The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
LIE sTATE 81 jill.

r VERY CITIZEN OF UTAH has reason to
7H-A feel proud Of the advancement made by this
8 little mountain commonwealth during
the good year 1905. Littleg Wen, a
state that yields products in mineral manufacturing
farming and other industries that worth than
Ss4O0000O can hardly be called little. More densely
populated states very much closer the Atlantic
board have achieved less during the year covered BY
the statistics In this issue Of The Herald.
Our friends the cast have been accustomed to look
upon Utah a mining state. And it is true that the
mines of Utah have made her famous throughout the
length and breadth Of the world But it is in mines
alone that Utah exces We have mines that are as
and as regular with their dividends as government
bonds but, sure the mines that produce stead
iy valuable as those mines to the state and the ma
ton, the other industries of the commonwealth.
In round figures the mines of Utah produced in 1908
gold silver copper and lead of the value of than
S260OOOOO. An error IN a report of the mining IN
dusry found elsewhere in this issue puts copper third
in the list Of values It should have been placed fourth
as was the last year. Notwithstanding the tremen-
dous increase in the copper output, due to the new
shelters In the Salt Lake valley and elsewhere. This
increase as compared with 1902 amounts 20 more than
SO Is per cent and there is every indication that next
year copper viii stand first or second In the list of
metals.
The value Of the output in 1904 should easily be
100000 greater than in 1903. An understanding Of
the firm foundation which this prediction is based
may be gained from the statement that Bingham alone
is capable of producing 5000 tons of copper every
day. The smelters handling now only about 1900
tons of this product daily, but they rapidly incea
Ing their capacity and 1t Is not at all unlikely that be-
fore the year is half over they viii be taking care
of 5000 tons of copper ore per day.
In the southern part of the state there copper
fields of which the half has never been told One of the
biggest propositions is the Cactus for which smeter
is now well under way It win soon be in commission
and adding It's quota to the output 1t is easy to
understand that in copper lies much of Utahs present
and future pre-eminence in the mining world.
But, has been said great as are mines, it is
not on them alone that base our claim to recog-
milton as power in the upbuilding Of the west. The
products of our farms and of the industries allied
farming, such livestock, WOOL dairy products fruit
and honey, were worth in 1908 more than $24OOOOOO
When to this Is added the value of manufactures
and coal it becomes apparent that Utah could wipe
every mine IN the sate off of the ledger and still have
a good claim to greatness.
The record of Utah has been one Of steady adj
vancement. Not much more than half century ago
the pioneers came through Emigration canyon and
looked for the first time upon the promised land Il
was waste then; it is a garden now. The sagebrush
has been grubbed OUT the barren soil has been made
yield bounteousy of everything necessary to the we'll
being of the people; the rugged mountains have been
pierced with shaft and tunnel and their fast-locked
treasures added the worlds wealth Has any state II
the Union made a better showing2
1t is impossible to look hands breadth into the
future but it is possible to base predictions for the flu
ture the achievements of the past As Utah has gone
forward steadily in the days that gone so viii 60
forward steadily IN the days that to come. More
mines are being opened more land is being reclaimed
moro industries in the manufacturing line are being
started railroads coming into the state The
individual is indeed hopeless pessmist who cannot
forcsee for Utah future so bright that the great
works Of the past viii pale into comparative insig
nifcance.