Historic Map - Salt Lake City, UT - 1875

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1W-UT-SL-1875
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View of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, U.T., 1875 / drawn & published by E. S. Glover.

This panoramic print of Salt Lake City, Utah was drawn by Eli. S. Glover and published by Strobridge & Co. in 1875. Salt Lake City���s town booster of 1875 states the following:

  ���Salt Lake City, the metropolis of Utah, has a population of about 30,000 inhabitants. Publishes ten Newspapers (two daily), has several Banking Institutions, and numerous Stores and Warehouses, wholesale and retail. Its Manufactories comprise Woolen Mills, Paper Mills, Tanneries, Foundries, R. R. Machine Shops, Flouring Mills, Sampling, Smelting, and Refining Works; Cracker, Soap, Salt, Cabinet, and Pail Factories; and Breweries. It has ten Educational Institutions, seven Churches, and several Benevolent, Musical, Social, and Secret Societies. The city is divided into twenty wards, of nine blocks each, and every ward has its hall for public purposes, assembly rooms, schools, meetings, etc. The public improvements are Street Railways, Gas Works, Irrigation Canals, Warm Spring Bath Houses, etc.

  Salt Lake City, 4,300 ft. above the sea level, situated at the Southern end of the Great Salt Lake Basin, in an angle of the Wasatch Mountains, settled by the Mormons in 1849. The first Rail Road was built in 1869; there are now three Rail Roads in operation.

  Temple Block, between N. S. E. and W. Temple Streets, surrounded by a wall with four gates, contains the new Mormon Tabernacle (a), with dome shaped roof. The audience room is 250 by 150 Ft. inside, ceiling 62 ft. high, with gallery. The old Tabernacle (b), and the Mormon Temple (c), now building from granite procured at Little Cottonwood Canon. The foundation of the Temple is 186 �� by 99 ft., walls 8 ft. thick, the towers are to be 225 ft. high.

  The Eagle Gate, on South Temple Street, at the North end of First East Street, entrance to Brigham Young���s enclosures; (d) Tithing Yard and Offices; (e) Lion House; (f) Bee Hive House; (g) Private School; (h) White House; (j) Orchards, Vineyards, Gardens, etc.���

The map looking southwest includes labeled streets, buildings and railroad routes, with the following sites referenced:

City Hall. First East and First South Sts.
Theatre. First East and First South Sts.
St. Marks Episcopal School. First East and First South Sts.
Federal Court House. Second West and Second South Sts.
County Court House. Second West and Second South Sts.
Townsend House. West Temple and First South Sts.
Walker House. Main St. between Second South and Third South.
Wasatch Hotel. Main and Second South Sts.
University of Deseret. Main and South Temple Sts.
Salt Lake Museum. South Temple between Main and West Temple Sts.
Bath Houses at Warm Springs, temperature of water, 102 degrees F.
City Creek Canon. Supplies water to the city.
Red Butte Canon. Camp Douglas, established in 1869, 3 miles distant.
Emigrant Canon. 5miles distant; Brewery, Quarantine Lands to the right.
Parley���s Canon. 7 miles distant; Woolen Mills, Penitentiary, and Paper Mill below.
Mill Creek Canon. 9 miles distant; Saw Mills and Grist Mills, below on Creek.
Big Cottonwood Canon. 12 miles distant; Butlerville and Cottonwood Village.
Little Cottonwood Canon. 16 miles distant; Granite, Smelting Works, etc.
Lone Peak. 28 miles distant, 11,500 ft. above the sea.
St. Marks Episcopal Church. First South St. between Second and Third East.
St. Mary���s Catholic Church. Second East St. between South Temple and Second South.
Presbyterian Church. Second East and Second South Sts.
Methodist Church. Third South St. between Main and First East.
Congregational Church. Third South St. between Main and West Temple.
Spiritualist Liberal Institute. Second East St. between First and Second South.

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