- 1874 - In the midst of the 1873 banking crisis, Brigham Young urged for economic reforms in the church
- 1874 -In Brigham City, Lorenzo Snoworganized all of the community's businesses into cooperatives.
"I say that they who are opposed to cooperation are opposed to heaven, to their own welfare, to the welfare of their neighbors, to truth and to everything that is good." -Brigham Young
"To build cooperativism is not to do the opposite of capitalism as if this system did not have any useful features... Cooperativism must surpass it, and for this purpose must assimilate its methods and dynamism."
- José María Arizmendiarrieta