The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-06
SALT LAKE CITr, UTAH, !
January Goth. 1873.

the sun shines brilliantly and keeps VI
its lick. The chickadees and other lit
tie spring birds sing praises, &C., /,
our appreciativeears, giving us nat,n'
and vespers daily. In short. v,
think our winter is over; and nov
hurrah for prospecting, for mining, fol
new camps and new enterprises.
Utah is really progressing. Every
thing within the Territory show.
progress, increase and prosperity
but none SO much as this city. The
value OF improvements made here
during the past year exceeds mil.
lion dollars. The amount Of trade
and general business reaches a very
high figure. The export of silver and
lead bullion, and the sale OF metallic
ores reaches four million dollars: and
next year it will more than double
that figure. The number Of smelling
and other reduction works will be
trebled, and the number of product
i've mines will be more than four fold.
All these things Indicate the prosper
iiy that is attending this country.
And when we add 10 these that rail
roads are being lsa,it to every corner
Of the Territory, there can remain no
doubt but that We ere going the up
hill grade. No less than dozen rail
roads are projected,some of which
will be built, among which / can
name the Utah Southern. will be ex
tended from Corrinne to Soda Springs
in Idaho. There will also be second
road extended south from here, and
pass through Saa Peto valley to the
coal fields. while narrow guage roads
will be built TO the Cottonwoods, to
Bingham, to Ophir and the Tin,ics,
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guage road is already completed.
The resources Of L ah are not all
con6ned d to its silver lead ores, it is
not all argentiferous galena that keeps
up Utah. Ot course there are no
crops Of cereals here to benefit the
country, and corn is not Indigenous.
In fact SO far as agriculture in con-
cerned, il is small affair. but pays
well 10 those engaged in it. 1t is
California and Iowa flour that we de-
pend upon, and Iowa butter. lard,
pork, cheese, poultry, etc, are the
of the market. Sorghum,
carols and "slch' are staples of pro-
duction here-the sorghum reaching
up TO nearly million dollars in value,
and is about the best crop raised.
Fruits Of all kinds are grown here,
yel not in abundance: but that is not
the fault Of the country; but to the
people who pay more attention, or
rati er have paid more attention to
cultivating polygamy and paying
fittings than they have to raising
fruits. dpropos to this, is the remark
Of the disguised polygamous spouse,
who was one of three in the same
domicile, that it was ''polyg. polyg all
the time, aud no bread in the house,
There, have go, off my string, for
! was about to speak more fully of
the production Of the country-how-
ever polygamy is production in this
realm.
Coal and iron are just now attract
ing much attention among specula
tors, and iron has been manufactured
here for many years past. That is
about 800 miles south of here is Iron
county. in which are blast furnaces
that produce iron. which is manufac.
lnrcd at the foundry there into all
kinds of castings required for the ma
chinery used in "Dixie" Iron beds
have recently been found in many
parts of the Territory, including the
black oxides in the Wasatch noun
lains, almost to the northern bounda-
~, and the red and brown hemntite
N other ranges from here to the
southern boundary. These two va
rieiies are required for successful iron
and Utah has agreat abund-
mce of them. The time is not far
distant when large proportion OF
he iron, including heavy castings
md railroad iron, of the United
States, will be manufactured in the
valleys of Utah.
As for coal, there is enough here to
supply the world, and OF every varie-
y, the last and best discovery being
hat Of anthracite. These coal-6elds
extend across Utah into Colorado to
The very base Of the Rocky Noun
ain range, and ! am creditably in
that when Professor igassiz.
n 1865, and Professor SilKman, a
year later, visited the country between
,ere and the Rocky Mountains, inclu-
ling the valleys Of the Green and
Grand Rivers, that at their junction
rom the Colorado River, that they
zach said that the most extensive
fields Of anthracite coal in the known
world existed in those valleys.
After all Of which you may say.
Bully for Utah." But you and your
readers do not care anything about
our coal, iron, silver, lead or copper,
but are more concerned about the pc
,uliar institution o. this peculiar peo-
pie, and wonder how they manage SO
many wives under one roof. Well, ii
is serious problem, and one that the
patriarchical chaps in the East solve
by having only one wife under each
roof; and here they do not manage it
rs well rs they used to. 1t ie being
manifested quite often, that no one
roof is broad enough to cover two
wives at the same time, hence orgu-
'nents ensue; AID these arguments
are frequently "onpleasant" sffairs to
The patriarch who only desires to obey
the revelations from God. Like in
Burns, Holy Willie,a PRAYER fhev