The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-15

/ good sense and useful instruction may
sbe cleaned from bis observations. wa
shall probably give another dish next
week.
These Mormons are in the main an in
dnstrious, frugal, hard-working people.
Few Of them are habitual oilers, few live
Y by professions Or pursuits that require no
4 physical exertion, They make work for
\ but few lawyer know but four among
them their differences and disputes are
usually settled in and BY the Church;
/ they have no female outcasts, few doctors,
and pay no salaries TO their preachers
at least, the leaders say 10. But 4 small
portion Of Them use Tea and Coffee. For
nnerly they drank little or no Liquor; but,
since the Army came ID last year money
/ and whisky have both been more abund-
4 ant, and now they drink considerably.
More than n thousand barrels Of whisky
have been sold in this city within the last
& year, at an average of not less than IS
4 per gallon, making the total cost to con-
SINNERS over $3.50 600, whereof The Nor.
mons have paid al least hall. liz they
I had thrown instead $4,000 in hard
cash into the deepest part 81 Salt Lake,
lIt would have been far better for, them
The appetite they are acquiring or re-
Fnewing will cling TO them after the Army
and its influx of cash shall have departed:
and Saints who now drink d little Will find
themselves as thirsty as their Valley, be-
fore they suspect that they care anything
for liquor. AS yet. / believe, they have
few or no drunkards; but there is nothing
more deceitful than the appetite, for rs
quor. As yet, Utah has not Il single ex.
port OF any kind; the Army supplies her
with cash when that IS gone, her people
will see harder times. she OUGHT tos
manufacture almost everything sI9e con.
suf1es, Or foreign debt viii oyerwhelnl
her \ q, up to this hour, her nianufac.
turing energies have been most unhappiIy
directed. Some 5000, 900 was expended
IN preparations for Iron making ats place
called Cedar City; but the ore, though
rich, would not aux, and the enterprise
had to be totally abandoned, leaving the
capital a dead loss. Wool and Flax can
be grown here cheaply and abundantly; II
yet owing to the. troubles last year. no /
spinning and wearing machinery has vet
been put in operation; / believe some Il II
now coming up from ST. Louis. An At q.
empt otgrow Cotton is likely 10 prove a 4
allure, as might have. been predicted.
The Winters are long and cold here for 4
ne latitude, and the Saints must make
10th or shlFer. trust they will soon I,
e able to elothe themselves. 7 4. ..:.z
s. Sugar Is another necessary Of life Il
Ehich they have had bad luck. with
hey can grow the beet very well. bnt Ii 4
9 said TO yield little or no sugar because
Is supposed, Of an exeessof alkaliin Il
he soil The Sorghum has not vet been
urned to much account. but It Is 60 be.
so I Brown Sugar sells here at 60c.
'er 10; coffee about the same; in the !.
Ie J. w settlements, they are Of course still
higher All sorts of imported goods
os = Ii. twice 70 six or eight times their Z
'rices In the States; even (laack AEedici. /
es $50 called J and yellow covered Nov.
y are sold at double the prices borne on
heir labels or covers Consider that the i
- ts@<. tLitilsE over ~ tnutlSa+d \
MES 4. mainly Of desert, after reaching the
llssourl, which was many hundreds + ii I
% thousands Of miles from their former /
omes--that they generally reached these / {
alleys IN the Fail hich afforded them b
x '''' chances Of starvation before: 81
hey could raise a crop--that they: have 4.
cen constantly Infested and begged Or
eoten from By the Indians whose game !, !.
ley Killed or scared away, and who feel :
-. tne Z, nave right to live here so e
t 'Is t11ie are eatlle or crops TO live I
81 nar as .ss r. Nalleys are lotly narrow 2
Ndp 800 -, = Intense drouth irom May
y. 80 o.a eo tha an lnl PIGMENTS and seeds
RAJ, ss M, x II = oDtainea short Of a =
IN, ,oyn,o,,s n aa, 1oIfne ana then at an il
sar - eaSs-siiae tney nave ma. had one u
J Fedarsi I rH .s,au etstly nosli!ties with d
ne could ~ dnn W N. which very Y
a. mi e ,Ea o,e, alp Improvement W
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