The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-10-13
Life in Utah.

These MormonS ere in the main an in
dustrious. frugal, hard working people
Few Of them are bsbitual dlers; few live
By professions or pursuits that require no
ply ysical exertion. They make work for
but few lawyers know but four among
the their differeces 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 SO. But small
portion of them use Tea and Coffee
Formerly they drank little Liquori but
since the Army camo in last year, m oney
and whisky have both been more abund-
ant, aud now they drink considerably
More than a thousand barrels Of whisky
have been sold in this city within the Last
year, at an average OF not less than SO
per gallon, making the total cost to con-
sumers over $25G,O0O, whereof the Nor
mons have paid at least half. If they
had thrown instead $50, 600 into the
deepest part of Salt LaYe, it would have
been far better for them. The appetite
they are acquiring or renewing will cling
to them after the army and its influx of
cash shall have departed; and the Saints
who now drink little will find themsel-
YES as thirsty as their Valley before they
suspect that they careaDything for liquor.
As yet | believe they have few or De
drunkards; but there is nothing more de-
ceitful than the appetite for liquor. As
yet Utah has not a single export of any
kind; the army supplies her with cash;
when that is gone, her people will see
harder times. She should manufacture
almost everything she CONSUMES, or for
eign debt will oyerwbelm ber. Yet, up
to this hour ber manufacturing energies
have been most unhapily directed. Some
100000 was expended in preparation
for Iron % aking at q place called Cedar
City; but the ore, though rich would not
fux. and the enterprise had to be totally
abandoned, leaving the capital a dead
loss. Wool and Flax can be grown cheap
ly and abuDd autly; yet owing to the trou
bIes last year, no spinning and weaving
machinery has yet been putin operations;
| believe some is now coming from st.
Louis. An attempt TO grow Cotton is
likely TO prove failure. as might have
been predicted, The Winters are long
and cold here for the latitude, and the
Saints must make cloth or shiyer. /
trust they will soon be able to cloth them
selves.
Sagsr is another necessary of life,
which they have bad bad luck With
They can grow the Beet very we'll. but it
is said to yield little or no susar-because
it is supposed, Of an excess of alkali in
the soil. The Sorghum has not yet been
turned to much account, but it is to be-
Common Brown Sugar sells here at 600.
per h.; coffee about the samo; in the new
er settlements. they are of course higher.
All sorts ofimported goods cost twice to
Elk or eight times their prices 10 the States;
even Quack Medicines $50 called) and
yellow covered novels are sold at double
the prices borne on their labels or covers
Consider that the people came hither over
a thousand miles mainly of desert after
the Missouri, which wac many
hundreds if not thousands of miles from
their former homes-that they generally
reached these valleys 10 the Fail, which
afforded them excellent chances of star
vation before they could raise crop
that they have been constantly infested
and begged or stolen from by the Indians
whose game they killed or scared away.
and who feel that they have right to
live here so long as there are cattle or
crops to live on-thst these valleys are
lofty, narrow. and parched BY intense
drouth FROM May to Noscmber--that i'm.