieutenants F. W. Thibaut, J. Carland, S. W. Groesbeck, A. M. Wetherill, E. L. Craft, R. E. Thompson, G. B. Walker, B. A. Byrne, Chas. Byrne, R. R. Stevens; Second Lieutenants 7. W. Torrey, R. B. Turner. L. W. S. Kennon, C. G. Morton, E. F. Taggart, W. P. Burnham, B. W. Atkinson.
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SALT LAKE CITY DIRECTORY.
Appended is a general directory of Salt Lake City. The letters e, w. n and s next to numbers indicate east, west, north and south. Where the number is not given, it is for the reason that the house was unnumbered: where the occupation of the party is omitted, the omission is caused by the fact that the employment of the person could not be ascertained, or the per- son was unwilling it should be given. In the northwestern part of the city the names of the streets are from First up to Ninth, and the intersecting streets are named for the letters of the alphabet. On the Nineteenth Ward Bench and in that vicinity the streets are named variously. In all these, the necessity for stating whether the number is north or south does not exist, as they run from one up to the last number, beginning at the head of the street:
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Abbott Charles, molder, 349 w Sixth South.
Abbott John, molder, 349 w Sixth South.
Abraham M., merchant, 61 w First South.
Abraham Meyer, peddler, 61 w First South. Abrams I. S., grocer, 367 w First North.
Abrams Lewis S., grocer, 68 w First South.
Aby R. H., mining operator, 222 w Third South.
Ackerman J. H., printer, 529, Second. Ackerman James, carpenter, 529, Second.
Ackwil Joseph, laborer, 38, 19wd bench.
Acomb John, conductor U. C. R. R., 433 w Fifth South.
Acomb John, Sr., farmer, 454 w Fifth South.
Adams J. & Sons, contractors and builders, 137 w South Temple.
Adams Mrs., laundry, Market row, First South.
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Adams William, engineer, 228 n Fifth West.
Adams John, transfer driver, 18 e North Temple.
Adams S. I .. , blacksmith, South Temple, bet. Fast Temple and First East. Adams S. L., Jr., blacksmith, South Temple, bet. East Temple and First Fast. Adams Joseph, rock cutter, cor. Fifth and M.
Adams Charles engineer, 412 w Second South. Adams John, laborer, 255 s Second East.
Adams John, carpenter and builder, 127 n West Temple.
Adams Mrs. H., widow, 873 e Eighth South.
Adams A. D., blacksmith, 873 e Eighth South.
Adams Ezra, farmer, 873 e Eighth South. Adams B. R., teamster, 655 e Eighth South. Adams Mrs. J. A., widow, 705 e Eightli South.
Adams D. H., farmer, 705 e Eighth South. Adams Annie A., Ryman Block, 64 w Second South.
Adamson Thomas, carpenter, 739 e South Temple.
Addleman F. P., trader, 617 s Fifth West. Adkins W. R., gardener, 374, Fourth.
Adkins George F., contractor and builder, 360, Centre.
Adkins E. R., drummer, Metropolitan Hotel.
Adlard Javis, laborer, 242 w Fifth South.
Choice Fruits in Season at J. C . Bowring & Co's.
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Fine Laundry Work a Specialty, 142 Main Street.
Admire S. J., miner, 217 s West Temple.
Admire Mrs. Mary, dressmaker, 217 s West Temple.
Affleck W. P., blacksmith, 966, First.
Aggett Thomas, peddler, 311 e Fifth South.
Agramonte C. H. M.y., mining machinery, 12 e Fifth South.
Ahlquist Carl, shoemaker, 357 e Fifth South.
Ainsworth Thomas, 722 w First South.
Ainsworth S. W., mechanic, 521 s Fifth East.
Aird John, janitor Temple office, 61 e First North.
Aird John, Jr., jailor, Second North, bet. Centre and First East.
Airmet John D., carpenter, 237, G.
Akert John, musician, 373 s Fifth East.
Albion James, laborer, 542 s Second West.
Albrand William F., gardener, 473 n Fifth West.
Albrand Mrs. Jane A., widow, 423 n Fifth West.
Alder George A., salesman, 254 w South Temple.
Aldous Heber, harness maker, 17 s Fourth East.
Alexander H., laborer, 401 w Fifth South. :
Alexander William, laborer, 401 w Fifth South.
Alexander John S., laborer, 241 s Fourth West.
Alexander Mrs. L. C., widow, 554 e First South.
Alff Rudolph, merchant, 11 e Fifth South.
Alff R., crockery and glassware, 140 s Main.
Alford John, clerk, 86 Centre.
Allcock John, machinist, 57, 19 wd bench.
Allen J. F., druggist, 53 s Fifth East.
Allen Mrs. M. J., 117 P.
Allen William, carpenter, 24 I. Allen W. L. N., carpenter, 34 I.
Allen B., clerk, 211 s Tenth East.
Allen Mrs. Eliza M., widow, 166 n First East.
Allen Mrs. C., widow, 361 w Second South.
Allen Robert, merchant, 436 e Fourth South.
Allen Robert, merchant, 633 e Fifth South.
Allen Mrs. Julia, widow, 358 s Main. Allen Catherine G., widow, 189 B.
Allen David R., teacher, 41 e First North.
Allen Samuel, gasman, Second West.
Allen S. E., mason, 847 e Ninth South.
Allen John, laborer, 155 s Fifth West. Allen Mrs. H., widow, 373 n Fifth West.
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