The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-07


cement and intensity the fraternal
sentiments now so widespread in our
community to the end, that by
mighty unity of purpose and Christian
resolution, we may be able to insure
that domestic tranquility, promote
7 that general welfare, and secure those
blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our poster.<y guaranteed by the con-
stitution of the United States.
Undertaking as we do today the
management and control of our own
affairs, it is we'll also that we should
examine our financial and industrial
condition, to ascertain if we are equal
to the grave responsibilities which con-
| front us
VARIED RESOURCES.
The assessed valuation of our pro-
oerty in 1895 was S97.9S3.525. The total
| export value of our mineral product in
1895 was SS, S12S52. Computing the gold
ana silver at their mint valuation and
other metals at their value at the sea-
board, would increase the value of the
mineral product to 1858 ,959. We have
10, SIC farms in Utah, and 1854 of them
are absolutely tree of incumbrance
! Total acreage under cultivation 467 1852
acres. Total acreage irrigated, All, $50
Number of sheep owned in Utah in
1894. 2,422,S02, valued at $685.
334, ana Welding a wool clip IN
that year of u 1878 pounds, valued at
| shipping points at 1864, $50. The value
of our agricultural products in 1894
was $685., l20. The output of ranch and
range, S1,259, 566. The number of our
industrial concerns in 1884 was $50, EN-
ploying 5,O54 laborers, paying in wages
! $2,027 lis, representing a total capitai
invested of S5,476 246. and turning out
a product of Sc SIS, lis annually. There
were 1874 stores in Utah, employing
5,02S persons, paying in wages s2,Sl4,34,
representing a capital invested of S14,-
551,S45, and selling per annum So, $780,
Gil worth of goods.
The total amount expended ON pub
Lie and private buildings and public
works in 1894 was s2,722,914
Total number of banks doing bust
ness in Utah, June 80, 1895, thirty-nine,
employing a capital of $5,011. $50, and
having on deposit $9,6S6,267.
We have in Utah 1.515 miles of rail-
road. and ninety miles of street rail-
road
Our population in 1895 was 247,S34,
which is greater than the population
of the state of Delaware or Nevada or
Montana or Idaho or Wyoming or
North Dakota
Number Of children attending dis
trict schools In Utah in 1895 was Ca
954; attending private schools, 3.2S1;
| attending no schools, 9,494; total school
population, 1859; total number of
schools of all kinds, 1.O7O. Total valu-
alton of school property, including
grounds. buildings, furniture and ap-
paratus, 81, 1855, 67294.
Surely with such credentials as these
| the admission gates ought to be and
are flung wide open. and Utah passes
the portals of the union while the New
Year bells for 1896 are yet ringing,
( Ill
/ ting her power, her prestige and her
past achievements.
THE FUTURE.
Our future will be what we make it.
| If with all her resources, her location
! In the very heart of the continent her
fruitful soil, her wealth. of water, her
| glorified air, her thermal springs, hsr
( wonderful lake, her phenomenal fields
| of natural gas, her new lands to cult
waite, her new mines to open, her new
! railroads and factories to build, her
new reservoirs and canals to construct
! IF with all these, added to tine impe-
tus which statehood gives, Utah does
not become one of the foremost states
of the union, 1T will be the fault of her
own people. God help them who help
themselves In His bounteous wis
dom He has given us a paradise of
! mountain and plain. 1t remains for US
| to fashion it so that it will be pleasing
in His sight That which has been
done for the development of Utah has
| been we'll done. Her resources have
| been developed evenly. each one rely
/ ing and leaning upon the others, so
| that she has the greatest diversity of
I industry, and offers the greatest vari-
! ETY. of occupation of any state in the
union. 1t has been truly said of her.
that if Intercourse were totally cut off
! from the outside, there are very few
| of the necessaries, or the Injuries of
life that could not be produced within
her borders. The fame Of Utalh
not alone as 81 mining state,
nor as agricultural state, nor
as a grazing state, nor as a manufac-
! turing state, but she is famous in each
and all these various pursuits, and is
known not more widely for her gold
and silver than for her potatoes and
wooden goods.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINES.
A gentleman who has Travelled extern
! SiVely informs me that while away
| from home last fall he heard Utah re-
ferred to on various occasions and by
different people as the place where the
following articles come from; Pota-
| toes, apples, overalls, sulphur and
'Fthat peculiar gold ore"
1t is gratifying to note that essential
strides are being taken at this time in
! the development of our gold mines.
While silver mining has been regarded
as the basis of our Industrial advance
ment in the past, during the war which
| is being waged against the white metal
! by the allied powers of the old world
and the new silver mining is held back
and remains in am unhealthy and de
pressed condition. only the best of the
| mines, those which have been develop
! ed at immense cost, and placed in the
! condition of extracting ores at small
| expense, being worked at a profit.
/ Thus while silver is elltng out an eX-
| istence gold mining has taken on
new life. The Camp Floyd, or Mer-
cur mining district, near Salt Lake city,
which has been styled 1.-The Johannes
| burg of America not only because of
| the richness of the deposits but be
cause of the points of similarity be-
| tween the ores and those of the ia
nous South African mines, is destined
| to become a powerful factor In our
! immediate prosperity.
In the meantime, however. it is the
hope of every patriotic citizen of our
! young state that the time may not be
| far distant when, by the rehabilitation
J of silver through congressional enact
ment providing for free coinage of both
| the money metals at the ration of rs
to /, the permanent prosperity of Utah
and the west will be assured, and the
financial interests Of the republic con-
served as they may be in no other way.
A RAILWAY TO THE SOUTH.
One of the great pressing needs of
the state is a railroad to the south and
west of us. Let me indulge the hope
that within the next two or three
years such a road or roads may be
] constructed that will oven to us the