The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-02-27
PROVO CITY. FEB. 27. 189A
UTAH,S RESOURCES.

While the demonetization of silver,
its deep plunge below the hope OF
profit in its production and the general
commercial and business distress oe-
casioned by the want of silver dollars
in circulation, proves vast injury to
Utah, yet she has enough remaining
in sight to lift her grandly above dis
tress. One thing is certain in this di-
rection, however, she will, and cannot
better herself by sitting down supinely
and lamenting over her spilled milk
She has a hardy, strong and deter
mined race of men. equal to all mus
cular demands likely to be made upon
her by the exigencies of any hard situ-
alton made for her by mistakes. made
by either the national or her own ter
ritorial government. Her strong
young men were not Graded in the
lap of luxury. They are not the curled
darlings of luxury or fashion. They
have followed the plow, herded cattle,
attended the sheep, delved on her
railroads, know how to work and glory
in the triumph which comes to the
steady, honest and industrious laborer.
In her young men Utah hath verlta-
bic mine of wealth, which, when prop
erly developed will insure her financial
and business future, and place it above
peradventure,
Take this seasoned muscle and open
a brisk campaign against the yellow
metal in her hills, in her placers and in
fact, all over her territory, and very
soon the dismal crUakings of her idle
and Shiftless calamity howlers will be
swallowed up in the busy hum created
by her proftably employed gold
miners. If strangers can come
into this territory, hunt and
find pay gold on every hand, develop
mines and sell them at fabulous figures
as has been done at Tintic, Park City
and fifty other places-Mercur in
cluded-Why may not our Utah young
men do the same? Were these sums
realized by Utah men how long would
it be until they would be among the
richest and most prominent men and
operators in the west? This result
will not be worked out if we sit su-
pinely by and wonder at the ''good
luck" of outside miners who do The
work they ought themselves to do. A
hundred dollars worth of supplies and
a seasons hard work may lift, aye,
would lift Utah's young men from
poverty and helplessness to affluence
and power, The game is worth the
candle and our Utah boys will yet Sc e
that 1t is. Of course gold mining is not
all the possibility there is in the situa-
ton. Our hills are filed with the
finest marble, slate, onyx, asphalt,
coal, coal-oil, with enough in sight to
warrant the liYeliest efforts on the
part of our people to secure some of
the money these things bring in the
markets of the world.
Added to all this we have manufac-
turing possibilities of no mean order,
while our rich, easily cultivated and
cheaply irrigated lands beckon half
million strong hands to turn their
latent wealth into golden ducats, upon
a margin such as laying down our dol
lar today and tomorrow picking up five.
This is really no exaggeration. It is
but a reasonable calculation based
upon experiments made more than a
generation since by many OF the early
pioneers of the fair territory.
The times now are indeed hard and
pinching, they will remain so until we
set to work to do the things rudely and
hastily sketched here. No matter how
the remainder of the country
NAV become Utah has enough un-
developed wealth within her borders
to enrich the nation, if3only she will
take off her coat and go at the task of
her development.