St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20

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pinching economy What most surprises
the visitor to tho Mormons Of the country
side is the large number of apostates who he
finds among them. One does not, however,
have to search for the cause OF this wholesale
apostasy. The Mormon agrieulturists have
been the ones most frequently and shame
lessly robbed by the churches. The great
majority Of them are farmers who came here
in an impoverished condition. and who, buy
ing their farms on the installment 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 life-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 a
city nobly planned, but run down at the heel.
This description, like all generalizations, is
only in a measure true. Brigham Young
planned Salt Lake City for populace which
he intended should be half urban and half
rural Accordingly, he made the blocks 600
feet square, SO that each resident might have
plenty OF space for a garden and an orchard.
The result is imposing, but inconvenient-
100 miles of streets 100 feet wide-and in
time the great blocks will probably be cut up
into halves and quarters. The houses of
Salt Lake City are 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. The flowers which
grow there are of exceeding beauty and fra
GRANGE. Small bitches carry constant streams
of purling, limpid mountain water through
the streets, increasing the verdure and cool
ing the air.
The most imposing building of Salt Lake
City, aside from the temple and tabernacle,
are those belonging to lions Cooperative
Mercantile Institution, manufacturing and
mercantile corporation which has stores and
factories in all of the leading towns of Utah.
Ithasa capital stock of 81 ,OO0, 900 and its bene-
fits are confined to it's stockholders. Itdoesa
business of $4,000, 900 year. 1t was started
twenty-five years ago by Brigham Young to
win number of prominent merchants who
had seeded from the church. It did not
accomplish its original purpose, but as
business venture it mas been highly success
full, and now pays large animal dividends.
After Salt Lake City, the most important
towns in Utah are Ogden, Logan, Manti,
Brigham City and Provo. All are, pictur-
esquey situated and all built on the same gen.
eral plan, with wide streetsand ten acre blocks.
Ogden, where the anti-Mormon element is
now dominant, seems recently to have
entered on an era of great prosperity, and
for the other towns have named these is
in store a brilliant and no less prosperous
future.
Utah as whole has before it future of
infinite possibilities. Within its borders are
found all the elements essential to the growth
Of a great agricultural State. Its mineral
resources are also practically unlimited.
Coal, iron, silver, lead, gold, copper, sulphur,
soda, salt, gypsum, ochres, anthony, zinc,
arsenic, fire, potter and porcelain clays
granite, MARBLE lime and sand-stone-and
this is only partial ist-exist here in i'm
mense quantities. There are solid noun
tains of iron ore, and hundreds of thousands
of acres of coal lands have already been sur
veyed. Brigham Young during his lifetime
did all in his power to discourage his people
from engaging in mining, seeing that if they
did so the tearing down of the walls he had
tried to build around them would inevitably
follow. But the oddsEwere against him, and
before he died the era he so dreaded had
opened. From the Nosatch range, which
overlooks Salt Lake City from the east, dur
ing the last twenty. years more than $40, OO0,-
900 worth of silver has been taken Since
1873, the gold and silver mines of the ter
ritory have yielded S16s, OOO,00O From Brig
ham Young's grave one can see the smoke of
score of shelters. And as yet the surface
has only been scratched. The development of
Utah's mineral resources is bound to in
crease in value with each passing month and
year, with resultant changes of the most
weighty and monientous character.
Before the newly awakened Industrial
forces the forces of Mormonism are bound
to go down. The great delusion will crumble
and fall to earth as speedily and with as little
hope of resurrection as melt the SHOWS on the
Nosatch peaks.
RUFUS r. WILSON.