. Utah: her cities, towns and resources. Together with a condensed but comprehensive account of her financial, commercial, manufacturing, mining and agricultural enterprises, her educational, religious and social advantages, her progress and population in the past, and possibilities for the future /edited and published by Manly . Towt\,$- ^ S<ilt Lake Citv. The Capital and Metropolis of Utah. K.\ I I a i enturj is but a short time in the life oi acommon » i alth, and j el w ithin thai period wonderful changes havi I made. Nowhere inthis broad land is this fact more wonderfull) impressed upo
. Utah: her cities, towns and resources. Together with a condensed but comprehensive account of her financial, commercial, manufacturing, mining and agricultural enterprises, her educational, religious and social advantages, her progress and population in the past, and possibilities for the future /edited and published by Manly . Towt\,$- ^ S<ilt Lake Citv. The Capital and Metropolis of Utah. K.\ I I a i enturj is but a short time in the life oi acommon » i alth, and j el w ithin thai period wonderful changes havi I made. Nowhere inthis broad land is this fact more wonderfull) impressed upon one, than when standing upon the ridges ofthe magnificenl Wasatch Range, he looks down upon thebeautiful i it) whii h has risen beside the great Salt Lake. assuram e I an important e ■ onspii uous and potential, towhich ii efforts i contemporaries lime- been unceasing!)direi ted for mam de< ades. Only fort) five years ago, tin entire country was anunopened and almost inaccessible wilderness, thousands ofmiles from civilization. But through (Ik- indomitable perse-verance I the hard) pioneers, supplemented by the well-. m;\v city and county biilmm;It was in July, 1*47, that the pioneers of Utah first looked upon the valley which borders upon this great inland from the omnipresent grandeur of the mountain scenerythere was little there to attract the eye or charm the every side stretched a dreary waste of sage-brush andcacti, broiling beneath the rays of the summers sun. Butwithin a period comparatively brief, Salt Lake Citv has beentransformed from a frontier settlement into a bustling, thrivingvillage, into a prosperous progressive countrv town, into amagnificently appointed municipality, and that city to-day-glorying in the sublime promise of its prophetic infancy, gives directed industry and ceaseless labors of succeeding gener-ations, the wilderness has been made to blossom as the in the heart of a valley, the beauty of which can onlyb
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