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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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SALT LAKE COUNTY. 699<br />

While not communists, the elements <strong>of</strong> socialism<br />

enter strongly into all their relations, public and pri-<br />

vate, social, commercial, and industrial, as well as<br />

religious and political. This tends to render them<br />

exclusive, independent <strong>of</strong> the gentiles and their government,<br />

and even in some respects antagonistic to<br />

them. They have assisted each other until nine out<br />

<strong>of</strong> ten own their farms, while commerce and manufacturing<br />

are to a large extent cooperative. The rights<br />

<strong>of</strong> property are respected; but while a Mormon may<br />

sell his farm to a gentile, it would not be deemed<br />

good fellowship for him to do so.<br />

Salt Lake county contained, in 1883, nearly one<br />

fifth <strong>of</strong> the population <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>, the eastern side <strong>of</strong><br />

the valley, where the streams <strong>of</strong> the Wasatch Mountains<br />

are utilized for irrigation, being the principal<br />

farming section; while the western portion, in the<br />

neighborhood <strong>of</strong> the Oquirrh Range, was but sparsely<br />

settled. In this county were found, with the exception<br />

perhaps <strong>of</strong> coal, nearly all the minerals that contribute<br />

to the wealth <strong>of</strong> communities. AJta, the<br />

mining town <strong>of</strong> Little Cottonwood, contained a considerable<br />

population until the spring <strong>of</strong> 1878, when it<br />

was almost destroyed by fire. Bingham, about thirty<br />

miles south-west <strong>of</strong> the capital, was surrounded by<br />

productive mines; and Sandy, where the Bingham<br />

canon and Cottonwood ores were forwarded for sampling,<br />

was a thriving village. 23<br />

Curtis' Dottings, 1S-2S; in 1872, Bonwick's Mormons and Silver Mines, 8-10;<br />

Washim/ton Star, in Deseret News, July 10, 1S72; Oakland Monthly Rev., i. no.<br />

1, IS— lO; in 1871, Buhner's Hound the World, 76-80; Greenwood's New Life,<br />

137-S. 142-4; in 1870, Nordh<strong>of</strong>'sCal., 40-2; Nelson's Pict. Guide- Book, 19-25;<br />

Kneeland's Wonders <strong>of</strong> Yosemite, 19-21; Overland Monthly, v. 270-3, 27">; in<br />

1869, Roe's Westward by Bail, 104-12; in 1868, Goddard's Where to Emir/rate,<br />

152-3; Bowies' Pac. Railroad, 40-51; Ludlow's Heart <strong>of</strong> the Continent, 315-28;<br />

Beadle's Life in <strong>Utah</strong>, 240-7; in 1867, Hepworth Dixon's New Amer., 133-41;<br />

Me< hire's 8,000 Miles Through the Rocky Mts, 165-6 (with cut); in 1866, Runling's<br />

Across Amcr., 163-6; Life among the Mormons, 8S-97; in 1865, Bowles'<br />

Our New West, 202-3, 206, 219-22 (with cut); Barnes' From Atlantic to Pacific,<br />

54-5: Richardson's Beyond the Mississippi, 347 (with cut); in 1860-2, pp.<br />

577-90, this vol. (with plan).<br />

23 Among other growing settlements in Salt Lake co. at this time were

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