. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. of muchmagnitude, and the intervening valleys partake more of the desert all the mountains, so far as known, are full of minerals, and there isgenerally water enough for the purposes of mining and reducing them. Such is a general view of the leading features of the geography, geology,and topography of Utah. It has been not inaptly called the Switzerland ofAmerica. With every variety of climate, it is generally salubrious andagreeable, not given to extremes, and healthy. There are the va
. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. of muchmagnitude, and the intervening valleys partake more of the desert all the mountains, so far as known, are full of minerals, and there isgenerally water enough for the purposes of mining and reducing them. Such is a general view of the leading features of the geography, geology,and topography of Utah. It has been not inaptly called the Switzerland ofAmerica. With every variety of climate, it is generally salubrious andagreeable, not given to extremes, and healthy. There are the valleys forthe farmer, the gardener, and the fruit grower; the foot hill slopes and riverterraces for the stock and sheep raiser; the mountains for the miner, thescenery in the canons, the trout in the streams, the water fowl of the lakesand rivers, and the grouse of the prairies, for the pleasure seeker; the ther-mal soda and sulphur springs, the mountain lakes and breezes, the Salt Lakeair and bathing, the latter attended by none of the danger and discomfort ofsea bathing, for the CLIMATE, METEOROLOGICAL STATISTICS, ETC. CHAPTER II. CLIMATE, METEOROLOGICAL STATISTICS, SANITARYADVANTAGES. The climate of a mountainous country like Utah, will vary considerablywith its varying altitudes and exposures. The inhabited parts of the Terri-tory range in general, between 4,300 and 6,300 feet above sea. But 70 percent of the population is settled in valleys not exceeding 4,500 feet inelevation, and 60 per cent in the basin of Great Salt Lake. In these lowervalleys the climate is mild and agreeable. Its perpetual charm cannot beconveyed by meteorological statistics. The atmosphere is dry, elastic,transparent, and bracing; and the temperature, while ranging high insummer, and not altogether exempt from the fickleness characteristic of theclimate of North America in general, compares favorably in respect ofequability with that of the United States at large, and especially with that
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