The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-24
INCREASE IN THE FAMILY.
NEW DAUGHTER OF UNCLE SAM,
MISS UTAH.
What the Territory Possesses For
the Making of Il Great Common
weaIth-Her Mines, Manufactures
and Agricultural Interests.

The following condensed outline of
Utah's qualifications for becoming a
mighty commonwealth has been form
ulated by the chamber of commerce,
and will shortly appear in railroad
time tables:
An increase in the family of Uncle
Sam is quite likely to occur before the
Close of 1S5.
Utah's constitution has been framed
her people will adopt it in November,
and soon thereafter the president will
issue his proclamation, and the great
territory, the history of which so well
illustrates the potency of patience, per-
sistence and falkland within which
was first raised on the western slope
the standard of civilization. will be
admitted to all the privileges Of SOW
ereign state.
1t will be happy day for Utah-a
happy day for the nation-the day
Utah shakes from her supple limbs the
trammels of territorial life. and with
her dowry of wealth and brains is re-
ceived into the family of states. Then
sovereignty, and the people will look
to it for an answer to the question:
What have you within your borders
for the making of a great common
wealth." How little should Utah be
abashed by this inquiry.
No western state ever entered the
Union after a longer period of prepar-
alton, or with more splendid men or
resources.
Utah has 100000 people trained and
disciplined to the tasks of industry.
Utah has a chain of fertile valleys
extending from Idaho to Arizona I'M
der system of irrigation as perfect as
any in the world-valleys trimmed by
treasure filled mountains, and check
cred with little farms whereon, in
many instances, for nearly half cen
fury has been exemplified the per-
lection of husbandry.
Utah has mines-other states have
mines, too-but Utah has mines
mines, the mere mention of the names
of which compels the attention of the
whole mining world. Take for in
stance 1.-THE Ontario"-it has paid $13,-
$4,000 in dividends-or the Horn Sill
YER dividends, $5,147, 50O-or the
DAILY" dividends, 81, $50, 0O0-or several
others that are a neck or two over
the million MARYLAND, speaking about
mining and dividends, here are some
interesting comparative figures taken
from the table, Dividend Paying
Mines" in the July 18th, 1895, issue of
1.-THE Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal" an acknowledged authority-fig-
ures which furnish another illustration
of the truth of the Scriptural sentence:
BY their fruits We shall know them"
Utah has ten incorporated dividend
paying mines. These mines have an
aggregate capitalization of SIS, SOC. 900
and have declared and paid in divi-
dendS the enormous sum of S26 PIP. 500
Colorado has thirty-eight incorporat-
ed dividend paying mines with an ag-
gregate capitalization Of S106 156, $50,
which have declared and paid $26.614.-
zoe in dividends
Montana has seventeen incorporated
dividend paying mines with an ag-
gregate capitalization of SOC, 915 900,
which have declared and paid $2S, 109,-
684 in dividends.
It is interesting to note that though
she has not boosted of her mining
achievements, Utah's ten listed mines
have paid, on a capitalization of S7S,-
500, 900 but $402, JOG less than the thirty
eight listed mines of Colorado, with
all her Creedes and Cripple Creeks on
a capitalization of $1O6, 1856, $50, and but
$1,S97, 1S4 less than the seventeen listed
mines of Montana-with her great
copper bodies-on capitalization of
$685. 915, 0O0
Figures do not lie. Dividends are
profits, and profits are what we are
here for. In the light of these figures
is it unreasonable to assert that Utah's
is one of the greatest mining regions in
the United States? True, it may be
or in "a OIL -
mentioned, the profits of unincorporat-
ed mines are not known. That is also
true of Utah; but it is fair presump-
ton that, averaging as Utah does, in
dividends declared, it can keep up in
dividends suppressed.
Utah has other things, a climate in
comparable, marvellous dead sea-"
numerous curative mineral springs,
coal measures inexhaustaible, noun
tains of iron, sulphur, salt and
aSphaltum and a capital city the like
of which for beauty of situation and
environment, the world does not pos
sess-a capital city with the great tenn
pie and other structures of
the Mormon people, with miles
and miles of shaded, brook
lined streets, with stately bust
ness blocks-a capital city where
healthy people do healthy business,
and the arms of its trade reach out
over an empire greater in area than
all of the New England and middle
states, an empire of which Salt Lake
city is the railroad. financial, educa-
tional. religious, commercial and social
center
If all of these possessions are factors
in the growth of great state. then
the new state of Utah may face the
future without tremor.