Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-11
POINTERS FROM BINGHAM.
Some ideas and Conclusions of Vast
Merit and APPLY Told.

Correspondence of the DEMOCRAT.
Descending from Bingham the other
day, two distinct streams of water rum
ming side by side down the canyon at
tracted attention. One, running from a
large spring near Leadville, was clear as
crystal; the other, loaded with the debris
of concentrating and placer works, was
thick and turbid with mineral coloring.
AS distinct in coloring and contrast,
two classes of people, moving side by
side on the thoroughfare of life, in thi
Territory may be found. Gentiles, al
most exclusively, are engaged in mining.
Mormons, as body, are agriculturists.
At the terminus of the narrow-guage
road long lines of cars loaded with ore
"wait for the wagon" to be dumped at
the smelters in the valley at the rate of
125 tons per day. Passing car after car
roughly dressed man in the prime of
life, who has made probably million of
dollars in mining enterprises, called at
tention to two loaded cars, each repre-
senting so-called "played out" mines I'M
der former extravagant management. |
For while they both remained idle as |
text for mining croakers to howl over,
to "point moral and adorn tale" about |
the decentralization of mining ventures.
At last practical, Woodworking mining
men took hold of them on leases. Now,
and for months past, continuous ship
ments to a profitable market have marked
the change.
In the meantime the passenger cars
are filling up with wide-awake mountain
GERS somewhat rough OF speech and raj
ment. Among them are noted men,
known in many mining camps as winners
and in some cases losers of fortunes.
Others belong to the rank and file of
wage workers. They are Gentiles almost
to man. You can see at glance that
no priestly tithe-eaters control these men.
Independent almost to fault, they are
in their manliness when !
compared with the mongrel followers of
the latter-day prophet. {
As we reach the West Jordon Junction {
and whirl by the long procession Of I
freight cars loaded with coal, silver, lead q
and iron ore, with fiuXing material of var 9
lous kinds to feed the unceasing fires of :
the valley smelters, and view with pride 5
the enterprising and sturdy men who L
from the cars look out upon their handi- o
work. Their monuments are visible in p
opened mines, crowded railways, Qike {
the ID, & K. e., penetrating the noun g
talns in all directions,) smelters, mills, i
banks, churches and school
houses. They do not seek to steal the IT
livery OF the court of heaven to serve the
1evll In, nor like the crown prince of the
eigning priestly family in his sniveling il
Plea OF adultery, dishonor their lawful Z
wives and children in order to escape g
rom the just punishment of incestuous o
rhine. q
There are two worlds of thought, feel O
ng and action here in Utah; two oppos-
ng classes of men. One class looks back n
through the centuries and seeks to live
gain in the semi-bar barous past. 1t
would dlshonor women at the affairs of .
5aal and Ashtaroth, and force children
{. pass through the fires of Moloch. The :
ther would advance high the banner of 4
Christian civilization. 1t recognizes
women as the better half of the race; it ?
indy cares for and educates the chill
rem. Its monogamic homes are nearer
eaven as an institution than any other
arthly organization. In the pursuit of
lateral wealth and prosperity it under G
zines the mountains, traverses the val =
eys on railways, leaps the rivers with its
suspension bridges, harnesses the ele-
1ents as tributaries to its service, and
oes forth conquering and to conquer.
mere is an lrreconcilable conflict between
ne principles and policies of the two
asses alluded to. One is largely in the Ct
la!ority in this Territory, but it is a 0l
laJorlty welded together by the fires of
natlcism, intolerance, sensuality and
sloyalty. The present minority class
'ntains within itself the elements of
lccess, and Its final triumph and domin- II
nee IN Utah is but a question of time.