Settlement, Transportation, and Mining. Immigrants Start More Settlements The LDS church kept...
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Settlement, Transportation, and Mining. Immigrants Start More Settlements The LDS church kept sending families out to start different farming communities
Immigrants Start More Settlements The LDS church kept sending
families out to start different farming communities Huntsville,
1860 A group of settlers led by Jefferson Hunt headed into the
Ogden Valley There were already a group of Shoshone Indians living
there, so the settlers made an annual tax to the Indians to use the
land for farming and cattle
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And More Settlements The Cotton Mission, 1861 Brigham Young
sent people to Utahs Dixie in an effort to make Utah more
self-sufficient They grew crops that flourished in hotter climates
Cotton, tobacco, figs, almonds, olive oil, and even wine Their town
was named after the LDS leader George A. Smith Life was difficult
because of floods, drought, extreme heat, and poverty
Slide 4
Transportation The main way to get food, mail, and manufactured
goods to and from the West was overland freighting Overland
freighting faced a lot of dangers Storms, floods, poor roads, few
bridges, and Indian attacks
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Stage Coaches and the Goshute War As stagecoaches traveled from
St. Louis to California, they were sometimes attacked by Goshute
and Shoshone Indians US Army troops attacked a Goshute village
south of the Simpson Spring Station, slaughtering all the men,
women, and children This caused many other battles to rise up
around the area This is known as the Goshute War
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The Telegraph Telegraph lines ran from Omaha, Nebraska, to San
Francisco These telegraph lines quickly brought an end to the Pony
Express In October 1861, the eastern lines reached Salt Lake City
One week later, the western lines reached the city The very first
message sent from Salt Lake City was from Brigham Young assuring
Washington that Utah would remain loyal to the Union during the
Civil War The leaders in Utah then constructed more lines from St.
George to Logan with stops in many other towns on the way
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Camp Douglas After Johnstons Army left Utah to go fight in the
Civil War, 750 soldiers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor came
to Utah Their job was to protect the overland mail and telegraph
lines from Indian attacks They built Camp Douglas to overlook Salt
Lake City Connor never got along with Young and the Mormons He even
had his cannons at Camp Douglas aimed at the Beehive House Connor
went on to create an anti-Mormon newspaper and the Liberal Party He
is also known as the Father of Utah Mining
Slide 8
Many New Religions The first Jewish family in the Salt Lake
Valley came in 1854 Many more came and by the 1880s there was a
healthy Jewish population in Salt Lake City Reverend Norman McLeod
thought that the Utah community would benefit from some Protestant
services His influence spread to many different areas, mostly in
Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake City Many Catholic soldiers were
stationed at Camp Douglas Catholic churches started to pop up all
over the major cities in Utah
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And More New Religions Daniel Sylvester Tuttle is credited with
the first nor- LDS church service in Utah He opened the first
nondenominational school in Utah This is where students of any
religion could study He also built Saint Marks Cathedral in Salt
Lake City and the Church of the Good Shepherd in Ogden
Slide 10
Mining in the Utah Territory The most prominent mineral in Utah
was ore Early settlers mined other things like salt, silver,
sulphur, lead, and coal They would mostly mine only what they
needed Many people got rich from mining in Utah However, the people
who got rich were the people who owned the mines and not those who
worked in them
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Mining cont. The Bingham brothers were the first to discover
ore in the Oquirrh Mountains Brigham Young actually discouraged the
brothers from prospecting He wanted people to focus on farming and
building Later soldiers from Camp Douglas found silver ore in the
canyon They also began to find gold in the ore Lead and silver were
the most prominent minerals Copper will not be mined in the area
until the turn of the century
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More Mining More mines were found in the Oquirrh Mountains such
as Stockton, the first non-Mormon town in Utah, and Ophir Mining
towns started to pop up in Little Cottonwood Canyon around Alta and
Snowbird ski resorts Park City in Parleys Canyon also became a
prominent mining town The area was rich in silver, lead, and gold
Transporting these minerals was difficult and expensive But it
became easier with the building of the railroads
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A Miners Life Working in the mines was very dangerous People
could fall down the mine elevators People could be crushed by
falling rocks or moving mine carts Many miners developed lung
disease from breathing in the dust The air in the mines could be
filled with deadly gas that could be breathed in or cause
explosions Canary in the coal mine People came from all over the
world to work in these mines making $3 dollars a day for 12 hours
of work
Slide 14
Business and Manufacturing Many businesses started opening up
in mining towns Lorenzo Snow opened the first cooperative business
in Utah, The Brigham City Cooperative Association These types of
businesses are where multiple owners share the costs and benefits
of a business Soon the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution,
ZCMI, opened in Salt Lake City and spread throughout the territory
Many of these coops would import goods from around the country
People in Utah would be able to buy the latest fashions from New
York City Brigham Young encouraged his followers to only do
business with other Mormons How did this make the other businessmen
feel?
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Textiles ZCMI became very successful in producing clothing The
Provo Woolen Mills was the first factory in Utah At first only men
worked in these factories Later on it became a woman dominated area
Brigham Young began to encourage women and children to produce silk
at home They had to import the silkworms and plant mulberry plants
to make silk The silk industry was not very successful and was over
by the end of the century