The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-14

BY direction of the joint committee
of the Mining exchange, the chamber ct
commerce and the Press club, the un-
dersigned subcommittee beg leave to
submit the following as reasons why
the proposed excursion of journalists
from the leading newspapers of the east
should receive the earnest cooperation
and support of the citizens of Salt
Lake:
Under the conditions resulting from
the clothing of Utah with statehood,
q feeling Of Astounding confidence in
the new state has become manifest.
While, in a very large measure, the
vast and varied resources of Utah have
been long known throughout the coun-
try. there has, nevertheless, existed a
feeling of distrust as to what the ulti-
mate outcome of the social problems
presented would be With the grant
ing OF statehood, however, all uncer-
rainty has vanished, and our citizens,
as well as those not of US, yet interest
ed in Utah for purely financial reasons,
have settled to an abiding conviction
that period of great, rapid and per-
manent development has begun for this
section, the like Of which has never be-
fore been known in all the west.
MINING DEVELOPMENT.
Primarily, the mining developments
Of the last eighteen months, together
with the great interest excited by the
discovery of gold the world over, has
given an immediate momentum to the
financial interest attaching to Utah
throughout the United States, which
could have been quickened in no other
way as rapidly and as effectually. 1t
has long been known that as to varied
mineral deposits of nameleSS quantities,
no section in the west was fairly in
comparison with Utah. Moreover, all
the vast resources, which in truth may
be said TO be limitless in variety, are
of such undreamed of abundance and
so easy of access, that it has needed
capital and population alone to warrant
the inauguration of almost any kind of
industry common to the world at large
AGRICULTURE.
1t must be borne in mind in this con-
nection that in the matter OF climate
Utah presents a variety no less re-
markable than the state of California,
and that cotton and semi-tropical fruits
may be numbered among The products
of the new state. So. in an agricultu-
raj sense, Utah has possibilities before
her that the world has not dreamed of,
While her arabic area has by no means
approached the limit of exhaustion.
To be satisfied on this point one
needs only to note the great number of
irrigating projects nov in contempla-
ton. or already being pushed rapidly
TO completion; while the innumerable
streams pouring into the many valleys
tSat are the charm of this almost
charmed spot considered in connection
with the great area that may be made
subject 10 the husbandmans blessed
toll, must convince the most skeptical
that the development of Utah agricul.
turally is as far from having reached
its limit as the new state has reached
the apex Of its glory in a mineral or
manufacturing sense.
POWER ENTERPRISES.
And speaking OF the streams pouring
their wealth OF living waters into the
valleys, it is not inappropriate to direct
the attention of our own citizens to the
disposition now being made of these
waters before they come under the
watchful guardianship of the husband
man who turns them upon his fruitful !
acres. Though Utah is blessed with
coal fields. almost limitless in extent.
these streams are everywhere being !
harneSsed to furnish power for indus
tries already in existence. and which
a; e to come into existence by. reason of /
the cheaper power that is to be supnlied |
by their utilization. Noteworthy among
these is the great plant being put in at /
ogden ana on which work has been in |
fr,r-
nave three companies at work at the
Big Cottonwood canyon which are to |
furnish power for the generation of IL |
Illuminating currents fer the operation |
on the street car systems and for the 1
development of mines in the "fOJd Re- |
haole'-that great producing camp |
Bingham
In Provo, Mayor HoIbrook has gotten I
-uhder way proposition by which that |
grand old Timpanogas win be used to |
develop an electrical current that will
lurnlsh power for the operation Of the
wonoerful mines in the vast mineral
district embraced in Tintic as we'll as
Tor the production of gold in that limit
less gold field generally known as Mer-
eur rms power will reduce to a, mini
mum the cost Of production. ALREADY nhe-
honllnaliy low, and make paying prop
critics OF mines that might otherwise he
destined TO lie idle So the producffon
Of gold in this new field NAV become
so great az to exceed that of all othAr
camps in the United States combined
And why not?
NO reference to the presence of nat
pral gas in and about Salt Lake CITY
IS necessary Wherever this great rift
of nature has been sought it has been
found. while its illimitability- seems tn
be surpassed only by the existence of
gold in our commonwealth.
After all, our dependence is primarily
upon our mining resources, for ia an
interior region like ours. with it's linn
itee population, much more depends on
these Than in localities nearer denser
populations, and where the demand for
the products OF the farm, the loom and
the forge are therefore greater. And
It is a dependence we can make in the