Irrigation in Utah . s of war boded no goodfor the territorys material prosperity and social happiness. But the struggle which terminated July, 1858, withmutual concessions from the Federal government and theMormons, was an unimpeachable witness to the success ofan industrial poHcy which enabled a people numbering lessthan 70,000 to liquidate a war indebtedness of over $2,-000,000.^ So plenteously had their canals and irrigatedlands stored their granaries and barns, that isolated andfriendless they offered a resistance costing a powerful gov-ernment $15,000,000.* Utah Legisl. Acts (ed. 1866),
Irrigation in Utah . s of war boded no goodfor the territorys material prosperity and social happiness. But the struggle which terminated July, 1858, withmutual concessions from the Federal government and theMormons, was an unimpeachable witness to the success ofan industrial poHcy which enabled a people numbering lessthan 70,000 to liquidate a war indebtedness of over $2,-000,000.^ So plenteously had their canals and irrigatedlands stored their granaries and barns, that isolated andfriendless they offered a resistance costing a powerful gov-ernment $15,000,000.* Utah Legisl. Acts (ed. 1866), in. ^ Give us ten years of peace, and we will ask no odds of theUnited States. Hist. Brigham Young, MS., 1847, 50. Estimate of A. Milton Musser, Church Historian, 1895. * The Utah War was an ill-advised measure on the part of theU. S. Government. It cost several hundred lives, and at least$15,000,000, and accomplished nothing save that it exposed thePresident to well deserved ridicule. Bancroft, Hist. Utah, xix, AN IRRIGATION FLUME.
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