1900's

"In his annual report for 1907, Salt Lake police chief Thomas Pitt recommended the creation of a separate district, or 'stockade,' surrounded by a high fence, where prostitutes could be confined, licensed, regulated by the police, and inspected on a regular basis by medical doctors."

1920's

"In Utah the Klan was strongest in Salt Lake, Utah, and Carbon counties, where its members burned crosses, staged parades along Main street, threatened immigrant men who were seen with American women, and vandalized immigrant-owned businesses. The Utah Klan held its first state convention on Ensign Peak north of Salt Lake City, with burning crosses visible throughout the valley."

1930's

"Because the Depression hit Salt Lake City and Utah so hard, federal programs were extensive in both cit and state. Per capita federal spending in Utah during the 1930s was ninth among the forty-eight states, the percentage of Utah workers on federal work relief projects was far above the national average, and for every dollar Utahns sent to the nation's capital in taxes, the government returned at least seven, and by some estimates twenty, dollars through various federal programs."

--John S. McCormick,
The Gathering Place: An Illustrated History of Salt Lake City