The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . - site is beautiful, and affords a lovelyview of the entire valley, city, and post and grounds are regularly irri-gated, and accordingly kept in beautifulcondition. Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institu-tion, called for short the Big Co-op.,was organized by Brigham Young, , 1868, and now does a yearly businessof $5,000,000, carrying a stock of goodsvalued at $1,500,000. It lias branches innearly every Mormon settlement. Itsmain building, four stories liigli, is 319X98
The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . - site is beautiful, and affords a lovelyview of the entire valley, city, and post and grounds are regularly irri-gated, and accordingly kept in beautifulcondition. Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institu-tion, called for short the Big Co-op.,was organized by Brigham Young, , 1868, and now does a yearly businessof $5,000,000, carrying a stock of goodsvalued at $1,500,000. It lias branches innearly every Mormon settlement. Itsmain building, four stories liigli, is 319X98 feet in size. The Warm and Hot Springs are located in the north part of the city, and are greatly prized oS OPI. 216 PIOJ^EERS OF 49. for their curative qualities. Water from these springs is piped to the city, where baths areprovided in a large Natatorium, centrally located. At the Chamber of Commerce, which has temporary rooms while waiting for the completionof its new building, there is to be seen a very fine collection of the mineral, agricultural, man-ufacturing, and other resources of tlie Territory of Utah, and of Salt Lake City. Utahs total land area is 52,501,600 acres; water area, 1,779,200 acres. The Uintas, theWasatch, and the High Plateaus constitute a considerable part of the total area. The Terri-tory is exceedingly interesting, geologically, and has been very thoroughly examined, mappedand described by the Powell Survey. In 1877 officers connected with the Survey measuredthe streams, and the lands they can be brought upon ; and, calculating the irrigating duty at 100acres per cubic foot per second, limited the irrigable-arable lands to 2,262 square miles. Laterestimates place the
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