The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-20
RESOURCES AND ATTRACT
IONS OF UTAH.
As Inviting the Attention OF Tour
lists and Those Seeking Per-
manent Homes.
By A. KENNER.

Exotic growths are ever ephemera
and unstable. The history of the
world is prolific of instances show
ing that governm ents which have
risen IN a day have fallen in night
while those whose periods of exis
! tence cover a multitude Of success.
/ i've generations, have had small be-
ginnings, difficult progress, and adj
verse circumstances thronging their
career from the sunrise to the noon
day of their histories; and when
they reached the pinnacle Of their
power and began the descent of the
declivity leading to decay, dissolu-
| ton did not come at once; but like
man, in the fulness of his manhood
they proceeded upon the downward
road with measured tread and mod
crate pace by reason of the very
strength which brought them to it.
The Territory of Utah has exhibit
ted in all the stages Of its existence
the elements of an inland empire,
whose greatness though constantly
expanding. still remained IN the
future. It's achievements in the
direction Of insular Importance are
largely exceeded by its probabilities,
and these are dwarfed into insignlh-
canoe by its possibilities. Its growth
so far from depicting its resources
or diminishing its strength does but
add to its power and its greatness.
Originally one of the most uninvit-
ing of all the barren spots upon the
face of nature, with nothing but the
superficial area and the great diver
sity in the character of its waters to
excite even attention now as fair
vision, as fruitful a field and as
busy a commonwealth as any
within the confines of our Natlon-a
land teeming with the wealth OF
mines ard mills, of fields and factor
les, Of gardens and granaries, of in
duStries and enterprises, and st!li
comparatively undeveloped. still!
containing beneath the surface OF
its soil, resources which are destined
to enrich and happily millions yet
unborn.
A perusal of the history and sta
tistics Of Utah, is the best basis
upon which to erect a conclusion as
to what it will be hereafter. Orig
inally, the least attractive of all the
CONFERENCE.-The; with soil produc-
ing nothing that could be reduced
to use by those who first settled
upon it; with rainfalls so unfre-
uuent that they were not to be con-
sidered in connection with means Of
cultivation; with extremes Of tenn
perature; with no foliage save that
which appeared here and there IN
the narrow rock-ribbed gorges OF the
Wasatch mountains; with fuel at
great distances from places where
habitation was possible, and at
points all but inaccessible; with no
nearer supply points than the scat
tered FRAGMENTS of civilization on
the Pacific coast, and with COM
munication from all sources practl-
cally cut off with all these inhos-
pitable and forbidding conditions
composing the nucleus Of the Utah
to-day, who will venture to deny
that Within the borders Of our Terri
tory exist those elements Of power
and prosperity which improved
make nations grand and nations off
spring great?
Month succeeds month and year
follows wear, until we find ourselves
to-day, thirty-fve years after the
vanguard of civilization entered the
Great Basin, in the enjoyment of
all the developments of modern
civilization. The magic wand of
progress has touched these once bar
rem and desolate Businesses, and we
behold in lieu Of the dreary and
mOnetonous wastes, fruitful fields,
smiling gardens, and happy homes.
All of the country that meets our
view wherever we turn our eyes has
been metamorphosed as with the
magic wand of the enchanter. We
no longer see arid and unpr0ductive
stretches of land vast in extent,
domiciles incapable of excluding the
elements, or people habited in the
rude garb enforced upon them by
exclusion from society; we see in
stead fruitful farms teeming with
the products which at once give life
to man and to commerce; as COM
Portable, commodious and happy
homes as can be found in any part
Of the globe, and people inhaling
with every breath that pure air Of
freedom and independence that
grows and flouriShes in the noun
tain tops, within whose changeless
presence we may behold the nucleus
OF nations yet to come, Of perma-
nence and strength to our own, the
greatest and grandest Of them all.
Progress has waved its magic
sceptre over the Territory of Utah
and we no longer behold the rude
huts of the savages, the monotonOus
array of barre" vegetation or arid
stretches of soil uufurrowed by the
handiwCrk Of the husbandman; we
see in their stead the all-powerful
sway of the genius Of civilization.
We turn to the east, the west, the
north or the south, and as far as the
eye can reach it rests upon scenes of
domestic tranquility firmly planted
upon the soil which then knew ne
restraint and no cultivation. We
see "a hundred happy and prosper
GUS communities, some of them
amounting to the dignity of cities
where the arts, the sciences and the