Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-20

and A!...ost llieioss, with irrigation quickly
become among the most productive In tho
world. Crops q al kinds can be rnised on
thcm IN abundance. some idea OF their
productivity can b gained from tho state
ment that the agricultural products OF Utah
are now worth si0,oo0,0o year while
millions and millions OF acres oil beach and
valley Iands. easily susceptible to irrigation.
are still lying waste.
Every valley in Utah contains one or more
Mormon settlements, from whose narrow
visioned. yet frugal inhabitants. tho priest
hood has long derived It's principal support,
and to whom tho visitor is told he must look
In order 20 End Mormonism pure and unde.
filed. Zach Mormon settlement Is fashioned
on the sane general plan with its tithing
yard. It's tabernacle aud It's cooperative
store. The people filling small Farms which
are the rule in Utah, settle side by side, going
out In the morning to their fields and RETURN
ing TO the village at night They draw all
Of their supplies from the cooperative store,
owned and operated by the community.
Their lie Is one Of fruguliiy, bard labor and
plnching economy What most surprises
the visitor to tho Mormons Of the country
side is the largo number Of apostntes who he
iinds among them. one does not however,
have to search for the cause Of this wholesale
aposiasy. The Mormon agriculturists hove
been the ones most frequently and shame
lessly robbed by tho churches. The great
majority OF them are farmers who came here
in an Impoverished condition, aud who, buy
ing their farms on tho lnstallment plan. have
often been compelled to pay for them three
and four times over. Their children have
grown up in The densest ignorance, the com
mon school system Of Utah until very re-
Gently having been criminal farce. Their
very llie-blood has been sucked away. Small
wonder then that when the truth finally
dawned on their clouded minds they revolt
against the task-masters who have so cruelty
oppressed them. To them the new era now
dAwning means freedom and enlightenment,
bettered conditions and happier lives.
Salt lake City, the capital Of Mormondom.
has often been described OF late years as
city nobly planned. but run down at the heel.
This description. ike all generalizations, is
only In measure true. Brigham Young
| planned Salt Lake City for a populace which
| he intended should DO half urban and half
rural. Accordingly. be made tho blocks 600
foot squire, 70 that each resident might have
| plenty Of space for garden and an orchard.
4 The result IL Imposing. but lnconyenient-
| 100 mllos OF streets 100 feet wido--and In
! time the great blocks will probably be cut up
1 into halves and quarters. The houses OF
Salt Lake City arc nearly all severely plain In
their architecture. and the great majority are
small and Of but one story. In the early
summer lions capital is an exceedingly
fair and pleasant city Tho flowers which
grow there are OF exceeding beauty and fra
GRANGE. Small bitches carry constant streams
Of purling, limpid mountain wator through
tho streets, increasing the yerdurc and cool
ing tho air.
Tie most imposing building Of salt Lake
City. aside from the compile aud tabernacle
arc those belonging to Zlqn's Cooperative
Mercantile Institution, a manufacturing and
mercantile corporation, which has stores aud
factories in all Of the leading towns Of Utah
Ithnsa capital stock Of 81 900 900 and It's bcue-
fltsaIe confined to It's stockholders. Itdocs O
business OF S5,00O,OO0 year. 1t was started
twenty-five years ago by Brigham Young tc
win a number OF prominent merchants who
had seeded from the church. 1t did mo-
accomplish It's original purpose, but as {
business venture 1t has been highly success
) ful, aud now rays large animal dividends
After salt Lake City, the most important
towns In Utah are Ogden. Logan, Mdnti
Brigham City and Provo. All are pictur
7 csQuely situated and all built on the same gen
, crll plan. with wldc streetsand ton acre blocks
Ogden, where tho anu-Mormon element Il
now dominant, seems recently 70 hay,
, entered on an era Of great prosperity, anl
, for tho other towns l have named those 4
, in store brilliant and no less prosperous
! future.
, Utah as whole has before It a future o
infinite possibilities, Within it's borders ar
, found all the elements essential to the growtl
Of great agricultural State. It's minera
J resources arc also practically unlimited
t Coal, iron silver, lead, gold, copper, sulphur
a soda, salt, gypsum, oohrcs, anthony. zinc
3 arsenic, dro, potter aud porcelain clays
gmnltc, marble, lime and sand -stone--an,
. this Is only partial llst--oxist here in I'm
q menec quantities. There are solid noun
tlins OF iron orc and hundreds Of thousand
OF acres OF coal lands have already been sur
ycyod, brigham Young during his lifotim
did ali In his power to discourage his pcopl
from engaging In mining, seeing that II the
did SO the tearing down OF the walls he ha,
tried to build around them would inoyitabl
follow. But the odds were against him. an
before he died the era no SO dreaded In
opened. FROM the Nosatch range, whic
oyerlooks Salt Lake City from tho east dun
Ing the lnst twenty years more than $40 900
900 worth Of silver has been takenp Sine
1873, tho gold and silver mines OF tho lei
ritory have yielded si6o,0Oo.OOo. From Brll
ham Young's grave one can sec tho smoke
score Of shelters. And as yet the suria,
has only been scratched. The development
utahs mineral resources Ia bound to ii
croaso in value with each passing month an
i year with resultant changes OF tho mo-
10 weighty and momentous character.
IA Before the newly awakened industri
: iorces the forces Of Mormonism are bouu
10 50 down, Tho great dcluslcr will oruinb
W and nlil TO Garth az speedily aud with as lit
hope Of resurrection as melt the SHOWS on q
70 Nosatch peaks,
10 Rurrs II. WILSON
n Floating Forts.
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