The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
THANKFULNEss.

While the telegraphers' strike leaves
a good many in doubt as to whether
they are richer or poorer than they
were week ago; while the price of
copper has dropped and securities have
shrunk like flannel in hot water, there
are some things to be cheerful about
this August Sunday morning in the
city of Salt Lake, county of Salt Lake.
S. S.
To begin with, the substantial COM
mercial and industrial business here
abouts is on so firm a foundation that
nothing but a financial cataclysm
could shake il. and cataclysms are
unknown in this region. The mineral
production furnishes an element of sta
bility that isn't susceptible to such dis
turbances as sometimes upset the CEN
ter of financial gravity in purely man
ufacturing communities. A next-door
neighbor is preparing to produce
flood of gold, has already turned some
of it on, and as the first beneficiary of
Nevada's good luck Utah needn't be
gold in London or in continental
banking circles.
Copper is lower, but If it comes to
a question of cheap production of
copper and competition as TO what
mines shall keep going, Utah is in just
a little stronger position than almost
any other copper-producing state in
the Union. We all want copper to
bring good figures, but if it comes to
a showdown somebody else will have
TO drop out of the game long before
Bingham and Beaver county and the
other copper fields of this state quit.
Alphabetically, the irrigator of this
region has all the best of the farmer
who has TO wait for the Lord to do
his irrigating for him. A good stream,
ditch and a shovel for regulating the
flow furnish all the apparatus neces-
saTy to get results in Utah wherever
the soil is productive at all. The crops
elsewhere may be light. drouth may
blight them and foods destroy them,
but in this. arid region the mountain
canyons underwrite every farmers
prosperity and give him bond for good
returns on his labor.
So much there is to be thankful for
in a material way; and in these days
of doubt and anxiety for the future,
the assurance Of material prosperity
sufficient to warrant optimism is
worth a good deal. In the comforts
that go to make life enjoyable there
is ample cause for satisfaction and
good cheer here. The climate is one
of the joys accepted unconsciously and
with less than its due appreciation.
The beauties of natural surrounding
unsurpassed anywhere; the coming
and going of seasons adapted To the
development of all that is best in
mans physical possibilities; such ali
and sunshine as jewellers in the plains
dream OF but never get; the yenerou.
freedom and wide opportunities De-
culiar to the mountains and the desert
all these offer themselves as COM
pensation for the smaller anxieties
the apprehension of financial unrest
the cessation of speculation, the dau-
ger from the ebb-tide of the prosperity
food.
Whether stocks go up or down
whether the trust-busting involves
others who are innocent Of wrong
doing. whether Democrats or Republi.
cans direct the nation, this is a pretty
good old world for the man who lives
in the shadow of the Wasatch, and
there's a good deal to be thankful fc1
here in Salt Lake