Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1863-12-19
Utah Changing Fast.

Every traveller from the East or West
who passes through Salt Lake City is struck
with the advancement Of the place under
the past adverse circumstances of the peo-
pie. Itmay be that the monotony of the
deserts on either side contributes to the
good opinion Of the city when the traveller
reaches it, but certain it is | have never
seen stranger with different opinion
1t has always been marvel of industry,
and is now great commercial city. But
a few years agoncarly every merchant was
dead broke" stores were closing, and
gamblers and transient residents" had
nearly all gone, To-day merchants are
doing rushing business, new stores are
being built and filed aud trains with goods
from East and West have been arriving
every week for some time back. Just fancy
the announcement of one firm today -
-Four mule trains from California, to ar,
rine," etc etc, "in a few days" Another
merchant informs me that he has received
from California and has new en- route goods
this year to the amount Of nearl ly $l00, 900.
| know of several other firms who have
en- route, and agents will be tripping,
every now and again, to California, this
Winter, to purchase goods and bring their
trains in by the southern route from Los
Angeles, The other merchants, better
known in the East, have received their mcr.
chandiSe from the Atlantic States in much
larger quantities than in former years, and
yet there is nothing in the city but what
will sell before another years supply can
be received, An enterprising little fellow
here, "Blly" GOdbe, brought in four trains
of goods of $4,000 first cost, from the
East, few weeks since, opened at figures
less than his neighbors, and as result will
he sold out in six weeks. Of course this
does not last all the year round, but the de.
mand has never been like the present at
any time in the history Of Utah, save in n
few days Of 40, when the people used to
throw Chunks of gold over each others
head to the man behind the counter for "a
few yards of domestic, some tea and TO.
bacco" Several causes contribute to this
change in finances. The overland Mail
Company get supplies for their animals for
nearly thousand miles. If | mistake not
the western division is supplied to nearly
Carson, and there, too, in some things, and
the east runs nearly to Denver. | expect
the California Volunteers have brought
something between three or four hundred
thousand dollars into the Territory, between
freighting supplies here and pay to the
Volunteers. Then Idaho has contributed
largely her gold dust to the merchants in
return for -four, butter and eggs, and the
same is to be said of Reese River While
these have been the sources of the peoples
increase, the changing value of green
backs" and the uncertainty of better
supply of cotton goods have made parting
with the legal tenders a very simple mat
ter. Gold in coin is rarely seen, or it would
be "salted down." and the dust is sent to
the Pacific for coming. "The Lord having
peculiar regard for the well being of the
Saints permits the ebony gentleman Of
the neither regions to bring upon the peo.
Pile trials now and agan--as per example
Johnston's army, and now the California
Vnluntoors hnt hefore tha affair ia ovar