Pacific Coast Business
Directory ~ Utah Territory
The Mormons settled upon the present site of Salt Lake
City on the 24th of July, 1847, and established an
ecclesiastical government, and in 1850 the Territory of
Utah was organized. The limits then embraced what is now
Nevada and part of Colorado and Wyoming, but now are
included within the forty-second and thirty-seventh
parallels of latitude, and the one hundred and ninth,
and one hundred and fourteenth degrees of longitude,
with one square degree taken from the northeastern
corner. Utah is bounded north by Idaho and Wyoming, east
by Wyoming and Colorado, south by Arizona, and west by
Nevada. Area, 83,400 square miles. Population. 150,000.
Twenty counties comprise its political divisions, viz:
Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Iron, Juab, Kane,
Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, San Pete,
Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch, Washington and
Weber. Capital, Salt Lake City. Principal towns: Alta,
American Fork, Bingham, Brigham City, Corinne, Filmore,
Logan, Monte, Nephi, Ogden, Prove, St. George,
Springville and Tooele City.
The general features of the Territory are of precipitous
mountains and arid plains, presenting, in its native
conditions, a sterile and uninviting appearance. The
lofty Wasatch Range that as the poetess of the region
has said "Heaves her white breasts nearest the sky"
rises from the Idaho line, and sinks away near the
borders of Arizona, forming the eastern rim of the
"great basin" and separating it from the valley of the
Colorado.
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Pacific Coast Business Directory
Source: Pacific Coast Business
Directory for 1876-78, Compiled by Henry G. Langley, San
Francisco, 1875.
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