Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-02
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SOUTHERN UTAH WARENED.

Not many psFsous are now familiar
with the difficulties Of colonization IA
Ssuinofn URh; hot, sandy, desolate
ami forblidius as It was when the
hfst call was made, most responded
prrronally or by proxy. Tho writer
was among tho latter, In the faith that
aatou,or and more rugged substitute
would DO Of greater advantage under
tLe circumstances than ho could
pjstiUly be. Neither agriculture nor
horticulture was his particular forte,
but IN considering aud preparing v hat
would be estimated ~ a suitable out.
NJ, trees were not forgotten aud 10
came-ii Is bslloved-.he first orchard
ever planted IN 81. George.
President GEORGE A. smith tool
quite part Ia the meetings u those
aproin,ecs, yet while he vigorously
sust1inei his great leader President
Young IN that policy, no was equally
ready TO point uut In extenso tue pros.
p'ctivo difficulties Of the mission. All
the brethren realized anofward, 81
rotai the time, that "whca Dixie land"
was plgughei and seeded q. would
be- "neceyary to water 1t well
NJ both seed and soil would likely be-
blown away" tJgolheL Our sutstl.
tutc, like uany another brave man,
was Of those who endured, ana ho
eth remains there valued citizen,
while many returned discouraged aud
others were honorAbly released. SIN
the mission ptospers, aud a generation
raised there have todsy "a greater At.
taohmenl 10 tue locality and country
Than their fathers had, for 1t Is their
verilable homd
Tho mt Industry IN the south was
iruil; the fist crop was cotton, which
seemed an all.esaentlal during the con.
tinuanco OF the Civil War. II was
said that the first cation rnlted there
o9st ten dollars per pound, and some
said that 10 bring the water on the
land cost from sixty TO one hundred
dollars per acre. In most places this
was extremely scarce; but the cotton
was q ., ans did good serylcolas bats,
In cotton yarn, ~ warp Tor wool In the
north; anu ~ the factory at washing.
ton It was utilized ana came ia good
stead for u season when the COnioder.
acy was struggling in the later stages
OF the war.
Soon nut began to be abundant;
grapes IN particular; and wine as the
proluot thereof was a. common almost
ana certainly reaEly Gs palatable az OF.
diuaiy "DiSie" water. Prest. Young
lamentcI this driit In the direction Of
ami wine-bibbing, and
claimed that raisiu making aud fruit
culture was the objective intent Of
that mission. Iuexperienos In the
Kind u grape, aud consequent curing,
hat 10 DO remeilcd after trial, but later
T,isius have boon seen in Salt Lake
city, brought from the sou h by BIO.
tncr Richard Bentley, which were equal
in tllvor and appearance, In bloom anu
nble quolries, to any European Mus.
c,trls, Tue only wonder 10 that more
energetic and persistent efforts have
not been m Ian m this direction, par.
lioular.y as this Territory ('or "Nlor.
m1u" u,,) imports not less annually
tlnn oIstu0drcd aud fity thousand
pounds az ralslu5 nt cost 4 about
twenty thousand Iollar! There is nu
Industry which IL II could be monol o
Asii by "Our South" would provide
considerable labor and GupleHauco for
,Hc deserving settlers In that trying
climate. CAu this be- don,? Welt not
% once, Irfhals, but Utah will stun
tuy tnis fruiLaud 10 increasing quanti-
tot % ums orY favorable Rnd her
.uru'utIau cUuuuuts TO grow.
one Ubst1cle In the way oi"Dlxle',"
ppgress nus Dlvn the lack OF railroad