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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOGAN  , a

city and the county-seat of Cache county,
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Utah, U.S.A., on the Logan
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river, about 70 M . N. of Salt Lake City, Pop . (1900) 5451 (1440
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foreign-born); (191o) 7522 . It is served by the
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Oregon Short
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Line railroad . It lies at the mouth of Logan
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Canon, about 4500 ft. above the sea, and commands magnificent views of the Wasatch Mountains and the fertile Cache Valley . At Logan is a temple of the Latter-Day Saints (or
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Mormons), built in 1883, and the city is the seat of the Agricultural College of Utah, of Brigham Young College, and of New Jersey Academy (1878), erected by the
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women. of the Synod of New Jersey and managed by the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church . The Agricultural College was founded in 1888 and opened in 1890; an agricultural experiment station is connected with it and the institution comprises
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schools of agriculture, domesti :. science and arts, commerce, mechanic arts and general science . Six experiment stations in different parts of the state and a central experimental
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farm near St George, Washington county, were in 1908 under the direction of the experiment station in Logan . Brigham Young College was endowed by Brigham Young in 1877 and was opened in 1878; it offers courses in the arts,
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theology,
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civil
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engineering,
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music,
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physical culture, domestic science, nurse training and
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manual training . Logan has various manufactures, and is the trade centre for a fertile farming region . The
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municipality owns and operates its
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water
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works and its electric
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lighting plant . Logan was settled in 1859 and first incorporated in 1866 .

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