Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-09
HYDE PARK, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST g. 1865

tion, quiet, frugal, industrious, scattered
in small villages, and SO manageable by
the church organization. So far, this
policy has been admirably successful;
and it has created All industry and pro-
duction here, in the center of the western
half of our continent, of immense impor-
tance and value to the future growth of
the region. A few Of the simpler manu-
lectures have been introduced of late, but
these are not in conflict with the general
policy. There are three cotton mills,
confined to cotton yarns, however, almost
exclusively, and one wooden mill Prob
ably there are hundred Touring mills
in the territory also. Flour, the grains,
butter. bacon, dried peaches, home made
socks and yarns, are the chief articles
produced in excess and sold to emigrants
and for the mining regions in the North.
Probably 100000 pounds of dried peach
es were sold for Idaho and Motana last
year. Hides are plenty; there is good
tannery here; /; and also a manufactory
Of boots and shoes. Cotton grows abun-
dainty in the southern settlements; and
experiments with flax, the mulberry tree
and the silk worm are all successful at
present.
| AS to mining, the influence of the church
has been against it. There have been no
placer or surface discovered to offer temp
tations to the mass of the people and
the leaders affect to believe that the ores
SO far found are not valuable enough tc
pay for working. They have a reason
for discourging mining, of course, in the
sure conviction that il would introduce a
population and influences antagonistic tc
the order and power of the church. Iron
they admit, exists in large qantities, es
pecially in the southern mountains, anc
they have made some attempts to dcveloT
it, but without great success, for the rea
son, as they say, that they are not proper
workmen and material to do it with. Bu
as to gold and silver, they are incredulous
and not only that, but president Young
argues that the world has many times
more of both than it needs for financia
purposes; that the country is poorer to
day for all the mining Of gold and silver
in the 20 years and that for exery dol
lar gained by it, four dollars have been ex
pended.
But these views are not likely to gair
wide acquiescence. There is no reason t.
? doubt that the mountains of Utah are ricl
in the precious metals--perhaps not ST
much 81 as other territories, bnt still G
nough so to tempt miners and capitalists tt
invest in the business of developing then
in rivalry with Nevada and Colorado. S,
far, the discoveries have been chiefly o
rilver, in connection with large deposit
of lead and copper.
Our party have spent two interesting
, days this week in an examination some Al
miles into an adjoining beautiful valley
where some valuable developments hav
, bee made in this line. Most of the dis
coveries have been made py soldiers il
Gen. Conners command-voluuteers iron
: the mining regions of California and Ne
: vada--who have been stationed in thi
vicinity for the last two years; and mos
J of those whose terms have expired hav
, gone to work to improve and develo
them.
| We found among the various rasines 0
D the Rush valley hundred or two of mine
! freshly discovered and worked at deptho
10 to 100 feet,
Col. George, in the absence of Gen
Conner to fight the Indians. in comman
of the camp here, accompanied us, AM
t saw the lodes for the first time. He i
5 an old Nevada miner, and he says ties
promise much better than the famous sil
e ver mines of that young state.
There, $50 to 500 of silver from
ton of ore is considered highly proftabl
, here, the surface ore assays from $40
to $500 ton, and in several cases lode
: have been opened that assay from 500
: to $1,000 to the ton. The last figure
obtained from one just opened and name
: the N. Y. lead. The farther the mine