The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-07

A smelter is now being erected at
Copper Gulch. four miles from Frisco,
the property recently purchased by the
French syndicate. who are now
successfully working the Comet mine.
There are those willing to assert that
soon after the erection of this plant.
the southern part of our Territory will
spring into prominence as a copper
producer. Frisco, at least, will be
awakened from the Rip Wrinkle
ike sleep she has been INDUCING in for
a number of years past.
There are rumors, also, that smelter
operators have their eyes upon Mil
ford as an available point at which
large quantities of low grade ores
could be proftably reduced.
Our recent remarks upon the subject
OF irrigation engineering have brought
US some interesting communications
and in one of them we are reminded
that the late Horace Greeley was one Of
the earliest apostles of irrigation in
this country, and never failed upon
every opportunity to show the advan-
tages to be gained by irrigation even in
the eastern portion of the United States.
Indeed. it would be difficult TO fully
measure the immense advantages that
would result from an intelligent system
of irrigation carried out in the DRYER
regions of the west and south, as adVo-
Gated by Major Powell, the director OF
the Geological Survey. The immense
areas in India that have b en- reclaimed
from the desert, and the prevention of
the periodical famines that devasted
many parts of that thickly settled
land, where the crops were injured or
destroyed by long droughts, have shown
that no other Investment of money in
that country has made so good q re-
turn. On smaller scale. we can see |
in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, the |
sagebrush or alkali covered desert con- |
verted into the most productive garden |
in the land by the system of irrigation,
which form ed so important feature |
IN the administration of that far-seeing |
and able Mormon High Priest, Brig |
ham Young. We have no doubt that |
3 great portion of the southwest could |
be made to "blo som as the rose" bv |
the intelligent utilization of its present
supply of water, and by the sinking OF |
artesian wells for further supply.
The litera .ure of this branch of the
profession is rather meager, but Mr.. |
Bowels work on hydraulicking, and |
MIR. Edward Bates Dorsey's paper, read
about year ago before the American |
Society of Civil Engineers ar, ex-
5remely valuable. Mexico is also |
Interested in this great subject, and i
many of its valleys offer extremely in
Titing Investments tor capital. where
moderate expenditure will produce |
arge and permanent proits.-Engi-
teering and Mining Journal.
Latest advices from the east are to
he effect that doubt about the corn
;rop has vanished Estimates vary
ither way from 2,015 million bushels,
,ut it is doubtless the largest crop ever
aised. The increase of more than $50
Million bushels in this drop far out
Weighs in value any loss in the yield of
Wheat, and also any possible loss in the
ield of cotton. But the yield of oats
5 also the largest on record and the
ield of hay and potatoes excellent
t is safe to say that this years agricul-
ural products will represent, at least,
ne hundred millions more money than
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