Excerpt from The Resources and Attractions of the Territory of Utah

Great Salt Lake Basin. - Inc1uding the valley of Bear River up to the Gates on the north, the Utah Basin on the south, whose waters are dis charged into Great Salt Lake, through J ordan R1ver, it is 200 miles in length by 40 or 50 in width. The principal streams which are lost in Great Salt Lake are the Malad and Bear, the latter 300 miles long, on the north; Box Elder and Willow creeks, Ogden and Weber rivers on the east; and City, Mill and the Cottonwood creeks and the River J ordan on the south. Into Utah Lake flow the American, Provo, and Spanish forks, though they are not forks but independent mountain streams, and Salt Creek. All of them but the Malad have their sources in the Wasatch Range, which collects the snows in winter that give them life and being. Where they emerge from their canons, settlements have been made on them, and their waters appropriated, so far as it can be cheaply done, for the purposes of irrigation, and in some cases, of furnishing power for mills. Of these settlements, the largest is Salt Lake City, located about centrally as regards the length of the entire basin, at the base of the Wasatch Range, ten or twelve miles from the south east shore of Salt Lake, and containing a population of about The city is supplied with water by City Creek. It is laid out with broad streets and sidewalks, and is built up more or less for two miles square, shade and fruit trees largely hiding the buildings in the summer season. It has ample hotel accommodations, gas, water and street cars; is peaceful and orderly; is connected with the outside world and adjacent points of interest or business by rail. Enjoying the most healthy and agreeable climate of per hapsany large town in the United States, with street cars running to the famous Warm Springs, and the bathing shores of Salt Lake but a half-hour's ride on the rail distant; with the peaks of the Wasatch, the Oquirrh, and other ranges rufi'ling the clouds at every point of the horizon; with pic turesque mountain canons threaded by trout streams accessible by rail, it is one of the most attractive places of summer resort for tourists seeking health or pleasure in all the world. The eastern edge of Salt Lake Basin is dotted with settlements, and is highly cultivated wherever water can be got on the ground. There are the North String, Bear River City, Corinne, Brigham City, Willard, N orth Ogden, Ogden, Kaysville, Farmington, Center ville, Bountiful, Salt Lake City, the Cottonwoods, Sandy, West J ordan, Deweyville, Lehi, Ameiican fork, p1easant Grove, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork, Salem, Payson, Santaquin, Mona, Nephi, and Levan. Ogden, at the intersection of the east and west and north and south railroads, is the town next in importance to Salt Lake City, the capital; It is in the forks of Ogden and Weber rivers, is within a short drive of fine fishing and mountain scenery, and is rapidly improving. The Salt Lake Basin at large has an altitude of about feet above the sea, and is the paradise of the farmer, the horticulturist, and the grower of, fruit. Cut off from it by a low range.

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