Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-08-27
Ghe Orrgon 9epubliean.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
DALLAS, SATURDAY, AUG. 27.
Brigham Young's Wealth.


The prodigious wealth of the Salt
Lake aristecrat, Brigham Young, says
the Denver Register, has been fiaunted
in the face of the world for ten years.
as an offset to his multifarious crimes
against civilization and humanity. He
has been held up to view as one of the
ablest executive minds in the nation;
man capable of vast achievements
ruler who moved the one hundred and
fifty thousand people of his dominions
Ike automasons, and made all things
within the radius of his power move to
his bidding. We have been told that
he was the second larges. depositor in
the Bank of England, had millions in
London real estate and costly build
ings without number; held the balance
Of money power in New York and 9TH
er cities, the lowest figure Of his enor-
NOUS gains being placed at seventy
millions.
3 The falsehood of that prophets
wealth was sent abroad in quiet way,
by and through the horde Of proselyt-
ing agents scattered through the Uni>
ted States and Europe, and for this pur-
pose: When it was decided by the
church to establish a gigantic co>opera.
tive institution, with branches extend
ing through the capital city, and to
every settlement of the empire, agents
were sent to Chicago, New York, Bos>
ton and Pbiladelphia. to purchase stocks
for the multitude of stores proposed to
be opened. The seventy million ro-
nance preceded chem, and dealers We'd
with each other as to who should sell
the goods on credit to the chief Of
Zion's cooperative establishment. Mer-
chandise of every description flowed
into the territory in an endless stream,
and the thousand stores were stock ed
sHoliness to the Lord" furnished the
trade mark by which all Mormons
were ordered to buy. Excommunica
ton from the church, which is virtual
outlawry, was visited upon all who
dared to violate the ediet by trading
with Gentle. The institution has
thus far made no dividends, and the
Eastern merchants who sold it goods
were sod in return. When they
sought the whereabouts of the glitter.
ing seventy millions, no part of it could
be found.
Twenty-Five years ago Brigham
Young, with a few hundred money less
followers, entered the Salt Lake valley.
Their FIRST years were full Of toll and
suffering. They continued poor up to
the arrival of Johnson's army, sent
there by Floyd and Buchanan This
expedition put money into their purses,
and revived thousand paying enter
pfises. Then came the war of rebell-
ion, which was quickly followed by the
gold hunters of Montana and Idaho.
For the frst time since their lodgment
in the valley the Mormons began to
prosper and Brigham to grow rich un.
der these promising combinations.
Thus il is seen that he must have made
his seventy millions, or the major. part
Of ID, if at all, since 1862 Out of the
funds thus acquired he has been COM
pelled to keep number of mission
aries in the field, at home ani abroad,
and pay out large sums for the expense
of getting foreign sheep into the fold.
His tithings cannot be over S150,000
1 per annum, and we doubt ii they are
that much.
His foreign deposits cannot be large
possibly million or two, but he has O
tight grasp on all estates, goods and ef-
fects of his subjects, which may be
80 or 40, 1000, ,000--certainly not more
Salt Lake city to-day, though four
times as large, is not SO expcnsively
built as Denver. The buildings are al
adobe, and most of them are of tn,
cheaper kind. A few on Temple St.
the main thoroughfare, present an im
posing appearance, but they are bull
of concrete or adobe, and succeed OF
into square blocks to represent Gu
stone. s.s.
Take away the forest OF shade trees
and the town would have no attraction
whatever. If, with these facts in view
the world cannot figure out where Brig
ham's seventy millions came from, i
must find smart mathematicians, ant
get deeper into the archives of Nor
mondom than we have been able to do
: SS 80 ---------
es Who NExT.-On Thursday OF las
i week, while Eva, daughter of Jos
J Peters, of S'eubenville. was lighting
: fire by pouring oil on it from can filet
with kerosene, the oil ignited and
ssexploded the can, anu the clothing o
the girl catching fro therefrom, sh'
was SO badly burned before the fame
could be extinguished that death ensuet
in three hours afterward. Her hoop
we're rendered almost red hot by th
! fire. The deceased was aged abou
: seventeen year, - PiHs5uyg Post.
ss Among Jehial Slabs directions how
i TO write for the press, he says:
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