New-York tribune., 1873-03-06
MORMONDOM.

| CENTERS IN THE WILDERNESS ttUitCh
| AND THE COURTS-MORMONfsM ON TRIAL
A FEW PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
lPRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THB rRIBUNKl |
! SALT LAKE CRY, Feb. 10-The balancing OF
the old years books for Utah shows satisfactory pro
gress The have not turned out well az was e1-
pected, Is claimed hy the superficial but that Is
not their fault. Those who going 70 have hun
dred thousand people Utah in year or swe aud haVe
this city rival Of Chicago, the strength OF tho min
ing discoveries. have been disappointed But those VINO
knew from observation and experience that requires
time and money 10 open and improve mines 30 as 10
render them productive and who Of the fac
that al the gold and silver mining Of the United States
does not employ and support hundred thousand people,
J are very well satisfied.
! THE YIELD AND THE PROSPECT.
Utah produced about 5000 uns OF in s7O calling
OF bullion equal 30 three tuns OF ore, about
90 900 tuDs in l5 and reducing the bullion to ore n the
rate. about OOO tuns in 1874 The statistics are
easily got a. because substantially the entire produc
ton Is carried By the UIah Central Railroad, either in
bullion. The value OF the ore and bullion pro-
duced in 1879 is a little more than S,oO0On much
larger proportion OF the mined reduced here IN
1872 than In 1871 the bullion yield FOR that year being
round numbers LOO tun and for last year $500 There
are now 80 smelling furnaces In the Territory, ccu
lated be able reduce 5C 900 tuns year IL may be
thought strange that with such orereducing capacity
the product OF bullion should be but $50 tuns. TIE
reason in brief because there Is great deal more
smelling capacity than ore at present and great deal
more cheap "blOwng" than either Tho Territory has
produced about three millions in value during the year.
while Nevada has produced s25 OOOOO0 yet Utah INDUCES
| In boasting about her mineral interests IN week
than Nevada does in year. inge mine IN the latter
State Ohe BeIcherj turned out $1,000 tuns ore
worth s57 60 per of which ST II tun cleared
Comparisons OdOus, but much and such ground
less misrepresentation, 20 draw 1t mildly. exceedingly
trcsome. Statements that there half dozen mines
IN Utah dividing their millions in dividends every year;
that the production 1877 slsOOOOOO; that Mr.
Bushnell writes you is likely to be 500 COOOOO between
1879 and is77-fOur years-are flying in every direction
all over the world The Territory IL prosperous, the
mines being opened aud improved furnaces and mills
are gong up new mines are being discovered and
fields plowcd. railroads building, and pro-
iected wherever desirable; the truth is the truth,
and good enough the production OF silver. lead cop
per and perhaps other metals likely TO steadily
for number OF years and it has 20 do 40
for least ten before it will be IL value what IS
already claimed for it. If Utah shall he producing alto
.cther from mineral sOOOOJ annually by
1880 it will be growth and development % be proud or
RAILROADS.
Speaking Of railroads, "A miles have been completed
during the past yerls Of the standard gauge the
Utah Southern 6 Of the three-fOot gauge. the Amer
can Fork Rroad the three foot gauge OF tho
Utah Northern from near COrnne, on the Central
Pacific Logan northwdrd OF roads projected there
are the SAT- Lake. Valley, and Pochc running
westward from salt Lake City TIL u turns the Aqurrh
Mountains. then southwark through a mining country
to Pioche 800 miles in length three millions Of stock
three-foot gauge organized May 1872 John Lesenang
President work done YETI the Salt Lake and T0oele
Valley, thrse-f0Ot gauge. capital two millions, John W.
Young President, organized IN December 1872 100
miles route as above: no work done yet the
Great Basin and Salinas organized September 1872
designed from Salt Lake City san Pete. about
-f0ef rlf|n
grading let Juab Pete and SEWER organized
september, 1872. Brigham Young, President
capital &5OOOoO, length. with branches 80 miles,
running from the Utah Southern at Nephl 70 san Pete
and other points, threeoo contracts for grading
and ties LETT the Lshi and Tntc. organized in NOvem-
ber Is72 W. T. Hooper. President capital Sl,O)OOOO.
length miles. three-iOOt gauge. runs from the Utah
Southern at Lehi westward into the mining districts
and ultimately 20 PI0chc, work - be begun 10 the
SPRING the Southeastern. organized in October 1872
capital s2OOOOOO threeoot gauge length Oo miles,
from spunlyile the Utah Southern to san Pete ut
mate destination Poche contracts for construction let
the Bingham Canon aud Camp Floyd. organized N Sep
tember 1872. capital S3rOOOO, threeoot gauge with
third rail part Of the distance, Hugh White. President
runs from Sandy Station the Utah Southern west
ward % Bingham City, 10 miles, in course Of con-
sructlou ana % be opened business carly IN the
spring; the Wasatch and Jordan Valley, organized
October 1872, William Jennings, President, capital
s5OOOOO three foot gauge, with third rail part OF the
distance, from sandy Station eastward 20 the
Emma mine. about % miles. construction going on
and will be completed II possible this year. The
summit Comfy organized in November, 1s72. Joseph
\. Young. President, capital S60O,0O. length 30
miles. runs from Echo, the Union Pacific
up into the mining district OF Parley's Park three
foot gauge. and construction going the Utah. Idaho
and Montana, organized in April, 1872 chartered by Con-
gress IN June following, capital Sl2OOOOOO, length i25
miles of tine standard gauge, designed to form CONF
Meeting link between the great central and northern
tinental roads, leaving the Central Pacific at Cornne
head OF salt Lake, ntersecng the Northern Pacific
the head Of the Missouri River and continuing north
ward IS miles to Helena. the "head center of Montana
This company has made sOEe surveys and broken
ground but has not yet entered upon construction
earnest TIE Territory OF Montana Is understood % De
willing AID tnis road by subscribing It's stock two
three millions and paying therefor IN County and Terri
tOria securities, and the Central Pacific have shown
some disposition 10 Dack lf enterprise IA case MONTANA
should DO a company very rsGently Organized
70 build road u the standard gauge over the WasEtch
80 T!.es It's capital In S2oOoODO, J9ob Lawrence IS
President, and prOinenI business men N the states ara
The roads OF Utah organized prior 70 1872 were the
Utah Central mes long, running from ogden On tho
Union Pacific 10 salt Lake CITY, completed IN l-sg; the
Utah Southern running from salt Lake City soutbward
PaysOn N miles - miles cOmpleted, both OF these The
standard gauge; anh he Utah Northern threeoot gauge
designed 10 from Ogden north Eard 40 miles 10 Soda
springs the site cf volcano long out O business
and the northernmost Of the Mormon settlements Con
struCOn was cOUmenced AT pont about 20 ncs north
hguch OF AoILAdl oub not OtllE Auic lot
sODe reason 10 get t~ Montana business OF the Iter
road transferred 30 them at That place they are CON
Meeting their road with COrnne making that practically
their initial pOut. u Is 80 miles north OF yden and the
road VIII be completed from Cornne 20 Logan 40 miles,
after tho opening OF Spring, making N all OF north
and south rOId IN Utah. completed, counting the Utah
southern, tire Utah Central The Central Pacific and the
Utah Northern, 40 miles OF the roads described
above undoubtedly speculative, ana perhaps com
pettlye or antagOnstlCi some routes are claimed three
tines but enough Of them sound ente1-
prises. win good I'm Them, 10 better supply Utah
with T1Oad facilities ta4n II has heretofore been IN
wagon reads.
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