The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-01-08
DOMAIN ON UTAH.

most eNare squear, three hundred miles
each way. IL has an area Of s7.7bO
square miles, or j2,6Oi 600 acres: of
which $3.50 square miles, or i,776,20O
acres, are water. It is II 400 square
miles, or 1903, 800 acres, larger than
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode island, Connec.
ticut, New Jersey and Delaware. all
combined ana there is no region II
equal area on the globe that overtlows
with more abounding and diversified
riches Of resource and possibility.
Utah was first settled by "a detachment
Of Mormons. under the leadership OF
Brigham Young, In July, ls47; and
there lie no stronger argument In favor
Of the Mormon claim to divine reyela.
tons and inspirations, than the fact
that they should have been led through |
nearly three thousand miles Of unex. |
plored wilderness, infested at every step
by hostile savages, 10 such Land Of |
Promise" where every promise finds so
glorious fulfllment. GUIDED by ;he
Jehoyah.swayed pillar ofcloud by day, |
and pillar Of fire by night" Israeloi Old |
wandered forty years in search Of a
promised land" that would hardly
make cow.lot In Utah.
Lift all New England and New York
bodily a mile above the level Of the sea.
Add five thousand feet to the height Of
Mount Washington, aud seven thousand
10 that Of Mount Mitchell. Throw In doz.
ems Of other peaks fully as high, all
punching holes in the sky with their
snowy crowns. Pile up, everywhere.
hundreds on hundreds Of mountains
from ten to fourteen thousand feet high.
EHaggerate iifty.fold all the wild notches
and eorges and glens Of eastern America,
and multiply them by scores. Send cat.
aracts and cascades leaping and toaming
down thousand dizzy precipice chan
nels. Toss H., promiscuously, parks
larger than whole states In the tame.
small.notioned east; and gardens Of
giant statuary, statues Of gods and gcnii
and gnomcs, Titans, Centaurs, aud nm.
named monsters, thousands Of feet high.
-hewn by ages on ayes Of winds and
wavesand whirling waters. Cap all the
mountan.top with everlasting ice and
snow, and clothc their shaggy sides
with waving forests OF valuable timber
Fill all the valleys to the mountains iect
with orchards and gardens. vineyards
and grain fields bending beneath the bur.
dens OF their own magnificent frui,age
| and dot the horizon.boundary pasture.
, lands with focks and herds, waist.deep
in the very wantoness Of plenty. I'm
, derlay the whole vast area with gold
and silver, zinc. copper, lead and ores
= marble ola hundred hues; anthracite
bituminous and camel coal salt sui
phur. soda, lime and gypsum. aud nearly
every other metal and mineral In human
use. Through countless wondrous can
yons, pour mighty rivers with water
power onough TO run all the worlds ma
chinery. smite tho rock.ribbed lsbora'
tories OF Omnipotsnco, land Let unnum
G bered healing floods gush forth. rich ID
miracle'workings virtues for tho alleya
d ton Of many Of the sorest ellis tina
. tiesh II heir TO-" As the dsEzlinl
bosom jewel Of thS-Whols transoendsn
scene, spread out the twonty,ssvan hun
!, dred SQUARE miles Of the ma jsstlc anC
Z, mysterious lake, whose waters bold Il
solution wealth enough to pay oil Oh,
national debts Of the world. and lsav,
a . fortune for every man. woman and
a child from Caps Cod TO Yuba Dam
And over ell throw the glory ola olirnat,
unsurpassed under heaven since sin and
'' death climbed into Eden. and tn,
translucent splendor Of skiss NOR,
radiAntly sApphiroan than ever bent
their crystal arch above tho lar-iamed
] beggar-hsmmed and aat-girt Bay o.
Naples, or the Lake Of Como, on. who's,
enchanted shores lay tho bogus ranch oil
that gilb.tounged bunco'steerer. Claud
Melnott-and-you have faint an,
puny approximation to an idea OF Utah
It is land where mountains Of gol,
l. and silver ore, that runs from five :,
five thousand dollars to the ton, wall II
valleys that yield from sixty to eight,
bushels Of wheat. from seyenty-fv
|, to hundred bushels OF oats, and from
, Ave hundred to nine hundred bushels
Of potatoes to the acre. II is a Ian
where every man makes his own rain
- and the crops never fail where the re
= wards Of industry are as sure as tn
DEGREES Of God where wonder treads Of
beauty's heels, and riches rush to NEE
Z the earnest seeker. Its resources are a
v boundless as It's limits. and as varied a
the eyer-changing hues that battle ii
sunsets in prismatic splendors. Here
Ute.opia indeed.
But the proudest boast Of Utah is nc
her gories OF scenery and climate, he
riches Of soil and mine, or her wonder
OF lake ard mountain .and canyon. Al
these sink to insigrihcance. whei
weighed ia noblest moral scales be