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Title: Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stansbury, Howard Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Hall, James, 1811-1898 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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cultivated fields fromthe Mormon capital to San Diego. The mode adopted for the founding of a new town is peculiarand highly characteristic. An expedition is first sent out to ex-plore the country, with a view to the selection of such points as,from their natural advantages, offer facilities for a settlement.These being duly reported to the authorities, an elder of thechurch is appointed to preside over the little band designated tomake the first improvement. This company is composed partlyof volunteers and partly of such as are selected by the presidency,due regard being had to a proper intermixture of mechanicalartisans, to render the expedition independent of all aid fromwithout. In this way the settlement at San Pete was begun,sixty families leaving in a body, under one of the high oflScers ofthe church, and that in the month of October, undergoing all therigours of cold and snow, to establish another stake in the wil-derness. In December of the following year, another expedition,
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MANUFACTURES ^EDUCATION. 143 similarly composed and commanded, succeeded, with one hundredand thirty men and families, in planting the settlement at LittleSalt Lake, which is represented as being now in a very flourishingcondition. The succeeding March, a third party, with a hundredand fifty wagons, left the capital, for the purpose of establishinga settlement in the southern part of California. It was to be sit-uated at no great distance from San Diego, and near Williamssranche and Cahone Pass, between which and Little Salt Lake it isdesigned to establish other settlements as speedily as possible. Bymeans of these successive places of refreshment, the incoming emi-gration from the Pacific will be enabled to go from strength tostrength till they reach the Zion of their hopes. At Salt Lake City itself, energetic measures are being taken foropening a woollen factory, the raw material being furnished fromsheep raised in the valley, to the grazing of which the mountainslopes are admirably

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