River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-24
A PROSPEROUS TERRITORY.
The Substantial Blessings OF SANITY
Utah.

The Substantial Blessings OF SANITY
Utah.
George G. Bates writes from Salt
Lake City to the Detroit Tribune:
The crops this year untouched by
the grasshoppers are >four-fold larger
than those of any previous season.
Wheat. barley, rye, potatoes, and all
the products of the earth are more
abundant and cheaper here than else
where in the United States. Tons of
flour have been shipped by rail from
here to Omaha, over 900 miles. Near
ly 10000 emigrants have Joined us
within the last year Brigham Young,
with his cooperative arrangements,
has brought about 5000 hardy, indus
trious Europeans, to add TO the muster.
roll OF the Mormons, and nearly or
quite 1000 resolute and ener-
getic settlers have joined the Gen
tile pioneers. Nor is this all. The great
mines and mills and smelling furnaces
have more than doubled during the
year. | have just learned that the
shipments OF bars of silver by this line
from Phoebe, just over in Nevada, aver
age $500, 900 per month, or $4,000, 900
per year. From statistics soon to be
published, it will appear that the ex-
ports of ore bullion and silver from
Utah this year will equal at least $10,-
600, 600, aud that the amount passing
in transit over the Utah Central Rail-
road, i'll silver, was $16,000,0 900, the
latter sum being about $50 for every
man, woman and child in the territory,
product and export unequaled in the
United States. This statement you
may rely upon.
Again, railroads have been extended
during the last year over 100 miles in
this territory, and the whole of it is
done with Mormon capital and labor
The Utah Southern and Central, the
very best paying railroad in the United
States, have advanced so miles, and
will soon reach Provo, 100 miles south
of Ogden. The Northern Utah, mar
row gauge, has gone north nearly 20
miles, and will soon reach Soda
Springs, 100 miles north of Ogden, and
it has more business than 1t can do.
Into the American Fork and up the
canyon, narrow-guage railroad is now
pushing, and by March up the Cotton
wood and Bingham canyons roads will
be in operation so that the managers
of the Emma, Flagstaff, and Winsor
mines, and others can live at the
Townsend house here, and ride to their
daily work in two hours.
The dividend-paying mines are divid
ing fortunes every year. The Ray
mond and Ely pays 81 per month on
stock; thus San Francisco thrives, and
bears keep it at $113 per share. The
Emma mine sells to DIR. Smith and
Brother, for refining at Chicago, $780,
900 per month of ore, and as soon as
they enlarge their works, they will buy
5000, 900 per month, thus making ST.
400, 900 from one mine alone per year.
The Emma, Flagstaff, and several
other lines owned in England divide 10
per cent. per annum on $4,000, 900 of
stock each year. The Winsor mires,
owned in Detroit, are showing more
and more ore each day. and their ore
grows richer and richer as they go
down. SO soon as they are ready TO
pay dividends / have no doubt they
will pay IS per share per month with
out fail. The silver mines of Utah are
the very richest on earth. The ores
are more cheaply extracted, the metal
more easily taken out, the miners more
cheaply fed than in any other place in
the United States, and the estimated
product of silver for the next year is
fixed at $4,000, 900 of money. Your
Michigan readers, who have been here
by hundreds the last summer, will veri-
fly these statements"