The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02

ment. Judge Colborn calls attention to
the fact that Utah, unlike Kansas ana
Nebraska, is dependent upon no single
resource While the two states men
toned are at the mercy of climatic IN
! huences which govern the growth OIL
/ the crops, their only source OF Wealtn'
/ Utah has a diversified store OF Weailh
upon which to depend In ADDITION TO
! agriculture she has gold, silver, copper.
/ lead and coal mines, stock raising and
manufacturing. If one fails in one year
/ the others are there still adding TO the
wealth of the people.
Judge Colborn relates the character
istics of the great basin, which lies
between the Rocky mountains Whlch
bisect the state of Colorado and the
Sierras fringing the Pacific ocean
Within this area agriculture IS not eA-
emplifed as in the portion Of the
country where great levels exist Ag-
ricultural lands in the basin are con-
fined to the valleys, rich in productive
soil and supplied with needed moisture
from the snow streams which come
down from the mountains, which by a
system of irrigation is made to water
the fields when necessary, thus insur-
ing the certainty of crops. The streams
are never failing in supply and the
farmer never needs to await the ca
price of nature in sending him rain.
That this system is accurate and
sure the writer cites that upon five
acres of land in these valleys, there
can be raised, in a period of years,
more than upon five times that area,
where rainfall is depended upon.
In a paragraph which describes Utah
as the cradle of American irrigation,
the writer gives a history of the same
and makes the declaration that all
other systems are modelled after those
in use here To Brigham Young he
aScribes the planning of the first at
tempts at watering artificially which
have been improved, until now the sys-
tenn in the United States is second to
none in the world with the possible
exception of Spain.
A depression is made at this point for
the speaker to say, in a somewhat ex-
! tended manner, something anent the
characteristics of the Mormon people.
Candor and justice imDel him to say
that in the interchangeable patience and
industry of these people is due the
transformation from a bowling wilder
ness into the garden spot of western
America. They are an honest people;
pay their debts; revere the flag and
the laws of the United States and
what more can be asked Of any? In
the past it is true their belief con-
f1icted with the laws, but they have
laid aside the peculiarities (which
brought them into controversy, finally
and forever, and as evidence of good
faith in their intentions have been ad-
mitted into the Union
lnasmuch as this condition has been
achieved; inasmuch as all classes min
gle socially and otherwise, the writer
sees no reason why capital and popula-
ton should avoid Utah The visitor
will be unable to distinguish between
Mormon and Gentle and will be i'm
pressed with the intelligence and pro-
pressiveness of both
In relating the wonderful story of
the resources of Utah the writer grows
even poetic. 1t would be sacriIege to
ATTEMPT to re-write or condense this
portion of his letter, so it is given yer.
batim
The writer confidently asserts that
20 area in the world equal to the area
of Utah produces such wide diversity
of mineral products. 1t seems to have