History of Utah - Chapter XXVIII



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Chapter XXVIII.
Commerce and Communication.
1852-1885.

Common Roadways--Railroads--the Union and Central Pacific--The Utah 
Central--The Utah Southern--The Utah and Northern--The Utah Eastern--
The Salt Lake and Western--The Utah and Nevada--The Denver and Rio 
Grande Western--Imports and Exports--Commerce and Trade--Banking--
Insurance--Taxation and Revenue--Mails and Mail Services--The First 
Telegraphic Message--The Deseret Telegraph Company.

   In 1860 the principal route from the Missouri to Utah was still the old 
emigrant-road which had been mainly used during the Utah and California 
migrations, and which was traversed by the army of Utah in 1857. Between 
Utah and California there were three principal lines of travel-the 
northern, the central, and the southern. The first skirted the upper edge 
of Great Salt Lake, and thence after crossing an intervening stretch of 
desert followed the valleys of the Humboldt and Carson rivers, being, in 
fact, almost identical with the Frémont route of 1845. Notwithstanding its 
length, it was still preferred by travellers, as pasture and water were 
fairly plentiful, and only two small tracts of desert land were met with.1 
The central, better known to the settlers of Utah by the name of Egan's 
and to the California-bound emigrants as the Simpson route, though the two 
were by no means coincident, varied but a few miles from the fortieth 
parallel until reaching the

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Hastings pass in the Humboldt Mountains, where it branched off in a south-
westerly direction toward Carson lake and river, and from Carson City 
south to Genoa.2 The southern route was by way of the Sevier, Santa Clara, 
and Virgen rivers, striking the Frémont trail near Las Vegas, thence 
partly across desert tracts to the junction of Indian River and the 
Colorado, and from that point to San Bernardino.3 On neither of the last 
two were grass and water abundant, but the southern route had the 
advantage of being rarely blocked with snow, except for the portion of it 
that lay between Salt Lake and the Rio Virgen.

   At the close of 1883 there were more than 3,000 miles of common roadway 
in Utah,4 and 1,143 miles

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of railroad,5 of which 297 belonged to the Union Pacific, 150 to the 
Central Pacific, 386 to the Denver and Rio Grande, 280 to the Utah 
Central, and 30 to the Sanpete Valley.

   In 1854, as we have seen, a memorial was addressed to congress by the 
territorial legislature, urging the construction of an overland railroad. 
In 1860 a second memorial was presented, to the same purport,6 and though 
neither of them was regarded, none rejoiced more heartily over the advent 
of the railroad than did the settlers of Utah. They felt now strong enough 
to have let in on them the advancing tide of civilization without being 
swept away by it. Brigham had long foreseen that the railroad would bring 
with it a new and manifest destiny to his people. Being himself a man of 
destiny, he quickly adapted himself to the altered condition of affairs, 
and declared that he believed in it. As all Utah believed in Brigham, it 
followed that his people would do their utmost to help it to completion. 
They were for the most part too poor to subscribe money, but whatever of 
aid or material their land and labor could supply was cheerfully furnished.

   In May 1868 a contract was made between Brigham

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and a superintendent of construction on the Union Pacific, for grading and 
other work on the road between the head of Echo cañon and the terminus of 
the line, yet to be located. At Weber cañon, through which point it 
entered the valley, there was much tunnelling, blasting, and mason-work to 
be done, including the heavy stone-work of the bridge abutments. The 
contract amounted to about $1,000,000, gave employment to 500 or 600 men, 
and, according to its terms,7 eighty per cent of the payments were to be 
made monthly as the work progressed, and the remainder when it was 
completed and accepted. As soon as the contract was closed, the 
superintendent urged that the work be commenced immediately, promising 
that if men and teams were collected he would have the line surveyed and 
made ready for them within a few days. On this understanding, workmen were 
concentrated at various points on the line, but weeks passed, and still 
the line was not surveyed. Many of the sub-contractors were thus compelled 
to wait until the cost of their operations was largely increased by the 
severity of the weather, and to incur debt from bankers, merchants, and 
farmers, who supplied them with funds, goods, grain, and material, 
thinking that the money due from the promoters of the Union Pacific would 
be promptly paid; but the payments were not made as specified.

   Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the contracts were faithfully 
executed, and it was acknowledged by all railroad men that nowhere on the 
line could the grading compare in completeness and finish with the work 
done by the people of Utah. Before the last tie was laid,8 all the 
contracts with the Union and

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Central Pacific, including forty miles of road between Ogden and the 
promontory, had been completed and accepted; but on the 10th of May, 1869, 
it was claimed by the saints that the former company was indebted to them 
in the sum of $1,000,000, and the two companies about $1,250,000. Toward 
the close of the year John Taylor, Joseph A. Young, and John Sharp9 went 
eastward, with a view to bringing the

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matter to an issue, and so vigorously and adroitly did they press their 
claim, that, in the absence of funds, rolling stock and material to the 
value of $600,000 were assigned to them in payment.

   On the 17th of May, one week after the completion of the 
transcontinental railroad, ground was broken near the Weber River for a 
line between Ogden and Salt Lake City, to be named the Utah Central.10 The 
road was built and equipped mainly with the material and rolling stock 
transferred from the Union Pacific; for even at this date there was little 
money in Utah, mining and traffic being as yet undeveloped, and the entire 
floating currency of the community was probably less than $5,000,000. 
This, the pioneer line of Utah, is the only one which has preserved its 
original identity, and that it has done so is perhaps due to the fact that 
it forms the main connecting link between the route of transcontinental 
traffic and the principal distributing point for the country.

   In May 1871 ground was broken at Salt Lake City for the Utah Southern,
11 the line being pushed forward at intervals both north and south through 
some of the richest lands in Utah, until, in June 1879, its northern 
terminus was at Provo,12 and its southern limit at Juab, 105 miles south 
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during this year the Utah Southern Extension was commenced at the latter 
point, completed during the following spring as far as Milford,14 and a 
few weeks later to Frisco, the location of the Horn Silver mine, its 
distance from Juab being 138 miles.15 In 1881 both these lines were 
incorporated with the Utah Central.16

   The Utah and Northern was organized in 1871, ground being broken at 
Brigham City in September of that year, and the road completed to Logan at 
the close of January 1873, and to Franklin, Idaho, by way of Ogden, early 
in the following year.17 The means for building this line were raised by 
the people of northern Utah with great difficulty, and after being 
maintained for years, first at a loss and then with meagre returns, it was 
sold to the Union Pacific for an insignificant sum, in February 1877,18 
extended through Idaho into western Montana, and in 1883 had become one of 
its most profitable branches.

   During Emery's administration a bill passed the legislature authorizing 
the counties of Salt Lake, Davis, Summit, and Tooele to issue bonds for 
the purpose of constructing a road from Coalville to

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Salt Lake City, the main object being to obtain a supply of coal at 
cheaper rates than was charged for fuel taken from the Wyoming mines of 
the Union Pacific. The bill was vetoed by the governor; but in 1880 an 
effort was made to build the line by private enterprise, among the 
subscribers being many who could ill afford such a venture. Like others of 
the Utah lines, it was thus commenced on a slender capital, but through 
the aid of wealthy stockholders in the Ontario mine, it was completed as, 
far as Park City, a distance of twenty-five miles from Coalville. Soon 
afterward a parallel branch, named the Echo and Park City, was built by 
the Union Pacific, and in 1883 the control of the former, which was known 
as the Utah Eastern, fell into the hands of the latter.19

   The Salt Lake and Western, fifty-seven miles in length, and later a 
branch of the Union Pacific, was built in 1874-5 from Lehi junction, a 
mile north of Lehi City, to the Tintic mines. It was at first intended to 
push the line through to California, tapping some of the rich mining 
districts of Nevada; but this project was abandoned. In 1883 it was used 
mainly for hauling gold, silver, and iron ore.20 the Utah and Nevada, 
first named the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley, and Pioche Railroad, was 
commenced in 1872, the intention being to build the line through the 
mining and agricultural lands of the Sevier Valley as far as Pioche, in 
south-eastern Nevada. After some twenty miles had been completed, work was 
abandoned in 1873, but resumed later, and the road completed as far as 
Stockton, in Tooele county, its terminus in 1883, at which date it was 
also under control of the Union Pacific. On account of the failure of the 
Pioche mines, and for other reasons, there seems little prospect of the 
original project being executed. The Sanpete Valley Railroad, built in 
1880, between Nephi, in Juab

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county, and Wales, in Sanpete county, its length being thirty miles, was 
constructed by an English company for the purpose of securing a market for 
the output of its coal mines.21

   The Denver and Rio Grande Western, the Utah division of the Denver and 
Rio Grande system of railroads, first began work here in 1881, and in 1883 
had 386 miles of road in operation, running through Emery, Utah, Salt 
Lake, Davis, and a portion of Weber counties, with branch lines named the 
Little Cottonwood and Bingham Cañon, the former running east into the 
Wasatch Mountains and the latter west into the Oquirrh Range, both being 
built solely to facilitate mining operations.22 Ninety miles of the Denver 
and Rio Grande Western were built entirely by local enterprise, including 
fifty miles of the main line extending through Spanish Fork cañon, 
completed by the citizens of Springville, and first known as the Utah and 
Pleasant Valley Railroad.23

   During the years immediately preceding the completion of the overland 
railroad, the imports of Utah seldom exceeded 12,000 tons, while the 
exports were of trifling amount. Commerce with the east and west was 
entirely insignificant, supplies being drawn mainly from St Louis and San 
Francisco, and paid for in part with the money received for surplus grain, 
stock, and garden produce from passing emigrants, who, together with the 
soldiery and the stage lines, furnished almost

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the principal cash receipts of Utah.24 In 1871 the volume of domestic 
imports and exports had increased to 80,000 tons, and since that date has 
averaged about 125,000 tons, of which two thirds were imports, and nearly 
one half consisted of material needed for mining operations.

   The total value of imports for 1882 was estimated at $11,410,000, and 
of exports at $11,525,000, the chief items among the former being dry 
goods, groceries, clothing, lumber and other building material, 
agricultural implements, leather and leathern manufactures; among the 
latter, gold, silver, lead, copper matte, live-stock, beef, wool, hides, 
pelts, furs, and tallow,25 the exports of metals alone amounting to $9,000,
000. The shipment of iron ore and charcoal to Utah, which at one time were 
important factors in the imports, has now practically ceased; but the 
territory must always import more or less of lumber, agricultural 
implements, wagons, and furniture; for there are no hard or finishing 
woods of native growth, and lumber of good quality cut from native timber 
is scarce and difficult to obtain. Imports of leathern and woollen goods 
will doubtless decrease with the growth of manufactures, though for 
reasons that are explained elsewhere, the leather produced in Utah is of 
inferior quality.

   While Utah could without difficulty produce a large surplus of many 
agricultural products, distance from market and an exorbitant freight 
tariff make it almost impossible for her to compete with the Pacific and 
western states. Several efforts have been made in this direction, but the 
results were not satisfactory, and it is doubtful whether Utah has yet 
sent away in all more than 1,000,000 bushels of grain. The experiment

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was first tried on a large scale in 1878, when a ship was laden at San 
Francisco with 64,000 bushels of Utah wheat, the cargo being sold before 
the vessel put to sea. A few months later a ship was chartered for England 
with 78,000 bushels,26 but though a small profit was realized, it was not 
sufficient to encourage further operations.

   If to the $11,410,000 of imports there be added 25 per cent as the 
profits of jobbers and retailers, we have a total of about $14,250,000, 
which represents approximately the general business of Utah. It is worthy 
of note that while this large amount of business is transacted, the 
average number of failures for the eight years ending 1883 did not exceed 
fourteen, with liabilities averaging about $11,000.27 The credit of Utah 
merchants is for the most part exceptionally good; not that they are 
considered more upright than other merchants, but because a very large 
proportion of cash is now employed in their transactions; and while many 
import on a small scale, the bulk of the business is done by a few large 
firms, which trade on a sufficient capital and do not require much credit.

   In 1883 it was estimated that the Zion's Coöperative Mercantile 
Institution, with its 800 stockholders, its cash capital of $1,000,000, 
its surplus of $150,000, and its branches at Ogden and Logan, imported at 
least one third of all the merchandise consumed in Utah. Soon after this 
association was established, coöperative stores were opened in every large 
town, and in nearly every village and farming settlement, all of them 
purchasing from the so-called parent institution, and through its agency 
disposing of the produce received in barter. Every one who could purchase 
or earn a share of stock contributed his labor or capital, and though many 
of them succumbed through opposition or over-anxiety to disburse

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large dividends, it is probable that at least two thirds of the settlers 
patronize them at this day.28

   The progress and development of trade in Utah froth the days of 1848, 
when probably the entire cash capital of the community did not amount to 
$3,000, present some interesting and anomalous features. At first, as we 
have seen, the Mormons desired to avoid all traffic with the outside 
world; but as emigrants passed over their roads and through their 
settlements, goods were exchanged with advantage to both sides. It was not 
until two years after the pioneers entered the valley that the first store 
was opened at an adobe house, in the seventeenth ward of Salt Lake City, 
by the firm of Livingston & Kinkead,29 whose stock was worth some $20,000. 
In 1850 the firm of Holliday & Warner established a branch of their 
business in the capital, through their agent, William H. Hooper, who 
opened a store in a building erected for school purposes, on the block 
occupied by Brigham Young, thence removing to the structure later occupied 
by the museum.30

   Soon the unerring scent of commerce discovered the direction which 
business must take, and Main

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street, then dubbed Whiskey street, the denizens of which were often 
rebuked in the tabernacle for their iniquities, rapidly became the 
business quarter of the city, John and Enoch Reese, the third firm in 
historic date, building a store on the ground later occupied by the 
express office, and J M. Horner & Co., the fourth, occupying a portion of 
the premises of the Deseret News.31 Among the men who had become prominent 
at the time of the Utah war were Gilbert & Gerrish and William Nixon, the 
latter being still termed the father of Utah merchants.32

   Before the Utah war and for several years afterward, internal trade 
was conducted mainly by barter and the due-bill system. At this period the 
settlers had little use for money, and preferred taking in exchange for 
their commodities something that they could eat, or drink, or wear, and 
which could not be had at home. Thus scores of well-to-do farmers, with 
families to clothe and educate, while living in greater comfort perhaps 
than those of the western or Pacific states, seldom possessed a dollar in 
coin. Should one of them, for instance, require clothing for wife or 
child, he consulted the store-keeper, who agreed, perhaps, to supply him 
for so many loads of wood. If he should have no spare wood, he searched 
out some neighbor who had a surplus and offered him its equivalent in 
butter or poultry. Perhaps, however, this neighbor did not need butter or 
poultry, but required a few loads of gravel or adobes. In that case the 
farmer must find some one who was willing to exchange

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for his poultry or butter, gravel or adobes, which he delivered in return 
for wood, hauled the wood to the store, and thus, at length, wife and 
child were clad. For the tuition of his children he would pay, perhaps, so 
many dozens of eggs per quarter; for admission to the theatre, a score of 
cabbages; for the services of a laborer or mechanic, a certain number of 
watermelons per day; and his tithes were usually, but not always, paid in 
kind.

   In this primitive fashion, until the advent of the railroad, trade was 
for the most part conducted in Utah; and notwithstanding the wisdom and 
economic system of their rulers, there were times, as will be remembered, 
when the settlers were really needy. The country was relieved only by a 
train of fortunate, or as the settlers believed providential, 
circumstances. These were, first, the presence of the army of Utah, which 
after disbursing large sums among the community sold them its substance at 
nominal rates; second, the arrival of a second army under Colonel Connor, 
with the interchange of traffic and demand for labor thereby occasioned; 
third, the needs of the overland mail and telegraph lines.

   In part through such adventitious aid, the merchants of Utah, putting 
forth their might, built up a commerce as wonderful in its growth and 
development as that of any of the states on the Atlantic or Pacific 
seaboard. As early as 1864 there were several houses in Salt Lake City 
that purchased in New York, St Louis, or Chicago goods to the value of 
$250,000 or more at a time, among them being William Jennings,33 Godbe & 
Mitchell, the Walker Brothers,

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and Kimball & Lawrence, than whom few firms throughout the United States, 
outside, perhaps, of Boston, ranked higher as to commercial integrity. 
After the founding of Zion's Coöperative Mercantile Institution, mentioned 
elsewhere, and the development of its banking system, the trade and 
commerce of Utah assumed a more homogeneous character.34

   In 1883 there were twelve private and five national banks in operation 
in Utah, of which six were at the capital, three at Ogden, two at Logan, 
and one each at the several towns of Provo, Corinne, St George, Richfield, 
Silver Reef, and Park City. Their aggregate paid-up capital was estimated 
at $1,000,000, their loans at $3,000,000, their deposits at $3,500,000, 
and the amount of their exchange business at from $12,000,000 to $15,000,
000.35

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   At this date there were some fifty insurance agencies having business 
with Salt Lake City and Ogden, their risks on buildings amounting to $500,
000, and on merchandise in stock to $3,500,000.36

   Thus with her 1,143 miles of railroad, her agricultural and stock-
raising interests, now valued at $12,000,000 a year, her manufactures at 
$5,000,000, her mining output at $7,000,000 or $8,000,000, her commerce at 
$23,000,000, and her seventeen national and commercial banks, it will be 
seen that Utah compares

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not unfavorably with the states of the Pacific slope. She is practically 
free from debt, and nowhere is taxation lighter or more equitably 
adjusted. In 1865, as we have seen, the territorial and county taxes were 
not allowed in any case to exceed one per cent of the assessed value of 
property, while for school purposes they seldom exceeded one fourth of one 
per cent.37 In 1883 the rate was but six mills on the dollar for both 
territorial and school purposes,38 counties being allowed discretion as to 
their rate of levy, provided that it should never exceed six mills on the 
dollar.39 Cities were limited to five mills on the dollar for municipal 
expenses, and five mills for the making and repair of streets. The 
assessed value of all property in the territory was, in 1883, $30,834,425,
40 and this was considerably less than 50 per cent of the real value, the 
total revenue from territorial and school tax being $185,000,41 or little 
more than $1 per capita of the population. That this sum was expended 
economically for the public benefit is shown by the number of public 
buildings, roads, bridges, and other improvements in the cities and 
counties of Utah.42

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This amount does not of course include the income from tithes, which in 
1880 was estimated at $458,000,43 a sum not larger in proportion to 
population than is expended for religious and charitable purposes in 
other states and territories of the union.

   The receipts of the United States internal revenue from Utah were for 
1883 about $48,000, and for the twenty preceding years averaged about $40,
000. Neither tobacco nor spirituous liquors were manufactured in the 
country, though 230,000 cigars and some 18,000 barrels of malt liquors 
made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, yielded revenue to the 
amount of $18,097. Apart from these items, most of the internal revenue 
receipts were derived from license taxes.44

   The United States land-office at Salt Lake City was opened in the year 
1869. Up to the 31st of March, 1884, the total payments made through this 
office were $831,209.08, this amount representing almost the entire sum 
paid for lands disposed of by government. During this period 6,388 
homestead entries were made, covering an area of 844,159 acres, and 2,773 
final proofs. The number of mineral-land entries was 1,023, and their area 
8,656 acres; of coal-land entries 72, with an area of 10,423 acres.45

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   The receipts of the post-office at Salt Lake City for the year ending 
March 31, 1884, amounted to $39,294, and the expenses to $12,871, leaving 
a surplus in this department of $26,423. The first post-office was 
established in March 1849, letters being usually delivered before that 
date at the conclusion of divine service on the sabbath at the several 
places of worship. Of mail contracts and services up to the close of 1856 
mention has already been made.46 At that date, it will be remembered, 
there was a monthly service, when not interrupted by severity of weather 
or unforeseen casualties, connecting eastward with Independence and 
westward with Sacramento. After the reopening of postal communication, 
interrupted by the Utah war, there was little regard to regularity or 
promptness in the delivery of the mails, letters and papers being often 
lost, mail-bags wetted, thrown carelessly to the ground, and sometimes 
purposely destroyed.

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As for magazines and newspapers, the saints considered themselves 
fortunate if they received them four months after date. The establishment 
of the pony express in 1860, and the persistence with which the Mormons 
advertised their grievances, improved matters considerably; and with the 
building of railroads, lines of postal route were of course established 
throughout the territory. In 1879 there were 109 routes, the subsidies for 
which amounted to nearly $200,00047 and about 200 postmasters, whose 
compensation varied from 18 cents to $2,800 a year.48

   On October 18, 1861, a message from Brigham Young was received by the 
president of the Pacific Telegraph Company at Cleveland, Ohio, of which 
the following is a portion: "Utah has not seceded, but is firm for the 
constitution and laws of our once happy country."49 The message was 
courteously answered. the same day Secretary and Acting Governor Frank 
Fuller thus saluted President Lincoln: "Utah, whose citizens strenuously 
resist all imputations of disloyalty, congratulates the president upon the 
completion of an enterprise which spans a continent...May the whole system 
speedily thrill with the quickened pulsations

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of the heart, as the parricide hand is palsied, treason is punished, and 
the entire sisterhood of states join hands in glad reunion around the 
national fireside." The president answered: "The government reciprocates 
your congratulations."50 In the autumn of this year the line was completed 
westward to California.51 The charge for messages to New York was in 1861 
at the rate of $7.50 for 10 words, as against $1.50 in 1880.52

   At the former date Brigham had already resolved to connect the leading 
settlements of Utah by means of a home telegraph system. It was not, 
however, until the autumn of 1865 that the matter was brought prominently 
before the people. They responded cheerfully and promptly, as they ever 
did to his behests, contributing funds and labor, and about a year later 
the Deseret Telegraph Co. was in operation, the line opening for business 
in December 1866, connecting first with Ogden, and soon afterward with 
Brigham City and Logan, its northern terminus. In January 1867, 500 miles 
of wire had been laid, extending northward to Cache Valley and southward 
to St George, with a branch line running through Sanpete Valley.53 During 
this month the company was organized under charter from the legislature, 
with a capital of $500,000.54 The line was afterward continued

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through Sevier county to Monroe, and from Toquerville to the Kanab country 
in south-eastern Utah, to Tintic, Cottonwood, and Bingham, and to Pioche 
and other towns in south-eastern Nevada. In 1880 it had been further 
extended to Paris, Idaho, to the mining towns of Frisco, Silver City, and 
Alta, and toward the south-east as far as Ordenville, touching Arizona in 
its route. At this date there were 955 miles of pole line, 1,130 of wire, 
and 68 offices in operation. The capital stock was held entirely by 
Mormons, and though much of the route lay through a sparsely settled 
country, where the expenses were out of all proportion to the receipts, 
the enterprise was self-supporting.55

   In 1882 there were 2,647 miles of telegraph and 600 of telephone wire, 
with 560 instruments in Utah,56 and communication with the adjacent states 
and territories was being rapidly pushed forward.

   The people of the United States seem now determined that polygamy 
shall be suppressed. During the years 1885-7, fines and imprisonments were 
of constant occurrence, and hundreds of heads of families went into 
hiding. Some voluntarily came forward, gave themselves up, and stood their 
trial. Whether or not the system is destined thus to be wholly rooted out, 
it is impossible to say. But in answer to the

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oft-repeated accusations of those who regard the Mormons merely as an 
ulcer in the body politic, there are many points which to the impartial 
observer would seem worthy of being noted in their favor. Laying aside the 
questions of religion and polygamy, we find recorded in their annals one 
of the greatest achievements of modern times, and one that sheds a lustre 
on the dark cloud which, to gentile gaze, hangs like a funeral-pall over 
the genius of this singular and long-suffering community. Driven from Far 
West, from Kirtland, from Nauvoo, they found at length, amid the farthest 
west, an abiding-place-one then as remote from civilization as the wilds 
of Senegambia. There, within forty years, has been established a thriving 
community; there has been built one of the most sightly capitals west of 
the Mississippi, an oasis amid the great American desert, and with 
hundreds of settlements depending upon it. There farms and orchards, 
flocks and herds, factories and warehouses, cover the formerly unpeopled 
solitude, abandoned but a few decades ago to the savage, the coyote, and 
the wolf. The men and women who compose this community, drawn for the most 
part from the lower strata of European society, have not been slow to 
learn the practical lessons which their church has taught them; to learn 
how to exercise forethought, frugality, and other qualities which lead to 
success in life.57

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1 For descriptions of this route, see Horn's Overl. Guide; Kelly's Excurs. 
to Cal., Remy's Jour. to G. S. L. City, passim.  
 
2 In 1859 J. H. Simpson of the topographical engineers received 
instructions from Gen. Johnson to explore the great basin, with a view to 
find a direct wagon route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley· An 
account of the expedition will be found in his Rept Explor. Gt Basin. For 
about 300 miles his route was identical with Egan's, except for a few 
unimportant deviations; but soon after reaching Ruby Valley it tended more 
toward the south. Egan's line was preferred, however, as on the one taken 
by Simpson grass and water were scarce. Howard Egan, a major in the Nauvoo 
legion, and a well-known guide and mountaineer, was for some years engaged 
in driving stock to Cal. in the service of Livingston & Kinkead, and 
afterward became a mail agent. Burton's City of the Saints, 550. See, for 
an account of the explorations of E. F. Beales between Fort Defiance and 
the Colorado, and F. W. Lander between Green and Bear rivers in 1857, 
Warren's mem. in Pac. R. R. Rept, xi. 91; for remarks on the advantages of 
different routes, Wheeler's Surveys, Progress Rept, 1872, 33-6; for J. W. 
Powell's exploring and surveying expeditions, Appleton's Jour., xi.; 
Smithsonian Rept, 1877, 67-82; for further matters relating to government 
roads, House Ex. Doc., 341h Cong. 1st Sess., i., pt 2, 504-7; 35th Cong. 
2d Sess., ii., pt 2, 12, 149-51, 202-6, pt. 3, 1300-3; 36th Cong. 1st 
Sess., Mess and Doc., pt 2, 13-15, 131-2, 194-5, 200-4, 221-30; House 
Rept, 34th Cong. let Sees., i. 185; Sen. Doc., 35th Cong. 2d Sess., nos. 
39, 40. Appropriations were made at various dates for the building and 
repair of bridges, for which see Utah Jour. Legisl. and Utah Laws, passim. 
In 1882 the sum of $5,000 was appropriated toward building a bridge across 
the Weber at Riverdale, and $1,000 for a bridge across the Provo at Provo 
City. For description of Provo cañon bridge in 1858, see Deseret News, 
Oct. 13, 1858; for condition of bridges and roads in 1859, Id., July 6, 
1859. 

3 Portions of this route were traversed by Chandlees and Remy, by whom it 
is described in their respective works.

4 For reports of commissioners, appropriations, work done, condition, and 
other matters relating to local roads, see Utah Acts, 1855-6, 44-6; Utah 
Jour. Legisl., 1859-60, 96-8; 1860-1, 58-9, 113-14, 149, 165, 168; 1861-2, 
59, 70, 73, 104, 116-17, 121, 132, 144; 1862-3, 29-30, 45, 51, 63; 1863-4, 
54-5, 85, 108, 131-2: 1864-5, 53-6, 73, 140-1; 1865-6, 20-3, 29, 53, 70-1, 
102, 122, 156-7; 1866-7, 20, 23-5, 28-9, 61-3, 66; 1868, 21-2, 25, 44-6, 
75-6, 92, 116-18, 129; 1869, 20-1, 23-4, 55-6, 71-2, 79-80, 82-3, 88, 93-
4, 102, 112, 172; 1870, 63-4, 79, 84-8, 108, 118; 1876, 29-30; Utah Laws, 
1878, 57; 1882, 102-4; Deseret News, Nov. 23, 1859, Jan. 22, 1862; Rae's 
Westward by Rail, 99. 

5 In 1860 there was a weekly stage to S. L. City, conducted by Russell & 
Waddell, who during the same year started a pony express. In 1861 they 
were bought out by Ben Holliday, and in that or the following year a daily 
line was established to S. L. City. In 1866 Wells, Fargo, & Co. purchased 
Holliday's interest, believing that the railroad would not be completed 
for six or seven years. They lost by the transaction, among their 
purchases being $70,000 worth of new coaches which they never used, and 
afterward sold to Gilmer & Salisbury for one fourth of the cost. John T. 
Gilmer commenced staging in 1859 under Russell & Waddell. In 1864 he was 
appointed division agent at Bitter Creek by Ben Holliday. About 1876 he 
began mining in the Black Hills, Utah, and afterward in Nev., Id., Ariz., 
and Cal. He was also connected with the Stewart mine in Bingham cañon, and 
others. In 1884 he was conducting a staging business in Utah, Id., Ariz., 
and Cal. Gilmer's Mails and Staging in Utah, MS. Descriptions of stage-
coach travel in Utah in the years before the opening of the railroad will 
be found in almost every book that treats of Mormonism up to that thee. 
Among others, see Burton's City of the Saints; Remy's Jour. to G. S. L. 
City; Chandler's Visit to S. Lake; Bowles' Across the Continent; Dilke's 
Greater Britain; Greeley's Overl. Jour. 

6 See Utah Acts, 1858-9, 37-8; House Misc. Doc., 36th Cong. 2d Sess., 34.
 
7 Particulars will be found in the Deseret News, May 27, 1868. See also S. 
F. Call, May 22, 1868; S. F. Times, May 22, 1868. At this date it was yet 
uncertain where the junction between the U. P. and C. P. R. R. would be 
located. For act to fix the point of junction, see House. Ex. Doc., 46th 
Cong. 3d Sess., 973. 

8 For celebration at S. L. City on the completion of the railroad, see 
Deseret News, May 12, 1866. On March 8th a railroad celebration was held 
at Ogden, an account of which is given in Id., March 8, 1869; Tullidge's 
Mag., i. 476-7. In 1868 Gen. Connor built and launched a small steamer, 
named the Kate Connor, for carrying railroad ties and telegraph poles from 
the southern to the northern shore of the G. S. Lake. Res. and Attract. of 
Utah, 63. The ties were for the Union Pacific. This appears to have been 
the first steamer that navigated the lake, though in the S. F. Bulletin, 
July. 29, 1856, it is stated that there was one at that date. In 1869 an 
excursion steamer was built, and in 1870 a boat costing $45,000, first 
named the City of Corinne and then the General Garfield. In 1879 the 
latter was still used mainly for excursions, as there was little freight 
to be had. At this date there was a considerable yachting fleet on the 
lake, the first, and for some years the only yacht, being built by the 
Walker Bros. For description of excursions on G. S. Lake in 1879, see 
Marshall's Through Amer., 191; for navigation on the Colorado in 1865, 
Austin Reese River Reveillé, June 27, 1865; in 1873, Prescott Miner, Jan. 
18, 1873. 

9 Bishop Sharp, known in Utah also as the railroad bishop, was born in 
1820 at the Devon iron-works, Scotland, and when eight years of age went 
to work in a coal-pit. In 1847, being then a coal-miner in 
Clackmannanshire, he was converted to Mormonism, and the following year 
sailed for New Orleans with his two brothers, who had also joined the 
faith. They reached S. L. City in 1850. Here Sharp was first employed in 
quarrying stone for the tabernacle and tithing-office, and was soon 
afterward made superintendent of the quarry. In 1854 he was ordained a 
bishop, and ten years later was appointed assistant superintendent of 
public works. When the contract was made with the Union Pacific by 
Brigham, as above mentioned, Sharp was one of the principal sub-
contractors. In 1871 he became superintendent of the Utah Central, and in 
1873 president, having previously been elected vice-president of the Utah 
Southern. While employed as purchasing agent for the latter company in the 
eastern states, he became associated with the directors of the Union 
Pacific, by whom he was afterward elected a member of the board. Among 
those who were awarded contracts by the Central Pacific was Lorin Farr, 
who, with Benson and West as partners, graded 200 miles of the road, Aaron 
F. Farr being employed as superintendent. Lorin Farr also took an active 
part in the building of the Utah Central and Utah Northern, of which more 
later, and was one of the prime movers in bringing the Denver and Rio 
Grande into Ogden. In 1868 he built the Ogden woollen-mills in conjunction 
with Randall Pugsley and Neil, and for 20 years was mayor of that city. 
Aaron F. Farr was for six years probate judge of Weber co., and was 
elected a member of the Utah legislature. 

   In connection with the Central Pacific may be mentioned the name of 
James Forbes, their agent at Ogden between 1869 and 1884, and in 
connection with the Union Pacific, A. G. Fell, at the latter date 
superintendent of division in the same city. Forbes, a native of Conn., 
came to Cal. when 16 years of age, and after being engaged in mining for 
several years, was appointed agent for the C. P. R. R. at Elko, Nev., soon 
after the line was opened, removing thence to Utah a few months later. 
Fell, a native of Ontario, Can., and in 1867 employed in the train-
despatcher's office at Montreal, also removed to Utah in 1867.

   Joshua R. Nichols, appointed assist super. U. P. R. R. in July 1869, 
says that for three months after that date no director or manager dare 
travel on the line without a body-guard. Nichols' Mining Mach., MS. 

10 For act granting right of way, see House Ex. Doc., 46th Cong. 3d Sess., 
xxvi. 974; Cong. Globe, 1870-1, p. 329; Zabriskie's Land Laws, 1877, 
suppl. 19; Grant's Rights and Priv. Utah Cent. R. R. Co., in which last 
are the articles of association, by-laws, and a copy of the mortgage 
executed by the company to secure its first-mortgage bonds. Brigham Young 
was president, W. Jennings vice-president, Dan. H. Wells treasurer, and 
John W. Young secretary; the first three, together with Feramorz Little 
and Christ. Layton, forming the board of directors. The original capital 
was $1,500,000, divided into 15,000 shares of $100 each. It does not 
appear that the directors had much faith in the undertaking, for none of 
them, except Brigham, subscribed for more than twenty shares, while Layton 
took only 10, and Little 5 shares. For celebration when ground was broken, 
see S. F. Bulletin, May 19, 1869; Tullidge's Mag., i. 477; for ceremonies, 
etc., when the road was completed, Deseret News, Jan. 12, 1870; S. F. 
Abend Post, Jan. 12, 1876; Scientific Press, Jan. 15, 1870; Tullidge's 
Life of Young, 362-3. 

11 Deseret News, May 3, 1871.

12 For bill granting right of way, see Cong. Globe, 1874-5; for special 
privileges, Provo City Revised Ordin., 127-9.

13 For further items as to the Utah Southern, see Williams' Pac. Tourist, 
131-2; Deseret News, Dec. 3, 1873, Jan. 27, 1875, Jan. 26, 1876; S. L. 
C. Herald, March 20, 1878; S. F. Alta, May 11, 1872; S. F. Post, Nov. 11, 
1873; Prescott Miner, Jan. 26, 1877. 

14 The first train ran through to Milford in May. S. L. Wkly Tribune, May 
22, 1880. 

15 Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 108. See also S. L. Herald, Jan. 1, 1879; S. L. 
C. Tribune, July 8, 1879.

16 In the Contributor, iv. 182, is a report of freights received and 
forwarded over the Utah Central for eleven and a half months in 1882.

17 The road from Ogden to Franklin was built entirely by the settlers. 
Doddridge's U. & N. R. R., MS. For act granting right of way through 
public lands of Utah, Idaho, and Montana in 1873, see Zabriskie's Land 
Laws, suppl., 1877, p. 57; House Ex. Doc., 46th Cong. 3d Sess., 47, pt 2, 
976-7. In 1772 an act was passed granting right of way through to the 
Utah, Idaho, and Montana road, which was to connect with the Utah and 
Northern. Id., 975.

18 During 1879 the income had increased to about $80,000 a month. Deseret 
News, July 16, 1879. For further items concerning the Utah and Northern, 
see Id., Oct. 10, 1877; S. L. C. Herald, Nov. 21, 1877; Portland Ev. 
Telegram, May 3, July 24, 1879; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 108-9; Doddridge's 
U. & N. R. R., MS. W. B. Doddridge, a native of Circleville, O., came to 
Ogden in 1867, and though only 19 years of age, readily obtained 
employment on the U. P. R. R. In 1882 he was appointed to the charge of 
the Idaho division.
 
19 S. L. C. Tribune, Dec. 28, 1879. 

20 Williams' Pac. Tourist, 147; S. L. C. Tribune, Dec. 19, 1874; S. F. 
Bulletin, July 6, 1881; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, p. 110.
 
21 S. L. C. Herald, June 17, 1880; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 110. 

22 Companies were organized to build both these roads in 1872, and they 
were constructed by local enterprise, afterward becoming tributary to the 
Denver and Rio Grande.

23 In addition to the above roads, there were two short lines, formerly in 
operation, and known as the Summit County and American Fork. Both have 
been abandoned. For further particulars as to the Utah railroads, see 
Hollister's Res. and Attract. of Utah, 58-65; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 105-
11; Crofutt's Overl. Tourist, 126-42; Utah Res., 43-8; Hayden's Gt West, 
319; Duffus-Hardy's Through Cities, 97; Utah Laws, 1878, 13, 1882, 12-18; 
Utah Jour. Legisl., 1880, 135-7; Sec. Int. Rept, 42d Cong. 3d Sess., pt 
i., 167; Sen. Ex. Doc., 45th Cong. 2d Sees., 40. In 1883 the bonded debt 
of the Utah Central was $4,900,000, of the Utah Eastern $400,000, of the 
Utah and Northern $972,000, of the Salt Lake and Western $1,080,000, of 
the Sanpete Valley, $750,000. The Utah and Nevada had no bonded debt.
 
24 Flour, meat, and vegetables were also exchanged for groceries, 
clothing, etc. Brown's Statement, MS., 3. In 1849 the settlers were 
anxious to open a highway to San Diego, whence they intended to obtain 
supplies. In 1867 it was proposed to use the Colorado route for traffic. 
See Hayes' Scraps, San Diego, ii. 171-93. 

25 Hollister's Res. and Attract. of Utah, 67-8; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 113, 
where are tables of imports and exports for 1882.
 
26 The names of the vessels were the Maulsden and Ivy, both being 
chargered by S. W. Sears. 

27 See reports of R. G. Dun & Co.'s agency.
 
28 For further details as to commerce in Utah, and the development of the 
coöperative system, see Hollister's Res. and Attract. of Utah, 48-52, 67-
9; Tullidge's Mag., Apr. 1881, passim; Contributor, iv. 182; Fabian's 
Utah, 11-13; S. L. C. Tribune, Jan. 4, 1872; S. L. Herald, in S. F. Call, 
Feb. 24, 1872; S. F. Alta, Apr. 10, 27, May 13, 1872; S. F. Bulletin, Feb. 
22, 1872; S. F. Chronicle, Oct. 6, 1873; S. F. Post, Apr. 12, 1875; for 
commercial law, Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 273-7. 

29 Richards' Reminiscences, MS., 31. At this date the firm occupied what 
was considered the most convenient house in the city. Later it was pulled 
down. In the Deseret News of Sept. 28, 1854, it is stated that Capt. Grant 
of Fort Hall was the first outsider who brought goods to the Utah market 
for sale, offering sugar and coffee at $1 a pint, calico at 50 to 75 cents 
a yard, and other articles in proportion. Livingston & Kinkead, who came 
with the intention of trading for five years, realizing a certain net 
profit, and then returning to Egypt, which they did, sold coffee and sugar 
at 40 cents a pound (a little more than a pint), calico at 25 cents a 
yard, etc. At this date there were few eastern, or, as they were termed, 
states goods in the market; and if we can believe Beadle's Life in Utah, 
197, the firm took in $10,000 in gold the first day their store was 
opened. As this amount then probably represented almost the entire 
floating capital of the Mormons, the statement must be taken for what it 
is worth.

30 In 1851 David Smith and E. N. Cook, bound for Oregon with a large band 
of stock from St Joseph, stopped at Salt Lake City for three weeks, 
trading dry goods, etc., for additional cattle. Clark's Sights, MS., 11.
 
31 Horner & Co. reduced the price of sugar to three pounds for $1, 
whereupon Livingston & Kinkead sold it at 30 ccnts a pound, calico at 18 
3/4 cents a yard, and marked all their goods 25 per cent below former 
prices, giving a guarantee never to exceed these rates. Deseret News, 
Sept. 28, 1854. In 1855, however, coffee and moist sugar were still 
selling at 40 cents per lb., and domestics at 25 cents a yard, tea being 
worth $2.25 per lb., flour $6.25 per 100 lbs., bacon and cheese each 30 
cents, and butter 36 to 40 cents. Chandler's Visit to S. Lake, 345. Horner 
& Co. continued but a short time in business, being succeeded by Hooper & 
Williams. 

32 Gilbert & Gerrish were a gentile firm, and William Nixon was a Mormon 
of English descent, who began his commercial career at St Louis. Among his 
pupils were the Walker brothers.
 
33 Isaac, the father of William Jennings, a wealthy butcher of Yardley, 
Worcester, England, was better known to fame as one of the claimants in 
the Jennings chancery suit, in which millions of pounds were at stake; but 
though he proved himself a lawful claimant, his efforts won for him no 
substantial result. In 1847 William Jennings, then some 14 years of age, 
took ship for New York, where, during the ensuing winter, he was employed 
by a pork-packer at a wage of $6 a week. After some adventures, being at 
one time robbed of his all and glad to find work as a journeyman butcher, 
and on another occasion attacked with cholera, which left him with a 
shattered constitution and $200 in debt, he chanced to make the 
acquaintance of a catholic priest, from whom he borrowed $50. With this 
capital Jennings made his first real start in life, and turning every 
dollar to account, soon paid off his debt and laid the basis of his 
fortune. In 1851 we find him at St Joseph, where he was married to Jane 
Walker, a Mormon emigrant girl. In the autumn of 1852 he arrived at Salt 
Lake City, having first invested all his means in three wagon-loads of 
groceries, from which he realized a considerable profit. Joining the 
church, he engaged in business as a butcher, and in 1855-6 as a tanner, 
boot and shoe manufacturer, and saddle and harness maker. In 1856 he was 
sent on a mission to Carson Valley, and, returning in the summer of 1857, 
commenced business some three years later as a dry-goods merchant in Salt 
Lake City, soon becoming the leading business man in Utah. In 1864 his 
purchases in New York and St Louis amounted to $500,000, and in Salt Lake 
City to $350,000, his business thereafter averaging about $2,000,000 per 
annum. Mr Jennings assisted in organizing the Utah Central R. R., of which 
he became vice-president, and succeeded Brigham as president of the Utah 
Southern. He was also one of the founders and directors of the Deseret 
National Bank, and a member of the legislature under Governor Doty. 

34 Until the advent of the railroad, the prices of all commodities 
continued extremely high. At a convention held at the Bowery, S. L. City, 
Oct. 4, 1864, the price of flour was fixed at $12 her 100 lbs of wheat 
corn and beans at $5, $4, and $10 per bushel respectively, of pork at 30 
cents, and of dried apples at 75 cents per lb., all in gold. Deseret News, 
Oct. 19, 1864. Bowles says that in June of the following year lumber was 
worth $100 per thousand feet, sugar 75 to 85 cents, coffee $1 to $1.10 and 
tea 3.50 to $5 per lb. Across the Continent, 101-2. These prices were in 
currency. 

35 Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 115. The firm of Hooper, Eldredge, & Co.-W. H. 
Hooper, H. S. Eldredge, and L. S. Hills-commenced business at S. L. City 
May 1, 1869, with a capital of $40,000. They were succeeded by the Bank of 
Deseret, incorporated under territorial law Sept. 1, 1871, with a capital 
of $100,000, Brigham Young being president, H. S. Eldredge vice-president, 
and W. H. Hooper, W. Jennings, F. Little, and J. Sharp the remaining 
directors. L. S. Hills was cashier. this institution was again succeeded 
by the Deseret National Bank, organized under the act of Nov. 1, 1872, 
with a capital of $200,000, and with the same directors and officials, its 
deposits in 1880 being about $500,000. the Walker Bros' bank was 
established in 1871, the firm having at that date large deposits of cash 
and bullion to their credit, notwithstanding the losses caused by the 
coöperative movement and by the opposition of the church dignitaries. 
Walker's Merchants and Miners of Utah, MS., 4. The remaining banks at S. 
L. City in 1873 were those of Jones & Co., McCornick & Co., Wells, Fargo, 
& Co., and the Zion's Savings Bank, the last having a capital of $50,000, 
and of which John Taylor was president. 

   The Ogden banks were the Commercial National Bank, the Utah National 
Bank of Ogden, and the First National, of which last H. S. Eldredge was 
president in 1885. The business of the Commercial National was purchased 
from J. M. Langsdorf and H. O. Harkness, the former organizing the firm of 
J. W. Guthrie & Co. at Corinne in 1874. J. M. Langsdorf, a native of 
Pittsburg, Pa, came to Utah in 1869. His first occupation was to sweep out 
the bank at Corinne, of which he was soon made book-keeper, and afterward 
manager. Langsdorf's Stock-raising in Weber Co., MS. Guthrie & Co.'s 
business afterward fell into the hands of R. M. Dooly, by whom the Utah 
National Bank of Ogden was organized in 1883. Dooly, a native of Ill., 
came to Cal. in 1872, removing to Utah the following year, and being 
employed by Wells, Fargo, & Co. until Oct. 1881. In 1878 he was married to 
Mary Eliza Helfrich, a native of Grass Valley, Cal. Dooly's Ogden Banks, 
MS. Among the bankers of Ogden may also be mentioned Watson N. Shilling, a 
native of Ohio, where he was born in 1840. Removing to Michigan when he 
was twelve years of age, he enlisted in 1861 in the 1st Michigan cavalry, 
serving throughout the war, and being mustered out, in 1865, at Fort 
Collins, Col. Two years later he proceeded to Oneida co., Id., where he 
engaged in farming, trading, and stock-raising, and where in 1884 he still 
retained his interests, his residence in Ogden being mainly with a view to 
the education of his family. In 1883 he was a delegate to the national 
republican convention, throwing in his influence to secure the nomination 
of Blaine. Utah Biog. Sketches, MS., 56. The Logan banks were those of 
Charles Frank and Thatcher Bros & Co., the latter having a capital of $75,
000. The bank at Provo was named the First National, its capital being $50,
000, with A. O. Smoot as president; the one at St George was conducted by 
Woolley, Lund, & Judd; the one at Richfield by Jas M. Peterson; and the 
one at Silver Reef by R. T. Gillespie. For further particulars concerning 
Utah banks, see Tullidge's Mag., i. 522-3; House Ex. Doc., 46th Cong. 3d 
Sess., cxciii. 713; Deseret News, Nov. 6, 1872, Aug. 27, 1873; S. L. C. 
Tribune, Jan. 11, 1873; S. F. Post, Aug. 9, Oct. 21, 1873; S. F. 
Chronicle, July 17, 1877; Silver Reef Miner, Jan. 21, 1883.

36 Alex. Daul of Ogden opened the first fire-insurance agency in Utah. Mr 
Daul, a native of Germany, came to the U.S. in 1862, and on arriving at S. 
L. City was for the most part employed as a missionary until 1873. 
 
37 See p. 608, this vol. 

38 A property tax, not exceeding two per cent, might be levied, however, 
for school buildings and improvements.

39 For amount of property and taxes, and financial reports of the several 
counties at various dates, see Utah Jour. Legisl., 1859-60, 12-15; 1860-1, 
19; 1861-2, 29; 1862-3, 35; 1865-6, 24; 1866-7, 22-3; 1868, 20, 66-73, 
135 -6, 141-2; 1869, passim; 1876, 35-6, 45-6, 271-7; 1878, 51-2, 403-64; 
1880, 151-205; Utah Fin. Repts of Cos.; Mess. of Gov., 1870, 10.

40 As shown in the office of Auditor Clayton. Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 116. 
In S. L. C. Contributor, Feb. 1883, 183, it is given at $34,000,000.

41 Mines and mining products were exempt, though machinery and 
improvements were liable to taxation. The county assessors were allowed to 
make their own standard, the result being that the tax was but 20 to 50 
per cent of the cash valuation. Thus a steer was valued in one county at 
$15, in another at $6 or $8, whereas the cash value of cattle was in 1883 
$25 to $30 per head. Roads bonded at $20,000 per mile were assessed at 
about $2,000, and others in the same proportion, the rate never exceeding 
one sixth of the indebtedness.

42 For governors', auditors', and treasurers' reports and statements as to 
territorial revenue, expenditure, and appropriations, see Utah Jour. 
Legisl. 1851-2 (joint sess.), 110-13; 1853-4 (joint sess.), 118-20; 1854-
5, 94, 100-1, 109-12; 1859-60, 9-16; 1860-1, 16-25; 1861-2, 27-33; 1862-3, 
33-9, app xiii. -xv.; 1863-4, 21-6; 1864-5, 14-19; 1865-6, 23-33; 1866-7, 
22-31; 1868, 20-7; 1869, 20-7; 1876, 35-48, 266-79; 1878, 51-64, 316, 321-
2; 1880, 23-46; Utah Acts Legisl., 1866, 84-6; Utah Laws, 1878, 11-23; 
1880, 41-4; Mess. of Gov., 1870, 9-15. For miscellaneous matters relating 
to taxation and revenue, see Utah Jour. Legisl., 1860-1, 76-7, 83-8; 1870, 
111-13; 1876, 254-6; Utah Acts, 1859-60, 33; 1872, 2; 1878, 11-12; Deseret 
News, Feb. 1, 1855, Feb. 13, 1856, Dec. 21, 1865; Utah Directory, 1869, 
67; S. L. C. Directory, 1869, 67. 

43 Utah Hand-Book of Mormonism, 6, 40, where it is stated that the total 
income of the priesthood exceeded $1,000,000. 

44 Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 117. For other matters relating to internal 
revenue, see Rev. Rept Com., 1863, 1804, passim; Deseret News, March 8, 
1871. In 1862 a memorial was presented for a remission of direct federal 
taxation, for which see Utah Acts Legisl., 1861-2, 59-60. In 1878 a 
memorial was presented to congress asking that a mint be established in S. 
L. City. H. Misc. Doc., 45th Cong. 2d Sess., 54, 97. In 1868 the Mormons 
again issued a currency of their own. S. F. Call, Nov. 29, 1868; Gold Hill 
News, Nov. 14, 1868; S. F. Bulletin, April 12, 1872.

45 Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 117. For list of Utah land-offices in 1882, see 
H. Ex. Doc., 47th Cong. 2d Sess., x. 42. For patents issued to gentile as 
against Mormon applicants, see Sen. Dec., 46th Cong. 2d Sess., v., no. 
181. The total number of acres disposed of in each year will be found in 
H. Ex. Doc., 47th Cong. 2d Sess., xix., no. 72, 146. For town sites 
patented in 1878-80, see H. Ex. Doc., 47th Cong. 1st Sess., ix., pt 5, 
187. For surveys and statistics between 1869 and 1880, see U.S. Land-Off. 
Rept, 1869, 168-74, 225-42, 256-62, 326-31, 400-5; Sec. Interior Repts, 
42d Cong. 2d Sess., pt i., 42, 219-23; 42d Cong. 3d Sess., pt i., 12-13, 
18; 43d Cong. 1st Sess., i. 149-57, 257-93; 43d Cong. 2d Sess., i. 155-68, 
268-84, 300-3; 44th Cong. 1st Sess., 37-40, 248-60, 377-424; 44th Cong. 2d 
Sess., 32-3, 30-39, 130-52, 166-85, 277-93; H. Ex. Doc., 45th Cong. 2d 
Sess., viii. 69, 155-217, 299-311; 45th Cong. 3d Sess., p. x., x.-xvi., 18-
19, 55, 86-7, 95-6, 161, 213, 215, 319-33; Id., 46th Cong. 2d Sess., v. 
2206-8, 2213-15; Sen. Doc., 46th Cong. 3d Sess., no. 12, 50, 67. For 
portions of surveyor-general's reports touching Utah, see H. Ex. Doc., 
46th Cong. 2d Sess., ix. 871-897; 47th Cong. 1st Sess., ix., pt 5, 141, 
882-915; 47th Cong. 2d Sess., x. 75-7. For legislation of congress upon 
which title to land in Utah depends, see Id., 47th Cong. 2d Sess., xviii., 
no. 45, 971-8. For laws relating to preemption, homestead, timber-land, 
desert, and other lands, see U. S. Stat., 44th Cong. 2d Sess., 377; 45 
Cong. 2d Sess., 88-9; Stayner, Farmers' and Miners' Manual. For further 
discussions, measures, proceedings, and appropriations of congress for 
Utah, see Cong. Globe, 1868-9, 687, 754, 781; 1869-70, passim; 1872-3, 
cclv., iii.-ix., ccxc., 221, 353; 1873-4, 21, 51, 84-5, 187, 204, 506, 
1838; U. S. Acts, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., 224; 42d Cong. 2d Sess., 40, 223, 
363, 530; House Jour., 40th Cong. 3d Sess., 617; 41st Cong. 1st Sess., 
317; 41st Cong. 3d Sess., 624-5, 650-1; 42d Cong. 2d Sess., 657, 699, 701, 
713, 725, 1219, 1290, 1302-5, 1345-7; 43d Cong. 1st Sess., 1545, 1559, 
1582-3; 43d Cong. 2d Sess., 793, 800, 810, 812; 44th Cong. 1st Sess., 
1736, 1775; 45th Cong. 1st Sess., 408, 431; 45th Cong. 2d Sess., 1654-5, 
1708; Sen. Jour., 41st Cong. 2d Sess., 1490, 1527-8; 41st Cong. 3d Sess., 
603, 673; 42d Cong. 1st Sess., 239, 249, 266, 277, 279; 42 Cong. 2d Sess., 
1234, 1380-2, 1419-20; 42d Cong. 3d Sess., 856, 870, 886; 43d Cong. 1st 
Sess., 1121, 1141-2; 45th Cong. 1st Sess., 168; 45th Cong. 2d Sess., 977-
8, 990, 1021; H. Comm. Rept, 45th Cong. 2d Sess., iv., no. 708, v., no. 
949. 

46 See pp. 500-502, this vol.
 
47 For list, with annual payments to each, see U. S. Off. Reg., 1876, ii.; 
P. O. Dept, 118-19. 

48 Names of post-offices, postmasters, and the compensation paid to each 
will be found in Id., 351-2. For further items concerning mail services, 
see Richards' Incidents of Utah Hist., MS., passim; for statistics, House 
Ex. Doc., 35th Cong. 2d Sess., ii., pt iv., pp. 757, 783, 819, 833; 37th 
Cong. 3d Sess., iv. 152-5, 170, 214; 38th Cong. 1st Sess., v., pt ii., 73; 
38th Cong. 2d Sess., v. 802, 822, 829-30, 861; 41st Cong. 2d Sess., i. 43, 
66, 88-9, 104, 114; 41st Cong. 3d Sess., i., pt iii., vol. iii., 46, 73, 
147-9, 156, 169-71; 42d Cong. 3d Sess., i., pt iv., vol. iv., 54, 136, 
140, 228, 237-43; 45th Cong. 2d Sess., vii., pt ii., 6-7, 20, 56, 65, 218; 
Sen. Ex. Doc., 36th Cong. 1st Sess., i., vol. iii., pt i., 1432-1440; 37th 
Cong. 2d Sess., i., vol. iii., 585-6, 601-3, 621, 644; Mess. and Doc., 
36th Cong. 1st Sess., pt iii., 1432-72; 39th Cong. 1st Sess. (abridged), 
48-53; 39th Cong. 2d Sess., P. M. Genl Rept, 18-19, 24, 50, 87; 40th Cong. 
2d Sess. (abridged), 772-9. For routes, expenses, subsidies, etc., see 
Postmaster-Gen. Rept, 1858, pp. 45, 69, 71, 12l; 1859, 46, 54, 86; 1860, 
74, 76, 140; 1865, 25, 40, 58-9, 83-4; 1868, 42, 64, 261-2, 278; 1871, 17, 
40, 47, 85-6, 116, 126-8; 1873, 33, 69, 184-5, 198, 208-20; 1875, 77, 83, 
210, 230, 241-51; 1876, 20, 41-5, 81, 89, 182-3, 198, 204-9; H. Ex. Doc., 
47th Cong. 2d Sess., xxii., no. 93, pp. 255-7; Id., 48th Cong. 1st Sess., 
pt 4, no. 2, pp. 252, 292, 612.

49 Deseret News, Oct. 23, 1861.
 
50 Id. See also Tullidge's Hist. S. L. City, 249-51; S. F. Bulletin, Oct. 
21, 1851; Sac. Union, Oct. 25, Nov. 2, 1861. 

51 Deseret Tel. of. Co. Mem., in Utah Jottings, MS. In 1859 an act was 
passed to incorporate the Placerville, Humboldt, and S. L. C. Tel. Co. See 
Utah Acts, 1858-9, 26.

52 For day rate. The night rate was 75 cents. Deseret Tel. Co. Mem., in 
Utah Jottings, MS.

53 Id. On this the first circuit 320 pounds of wire were used per mile, 
the cost being 35 cents per lb and $150 per mile. Tullidge's Life of 
Brigham Young, suppl. 67. In the Deseret News of Jan. 23, 1867, the line 
is termed the Deseret State Telegraph.

54 The officers were Brigham Young president, Dan. H. Wells vice-
president, Geo. Q. Cannon treasurer, and Wm Clayton secretary, the two 
first being ex officio members of the board; the remaining directors were 
Edward Hunter, Geo. A. Smith, A. O. Smoot, A. H. Raleigh, John Sharp, Jos. 
A. Young, Erastus Snow, Ezra T. Benson, and A. M. Musser, the last named 
being appointed superintendent. Deseret Tel. Co. Mem., in Utah Jottings, 
MS.

   Amos Milton Musser, a Pennsylvanian by birth, joined the Mormons in 
1844, and together with his mother and sister settled at Nauvoo in 1846, 
remaining in that neighborhood after the expulsion until 1851, in which 
year be arrived in Utah and was appointed to the general tithing-office. 
In 1852 he was sent on mission to Hindostan, where he labored for three 
years, principally in Calcutta and Bombay, and was afterward employed as a 
missionary in England. Returning to Utah in 1857, he took an active part 
in promoting the home industries of the territory; he was also travelling 
agent of the church, assisted in emigration matters, temple building, the 
coöperative movement, and was, in brief, one of Brigham's most trustworthy 
agents. 

55 In 1880 John Taylor was president, Dan. H. Wells vice-president, Jas 
Jack treasurer, and W. B. Dougall secretary, all of them being directors. 
The other members of the board were John Sharp, F. Little, Ed. Hunter, H. 
P. Kimball, and Geo. Reynolds. Musser having resigned the superintendency 
in 1876, Dougall was appointed in his stead. Id. In 1878 the wires were 
laid to the houses of many bishops of wards throughout the territory. 
Conyer's letters to Boston Educ. Jour. 

56 Contributor, iv. 182. For list of telegraph offices, see Utah 
Gazetteer, 1884, 269.
 
57 I give herewith some further biographical notices. Orson Hyde, a native 
of Oxford, Conn., was born in 1805, commenced life by working in an iron-
foundery for six dollars a month, afterward serving for a year or two as 
clerk to the firm of Gilbert & Whitney of Kirtland. While at Kirtland, 
Hyde, who was then a stanch methodist, and a class-leader in a camp-
meeting at that point, heard that a golden bible had been dug out of a 
rock in the state of New York. A few months later he was converted to 
Mormonism, and set forth as a missionary, being a member of the English 
mission of 1837, when he was accompanied by Heber C. Kimball, Willard 
Richards, and others. In 1840 he went to Jerusalem, where he held service 
at the mount of Olives, and consecrated the holy land, being appointed to 
this duty by the prophet, who declared him to be of the house of Judah. 
After the prophet's assassination, he again proceeded, in company with 
Parley Pratt and John Taylor, to Great Britain, where he set the churches 
in order, having now been chosen one of the twelve. He arrived at Winter 
Quarters a few weeks after the departure of the pioneer band, and on their 
return labored to reorganize the first presidency, Brigham Young being 
appointed Joseph's successor, partly by his efforts. After the saints were 
gathered in Utah, he remained in that territory as presiding apostle at 
various settlements, maintaining robust health until about his 70th year, 
and continuing to labor in the ministry until his decease in November 
1878. For further details, see Autobiog. of Mrs M. A. P. Hyde, MS., 4; 
Hyde's Travels and Ministry, passim; Tullidge's Life of Brigham Young, 69-
71; Millennial Star, v. 163; Deseret News, May 5, 12, 1858, March 25, 
1874, Dec. 4, 11, 1878; Smucker's Hist. Mormons, 297; S. L Herald, Nov. 
30, 1878; Prescott Miner, Dec. 13, 1878. 

   Edward Hunter, a native of Newtown, Pa, was descended on the father's 
side from John Hunter, who served as lieutenant of cavalry under William 
III. at the battle of the Boyne, his mother's lineage being traced back to 
one Robert Owen, a Welsh quaker, who, refusing to take the oath of 
allegiance after the restoration in 1685, was imprisoned, and afterward 
emigrating to America, purchased an estate near Philadelphia. On his 
father's death, Edward, who was then only 22 years of age, was offered his 
position as justice of the peace, but refused it on account of his youth. 
A few years afterward he purchased a farm in Chester co., Pa, where he was 
visited by three Mormon elders, who were invited to make his house their 
home, though he had not yet joined the faith. In 1839 he entertained as 
his guest the prophet Joseph, who was then returning from his errand to 
Washington. In the following year he was baptized by Orson Hyde, then on 
his way to Jerusalem. In the summer of 1841 he proceeded to Nauvoo and 
purchased a farm from the prophet, contributing the first year no less 
than $15,000 to the church. In 1847 he entered the valley of Great Salt 
Lake with the first companies that followed the pioneers, and on the death 
of Newel K. Whitney was appointed presiding bishop of the church.

   Of the early career of Franklin D. Richards mention has already been 
made in these pages. In March 1869 he was appointed probate judge of Weber 
co., and removed with his family to Ogden, his sons Franklin S. and 
Charles being in 1885 prosecuting attorney, and county clerk and recorder. 
With the advent of the railroad Ogden was clearly destined to become a 
city second in importance only to the capital, and one that must soon 
contain a large gentile element, whereby the commercial and political 
control of northern Utah would be imperilled. At this juncture, also, it 
became advisable that the Weber stake should be raised to the dignity of 
an apostolic see, and for the purpose no better selection could have been 
made than that of Franklin D. Richards. Brought into contact with the 
business world during the many years when he directed the immense European 
migration to Utah, a man without political ambition, kindly, placable, and 
tolerant, his administration was no less acceptable to the gentile than to 
the Mormon community. At the close of 1855, though at that date in his 
65th year, he still discharged his manifold duties with all the vigor of a 
man yet in the prime of life, and throughout his long career he has made 
not a single enemy. As I have already stated, I am under deep obligations 
to Mr Richards for his kindness in furnishing much valuable material for 
this volume that would else have been inaccessible.

   Lorenzo Snow, a native of Mantua, Ohio, but of New England parentage, 
first made the acquaintance of the Latter-day Saints while visiting his 
sisters at Kirtland, Lorenzo having just completed his course at Oberlin 
college. Convinced of the truth of their doctrines, he was baptized, 
ordained an elder, and scut forth to preach. As a missionary, none 
remained longer in the field, or travelled more, his journeys between 1836 
and 1872 extending over 150,000 miles. In Feb. 1846 he crossed the 
Mississippi in company with the twelve, being himself ordained an apostle 
some three years later. When Box Elder co. was organized, he was made 
president of the stake at Brigham City, and afterward member of the 
council for Box Elder and Weber, both of which positions he held for many 
years. He was an active promoter of the coöperative movement, establishing 
in 1863-4 a coöperative store, and afterward a tannery, a woollen factory, 
and several coöperative farms, the employés having the privilege of 
counting the value of their labor as so much capital invested in the 
concern. In the Biography and Family Records of Lorenzo Snow, Written and 
Compiled by his Sister, Eliza R. Snow Smith (S. L. City, 1884), we have an 
account of his travels and missionary labors, together with a description 
of various incidents in the early career of the saints. The book was 
written, however, as the authoress states, for the purpose of being handed 
down in lineal descent from generation to generation, to be preserved as a 
family memorial.

   Erastus Snow, who, with Orson Pratt, was, as the reader will remember, 
the first of the pioneer band that entered the valley of Great Salt Lake, 
joined the Mormon church in 1833, and two years afterward was ordained an 
elder, though at this time only 17 years of age. Bidding adieu to his 
parents at St Johnsbury, Vt-his birthplace-he journeyed to Kirtland, and 
thenceforward became prominently identified with the church, sharing in 
all its tribulations. In the winter of 1848-9 he was chosen an apostle, 
filling, with Lorenzo Snow, F. D. Richards, and C. C. Rich, the vacancies 
caused by the reorganization of the first presidency, and the apostasy of 
Lyman Wight. Soon afterward he was sent on a mission to Scandinavia, and 
through the branches of the church which he established in that country it 
has been claimed that nearly 20,000 converts were gathered into the fold. 
After the close of his missionary career his labors were directed to the 
founding and development of various settlements in southern Utah, over 
which he presided as their spiritual head, being also a member of council 
in the territorial legislature.

   Like Heber C. Kimball, Charles Coulson Rich came of puritan stock, 
though a native of Kentucky, where he was born in 1809 He was baptized 
into the church in 1832, receiving his endowments at Kirtland, where he 
was ordained a high-priest by Hyrum Smith. Moving to Far West in 1836, he 
rendered good service during the persecutions in Missouri, being afterward 
forced, to rice for his life through the wilderness, and making his way to 
Nauvoo, where he was appointed a member of the high council. In the winter 
of 1816-7 he was president of the stake at Mount Pisgah, and set forth 
from Winter Quarters in June of the latter year in charge of a company of 
saints. In 1849 he was chosen an apostle, and set out on a mission to 
California, returning in Nov. 1850, and the following year taking charge 
of the San Bernardino colony. His first mission to Europe was in 1860, 
when he labored for two years in England, again reaching Zion in 1863, 
when he settled in Bear Lake Valley, where he resided for the most part 
until his decease in 1883, serving for several terms as a member of the 
legislature. Contributor. Dec. 1883, 114-15.

   Albert Carrington, a native of Royalton, Vt, and a graduate of 
Dartmouth college, joined the Mormon church in Wiota, Wis., in 1841, and 
removed to Nauvoo in 1844, a few weeks before the prophet's assassination. 
A member of the pioneer band, he returned with Brigham Young to gather up 
the main body of the saints, and journeyed with them to the valley in 
1848. After the admission of Utah as a territory, he was several times 
elected a member of the council until 1868, when he was sent to England to 
preside over the European missions. For twenty years, when not on some 
mission, he acted as private secretary to Brigham, and his ability gained 
for him among anti-Mormons the sobriquet of 'The Mormon Wolsey.' In 1870 
he was ordained an apostle, and for several years afterward presided over 
the British mission.

   Elias Smith, nephew to Joseph Smith, the prophet's father, was born at 
Royalton, Vt, near the birthplace of the former. Joining the Mormon faith 
in 1834, being then 30 years of age, he removed in 1836 to Kirtland, and 
thence to Nauvoo, where he was business manager of the Times and Seasons 
and Nauvoo Neighbor, filling the same position on the staff of the Deseret 
News after his arrival in Salt Lake City. In 185l he was appointed probate 
judge of Salt Lake county, which office he retained for many years; and 
throughout his public career it may be said that he was almost without an 
enemy; in such respect were his decisions held, both in law and in equity, 
while his private life was also beyond reproach.

   In connection with the judiciary of Utah may be mentioned Alexander 
Pyper, a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, who in 1874 was appointed police 
court judge of Salt Lake City. His administration of justice was somewhat 
in contrast with that which prevailed in the third judicial district, 
James B. McKean being in office during the same year. At that date the 
questions asked by the prosecuting attorney of jurors and applicants for 
citizenship were of such a nature that they frequently excluded persons 
who were not polygamists but simply believed in the Mormon faith, among 
them being, 'Are you a Mormon?' 'Have you been through the Mormon 
Endowment House?' 'Do you believe that polygamy is a divine revelation?' 
'My education and religion,' remarked Judge Pyper, 'have taught me to deal 
fairly and justly toward all men, under the law, irrespective of their 
conditions or opinions.'

   David O. Calder, a native of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, joined the 
Mormon church in 1840, and in 1851 started for Utah, accompanied by his 
mother and her family. A man of excellent business ability, his talents 
were quickly recognized. In 1857 he was appointed chief clerk to the 
trustee in trust of the church, and in that position organized a system of 
accounts and records in all the departments of the church. Between 1859 
and 1870 he held office as territorial treasurer, and after a visit to his 
native country, where he also labored as a missionary, was chosen business 
manager and managing editor of the Deseret News, and a director of Zion's 
Coöperative Mercantile Institute, which latter position he held until his 
decease in July 1884.

   Among the presidents of the Utah stake of Zion may be mentioned Harvey 
Harris Cluff, a native of Kirtland, whose ancestors settled at Durham, N. 
H., a few years after the arrival of the Mayflower, and whose father, 
David Cluff, served in the American army during the war of 1812. Removing 
from Durham to Ohio in 1830, David and his family joined the Mormon faith, 
and proceeding thence to Nauvoo, shared in all the hardships of the 
exodus, arriving in the autumn of 1850 in the valley of Great Salt Lake, 
where they cast in their lot at Provo. On the 6th of October, 1856, when 
Brigham Young announced before a general conference of the church the 
threatened disaster to the hand-cart emigrants, Harvey Cluff, then only in 
his twentieth year, was one of the first who volunteered to go to their 
aid. On this occasion he states that the provisions and clothing furnished 
before nightfall were more than sufficent to lead 22 teams. In 1859 Mr 
Cluff was elected city councillor, and in 1875, after his missionary 
labors, principally in Europe and the Sandwich Islands, was ordained 
bishop, and assigned two years later to the charge of the fourth ward of 
Provo City. Biog. Sketch of H. H. Cluff, MS.

   Biographies of other prominent men are given in Richards' Bibliog. of 
Utah, MS.; Utah Biog. Sketches, MS.; Contributor; Tullidge's Mag.; Deseret 
News; S. L. C. Tribune; S. L C. Herald, passim.

   For further references to authorities consulted in the last chapters 
of this volume, see 34th Cong. 1st Sess., H. Ex. Doc., l, pt 2, 504-7; pt 
3, 375, 431; Doc., 10, 235; H. Rept, 185; S. Doc., 96, vol. xviii., 559; 
Id., 3d Sess., S. Doc., 5, 837, 877; 35th Cong. 1st Sess., H Ex. Doc., 2, 
pt 2, 1053, 1096; Id., 2d Sess., 1, pt 2, 12, 149-51, 202-6; pt 3, 1300-3; 
pt 4, 757, 783, 819, 833; S. Ex. Doc., 39, 1-73; 40, passim; 36th Cong. 
1st Sess., Mess. and Doc., pt 2, 13-15, 121, 131-2, 194-5, 200-4, 207-20, 
221-44, 589; pt 3, 1432, 72; Id., S. Ex. Doc., 1, vol. iii., pt 1, 490-2, 
556; 52, 417-98; Id., 2d Sess., H. Misc. Doc., 34; H. Ex. Doc., 63, vol. 
ix.; 37th Cong. 2d Sess., S. Doc., 1, vol. iii., 585-6, 601-3, 621, 644; 
Acts and Res., 209; Id., 3d Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 1, vol. iv., 152-5, 170, 
214; 38th Cong. 1st Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 1, vol. v., pt 2, 73; Id., 45, 
vol. ix.; Id., 2d Sess., 802, 822, 829-30, 861; 39th Cong. 1st Sess., 
Mess. and Doc., 48-53; H. Com. Rept, 96; ld., 2d Sess., Mess. and Doc., 18-
19, 24, 50, 87; H. Jour., 523, 733-5, 765; S. Jour., 624; Acts and Res., 
303; 40th Cong. 1st Sess., S. Jour., 307; H. Jour., 365; H. Misc. Doc., 
26; Id., 2d Sess., Mess. and Doc. Abridg., 772-6; H. Misc. Doc., 35; Doc., 
153, 25-8; H. Com. Rept, 8, 79; H. Jour., 1407; S. Jour., 1240-1; Cong. 
Direc., 41; Id., 3d Sess., H. Jour., 671; Mess. and Doc. Abridg., 829-34, 
1109, 1114, 1130, 1134, 1220-1; H. Ex. Doc., 54, 168; S. Jour., 617, 621; 
Acts and Res., 224; 41st Cong. 1st Sess., H. Jour., 317; H. Misc. Doc., 
20; 22; 23; Id., 2d Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 1, pt 1, 43, 66, 88-9, 104, 114; 
Doc. 68; Doc. 207, 319-21; Doc. 230; H. Com. Rept, 21, pts 1 and 2; S. 
Jour., 1490, 1527-8; S. Misc. Doc., 112; S. Com. Rept, 72; H. Jour., 1539, 
1542-3, 1600-1; Id., 3d Sess., H. Jour., 624-5, 650-1; H. Ex. Doc., 1, pt 
3, 46, 73, 147-9, 156, 169-71; pt 4, iv.; pt 1, 139-45, 443-6; Doc. 52; 
Doc. 71; Rept Com. Educ., 328-83, 351, 558; S. Jour., 603, 673; S. Com. 
Rept, 302; 42d Cong. 1st Sess., H. Jour., 279; H. Ex. Doc., 10, 218-23; S. 
Jour., 239, 249, 266, 277, 279; Id., 2d Sess., H. Jour., 1219, 1270, 1302-
5, 1345-7; H. Ex. Doc., 211, 300-30; Doc. 256; Doc. 258; Doc. 325, 179-86; 
Doc. 326; Rept Sec. Int., pt 1, 51-2; H. Misc. Doc., 155; Doc. 165; Doc. 
208; Rept Com. Educ., 21, 383-4, 600-4; S. Jour., 1234, 1380-2, 1419-20; 
S. Ex. Doc., 12; S. Misc. Doc., 118; Doc. 126; Acts and Res., 40, 223, 
363, 530; Id., 3d Sess., H. Jour., 657, 699-701, 713, 725; H. Ex. Doc., 1, 
pt 4, 54, 136, 140, 228, 237-45, 21; H. Misc. Doc., 95; H. Com. Rept, 98, 
246-56, 325-6, 365-7, 377, 414-58; S. Jour., 856, 870, 886; S. Ex. Doc., 
44; S. Misc. Doc., 73; Rept Com. Educ., 24-41, 55; 379-89, 416, 608-13, 
942-97; 43d Cong. 1st Sess., H. Jour., 1545, 1559, 1582-3, H. Ex. Doc., 
96; Doc. 141, 255-83; Doc. 157; Doc. 193; Doc. 197; Doc. 193; Rept Com. 
Educ., xxii.-cxxiii., 460-3, 475, 510-12, 728; Id., 2d Sess., H. Jour., 
793, 800, 810, 812; H. Misc. Doc., 49; Doc. 120; Doc. 139; H. Com. Rept, 
484; S. Jour., 593, 1121, 1141-2; S. Ex. Doc., 42; Id., 2d Sess., H. Ex. 
Doc., 177, 328-57; Rept Com. Educ., xiii.-cxxv., 500-2, 507, 526-34, 733; 
P. M. Genl Rept, 69, 264-5, 278, 287-300; 44th Cong. 1st Sess., H. Jour., 
1775, 1736; H. Ex. Doc., 159, 267-81; Rept Com. Educ., xxvi.-cxxiii., 510-
14, 548-54; H. Misc. Doc., 42; Sec. Intr Rept, 591-2, 606-44, 675-80, 859-
62; Sec. War Rept, 44, 119-20, 148; Id., 2d Sess., H. Jour., 871; S. 
Jour., 552-3; Rept Com. Educ., xx.-xxix., lix.-clv., 458-61, 500-7, 760; 
S. Com. Rept, 608; Sec. Intr Rept, 532-5, 604, 610-58, 675-85; Sec. War 
Rept, 48, 67; 45th Cong. 1st Sess., S. Jour., 168; Id., 2d Sess., H. 
Jour., 431, 408, 1654-5, 1708; H. Ex. Doc., 45, 971-8; Doc. 72, 146; Doc. 
73, 1-163; H. Misc. Doc., 54, 97-100; H. Com. Rept, 708, 949; S. Jour., 
977-8, 990, 1021; S.. Ex. Doc., 40; Entom. Com. Second Rept, 322, 380; 
Id., 3d Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 88, passim; 46th Cong. 2d Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 
46, 475-522, 632-7; H. Com. Rept, 1710; S. Ex. Doc., 181; Id., 3d Sess., 
S. Ex. Doc., 12, 50, 67; 47th Cong. 1st Sess., 79, 94; H. Misc. Doc., 38, 
98-9, 126, 197-9; Id., 2d Sess., H. Ex. Doc., 45, 1181; Doc. 72, 153-5, 
158; Doc. 77, 64; Doc. 93, 255-7, 1157-74; H. Misc. Doc., 44, 4-7; H. Com. 
Rept, 1865; S. Ex. Doc., 45; S. Misc. Doc., 8, pt 2, 86; Doc. 46, 70; 48th 
Cong. 1st Sess., H. Misc. Doc., 1, pt 4, no. 2, 252, 292, 612; Poore's 
Cong. Direc., 97, 102; Census Rept, 1870; Indus., passim; Id., 1880, i. 3-
45, 351-3, 378-456; Id., iii. 3-10, 25-9, 94, 136, 173, 208, 244, 318; 
See. Intr Rept, 1871, pt 1, 166-7, 219-20; Id., 1873, pt 1, 150-1; Id., 
1874, pt 1, 44-50, 156-60; Id., 1875, pt 1, 89-100, 251-3; Cong. Globe, 
1868-9, 687, 754, 781, 1364, 1620; Id., 1869, 83, 86, 195; App., 47; Id., 
1869-70, 41; Id., 1870-1, 329; Id., 1871-2, 127, 300; Id., 1872-3, clviii.-
ix., clx-i., clxxvi.-lxxxii., cclxvi.-lxxii., ccxc., 221, 353; App., 
xxxii.; Id., 1874, 21, 43, 51, 85, 187, 204, 2183, 2835; Id., 1874-5, 144; 
Id., 1875-6, 44; Id., 241877-8, 176, 529; Id., 1878-9, 45-53, 565, 1873; 
Ind. Affrs Rept, 1869, 20-1, 226-34, 270-6, 460-532; Id., 1871, 683; Id., 
1872, 78, 91, 93; Id., 1873, 336-46; Id., 1874, 52-4, 104-79, 270-1, 276-
7; Com. Genl Land-Office Rept, 1869, 168-74, 225-42, 256-62, 326-31, 400-
5; Direc. Mint Rept, 1881, 19; Id., 1882, 14; Surg.-Gen. Circ., no. 8, 
1875, 328-32, 338-40, 345; Hayden, Geolog. Surv., 1872, 106-8, 659-792; 
Hague in King's Surv. iii., 455-73; King's Surv., v., passim; Gilbert's 
Rept, in Powell's Geolog. Surv. Rocky Mtns, 1876, passim, Wheeler's Surv., 
1872; Progress Rept, passim; Id., 1878, ii., iii., passim; Smithsonian 
Inst. Rept, 1877, 67-82; Meteorol. Regis., 1813-54; U. S. Offic. Register, 
1817; Id., 1879; Comptr of Currency Rept, 1878, 52, 759; Id., 1881, 94-
107, 112-19, 212; Id., 1884, 128-41, 250; Com. of Educ. Rept, 1871, 8, 21, 
383, 404; Id., 1875, 510-14; Id., 1875, 510-14; Id., 1877, 291-2; Id., 289-
91; Id., 1879, 285-6; Id., 1880, 382-5; Id., 1881, 301-2; Id., 1882-3, 302-
3. Utah Pub. Doc., as follows: Jour. Legis., 1869, 13, 28-9, 101-2, 131-4; 
Id., 1869, 158-9; Id., 1870, 81-2, 183, 185-71 Id., 1872, 36, 85-7, 104-5, 
122, 149, 182, 231, 237-9; Id., 1876, 24-5, 31, 65-8, 104-5, 112-15, 197, 
199-201, 206-8, 213, 239, 292; Id., 1877, 31, 35-6, 39-40, 161-4, 323, 392-
402; Id., 1878, 339; Id., 1880, 1-8, 21-2, 241-31 Acta and Res., 1869, 2, 
7, 17, 20-2; Id., 1870, 2, 4, 8, 12, 127-81 Id., 1872, 2, 28-33, 40-2; 
Id., 1874, 6; Id., 1878, 8, 11-26, 38, 41, 43, 481 Utah Laws, 1878, i., 28-
37, 46, 60-165, 167-81 Id., 1880, iv., 2-5, 10-19, 26-44, 55-65, 67-81, 84-
8, 95-6; Id., 1882, 2-3, 23-4, 30-6, 40, 102, 106-7; Compiled Laws, 184-
896, passim; Gov. Message, 1869, passim; Id., 1870, 6-7, 9-15; Id., 1876, 
5-8, 10, 12-13, 20-2, 23-4, 26-71 Utah Election Laws, 1878, 1882, passim; 
Com. Rept on Gov. Mess., 1882, passim; Constitution State of Utah, passim; 
Memors of Legislature, 1882, 1-81 Memor. to Congress, 1882, passim; Supt 
Schools, Rept, 1867-9, passim; Id., 1874-5, 1-42, 61-70; Id., 1876, 1878, 
passim; Finance Rept of Counties, 1869, passim; Supm. Court Decis., 1879, 
in Reynolds' Case, passim; Black, Argument for Utah, 1883, passim; Hopt vs 
People of Utah, 1884, passim; Cannon, in House of Rep., 1-15; Defence 
Constit. and Relig. Rights, passim; Bigamy and Polygamy, passim; Relief 
Soc. L. D. Saints, 1884, passim; Burchard's Rept, 1880, 127-32; Id., 1881, 
237-48; Id., 1882, 253-69; Id., 1883, 617-41. Other authorities as 
mentioned below: Taylor and Woodruff, Reminiscences, MS., passim; 
Richards' Crime in Utah, MS., 1-15; Id., Europ. Emigration, MS., passim; 
Id., Narrative, MS., 59-60, 64-6, 74, 78, 82-6, 94, 96-105, 110-18; ld., 
Utah Miscellany, MS., passim; Id., Bib. of Utah, MS., 15-23; Incidents in 
Utah History, MS., 5, 81; Richards, Mrs, Remilliscences, MS., 9, 11, 15, 
17, 30, 44, 50-1; Godbe, Statement, MS., 12, 15, et seq., 19, 20; Id., 
Mining Mem., MS., 7-11; Smoot, Margaret S., Experience of a Mormon Wife, 
MS., 8-9; Cluff's Overland in Winter, MS., 1-14; Tracy, Mrs N. N., 
Narrative, MS., 8; Glidden's Statement, MS., 1, 6-7, 11-12; Utah Bios. 
Sketches, MS., 1-55, 60-1; Harrison's Critical Notes, MS., 30-42, 51-91 
Woods' Recollections, MS., 39, 52-5, 59-60, 66-70; Utah Notes, MS., 
passim; Hoyt's Arizona, MS., 29-311 Stanford's Brief Historical Sketch, 
etc., MS., passim; Woodruff, Phebe, Autobiog. Sketch, MS., passim; King, 
Hannah T., Brief Memoir, etc., MS., passim; Cobb's Mormon Problem, MS., 
passim; Bleak, in Utah Co. Sketches, MS., 78-80; Madsen, in Id., 12-13; 
Powers, in Id., 19; Huntsville Described, MS., 6; Utah Miscellany, MS., 
12; Brown, Statement, MS., 3-4; Hill, Mines and Mining, MS., 1; Stanford, 
Ogden City, MS., 1-16; Id., Brief Hist. Sketch of Weber Co., MS., 1-23; 
Id., Hist. Deseret University, MS., passim; Dotson's Doings, MS., 1-21 
Dalton's Autobiog., MS., 4; Ebey's Journal, MS., i. 1771 Clark's Sights, 
MS., pt 4, 7-9, 11-12; Cradlebaugh's Nev. Biog., MS., 4; Chambers' Hist. 
Ft Bridger, MS., 2; Bar-foot, Brief Hist. of Des. Museum, MS., passim; 
Utah Sketches, MS., 27, 47-100; Utah Early Records, MS., 5, 12, 17, 20, 24-
9; Description of Huntsville, MS., 6; Jones, Albert, in Utah Co.. 
Sketches, MS., 1-170; Anderson, R. R., Letter on Salt Lake City Street-
Railroad, MS., passim; Statistical Report of the Stakes of Zion, MS., 
passim; Huffaker, Early Cattle-Trade, MS., 1-4; Rept of Stakes, etc., 
1880, MS., passim; Utah Merchants and Mines, MS., passim; Cannon, Geo. Q., 
Sunday-schools in Utah, MS., passim; Id., Life of Nephi, passim; Snow, 
Eliza R., Incidents in My Life, MS., passim; Deseret Telegraph Co., MS., 
passim; Dorr's Statement, MS., 3; Millennial Star, ii. 1-5, v. 195; ld., 
viii. 176; Id., xii. 159-60; Id., xvi. 109; Id., xviii. 315, 3191 Id., 
xix. 8-9; Id., xxv. 743, 760, 792, 8191 Id., xxix. 70-3; Id., xxxi. 518-
19; Id., xxxii. 120, 400, 467, 624, 668; Id., xxxiii. 529-35, 550-1, 643-
4; Id., xxxiv. 6-7, 68, 70, 177-80, 296-8, 334-5; Id., xxxv. 68-70, 72-4, 
99-100, 104-6, 122, 135-8, 148-9, 191, 527, 580-3, 587-8, 671; Id., xxxvi. 
11-12, 88-90, 93-5, 252-5, 263, 273-5, 424-6, 741-2; Id., xxxvii. 204-5, 
282-5, 510-11, 532-3, 545-54, 576, 788-91; Id., xxxviii. 366; Id., xxxix. 
127; Id., xli. 196-8, 666, 698, 811; Times and Seasons, i. 32, 96, 120-3, 
139-40, 168, 179, 469; Id., ii. 467; Id. iii. 585, 710: Id., iv. 162-3, 
288, 369-61; Id., v. 398-9; Id., vi. 850, 914-15, 989; Id., vii. 63; 
Pratt, P. P., Antobiog., 334-5, 374, 376, 387-93, 498-502; Id., Voice of 
Warning, passim; Id., in Times and Seasons, i. 64, 111; iv. 162-3; Id., 
Key to the Science of Theology, passim; Provo City, Rev. Ordinances, iii.-
v. 1-145; Powell's Lands of the Arid Reticle, passim; Pacific R. R. 
Report, ii. 77-88; Murphy's Mineral Re-sour., 1-7; Niles' Register, lxxv. 
383; Zabriskie's Land Laws, sup. 19, 43, 57, 86; Warren's Mem., in Pac. R. 
R. Rept, xi. 911 Burton's City of the Saints, 5, 15-17, 171-2, 187-8, 200-
87, passim; 300-54, 426, 433, 509-50, 600-24; Browne's Min. Resources, 130-
1, 240, 256, 482-6; Greeley, Horace, Overland Journey, 191-257; Gunnison, 
The Mormons, 26, 80-1, 84-160; Simpson, Explorations, 44-55; Id., Shortest 
Route to Cal., 30-3; Schott, Distribution and Variation, etc., 82-31 Id., 
Precipitation, etc., 62-73, 116; Smith, Rise, Progress, etc., 23-6, 27, 33-
4, 36-7, 59-62, 65; Stenhouse, Mrs, Exposé of Polyg., 132-45, 181, 198-
205; Id., Englishwoman in Utah, 107-8, 122, 209-23, 368-73; Id., Tell It 
All, 59, 186-8, 231-2, 260-70, 272, 291-4, 338-9, 337-9, 552-3, 554-5, 
577, 608-9; Stenhouse, T. B. H., Rocky Mtn Saints, 567-80, 613-15, 622-68, 
671-88, 691-6, 698, 701-6, 741-01 Green, Mormonism, 465, 468, 470; Todd, 
Sunset Land, 178, 184-2, 184-51 Townsend's Mormon Trials, 16-27, 29-30, 46-
9; Tucker, Mormonism, 156-8, 246-7, 250-9, 299-302; Tullidge, Women of 
Mormonism, 265, 278-82, 498-9, 501-15; Id., Hist. S. L. City, 247, 249-59; 
Id., Life of Brig. Young, 99, 203-4, 207-8, 359-82, 406-34, 436-40, 442-4, 
448-9, 456-8; Supplement, 37, 66-8; Id., Quart. Magazine, i. 1-6, 14-86, 
96-110, 111-17, 177-90, 201-28, 244-50, 353-432, 475-84, 496-501, 522-3, 
529-75, 534-5, 537, 539-43, 548-52, 558-91, 654, 664-72, 678-84; Id., 
1882, 1-8, 21-32, 34-8, 42-52, 62-7, 79-85, 91-2, 122-34, 157-232, 243-6, 
260-2, 265-84, 390-413, 426-54; Id., 1883, 3-25, 34-7, 49-60, 450-80, 493-
6, 506-8, 577-600, 662-4, 675-6; Id., 1884, 113, 137-70, 176-7, 225-86, 
294-7; Utah, Resources and Attractions, 9-38, 43-69; McCabe, Our Country, 
1106-16; Prime, Around the World, 30-1; Joureaux, L'Amé-rique, 228-30, 234-
42; Ward, Husband in Utah, 163-8, 261-8; Id., Male Life among the Mormons, 
passim; Rae, Westward by Rail, 108-92; Dall, My First Holiday, 84, 88-91, 
97-103, 105-9; Scribner's Magazine, 1880, 613-16; Chandess, Visit to Salt 
Lake, 345; Paddock, Fate of Madam La Tour, 286-92, 294-300, 308-30, 336-
411 Quigley' s Irish Race, 545-6; Waite, Mrs, The Mormon Prophet, 31-5, 
132-52, 177, 276-7, 279-80; Nordoff, Northern Cal., 38-43; Nelson, 
Pictorial Guide-Book, 14-25; National Almanac, 1863, 531; Nat. Quart. 
Rev., ix., 2d Ser., July 1879, 80-94; Nicholson, The Preceptor, passim; 
The Mining Industry, ii. 22; The Mines, Miners, etc., 365, 489, 507, 512-
13, 569, 571, 574-5, 591, 597-682, 788-9, 959, 962-6, 984-95; New Mexico, 
Pointers on S. W., 54-5; New Mexican Mining World, Dec. 1882, 83; Id., 
Nov. 1884, 136; Mackay, The Mormons, 48-51, 189, 237, 286, 292-8, 307; 
McClure, Three Thousand Miles, etc., 144, 146, 155, 165-6, 186, 446; 
Marshall, Through America, 150, 160, 163-82, 191, 195-7, 206-12, 219, 227-
8, 231-4, 237, 394-6, 409-24; Utah, Mercantile and Manuf. Estab. of Z. C. 
M. I., 3-13; Miller, First Families, etc., 63; Wentworth, Great West, 269-
76; Mormon, Politics and Policy, passim; Mormons at Home, 215-161 Lyon, 
Harp of Zion, 23-7, 29-30, 31-3, 39-40, 44-9, 67-8, 70-81, 84-7, 93-4, 116-
17, 135-42, 156; Ludlow, Heart of the Continent, 302-3, 307-8, 315-22, 322-
5, 328-32, 333-7, 341-3, 365-73; Linforth, Route from Liverpool, 69-75, 
78, 97, 90-101, 103-4, 110-15; Life among the Mormons, 88-103, 179-80; 
Leslie, Overland Trip to Cal., 74-5, 78, 91-5, 103; Little, Jacob Hamblin, 
36; Young, Ann Eliza, Wife No. 19, 266-7, 349-51, 371-2, 378-82, 446-52, 
522-4, 532-6, 603; Kelly, Excursion to Cal., ii. 231; Kneeland, Wonders of 
Yosemite, 19-21; Lydia Knight's History, passim; Kirchhoff, Reisebilder, 
i., passim; Jaques, John, Catechism for Children, passim; Goddard, George, 
in Juvenile Instructor, xv. 89; Olshausen, Mormonen, 149-51, 154-8, 163, 
166-70; Worthington, Women in Battle, 587-8, 594-5; Wolfe, Mercantile 
Guide, 185-200, 202-57, 327-411 Williams, Pac. Tourist, 116-72, 295; 
Wells, Fargo, and Co., Statement, 1883, passim; Western Monthly, i. 290-3; 
Ward, Artemus, Chas F. Brown, Lectures, 20-40; Utah Miscel. Pamphlets, no. 
v., vi., vii., viii., ix., passim. Mormon Pamphlets, as follows: Circular 
from the Twelve Apostles, no. 3, passim; Epistle of the Twelve Apostles 
and Counsellors, no. 4, passim; Hughes, Elizabeth, Voice from the West, 
etc., no. 7, passim; Musser, Fruits of Mormonism, no. 8, 3-11, 32-5; 
Young, History of the Seventies, no. 10, passim; Circular of the First 
Presideuey, no. 12, 5-9; Utah, Pamphlets, Political, no. 3; Fitch, Thos, 
Speech, passim; Id., no. 5, Speech of A. H. Cragin, in U. S. Senate, 1870; 
Id., no. 6, Correspondence Relating to Expenses of U. S. Dis. Courts, 
passim; Id., no. 7, Fitch, Course of Judge McKean, 3-15; Id., no. 8, 
Constitution of State of Deseret, passim; Id., no. 9, Hooper, W. H., 
Vindication of the People of Utah, passim; Id., no. 10, Clagett, W. H., 
Speech against Admission of Utah as a State, passim; Id., no. 12, Bates, 
Geo. C., Argument on Jurisdiction of Probate Courts, passim; Id., no. 13, 
Opinion of U. S. Justice Bradley, etc., passim; Id., Paine, H. E., 
Argument in Case of Contested Election, passim; Id., no. 14, Woman 
Suffrage, Act Relating to, 8; Id., U. S. Marshals and Deputies, Duties of, 
11-14; Id., no. 16, Int. Rev. Tax and Z. C. M. I.; Id., Religious, no. 3, 
Read, L. H., Character of Brig. Young, 19; Id., 9, Z. C. M. I., 
Constitution and By-laws, passim; Id., no. 10, Articles of Incorporation, 
passim; Id., no. 11, Legislation Concerning Railroads, 1-40; Vetromile, A 
Tour, etc., 72-5; Busch, Mormonen, 64-71; Id., Gesch. Mormon., 299, 314, 
327-32, 334-9; Appleton, Guide, 357; Id., Illus. Hand-Book, 1861, 1867, 
passim; Id., Journal, 1874, passim; Atlantic Mouthly, iii. 571, 583-4; 
Annals of University of Deseret, 1884-5, passim; Bowles, Across the 
Continent, 100-102; Id., Our New West, 202-3, 206-70; Id. Pac. Railroad, 
49-5; Bonwick, Mormons and Silver Mines, 1-219, 283-97, 339-41, 357-62; 
Boadicea, The Mormon Wife, passim; Bertrand, Mem. Mormon., 70-1, 76-7, 81-
2, 84-90, 219-20, 261-2; Beadle, Life in Utah, 59, 196-200, 222-50, 281-8, 
435-70, 508-16, 532-8; Id., Undeveloped West, 108-690, passim; Id., 
Western Wilds, 53-5; Utah Pioneers, 33d Anniv., 1-40; Utah Review, Feb. 
1882, 243; Crocheron, Augusta J., Women of Deseret, 1-9; Brown, J. .E., 
Speech in U. S. Senate, 1884, passim; Annuals University of Deseret, 1882-
3, 1883-4, 1884-5, passim; Bennett's Hist. of the Saints, passim; Clemens, 
S. C. (Mark Twain), Roughing It, 120-6; Culmer, in S. L. Grocer, ii., no. 
2, 1, 3; Daly's Address, in Amer. Geog. Soc. Repts, 1873, 15; Dixon's 
White Conquest, i. 198-200, 206-14; Del Mar's Hist. Prec. Metals, 168; 
Elliott & Co., Hist. Arizona, 1, 87, 151-2, 206, 282-4, 289; Faithful's 
Three Visits to Amer., 159 et seq.; Goodrich's Mormon Kingdom, 6-12; 
Green's Mormonism, etc., passim; Stillman, J. W., Speech at Boston, 1882, 
passim; Harris, L., Faith of the Zuñis, in Spencer's Labors in the 
Vineyard, 614; Internat. Review, Feb. 1882, 181; Kimball, A. A., Finding a 
Father, in Do's Gems for Young Folks, 1-18; Lee, John D., Mormonism, etc., 
276, 294, 318; McClellan's Golden State, 586-7, 592; Merewether's By Sea 
and by Land, 264-71; Musser, A. M., Defence of Our People, passim; 
Nelson's Pict. Guide-Book, passim; Head, Frank H., in Overland Monthly, v. 
277; Oakland Mouthly Review, i. 16-22; Pratt, Orson, and Newman, J. P., 
Public Discussion, 1877, passim; Player-Frowd, Six Months in California, 
36-7; Proceedings First Natl Conv. Cattlemen, 12-13; Preble's Hist. Steam 
Navigation, 244; Pilling's Bib. of N. Amer. Languages, nos. 84, 217, 266, 
267, 508, 509, 527, 528, 840, 1391, 1924, 1955, 2212, 2216, 2645, 2859, 
3079, 3084, 3085, 3088, 3575, 3608, 3609, 3610, 4272; Pop. Science 
Monthly, lii. 486-90; Id., lvi. 156-62, 171; Porter's Ceusus of the West, 
1880, 437-46; Ross' From Wis. to Cal., 29-32, 37-44, 48; Gary, The Roaming 
Badger, in Id., 91-5, 117-23; Sturgis' The Ute War of 1879, 7-8; Smyth, 
John H., Law of Homestead and Exemptions, 467; Spencer, Orson, Letters, 
etc., passim; Stay-ner's Farmers' and Miners' Manual, 1-20; Colfax's 
Mormon Question, passim; Young, Brig., Death, etc., 2-9, 12-35; Woodruff's 
Leaves from My Journal, passim; Wells' Woman's Exponent, Sept. 1, 1884, 
53; Id., 15th, 63-4, 90-102, 117-28, 164-81, 333, 470-606; Barclay, 
Mormonism Exposed, 13, 15-16, 20, 25-6; Id., New View of Morm., 25-6; 
Hyde, Mormonism, 115-35, 137-8, 185-6; Hubner, Round the World, 72-125; 
Hollister, Resources of Utah, passim; Hickman's Destroying Angel, 48, 112-
17; Hittell, Wash. Scrap-Book, 75-6; Head, in Overland Monthly, v. 270-9; 
Hayes, Scraps, Emigrant Notes, 653; Id., Los Angeles, ii. 186-7, viii. 
416, xvii. 45, xviii. 13-16; Id., Mining, i. 19, 61-3, xi., passim; Id., 
Railroads, ii. 7, 17-19, 25, iv. 16-17, 53; Id., San Bernardino, i. 47-9; 
Id., San Diego, i. 202, 213, 215, ii. 171-93; Riggs, in Bienn. Rept Terrtl 
Supt Educ., 1874-5, 43-60; Bienn. Repts Terrtl Supt Schools, 1874-5, 1878-
9, 1880-1, 1882-3, passim; Brigham Young Academy, Circular, 1880, passim; 
Hayden, Great West, 86, 316-19, 325-8; Duffus-Hardy, Lady, Through Cities 
and Prairie, 97-100, 108-9, 113-15, 117-19; Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1876, 
642-4, 650-1; Id., Oct. 1883, 705; Id., Aug. 1884, 388; Jackson, Helen, 
Bits of Travel, etc., 17-22; Boyer, From Orient to Occident, 58-63; 
Barnes, From Atlantic to Pacific, 54-60; Prieto, Viage, etc., i. 551-3; 
Hall, Great West, 19-93; Greenwood, Grace, New Life, etc., 137-8, 140-4; 
Sala, America Revisited, 274-317; Simonin, in Revue des Deux Mondes, Nov. 
1875, 305; Seward, Wm II., Travels, etc., 16-25; Smith, Joseph, Doctrine 
and Covenants, passim; Smith, Mystery and Crime, etc., passim; Snow, Eliza 
R., Hymns and Songs, passim; Id., Recitations, etc., i., passim; Id., 
Biog. of Lorenzo Snow, 167-8, 449-53; Id., Poems, i., ii., passim; Utah, 
Scraps, 1-5, 11-14, 24; Rept Ontario Silv. Ming Co., passim; Univ. 
Deseret, Annual, 1884-5, passim; Id., Circulars, 1868-71, 1874-5, 1878-9, 
1880-2, passim; Smucker, Hist. of Mormons, 1, 83-4, 131, 174-5, 263-6, 
273, 321-3, 349, 355, 433-5; Sacred Hymns, etc., passim; Sandette, My 
Queen, passim; Taylor, Summer Savory, 17-30; Culmer, Tourist's Guide-Book, 
passim; Garden of the World, 274; Goddard, Where to Emigrate, 148, 152-5; 
Codman, Round Trip, 173-4, 176, 182-255 et seq.; Cole, California, 16-9; 
Curtis, Dottings, 18-28; Coyner's Letters, etc., i.-v., passim; Id., Hand-
Book of Mormonism, passim; Campbell, Circular Notes, i. 61-3; Cornaby, 
Autobiog. and Poems, passim; Camp, Year-Book, 1869, 502-4; Cradlebaugh, 
Mormonism, passim; Crofutt, Overland Tourist, 55, 65, 114-51; Froiseth, 
Women of Mormondom, 315-16, 327, 372-9, 382, 384-9, 392-3, 390, 398, 412-
16; Ferris, Utah and the Mormons, 34-7, 39-40, 45-6, 75, 117, 204, 264-84, 
289-302; Tanner, Mary J., Fugitive Poems, passim; Fabian, Utah, 4-15; 
Emerald Hill Ming Co., By-laws, passim; Dilke, Greater Britain, i. 122-7, 
131-2, 142; Deseret Sunday-school Music-Book, passim; Deseret Agric. and 
Manufac. Soc., List of Premiums, 1878, passim; Dickeson, Amer. Numismatic 
Manual, 225; De Rupert, California and Morm., 123-46; Hand-Book to Salt 
Lake Museum, passim; Mormon Metropolis, 7-16; Horn Silver Ming Co. Rept, 
1884, passim; University of Deseret, Catalogue, 1850, passim; Cummings, B. 
F., in Utah Pion 33d Anniversary, 30-4; Robinson, Sinners and Saints, 71-
3, 110-30, 137, 139-43, 177, 183-4, 186-7, 189-90, 193-5, 234, 239, 243-5, 
249-59; Richardson, Beyond the Mississippi, 347, 351, 358-9, 364; Rusling, 
Across America, 163-6; Richards, Willard, with Taylor's Govt of God, no. 
26, passim; U. P. R. R. R., Rept of Sam. B. Reed, passim; Remy, Journey to 
G. S. Lake City, i. 53-4, 176, 189-90, 268-75, 450, 453-70; Id., ii. 177-
94, 239, 264-8, 283-4, 323-4, 336, 343-4, 360-4; Raymond, Min. Resources, 
passim; Id., Statistics of Mines, 1873, 242-64; Sloan, Gazetteer of Utah, 
1874, 1884, passim; Salt Lake Contributor, i., passim; Id., ii. 13-16, 27-
32, 48-86, 92, 94, 110, 115-16, 142, 159, 179-80, 209-10, 222, 239-46, 270-
3, 287, 302, 333, 350, 367-9; Id., iii. 61-3; Id., iv. 181-3, 276-8, 320, 
352-3, 383-8; Juvenile Instructor, 1869, et seq.; California Ann. Mng 
Review, 154; Cal. and Nev. R. R. Prospectus, 9; Cal. State Register, 1857, 
116; Coast Review, 1872-9, passim; Mining Review, 1876, 25; Fisher, 
Advertiser's Guide, 100-1; Id., Amer. Statis. Annual, 1854, 101, 103, 114; 
Directory Salt Lake City, 1869, passim; Id., Utah, 1879-80, passim; 
Graham, Utah Directory, passim; Directory Pac. Coast, 1871-3, 38-42, 149-
53, 413-29; Histor. Magazine, iii. 85; Price, Two Americas, 259-63; 
Patterson, Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? Pettengill, Newspaper Directory, 
185-6. From hundreds of newspapers, I select the following: S. L. City, 
Deseret News, 1869-81; Tribune, 1871-84; both too voluminous to be quoted 
in detail; Herald, 1877, Mar. 24, May 12, June 13, 16, Sept. 12, 29, Oct. 
31, Nov. 3, 7, 17, 21, Dec. 12, 22; 1878, Jan. 9, 16, 30, Mar. 20, 23, 30, 
Apr. 13, 17, Sept. 10, 13, 14, 26, Oct. 3, Nov. 22, Dec. 8, 15, 22, 29; 
1879, Jan. 1, Apr. 1, 3, 6, May 2, 24, 29, June 21, July 18, 19, Aug. 9, 
Sept. 2, 6, 7, 21, 24, 25, 26, Oct. 14, 17, 18, 22, Nov. 9, 12, 26, Dec. 
6, 16, 19, 28; 1880, Jan. 1, 3, 10, 17, 28, Feb. 4, 12, June 17, July 19, 
Aug. 12, 19, 22, 26, Sept. 16; 188l, Mar. 17, 24, 31, June 2, 23, 30, July 
23, Oct. 6, Nov. 17; 1882, Jam 12; Daily Independent, 1878, Feb. 22; Daily 
Telegraph, 1869, Jan. 21, Mar. 22, May 16, 18, 29, July 8, 20, 25, Nov. 
30, Dec. 19; 1870, Mar. 23, Apr. 14; 1878, Jan. 1; Western Mining Gazette, 
1889, Aug. 23, Sept. 1, 8, 15 20, Oct. 6, 20, 27, Nov. 10, 20, Dec. 23; 
Daily Mail, 1876, Jan. 6, 15, 23; Anti-Polygamy Standard, June 1, 1880; 
Grocer, 1882, June 1, 3; Utah Review, 1871, May 9, 10, Aug. 1, Sept. 2, 4, 
5, 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, Oct. 27; 1872, Jan. 4, 11, 30, Feb. 10, 
13; Corinne, Utah, Reporter, July 17, 1869; Ogden Freeman, 1879, Feb. 21, 
28; Junction, 1879, Aug. 27, Sept. 30; Silver Reef Miner, 1879, May 14, 
June 1, 4, 14, 25, July 9, 19, 30, Aug. 13, Dec. 27; 1880, Jan. 10, 17, 
Feb. 14, 28; 1881, June 8, Oct. 15, 23, Dec. 31; 1882, Jan. 21, Mar. 15; 
San Francisco, Alta, 1869-85; Bulletin, 1869-85; Call, 1869-85; all too 
volumiuous to quote in detail; Chronicle, 1869, Jan. 23, 30; 1872, Aug. 
25, Sept. 29; 1873, Oct. 6; 1878, July 17; 1880, July 24, Oct. 14, Nov. 6, 
14, 28; 1881, Sept. 4; 1882, Jan. 1, 17, Feb. 25, Aug. 22; 1883, Apr. 25, 
Aug. 28; 1884, Jan. 16, 27, Feb. 21, June 2, Nov. 23; 1835, Jan. 13, 20, 
31, Feb. 3, 15, Mar. 5, 24, Apr. 21, 30, May 3, 10, 23; Examiner, 1869, 
Jan. 30, June 11, Oct. 24, 30, Nov. 1, 4, 18; 1871, Feb. 1, 17, 21, Mar. 
2; 1872, Jan. 27, Mar. 4, 7; 1874, Nov. 13, Dec. 19; 1877, Nov. 30; 1879, 
Mar. 6, May 7; Daily Herald, 1869, Jan. 23, Feb. 5, 11, 21, May 5, 9, 13, 
19, June 20, Aug. 17; Golden Era, 1869, July 17, 24; 1871, Oct. 8; 1872, 
Mar. 31, Sept. 22; 1874, Sept. 27; 1878, Jan. 12; 1879, Dec. 27; 1880, May 
15; Monitor, 1869, Mar. 27; News Letter, 1869, May 15; 1870, Dec. 17; 
1874, June 27; Abend Post, 1869, Feb. 19, June 10; 1870, Jan. 12; 1872, 
May 25, June 8, Dec. 24; 1873, Jan. 15, Apr. 23, Aug. 9, Sept. 8, 16, 26, 
Oct. 2, 7, 17, 21, Nov. 11, Dec. 29; 1874, Jan. 29, Apr. 4, June 3, Sept. 
22; 1873, Jan. 22, Mar. 18. Apr. 12, May 28, June 10; 1876, Mar. 9, Apr. 
6, Dec. 13; 1877, Feb. 21, 1878, Feb. 18, Nov. 13, 30; 1879, Mar. 18, Dec. 
22; Occident, 1876, Apr. 29; Stock Report, 1874, Aug. 4; 1875, Apr. 26; 
1876, Sept. 17; 1879, Jan. 17, Aug. 9, Nov. 13, 27; 1880, Jan. 1, Feb. 5, 
June 8, July 21; 1881, Feb. 10; Times, 1869, Jan. 1, 8, 12, 15, 26, Feb. 
11, 19, Mar. 2, 6, 10, 11, 17, 23, 30, Apr. 21, May 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 
19, 29, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, June 9, July 6, 9, 28, 30, Aug. 19, 17, 19, 
24, Sept. 6, 17, 23, Oct. 9, 15; Courier de San Francisco, 1869, Dec. 15; 
1870, June 11; 1871, Mar. 4; Journal of Commerce, 1876, Nov. 8; Pacific, 
1873, Mar. 13, Apr. 3; Pacific Rural Press, 1879, May 3; Directory, 1873, 
36-7; Scientific and Mining Press, 1870, Jan. 15, Sept. 3, Nov. 26; 1871, 
Oct. 8, 28; 1872, Feb. 3, Mar. 9, 30, Apr. 13, Oct. 19; 1873, Jan. 18, 
Feb. 15, 22, Mar. 1, 8, Apr. 5, May 31, July 17, Aug. 9, Oct. 4, 11; 
Commercial Herald and Market Review, 1871, Mar. 24, Aug. 11; 1874, June 
18; 1877, Sept 6; Pacific Baptist, 1875, May 6, 13, 20, Nov. 11; Pacific 
Churchman, 1870, Aug. 25; Christian Union, Jan. 14, 1875; Pac. Advertiser, 
Dec. 21, 1872; Pioneer, 1872, Aug. 15, Nov. 21, Dec. 5; Post, 1872, Apr. 
11, 12, May 8, July 3; 1873, Apr. 9, Aug. 7, 16, Sept. 25, Oct. 9; 1875, 
Jan. 22, Mar. 11, Apr. 13, 24; 1876, Jan. 11, Apr. 1, May 3, July 13, 
1877; Apr. 4, May 3, 4, Aug. 30, Sept. 1, 17, 29; 1878, Apr. 4; 1879, May 
17, Nov. 24, Dec. 30; 1884, Mar. 27; Stock Exchange, Apr. 10, Sept. 6, 
1877; Vanity Fair, Nov. 12, 1881; Visitor, May 21, 1873; Cal. Christ. 
Advocate, 1869, Nov. 11; 1870, Apr. 28, Aug. 4; 1871, Jan. 19; 1872, Aug. 
15; 1874, Aug. 27, Sept. 3; Sacramento Union, 1869-85, too voluminous to 
be quoted in detail; Sacramento Bee, 1869, May 24, 25; 1878, Nov. 2; 1879, 
Dec. 6; 1880, Feb. 28; San Rafael Wy Herald, 1877, Jan. 11; Sonora Union 
Democrat, Nov. 15, 1879; San Mercury, Nov. 23, 1871; Id., Pioneer, Mar. 3, 
1877; Dec. 11, 1879, Jan. 1, 1880; Id., Herald, 1877, Apr. 12, 13, 16, May 
8, Aug. 29, 30; Castroville Argus, Mar. 27, 1869; Independence Inyo 
Independent, Nov. 2, 1878; Mariposa Gazette, Apr. 3, 1875, Sept. 8, 1877, 
Oct. 12, 1878, Jan. 23, 1879; Vallejo Daily Chronicle, May 14, 29, 1880; 
Truckee Republican, May 11, 1872; Bakersfield Californian, Nov. 25, 1880; 
Chico Butte Record, Sept. 4, 1875; Crescent City Courier, 1879, Feb. 19, 
Dec. 17; Dutch Flat Forum, Sept. 6, 1877; Gilroy Advocate, May 12, 1877, 
Nov. 2, 1878; Healdsburg Enterprise, Feb. 9, Sept. 6, 1867; Id., Russian 
River Flag, Sept. 13, 1877; Lakeport Lake Democrat, 1877, Sept. 6, 22; Los 
Angeles Wy Star, Sept. 8, 1877; Id., Wy Express, 1877, May 26, Sept. 1; 
Id., Evening Express, 1879 Sept. 18; 1884, Jan. 2, Mar. 31, Apr. 5; Marin 
Co Journal Aug. 21, 1879; Marysville Dy Appeal, Sept. 6, 1879; Monterey 
Democrat, Sept. 1, 1877; Napa Register, 1877, Sept. 1, 8, 29; 1878, Feb. 
9; Oakland Tribune, Jan. 9, 1877; Petaluma Argus, July 27, 1877; Id., 
Courier, Sept. 6, 1877; Red Bluff Sentinel, Sept. 8, 1877, Jan. 26, 1878; 
San Buenaventura Free Press, Sept. 8, 1877, Jan. 19, 1878, June 28, 1879; 
San Diego News, 1877, Apr. 17, May 7, Aug. 20, 30, Sept. 6, 11; Id., 
Union, Dec. 25, 1873, May 31, 1877; Santa Cruz Courier, Sept. 7, 1877; 
ld., Sentinel, Sept. 8, 1877; Santa Rosa Wy Times, Sept. 6, 1877; Sonoma 
Democrat, June 29, 1878, July 19, 1879; Stockton Independent, 1877, May 
12, June 16, July 14, Aug. 4, Sept. 1, Nov. 24, 1878, June 29; 1879, Apr. 
2, Aug. 8, Nov. 18, Dec. 6; 1881, Sept. 30, Oct. 3, Nov. 1; 1883, Jan. 1; 
Suisun Republican, Sept. 6, 1877, Sept. 4, 1879; Ukiah Democrat, 1877, 
Sept. 8, 29; Yuba Wy Banner, Nov. 2, 1878; Anaheim Gazette, 1877, May 12, 
June 2, Sept. 8, 15; Antioch Ledger, 1874, Nov. 14; 1877, May 12, 26, 
Sept. 1; Jackson Amador Ledger, 1877, Sept. 8, 22; Roseburg Plaindealer, 
1877, May 26, Oct. 6; 1879, Aug. 16; Yuma Sentinel, Sept. 8, 22, 1877, 
July 26, 1879; Quincy Plumes National, July 16, 1870; Austin, Nev., Reese 
Riv. Reveille, Sept. 13, 1872, Aug. 9, 1879; Lyon Co. Times, Sept. 4, 
1877; Carson Valley News, May 30, 1879; Carson Appeal, 1873, Feb. 9, Mar. 
21, Apr. 20; 1874, June 3; 1875, Mar. 18, July 27; 1880, Apr. 1; Belmont 
Courier, Nov. 11, 1876; Carson State Register, 1871, Mar. 4, 11, Oct. 27, 
Nov. 12, 23; 1872, Feb. 6, Apr. 16, Oct. 11, Nov. 8; Id., City Tribune, 
Sept. 26, 1879; Cherry Creek White Pine News, Mar. 19, 1881; Como 
Sentinel, July 9, 1864; Dayton Lyon County Sentinel, July 16, 1864; Elko 
Independent, 1869, Aug. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 13, Nov. 10; 1870, Jan. 26, 
May 4, June 4, 25; 1871, July 15, Sept. 9, 30, Nov. 11, Dec. 23; 1872, 
Mar. 2, Aug. 10, Dec. 28; 1873, Jan. 18, June 22; 1879, Jan. 31, Aug. 17; 
Eureka Daily Leader, 1880, June 28; Id., Sentinel, 1871, June 13, 27, Oct. 
31; 1872, Mar. 17; 1875, Jan. 23; 1878, Nov. 9; 1879, Jan. 30; 1882, Feb. 
11, Mar. 7, July 14; Gold Hill News, 1869, June 5; 1871, May 8; 1874, Jan. 
30; 1875, Feb. 24, Mar. 14; 1876, Apr. 10; 1877, Apr. 7, 16, May 17, June 
1, 8, July 17, Aug. 29, 30, Sept. 1, 19, 27; 1878, Mar. 15, Apr. 22, July 
31; 1881, June 24, July 19, Oct. 23; Pioche Journal, July 29, 1875; Id., 
Daily Record, 1873, Feb. 18, 25; Reno Gazette, 1877, May 5, Sept. 15, 22; 
1878, Jan. 4, Nov. 14; 1880, Dec. 6; 1881, Nov. 12; 1882, Jan. 24, Mar. 
30, Apr. 13, Aug. 5, 26; 1883, Jan. 24, 31, Apr. 17; ld., State Journal, 
1876, Dec. 23; 1877, Sept. 22; 1879, June 18; 1880, Aug. 3, 20; Ruby Hill 
Mining News, Sept. 19, 1881; Tuscarora Times-Review, 1879, Feb. 1, 2, 3, 
4, 23, May 10, June 17, Aug. 29; Unionville Silver State, Dec. 23, 1871; 
Virginia City Event Chronicle, 1877, May 4, 15, Aug. 30, Sept. 3, 8, 10; 
Territorial Enterprise, Nov. 25, 1869; Winnemucca Silver State, Apr. 3, 
1876, Mar. 1879, Aug. 1882; 1878, Nov. 16; 1879, July 11, Aug. 29; Boise, 
Id., Republican, Sept. 20, 1884; Id., Statesman, 1870, June 25, Sept. 24; 
1872, Jan. 6, June 1; 1873, Jan. 4, Feb. 1, 15, July 12; 1874, July 11; 
1876, Mar. 18; 1879, Mar. 4, Aug. 16, Nov. 29; Bonanza City Yankee Fork 
Herald, Sept. 25, 1879; Oxford Idaho Enterprise, 1879, Sept. 11, 18, Oct. 
16, 30; Silver City Avalanche, 1870, Sept. 17; 1872, May 4; 1873, Dec. 6; 
1875, Mar. 2; 1876, Feb. 22, 26; 1877, Sept. 8, 15; Omaha, Neb., New West, 
Dec. 1879; Prescott, Ariz., Miner, 1872, May 4; 1873, Jan. 18, 25, Mar. 8, 
May 17; 1875, June 4, Aug. 27; 1876, Dec. 22; 1877, Jan. 26, May 18, June 
15, Aug. 31, Sept. 14, Oct. 26; 1878, Dec. 13; 1879, May 9; Tucson 
Fronterizo, Jan. 27, 1882; Calveston, Tex., Daily News, Dec. 1, 1884; Id., 
Herald, in Watsonville Pajaronian, Apr. 4, 1878; Walla Walla Statesman, 
May 24, 1879; Port Townsend Democ. Press, Sept. 4, Oct. 3, 1879; Seattle 
Intelligencer, Nov. 15, 1869; Puget Sound Wy Courrier, Sept. 7, 1877; 
Olympia, Wash., Standard, Sept. 8, 1877, Aug. 15, 1879: Id., Transcript, 
Aug. 15, 1874; Vancouver Register, June 11, 1875; Portland, Or., Deutsche 
Zeitung, 1871, Sept. 23, Oct. 28; 1872, Aug. 31; 1876, Oct. 21; 1877, Apr. 
28, June 2, 23, July 14, Oct. 6; 1879, Mar. 8, Oct. 25, Dec. 13, 20; Id., 
Wy Standard, 1877, Apr. 27, Sept. 7; Id., Herald, July 10, 1870, Mar. 21, 
1872, Oct. 27, 1874, June 29, 1878; Id., Eveng Telegram, 1879, Sept. 8, 
Dec. 8; Id., Pac. Christ. Advocate, July 24, 1879; Ashland Tidings, Sept. 
7, 1877, Nov. 15, 1878; Astoria Astorian, 1880, Apr. 23, Oct. 20; Eugene 
City, Or., State Journal, Aug. 23, 1879; Jacksonville Democ. Times, 1877, 
Sept. 7, 28, Oct. 5; Albany States Rights Democ., Sept. 5, 1879; Salem, 
Or., Statesman, Mar. 13, 1875, May 18, 1877, May 12, 1879; Virginia City, 
Monta, Madisonian, June 23, 1877; Deer Lodge New Northwest, 1870, Sept. 
23; 1873, Feb. 22; Helena Dy Gazette, 1872, Feb. 17, Apr. 30, May 1; 1873, 
Nov. 25; ld., Herald, 1873, Dec. 11; 1876, Mar. 23, Sept. 14; N. Y. 
Tribune, in Cala-veras Chronicle, Oct. 6, 1877; N. Y. Herald, 1882, Jan. 
30, Feb. 13; Id., in Independence Independent, Aug. 16, 1879; Panamá Star 
and Herald, Nov. 18, 1869, June 7, 1873, Apr. 1, 1875, Nov. 14, 1877; 
Mexico Diario Oficial, 2d fol., 1880, passim.