Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-15

known that one of The chief elements
iu lhe successful cultivation or the
sugar beet is tho ability Co put water
Ou fha crop when needed, ana 90 Keep
DO on when 10 would be detrimental In
I Utah. where rain ecIlIW falls lu any
great quantity lr1m June t1 the end on
September. this can ha done. a little
study and experimentation with irrl-
CATION have taught farmers how best
Co regulate tho watering ut the boots,
with the result, that This branch OF ag.
riculture is very successfully iniloWed
Boo our arid country the hects being
noted for tla'r high percentage ot
sIcchulue matter.
FIRST TN THE UNITED STATES.
believe that % sugar factory erect
ga some Do years ago zoo IchL town
30 miles south OF Salt Lake city, was
the first 600 the United states To- go
into successful operation with exc
Clu~iycIy AmcriCau-madH machinery
/ The success of that factory has Ted Co
the esta Adjustment of a. number uf 9TH
eng iu Utah and The surrounding states
And yet Notwithstanding che amount
of sugar made in these and other face
tories. ouc-thiTd OF the total amount OF
money paid by the American people
each year for sugar S30OO0l O00) is sent
out 90 foreign laborars. whereas this
hundred million might as wen De- paid
tioual factories Co American working
men. Here is large field 0l manu-
facture awaiting Investigation.
COAL AND IRON
a word may be said about the vast
deposits of coal and iron On Utah. Some
or our mountains are yprttDle beds
! of iron. and our coal deposits would
supply the need. of the United states
for "a long time tO come With this
| combination Utah u.s. am excellent Geld
| for the establishment OF the iron aud
| steel Industry And the vast amount o.
| railway and other construction already
] under way assures au ever EruWlu gmar-
/ Ret for such products. I hope 10 VIII
| not he long before the eyes of the east
/ viii bee turned toward ItHh as "a Held
| for this kind OF Investment. ! have
| mentioned these specific lines not bee
| cause they are the only ones chat Of
! fer but because they are the most OBJ
! vious ones at present
THE PEOPLE or UTAH
Having said this much about our
/ state t1nd much more might he add
| ed / desire 90 say few words about
| it- people. 10 might not Doe considered
necessary or even appropriate Tor me
| 20 speak about the people of Utah BE-
| they had not received "a publicity not
60 their liking and not iu accordance
I with facts. at the hands of those who
are either unable or unwilling 90 repre-
sent the state properly. But as this is
! the case. ] think 30 proper Go speak
of the people not by way Of defense.
for they need mo- defense, but merely
fOI the correct Information of my hear
crs.
Cnh has received "a large proportion
OF IFS population from the strong, in
| dependent middle classes of America
and central and northern Europe. Com
| ing from the farms workshops and
professional and business pursuits Of
| the best countries, they are peculiarly
sturdy. Intelligent, industrious, self
/ reliant people. Wen fitted for the work
! 1f conuuerlng the desert and making "a
/ new country. Nearly am the people or
/ Utah are as desirable citizens from the
! standpoint OF industry, intelligence, up
/ rIghtuess. morality, ana religious ana
! social integrity as one win find any
/ where. The line between MOmons and
] nom MOrmous is rather sharply drawn
] ly certain people who have 1n OBJ
/ ject TO gain by SEQ doing. but $50 far as
/ business and political and social mat
] ters are concerned. the tendency DIS
| gradually Go depart from this classih-
| cation. We think the distinction really
| needs To- be- made only in "a religious
/ sense. and $50 deplOre thc application of
| ll lu other directions
WORTHY CITIZENS.
Z speak or both Mormuus ANA nom
/ M0rmons when ] say that ms whole
| tho people of Utah are good, worthy
/ homes. intelligent American citi1Dus
| AS have hal occasion to say before
Utah has its problems political, social
| religious ana Industrial as they arc
90 boz found everywhere. And DO l5 not
| because these problems are more sari'
! Gus than eIsHN ere but rather hrctuel