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• The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake<br />
City took 40 years to complete.<br />
The Mormon Temples in St. George,<br />
Manti and Logan, Utah were completed<br />
before the Salt Lake Temple.<br />
• The town of Beaver in Southern<br />
Utah is the birthplace of two very<br />
famous individuals of the past,<br />
Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of<br />
television and butch Cassidy, the<br />
notorious western outlaw.<br />
• Annual precipitation varies from<br />
less than five inches in Utah’s arid<br />
Great Salt Lake Desert to more than<br />
60 inches in the northern mountain<br />
ranges. The average snowfall in the<br />
mountains near Salt Lake City is 500<br />
inches. On the average, six inches<br />
of snow when melted yields one<br />
inch of water.<br />
• On May 10, 1869, the Union and<br />
Central Pacific Railroads joined<br />
their rails at Promontory Summit,<br />
which is now Brigham City in <strong>North</strong>ern<br />
Utah. Golden Spike National<br />
Historic Site commemorates this<br />
incredible accomplishment of this<br />
nation’s first transcontinental railroad.<br />
A trip to the monument, on a<br />
Saturday, will provide you with the<br />
reenactment of this event with the<br />
original steam engines during the<br />
summer/fall months.<br />
• The nation’s most deserted stretch<br />
of the interstate highway begins<br />
where 70 enters the eastern edge<br />
of the state, from Grand<br />
Junction, Colorado, and<br />
ends where it intersects the<br />
15, near Cove Fort.<br />
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