. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and thence to San Francisco /with twelve illustrations from photographs by Savage . ntinent. Thesewere mostly different families of the Utes, from whomthe Territory takes its name ; and as one great source oftheir subsistence was digging roots of different kinds, theywere called Digger Indians, to distinguish them fromtribes that lived by the more exciting and manlier occupa-tion of hunting. A few rabbits furnished them withskins to protect them against the inclement winters; andan
. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and thence to San Francisco /with twelve illustrations from photographs by Savage . ntinent. Thesewere mostly different families of the Utes, from whomthe Territory takes its name ; and as one great source oftheir subsistence was digging roots of different kinds, theywere called Digger Indians, to distinguish them fromtribes that lived by the more exciting and manlier occupa-tion of hunting. A few rabbits furnished them withskins to protect them against the inclement winters; andan occasional buffalo robe could be found among them,obtained from the Snakes, or other neighbouring , rabbits, and fish formed their food; their habita-tions were, and are, principally formed by weavingwillow-branches into a shape something like a gipsy-tent, and are called wick-e-ups ; though a few chiefsand others have lodges, made of buck-skins neatlysewed together, and extended on poles meeting at thetop, and spread out to the width of the skins at thebottom ; the smoke from the lodge-fife escaping by theopening at the top of the poles. SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAT THITHER. 31. A GROUP OF UTE SQUAWS. The condition of the Indians is much improved sincetheir intercourse with the Mormons, as in several placesthey have been taught to cultivate land, and grow corn,wheat, and potatoes. Others hang around the settle-ments, and almost live by begging from the whites,though the squaws will chop firewood, and do other kindsof work, for which they receive pay in bread, meat,flour, and vegetables; and their spouses, euphoniously,but most erroneously, called braves, can lounge in thehot sun, smoke begged tobacco, and live on these pro-ducts of feminine toil with the greatest nonchalanceimaginable.(41) The number of Indians in the Territory has beenestimated at 5000; the settled population will probablyreach 150,000. The vast change which has occurred since the timewhen these de
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