. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. is of extremely rare occurrence.|| For a fact, the people of Utah .are as robust and long-lived as any in theworld. The mortality is chiefly among small children, and its principal causeis want of care and prompt medical attendance. Hardly any form of diseaseoriginates or proceeds to the chronic stage in the Territory; while uponmany such a simple residence here is more beneficial than all the drugs thatare known. One has a choice of altitude ranging from 4,300 to 7,000 feetabove sea, with access to
. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. is of extremely rare occurrence.|| For a fact, the people of Utah .are as robust and long-lived as any in theworld. The mortality is chiefly among small children, and its principal causeis want of care and prompt medical attendance. Hardly any form of diseaseoriginates or proceeds to the chronic stage in the Territory; while uponmany such a simple residence here is more beneficial than all the drugs thatare known. One has a choice of altitude ranging from 4,300 to 7,000 feetabove sea, with access to mineral springs, hot and cold, of decidedly effica-cious qualities in the cure of many ills, as experience has amply shown; andfor the whole of Salt Lake Basin the softening and other healthful influencesof at least 3,000 square miles of salt water, giving off a saline air andaffording the benefits of ocean bathing without its discomforts and dangers. * Surgeon P. Moffatt, U. S. A. J Surgeon E. P. Vollum, U. S. A. t Surgeon Charles Smart, U. S. A. || Surgeon J. F. Hamilton, Salt Lake AGRICULTURE, FRUIT, PASTURAGE. 17 CHAPTER III. AGRICULTURE, FRUIT, PASTURAGE. There were surveyed of -public lands in Utah, down to June 30, 1878,■8,178, acres, arable, timbered, coal and mineral land. It is impossibleto tell, from any accessible data, what proportion of it is arable land,probably not more than one-fourth, or 2,000,000 acres. In general, all ofthat is which can be artificially watered. Irrigation.—Lands not subject to water are being more and more broughtunder cultivation, and in many places certain crops can be and are raised onsuch lands with no more than ordinary chances of failure elsewhere. Butirrigation cannot safely be dispensed with as a rule. It is usually clone bycolonies or communities uniting to divert part or the whole of a stream fromits natural channel on to the adjoining land, each member of the associationthen having his proportional right to the u
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