, 1869-08-23
UTAH.
The Cause Of Hard Times Among
L, the MormonB. : ,,~
The Manufactures of Utah.


| Tou were very right in your leader on the cans
I Of hard times In Utah, aud yet It all h1ises frou
Eaintly prescription Of Geuti1es at la4t- No coun
TT, believe, can grow rich, and hare tho requ!
s1te lc!Eure 1or culture, unleza It produces sona
etaple product which the world wansa md VII
I-pay for. Heretofore tho Aormons haEe had ths
I following money resources, TO vii: Selling Il
overland emi9ranta, stealing It back and ceiling
| orer again, yarJtng this proceeding By occasion
Sly extetzn!nAttng carzyau Of them; buying at
NOMINAL price the stores brought into the country
bJ Johnstocs sr1ny In 1873; supplying thAt -at1n,
until It Was withdrawn, IN 1861, with fuel, hay
grain, no0r, etc. supplying the force Stationed q
Ca13p Douglas Mnca It's establishment, In 1868
supplying the oFeriaud stage roust
| for 300 miles north, cazk and west; Furnishing
! Eannock and Boise, the Snake and Salmon. MOB
tana and Idaho nainers and settlers with goods ant
| produce to lAfge extent for two or three years
| the u1tufs! tribute OF the oye{Iand travel bJ
| Stage; tradI1g IN train stock, Quitting trims
xtntenng the mlnera, supplying The construction
force and building = eouslde1ahle part Of tns
Pacific Railroad.
Quite plethonc List to pay tribute to one city
and nj lelrnct, as you Justly remark, but the sup
| plying OF the Insignificant force at Camp Do1g!as
] And thot has done rs Much harm a3 good Thai
garrison md the overland stages have made It tc
their immediate interest to sell their surpfl9 grain
Eather than feed It TO stock. So that there Is moi
as many sheep, especially IN the Territory, a.
| there were Jeats ago, and there Ii not enough
t wooI grown TO keep two comparatively suRll
woo!len mills In the raw material
| HAfEFAcTuRE9 OF CTAn.
You hear good deal about the manufactures
| Of Ctan. ppt they DO not amount to much. Thera
| are pnIy four woo1len mills In the Territory.
Cotton Is cfpwu 1T LOSE down In Dixie to fRfnlah
| The warp Of this cloth. Wctc they not necessl-
| tated 10 hare 1t, they would not have attempted
its culture. An effort Is being made to Introduce
| sericulturc, the growth Of raw A0E, hud now hard
| It Is may be Judged from the effort Depend upon
It, It Is long way yet 10 the manufacture Of silk
goods, or even Elk thread, In any quantity In
Utah. "valley.tan " brogaus are made and sold
| for SIS 10 Ss5 . case. Perhaps 10 Uoo sides Of
| leather Ere tanned per annum. Years ago they
| tined to make Iron IN the southern part OF the
country, and failed, either from want Of skill,
or money, or demand Tor It, or good quA!itJ OF
[ ore, or the regular fuel or nu1es. At any rnte
they failed They make pine furniture and sell II
| at an advance Of 100 per cent On Omaha prices.
There Is deserted old building In this city which
Stands for 1.-THE Desezet POTTERY" There Is not .
rough foundry Of machine shop ii the country.
| They do without lumber, chiefly, making their
houses OF sun-df1ed brick, and their fences Of
brush. There arc extenhYe coal measures On the
| Weber, forty niles fsom here, but coal ls never
| less than $50 fon, and eometinea rises TO $50,
| while wood ts from 5l2 10 <25 cord. They make
no agricultural implements. no Wagons, and there
| is no indigenous wood 1t for either. They make
| no natiEe wine or brandy worth mentioning,
| raise no tobacco, and have but one
| cigar manufacturer and one dlstlllely. Their
nous mills are soso, they make fair nour Tor their
| oYn uge but are cut on from selling It BY thelf
| location. There Is no surplus OF stock In tho
country. Cali1orntana pass through here and SO
oa TO Colorado TO buy cattle to stock thelr In
mense ranches. Colorado furnished more beef,
two to one, for the construction force Of the P1-
cidc Railroah, than Utah did. There Is no surplus
labor here that anT one can see. Everybody has
to sc7o.ch gravel, literally To keep body and soul
together. The Latter Day Saints manage to lire,
and that is all, md for most ol them 1t Is very
poor living ut thai
This u the tale Of Mormon manufactures, Of
which VIC hear 80 much, tuthfully told Also, 4
fair showing Of their present resources and
prospects In that line Of bus1nesa Esen Il
they had the rHw material, the Wool
the sE, tie iron ore the hard wood. the hides, the
clay. the forests, and the surplus abor md Skill.
they have not the money capital necessary. So
that Brigham maj direct fourth OF nth Of them
to engage In manufacturing, and th1ts all the
good 1t will do. ado men gathef gEapea OF thorns,
OF CGs Of th!stlca3" And suppos.nG they had the
money, they hare no mose market for their manu-
facturcs than for their gram and nour. They
might supply themselves, they who buy nothing
and wear nothing, and waste nothing IND want
nothing. They woald have St,soo,o ,ooo, let them
tell It, If the railroads would pay thom for their
work. but besides their being more or less In debt
to the East for goods, they will need Just nboat
that money TO build the Utah Central Railroad
hence 10 tho Union Taclnc.
TuE1K nDCsTK1AI FrTCRE
With oil the tribute psld them in times past. as
detailed IN the urst paragraph Of this letter, they
N1v mn What then. IA hA
their future j. How Ia that, tcn years to come, IS
brigham said last Sunday In the Tabernacle, Il
they shall not be nolestcd meanwhile, they Will
not need 10 ask odds Of nnIbodyf hundred
thousand u thcm here now. "spoHntn2 young
orea,'-in this branch Of manufacture
they are cmioentiy succcRstn1-and oooo To
10000 raupers coming from Europe every
year meanwhile. Enough to consume MI possible
surplus nnd then barely I've. Obliged to work SO
constantly and hard ns 10 leave them no time nor
heart for sell culture. Producing n1taiug to sell
yet forced to buy largely and pay cash. Brigham
but krcw It, 1t viii require more bralus to lead
his people through the Inevitable future that les
gloomy and dlscoulaglng before them, than has
yet been dreamed Of. eTcu In the secret ConclaTe
OF the " Archees Of tho gods"
Ny deduction from all this Is, that Brigham can
not build up prosperous community. ut least In
80 hard country AZ Utah, with the material be ls
constantly accumulatlng. Poor and ignorant,
tac!E hard tusse for lie keeps them 40. Destitute
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TuI All 111Ar WILL s4rx 4uxM,
The on,y panscea for Utah Is the dropping Of
this c,annlshness and p,oscrptiou rtzht y here 1s
Ia GIVE vhtfe men a fair ahoR. ana money.
b.ulrs, entcrpr1se, and some slight attention 10
The ynn,t,es Of rms world Eop]d soon MAKE / tiIf-
fc,rDt country Of it. A ra!]ro.d would connect
the Union raclcc With the head Of navigation on
the Iuo Colorado: mines Of tho precious metals
would be wrought tn dozen camps and mountain
ranges. within the TERRITORY md all round IT,
which won]d furnish market for produce GRAM,
hay ana pto71slons: would r!7c rise 10 the Mining
Of coal and the production Of IRON, the latter be
possif,e: would create trsac and neccss.tate
TRANSPORTATION: s,Iun1a.o has. growing OF oecl
ant. uz,.on. furnish market tor coa.se, home-
ma, roots hrorans. Ac--tn nne. for
there ts sma1l use IN particu-
drath With Life throughout the
Icnc,h n,a n,ena,h nf Etah. There arc pood
n,1nes In thr ronutry. acstas, which. NOT because
n, ,nI rantt In them. but because Of the general
cns.edness of Nornou,su. oood men have broken
1tcnse,vcs Tbe cnnntrT. Normonism. 1pcs
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