Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1906

Salt Lake City, capital of Utah and of Salt Lake co., the most important commercial city of the United States be tween Denver and the Pacific coast, is situated at the western foot of the Wasatch Mountains, near the E. bank of the Jordan River, which connects Utah Lake with Great Salt Lake, about 12 miles SE. of Great Salt Lake and 4200 feet above the level of the sea. It is on the Union Pacific, the Rio Grande Western and other railroads. The city was laid out in 1847 by a company of Mormons, under the leadership of Brig- ham Young, and has since been the head-quarters of the Mormon organization. It is regularly laid out, with wide, straight streets, made attractive by the succession of gar dens which surround the residential homes. The focal centre of the city, constituting the "sacred square of the Mormons," is Temple Block, which covers an area of 10 acres and contains the famous Tabernacle, a vast oval auditorium building, 250 ft. long, 150 ft. wide, and 70 ft. high, and giving Beating accommodation to 8000 people : the Temple, erected between 1853 and 1893, at a cost exceeding $4,000,- 000, and used for the purposes of ordination (marriage, prayer, baptism, etc.) ; and the Assembly Hall, devoted to divine service, and accommodating 3000 people. Other buildings and institutions of note are the city and county building, penitentiary, museum, exposition buildings, University of Utah, and the huge warehouse of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution. A state normal school is located here. Salt Lake City's manufacturing industries are insignificant, but through its central position the city has acquired marked importance as a trade distributing point for a vast mining, agricultural, and stock-raising region. Pop. in 1870, 12,854; in 1880, 20,768; in 1890, 44,843; in 1900, 53,531.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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