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Immigrants Start More Settlements The LDS church kept sending families out to start different farming communities Huntsville 1860 A group of settlers led by Jefferson Hunt headed into the Ogden Valley ID: 410463

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Settlement, Transportation, and MiningSlide2

Immigrants Start More Settlements

The LDS church kept sending families out to start different farming communities

Huntsville, 1860

A group of settlers led by Jefferson Hunt headed into the Ogden Valley

There were already a group of Shoshone Indians living there, so the settlers made an annual tax to the Indians to use the land for farming and cattleSlide3

And More Settlements

The Cotton Mission, 1861

Brigham Young sent people to “Utah’s Dixie” in an effort to make Utah more

self-sufficient

They

grew crops that flourished in hotter climates

Cotton, tobacco, figs, almonds, olive oil, and even wine

Their town was named after the LDS leader George A. Smith

Life was difficult because of floods, drought, extreme heat, and povertySlide4

Transportation

The main way to get food, mail, and manufactured goods to and from the West was overland

freighting

Overland freighting faced a lot of dangers

Storms, floods, poor roads, few bridges, and Indian attacksSlide5

Stage Coaches and the Goshute War

As stagecoaches traveled from St. Louis to California, they were sometimes attacked by Goshute and Shoshone Indians

US Army troops attacked a Goshute village south of the Simpson Spring Station, slaughtering all the men, women, and children

This caused many other battles to rise up around the area

This is known as the Goshute WarSlide6

The Telegraph

Telegraph lines ran from Omaha, Nebraska, to San Francisco

These telegraph lines quickly brought an end to the Pony Express

In October 1861, the eastern lines reached Salt Lake City

One week later, the western lines reached the city

The very first message sent from Salt Lake City was from Brigham Young assuring Washington that Utah would remain loyal to the Union during the Civil War

The leaders in Utah then constructed more lines from St. George to Logan with stops in many other towns on the waySlide7

Camp Douglas

After Johnston’s Army left Utah to go fight in the Civil War, 750 soldiers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor came to Utah

Their job was to protect the overland mail and telegraph lines from Indian attacks

They built Camp Douglas to overlook Salt Lake City

Connor never got along with Young and the Mormons

He even had his cannons at Camp Douglas aimed at the Beehive House

Connor went on to create an anti-Mormon newspaper and the Liberal Party

He is also known as the Father of Utah MiningSlide8

Many New Religions

The first Jewish family in the Salt Lake Valley came in 1854

Many more came and by the 1880s there was a healthy Jewish population in Salt Lake City

Reverend Norman McLeod thought that the Utah community would benefit from some Protestant services

His influence spread to many different areas, mostly in Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake City

Many Catholic soldiers were stationed at Camp Douglas

Catholic churches started to pop up all over the major cities in UtahSlide9

And More New Religions

Daniel Sylvester Tuttle is credited with the first nor-LDS church service in Utah

He opened the first

nondenominational

school in Utah

This is where students of any religion could study

He also built Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Salt Lake City and the Church of the Good Shepherd in OgdenSlide10

Mining in the Utah Territory

The most prominent mineral in Utah was

ore

Early settlers mined other things like salt, silver,

sulphur

, lead, and coal

They would mostly mine only what they needed

Many people got rich from mining in Utah

However, the people who got rich were the people who owned the mines and not those who worked in themSlide11

Mining cont.

The Bingham brothers were the first to discover ore in the

Oquirrh

Mountains

Brigham Young actually discouraged the brothers from

prospecting

He wanted people to focus on farming and building

Later soldiers from Camp Douglas found silver ore in the canyon

They also began to find gold in the ore

Lead and silver were the most prominent minerals

Copper will not be mined in the area until the turn of the centurySlide12

More Mining

More mines were found in the

Oquirrh

Mountains such as Stockton, the first non-Mormon town in Utah, and

Ophir

Mining towns started to pop up in Little Cottonwood Canyon around Alta and Snowbird ski resorts

Park City in Parley’s Canyon also became a prominent mining town

The area was rich in silver, lead, and gold

Transporting these minerals was difficult and expensive

But it became easier with the building of the railroadsSlide13

A Miner’s Life

Working in the mines was very dangerous

People could fall down the mine elevators

People could be crushed by falling rocks or moving mine carts

Many miners developed lung disease from breathing in the dust

The air in the mines could be filled with deadly gas that could be breathed in or cause explosions

Canary in the coal mine

People came from all over the world to work in these mines making $3 dollars a day for 12 hours of workSlide14

Business and Manufacturing

Many businesses started opening up in mining towns

Lorenzo Snow opened the first

cooperative

business in Utah, The Brigham City Cooperative Association

These types of businesses are where multiple owners share the costs and benefits of a business

Soon the Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution, ZCMI, opened in Salt Lake City and spread throughout the territory

Many of these coops would import goods from around the country

People in Utah would be able to buy the latest fashions from New York City

Brigham Young encouraged his followers to only do business with other Mormons

How did this make the other businessmen feel?Slide15

Textiles

ZCMI became very successful in producing clothing

The Provo Woolen Mills was the first factory in Utah

At first only men worked in these factories

Later on it became a woman dominated area

Brigham Young began to encourage women and children to produce silk at home

They had to import the silkworms and plant mulberry plants to make silk

The silk industry was not very successful and was over by the end of the century