THE CONQUEST OF ARID AMERICA 



Building churches and schools $4,000,000 



Cost of missionary work 10,000,000 



Cost of immigrating and sustaining Hie poor 8,000,000 



Living of the farmers ($875 to each family 



per annum) 350,000,000 



Cost of roads and bridges in mountains and 



valleys 4,000,000 



Cost of Indian wars, building forts, stockades, 



breaking up settlements, etc 5,000,000 



Cost of feeding and clothing Indians and 

 establishing Indian missions, farms, 

 schools, etc 2,000,000 



Cost of resisting the invasion of the army of 

 1857, and of the people of Salt Lake 

 county and the counties north moving 

 south into middle and southern Utah 6,000,000 



Loss sustained by crickets, locusts, and grass- 

 hoppers 2,500,000 



Unsuccessful early experiments in making 

 iron, sugar, paper, nails, leather, cotton- 

 raising, mining, etc 6,000,000 



Cost of defence against anti-polygamy legisla- 

 tion believed to be unconstitutional 3,000,000 



Heavy freight rates from the Missouri river 



and the Pacific coast before the railroads 8,000,000 



Cost of establishing the Overland Mail and 

 Express Company, purchase of Fort 

 Bridger, and establishment of Fort Sup- 

 ply, abandoned and afterward absorbed 

 by the army of 1857 2,000,000 



Protecting overland travel, succoring and 

 feeding California, Oregon, and other 

 emigrants 1,500,000 



Cost of colonizing Carson and Green River 

 counties, abandoned because of the 

 army of 1857 2,000,000 



Cost of establishing colonies on Salmon 

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