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similarly composed and commanded, succeeded, with one hundred 

 and thirty men and families, in planting the settlement at Little^ 

 Salt Lake, which is represented as being now in a very flourishing 

 condition. The succeeding March, a third party, with a hundred 

 and fifty wagons, left the capital for the purpose of establishing a 

 settlement in the southern part of California. It was to be 

 situated at no great distance from San Diego, and near Williams's 

 ranche and Cahone Pass, between which and Little Salt Lake it is 

 designed to establish other settlements as speedily as possible. By 

 means of these successive places of refreshment, the incoming 

 emigration from the Pacific will be enabled to " go from strength 

 to strength" till they reach the Zion of their hopes. 



At Salt Lake City itself, energetic measures are being taken for 

 opening a woollen factory, the raw material being furnished from 

 sheep raised in the valley, to the grazing of which the mountain 

 slopes are admirably adapted, and whose production has already 

 attracted the attention of this energetic and far-seeing people. A 

 pottery for the manufacture of earthenware is completed ; and 

 cutlery establishments have been successfully commenced. Ex- 

 tensive arrangements are going forward for raising the sugar-beet, 

 which, under such favourable circumstances, cannot but prove suc- 

 cessful ; and ere long it is confidently anticipated that a sufficient 

 quantity of sugar will be manufactured from it to meet all their 

 wants. At present they are supplied with this article and other 

 groceries, as well as with dry-goods and clothing, from extensive 

 stocks brought in by enterprising merchants from the States ; but 

 the policy of the people is to provide for their own wants by their 

 own skill and industry, and to dispense, as much as possible, with 

 the products of the labour of others. 



While all these exertions are making for the physical develop- 

 ment of a new empire among the mountains, the mental elevation 

 of the people by education has been by no means lost sight of. 

 Liberal appropriations of land and money have been made for the 

 establishment of an university, the grounds for which are laid 

 out and enclosed, being situated on one of the terraces of the 

 mountain overlooking the city. A normal school, designed for 

 the education of those who desire to become teachers, is already 

 in successful operation. School-houses have been built in most 

 of the districts, both in the city and country, which are attended 

 by old as well as young, and every efibrt is made to advance the 

 mental improvement of the people. 



