Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-10 | Page 4 | Know Utah

UTA-Hi UTA is isBy j By ALBERT P. P PHILIPS V J b Fuel was one of ot the great needs of ot the territory in inthe inthe inthe the early days and an aI exploring party searching for coal near the Weber river er In August of ot 1860 found a splendid bed of ot mineral that gave promise of the greatest blessing that had fallen to the lot of the Saints At that time when the people were paying 10 per cord for tor wood the discovery ery of coal was an important important im im- Irn- Irn matter The find was about fifty miles mUes distant distant distant dis dis- dis- dis tant from Salt Sait Lake City and even with paying 3 per t ton m at the mouth of the tho pit it could be brou brought ht to the city and sold for 20 per ton In 1859 the price to blacksmiths had been 40 It was believed at that date dale that the whole country was lull full of coal and what was not coal was gold and silver Bishops of the several wards In the city were f in instructed to urge upon the Saints the necessity of hauling and this was done and the roads were kept free from snow now and open during the winter 0 e e I It has been pointed out that the settlements by bythe bythe the Saints resembled the settlements in Canada The method was to send fiend out an exploring party and when a no desirable place to found a no settlement was reached a a. volunteer party would toll follow ow Then a a. fort would be erected and the tile lands would be laid out and the tilling of the soil would follow O G 0 e eUp Up to 1855 the number of counties In the territory was WItS five Five years later the number was increased to twelve and the number was further increased later to nineteen The number at present is twenty Some of the settlements so far as name is concerned have been blotted out as for instance Pondtown in Utah county Stoker in Davis county and several others which were very small 0 Regarding the tile population of ot the provisional state of Deseret the number in 18 1849 9 was about inthe in inthe inthe the towns and 1000 more n the settlements Figures obtained by the seventh census in 1850 gave the population population population pop pop- at of which number twenty-six twenty were slaves In 1853 1553 the he total number in the territory as given by Apostle Orson Pratt in the Seer was to In 1859 a census showed that the number of Mormons in the territory not including Nevada was and the total in the world