The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-28
THE LATEST.

Now Chicago sends out its contribu
ton to the schemes of the Mormons
The secret which has been divulged il
the Garden City will be found in oul
Geographic. columns this morning. II
is to the effect that movement is Oh
foot looking to the purchase by the
Mormons of one of the Sandwich Islands
"A million acres in round numbers
and as matter of course the removal
of the Mormon people thither. 1t seems
an agent of the proprietors of the island
has recently been in Salt Lake, but for
obvious reasons was unable to meet the
leaders of the church, hence the sale
was not consummated, though the gen.
ueman expects soon to conclude the
bargain.
This is the fourth big project which
the Mormons have in hand, all at the
same time. By this time it is pretty
well settled tina: the Saints have bought
one or more Mexican States, which
they are rapidly colonizing. We have
not seen, the announcement of the sum
paid for these, but as prices go now
a-days, the amount will certainly run
up into the millions. Government paid |
100000 for Alaska few days ago, and
land up there cannot be anywhere
near as valuable as it is in Mexico,
especially as.theAlaska soil is covered by
from one to one hundred feet of ice,
and therefore not worth much for agri-
cultural purposes.
During the past month very little has
been said about the purchase by Nor
mons of the six hundred miles square /
of territory in Australia: but as mat
ter of course all understand that the
land has been bought. and paid for and
arrangements are being made for chart
ering line of steamers to carry few
hundreds of thousands of Mormons and
their goods and chattels to the sixth
continent.
We did not intend to give away the
Honduras scheme, but it is evident that
somebody has Leaked" for the news
papers are talking about it, and now
the facts might as well be made public.
However, on second thoughts, perhaps
it will be better to keep the matter quiet
a little longer, until the details are all
arranged, tie money paid, and two or
three hundred thousand Saints are in 4
full possession OF their newly acquired
republic
The Sandwich Island snap, it must be
confessed, is a new thing, but we
can readily understand why the
Mormons should and will buy
the island. They have an abund {
ance OF money lying idle which {
might as well be invested in good real
estate; and then the thousands of
Saints who have gone to Mexico, the
other thousands who are EN- route for
Honduras and the host bound for
Australia seem to lessen the population
OF Utah not at all. Indeed, the increase
here continues as though these heavy c
drafts to colonize the recent acouisi- I
tons were not made.
TIE HERALD has an impression. that t
on aprevious occasion it has suggested I
that about ninety-nine of every hum
dred Mormons were content and happv 0
III Utah, and had no intention of apulI. p
ing up stakes" and going elsewhere, D
but as newspapers elsewhere seem to <
Know more about the people of Utah u
aud their doings, purposesand intentions o.
IMAM anybody here, we-presume our 81
assertions in regard to what has been m
and Will be done were taken as reckless g
utterances. unworthy of acceptance by m
The average editor. b
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