New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-03

last year IT 81 average Of 10: less than y Per
gallon, making the total cost TO CONSUMERS over
$50 coo, whereof the MOruons have pad at lest
half II they hsi thrown instead $4,000 IN hard
cash Tito tie deepest p.rt Of S.lt Lake, j. would
have been far better for them The appetite they Are
acquiring or renewing vii cling 10 tbem after the
Army and il. influx Of cash .h4Ll have departed;
AID Saint. who pow driDk little vii find them
selves as thirty their ALLEY, before toey su'pect
that they care anything for liquor. As yet, be
lieve, they have few or 10 drunkards sur tsere IL
nothing more deceitful than the appetite for liquor
AZ yet, Utsb has not All rle eXpor. Of any kind;
the Army supplies Der with casb; when that is
gone, her people will see harder times. she
ought 70 manufacture amCtt everything tbe con
sumes, or foreign cebt VIII overwhelm her.
YET, up 10 this hour her manufacturing energies
have been most uphappily directed Some 100000
vas expended in preparations for Iron making a. s
place called Ceder City; but the ore, though ricL
would not fuI, and the enterprise had 70 be 10
tally abandoned, leaving the capital q dead loss
Wool and Fix can be grown here cheaply and
abundantly; yet, owing 70 the troubles last year,
DO spinning and weaving machinery has yet besn
put in operation; / believe some Is now coming up
from 81. Louis. An attempt 10 grow Cotton Is
LIKELY 10 prove failure, as might have been pre-
d.cted. The Winters are long and cold here for
the latitude, and the Saints must make c)th or
SILVER. / trust they vii soon be able 70 clothe
themselves.
Sugar il another necessary Of life whi,h they
have had bad luck With They can grow the Beet
III -. +. ..;1 30 a.
because, it is supposed, Of an excess Of aksli in
the soil. The Sorghum has not yet been turned 10
much account, but 1T is 10 be. Common Brown
Sugar cells here at Coo per lb coffee about the
same; in the newer settlements, they are OF course
It'll higher All sorts Of imported goods cost twice
to Fix or eight times their prices in the States;
even Quack Med cines so called) and yellow GOV.
cred Novels are sold at double the prices borne on
their labels or cogers. Consider that the people
came hitler over thousand miles mainly Of desert,
after reaching the Missouri, which was many hun
dreds If not thousands Of miles from their former
hOnes-that they generally reached these valleys
in The Fall, which afforded them excellent chances
Of starvation before they could raise a crop-that
they have been constantly infested aud begged or
ft'ItD HOm Wy INC iuOl1h5 NH'r' thh' iHe1 hhit"
or scared away, and who feel that they have a
night to live here so long as there are cattle or
crops 10 live on that these valleys are lofty,
row, and paTched by intense drouth from May TO
Noyeuber-tbat implements and seeds are scarce
ly t. be obtained short OF three months journey,
and then at an enormous cost-that they have had
one year Of virtual and costly hostilties with the
a - in oh ha
done, and improvement was out Of the question
and am amazed that so much has been well done
here in the way Of building tilIiDg, fencing plant
ing trees, &c. OF cOurse this city is far ahead Of
any rival, being the spiritual metropolis and tue
earliest settled; but assured that the valley Of
Utah Lake is better cultivated than this, though
Provo, its county seat, is far behind this city,
which, with it's broad, regular streets, refreshed
by riyuets Of bright, sparkling, dancing water, and
shaded by rows of young but thrifty trees mainly
Loewt and Bitter Cottonwood, is already more at
trs:ve to the eye than average city Of like sze
in the States The houses (of adobe or merely
Sun. dried brck) are uniformly low and generally
too small; but there is seldom more than fam
lily to dwelling, and rarely but one dwelling
on lot of an acre and quarter. The gardens are
well filled with Peach, Apple and other fruit trees,
whereof the Peach already bears profusey, and the
others begin to follow the example. Apricots and
Grapes ere grown, though not yet abundant; 90 of
Strawberries Plums are in profusion, and the
Mountain Curranls are large, abundant and very
good. Many of the lots are fenced with cobble
stones laid in clay mortar, which seems 10 stand
very well. That of Brigham Young's garden and
grounds is nine or ten feet high three feet thick at
the base and cost some $50 per rod. Undoubt-
edly this people are eadily increasing in wealth
and comfort
Still, the average life in Utah is a hard one.
Many more days faithful labor are required to sup
port family here than in Kansas, or any of the
States The climate is severe and caprcious-
now intensely hot and dry; in Winter cold and
stormy; and though cattle are usually allowed to
shrk for themselves in the valleys, they are apt TO
resent the insult by dying. Crickets and grass
hoppers swarm in myriads, and often deyour all
before them. Wood is scarce and po,r Irriga
ton is sbOrious and expensive; as yet, it ha, not
been found practicable 10 irrigste onefourth OF the
arabic land at all. Ultimately, the valleys will be
generally irrigated; but this will require very
costly dams and canals. Frost is very destructive
here; Indian Corn rarely escapes it wholly, and
Wheat often suffers from il. Wheat Oats, Corn,
Barley, Rye, are grown at about equal cost per
hustel-S2 may be taken as their average price;
Whea. is usually heavy, though this year il Unrest
ems to be relatively Light. estimate that one
hundred and fifty days faithful labor in Kansas