Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-20

an accurate idea or the topography VI
Utah. The valleys in the north are
long and wide, but as you Journey
southwark they grow narrower ana
shorter until, In the extreme southern
end OF the territory, they are often only
a few hundred acres In extent, steep
mountain defiIs leading from one INTO
another. The mountains are covered
with snow in the winter. which melts
in the spring time. furnishing tho wa
ter needed for irrigation. The valley
lands, in their natural state barren
parched and almost lifeless, with irrl'
CATION quickly become among the
most productive in the world
Crops of all kinds can be raised on
them in abundance. Some idea OF their
productivity can be gained from the
statement that the agricultural prod
ucts OF Utah are now worth SO, 600, 600
a year. while millions and millions OF
acres Of beach and valley lands, 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
the priesthood has long derived us
principal support, and TO whom the VS.
itor is told he must look in order 10
find Murmonism pure aud Undecided
Each Mormon settlement is fash
toned on the same general plan,
with its tlthing YARD, It's taoer-
nacle and its cooperative store.
The people filling small farms, which
are the rule in Utah, settle side oy SIDE,
going out In the morning 10 their FIELDS
and returning TO the village at night.
They draw all of their supplies from the
cooperative store, owned and operated
bv the community. Their life is one OF
frugality, hard labor and plnchlng
economy. What most surprises the
visitor to the Mormons OF the country
side is the large number OF apoStates
which he finds among them. One does
not, however, have 10 search for the
cause Of this wholesale ap0stasy. Inc
Mormon agriculturists 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 I'm
poveriShed condition, and who, buy
ing their farms on the installment plan,
have often been compelled 10 pay for
them three or four times over. Their
children have grown up in the densest
ignorance, the common school system
OF Utah until very recently having
been criminal farce. Their very life
blood has been sucked away. Small
wonder then thatwhen the truth finally
dawued on their ciOuded minds they
revolt against the task-masters who
have SO cruelty oppressed them. To
them the new era now dawning means
freedom and enlightenment, bettersd
conditions and happier lives.
Salt Lake City, the capital OF Nor
mondom, has often been described OF
late years as city MOLLY planned, but
run down at the heel. This description,
like all congratulations, is only In a
measure true. Brigham Young planned
Salt Lake city for populace which he
Intended to be half urban and half
rural. Accordingly, he made the blocks
600 feet square, so that each resident
might have plenty Of space for gar
den 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 pleas
ant city. The flowers which grow there
are OF exceeding beauty and fragrance.
Small bitches carry constant streams OF
purling, limpid mountain water through
the streets, increasing the verdure and
cooling the air.
The most imposing building OF Salt
Lake City, aside from the temple and
tabernacle, are those belonging to
lions Cooperative Mercantile Institu-
tuition, a manufacturing and mercantile
cooperation, which has stores and facto-
ries in all the leading towns OF Utah.
1t has a capital stock OF $1,000, 900, aud
its benefits are confined TO its stock
holders. 1t does business Of SIS, 900, 900
year. 1t was started twenty five
wears ago by Brigham Young TO win a
numbe of prominent merchants who
had seeded from the church.
1t did not accomplish its pur-
pose, but as q business ven
ture II has been highly success
full, and now pays large annual div-
dends. After Salt Lake City, the most
important towns In Utah are Ogden,
Logan, Manti, Brigham City and Provo.
All are picturesquely situated and all
built on the Same general plan, with
wide streets and ten-acre blocks. Og-
den, where thu auti-Mormon element is
now dominant, seems recently 10 have
entered on an era OF prosperity, and
for the other towns l have named there
is In store q brilliant and no less pros
porous future.
Utah as a whole has before 1t future
of indefinite possibilities. Within its
borders are found all the elements es-
sential to the growth of great agri-
cultural 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 list
exist here in immense quantities.
There are solid mountains OF iron
ore, and hundreds OF thousands
OF acres Of coal lands have already been
surveyed. Brigham Young during his
lifetime did all in his power to discour-
age his people from engaging in mining,
seeing that II they did so the tearing
down OF the walls he had tried to build
around them would inevitably follow.
But the odds were against bin, and be-
fore he died the era be so dreaded had
opened. From the Nosatch range,
which overlooks Salt Lake City from the
east, during the last twenty years more
than 1000. 600 worth Of silver
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