Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1895 - Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, capital of Utah and of Salt Lake co., is situated near the E. bank of the Jordan River, which connects Great Salt Lake with Utah Lake, about 12 miles S.E. of the Great Salt Lake, and 4200 feet above the level of the sea. It was laid out in 1847, in the midst of an unbroken wilderness, by a company of 143 Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, and has since been the head-quarters of the Mormon organization. It has wide, straight streets, many of which are irrigated with running streams of water. Its chief public edifices are a magnificent city and county building, 2 large Mormon rel edifices (the grand Temple, erected 1853–1893 at a co $5,000,000, and the Tabernacle), Catholic, Congregational Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Christian brew, Lutheran, Adventist's, Scientist's, and Unit churches, 3 hospitals, the University of Utah, graded public schools with fine buildings, 3 public libraries, a banks, 6 of which are national. Three daily newspapers are published here. This city is the terminus of 5 roads,—the Union Pacific, the Rio Grande Western Utah & Nevada, the Utah Central, and the Great Salt & Hot Springs. The valley in which it is situated bounded on the E. by the Wahsatch Mountains, which covered with perpetual snow. Pop, in 1870, 12,85 1880, 20,768; in 1890, 44,843.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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