Was Salt Lake Valley rich and fertile or barren desert?

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Re: Was Salt Lake Valley rich and fertile or barren desert?

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Bazooka wrote:Yahoo Bot seems not to have returned to the thread....


Maybe someone he knows is thinking of England.
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Tator wrote:
Bazooka wrote:Yahoo Bot seems not to have returned to the thread....


Maybe someone he knows is thinking of England.


That's wrong/works on several levels!
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Bazooka wrote:Yahoo Bot seems not to have returned to the thread....


Tator wrote:Maybe someone he knows is thinking of England.


Bazooka wrote:That's wrong/works on several levels!



Sorry, I'm in a fowl mood today, I think I'll have chicken for dinner.
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Tator wrote:
Bazooka wrote:Yahoo Bot seems not to have returned to the thread....


Tator wrote:Maybe someone he knows is thinking of England.


Bazooka wrote:That's wrong/works on several levels!



Sorry, I'm in a fowl mood today, I think I'll have chicken for dinner.


Now you're just winging it.....
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Re: Was Salt Lake Valley rich and fertile or barren desert?

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I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake
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rlpmjp wrote:I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake


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rlpmjp wrote:I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake


Welcome.

You do realize your picture is from 1925/ The settlers had been there for 70 years already and the valley in 1925 looked nothing like it did in 1855.
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Fence Sitter wrote:
rlpmjp wrote:I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake


Welcome.

You do realize your picture is from 1925/ The settlers had been there for 70 years already and the valley in 1925 looked nothing like it did in 1855.



My point was that even after 70 years, it didn't look that great. Notice the lack of forests (when comparing to east of the Mississippi or much of Europe where my ancestors came from.
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Jersey Girl wrote:
rlpmjp wrote:I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake


Welcome rlpmjp!

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Maybe he/ she could buy a few.
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Re: Was Salt Lake Valley rich and fertile or barren desert?

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rlpmjp wrote:I also think both are right as when confronting a new situation the optimistic person puts the place/situation in the best light, giving it a chance, but my ancestors wrote similar to Woodruff's 2nd description. Here is a picture by the government of part of the Salt Lake Valley:
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2616073-155/ ... -salt-lake

Fence Sitter wrote:Welcome.

You do realize your picture is from 1925/ The settlers had been there for 70 years already and the valley in 1925 looked nothing like it did in 1855.


rlpmjp wrote:My point was that even after 70 years, it didn't look that great. Notice the lack of forests (when comparing to east of the Mississippi or much of Europe where my ancestors came from.


Maybe I misunderstood what you mean by "both sides". This thread dealt with contradicting the common hagiographical notion that Mormon settlers (or invaders if one was a native American living in Utah at the time the Mormons arrived) made the desert bloom. They didn't. The desert parts that were here when they arrived (western sides of the valleys) are still here even today, as they were in your 1925 photo. The fertile grasslands, wetlands and thriving fisheries that existed on the eastern sides of the valleys, that were here when the settlers arrived were destroyed by those same settlers.

So I am not sure what you meant by both sides. The side that claims they made the desert bloom, is just wrong.

Great picture by the way.
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