AGENCY: Salt Lake City (Utah). City Recorder

SERIES: 4905
TITLE: Brief Sketch of the History of Salt Lake City
DATES: 1881.
ARRANGEMENT: None

DESCRIPTION: This is a bound, handwritten essay (27pp) by John Jacques, entitled "A Brief Sketch of the History of Salt Lake City" discussing the early history of Salt Lake City. The history has short segments devoted to: settlement; survey; incorporation; designation as the capital; population growth; soil and water; drouths, floods, scanty harvests; destructive insects; business depression; business briskness; destructive explosions; light and waterworks; means of communication; settlements in the vicinity; and city government.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Agency history records, GRS-1723

AUTHORIZED: 01/02/2018

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

Early historical sketch of the city is a valuable record.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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