Year: 1868

the rest Of mankind; but the population, being
chiefly agricultural and mechanical, the ebbs and
flows Of the tide Of fortune affect the compare
lively little. They are fast becoming wealthy in in
dustry and property With the sagacity that every
body credits him, the chief Brigham has scattered
bands OF farmers and operatives into every nook and
corner OF the Territory. To-day he Is developing the
sunny south, raising cotton sugar cane, grapes and
the most choice fruit Of tropical cline; while to the
northern extremity he Is pouring In the Scandi-
navians and emigrants from Northern Europe to de-
velop Bear Lake Valley, raise fax Craze immense
herds OF sheep and catch and cure the trout OF that
magnificent sheet Of water-Bear Lake. Between
the extremities OF north and south every available
patch OF arabic land Is being brought under cultiya
sion and already there are over a hundred settle
ments in the Territory, with proper organizations
working as easily and as quietly as II society in the
mountains was one great family which In fact 1t is
more than anything else.


All this industry, this ncessant labor is not "the
the faith and the peculiar nstItution s The con-
slant addition to the population by emigration and
immigration Is great incentive to labor. Every
man who comes TO the Territory must build house,
must make q home for his family. Renting houses,
common among the working classes elsewhere, is
takes but little time to raise shanty; the ground is
soon broken, the seed is sown, harvest comes; one
winter in the log hut and the next season the house
Is built the fields fenced and the orchard laid out and
planted. II takes but little time for faith to
demonstrate ITSELF and the institution" soon buds
FORTH Faith is powerful thing. mustard seed
that particular 1t Is rarely exercised With the faith
OF the patriarchs y develops itself into O. the In





house building labor, grain raising labor, shoes
and stockings calico and all that kind OF thing that
goes to make up the sum OF life In this mundane
sphere. or course all this is debatable in New Eng
land; hut II Is here received fact that Is common
las geese going barefoot" an and no one thinks OF It
renee In life. Some philosophers have It that labor
Ia the greatest virtue manifested In human life; II
so, In that as In others this Is terribly vrtuous
population for 1t Is labor to-day, tomorrow and the
day after. Presently Utah is prosperous and in
creasing immensely In population; as families ex.
tend away up in the twenties thrties, fortIes and
over the ties even, the statement OF increase can
readily be accepted.


Gentiles and Mormons will, like the wheat and tares,
grow together, though neither Will change nature by
association The corners will be Knocked OIL, the
angles will be rubbed down, and but little trouble
or Inconvenience will be experienced if each
"minds his own business But with all the
developments, the Mormon population will continue
In the ascendancy In Gentiledom they know nothing
OF unity; In Morm0nd0m they know exactly its
worth and march as one man to everything and for
everything. For the next three years there will
doubtless be unparalleled prosperity this country,
and how long after Is another calculation. Within
few months the construction OF the Pacific Railroad,
on the east and west, will throw over ten thousand
still greater quantity, and within the present year
the rich mines Cf Sweetwater will draw at least
ulation. agrculturaily considered, there win be a
greater demand for the products Of the Territory than
there can be supply; Hence the farmers VIII get
greenback rich and mechanics will be at high
wages The future OF Utah must be prosperous-it
Is inevitable.


4 Where there Is dctating controlling head, su-
preme In everything, movements partake necessarily
OF that character. Individual enterprise is another
thing and very variable. What the chief puts his
hand to do that Is done, for all the strength and
talent are called into requlsition. tabernacle
be built as by magic roads constructed and canals
dug. Now the dominant subject IL education. The
University OF the state OF Deseret IL fiourishing,
though government does nothing for It, and the
higher branches OF education are now offered to the
people upon exceedingly easy terms. In all the set
Elements teachers are In demand, and In the prnci-
pal towns commercial colleges are being founded.


The winter has been very mild so far as storms and
March snow are concerned, but there were two
months OF continuous frost, during which the saints
as well as sinners enjoyed immensely the skating
the lake.


Preparations are being made for an immense emf
grafton from Europe this season. There are now In
your city two agents, Messrs. Clawson and Saines,
people here contributing all they possibly to
this object, and by the middle OF summer very large
will be collected and sent eastward for this pur-
pose.


every quarter We hear Of dancing parties got
mp by the sisters, conducted and directed
by them, aud the expenses DC, are all
the leap year balls takes place this evening in the
Social Hall. To this lady takes her own iege
lord but INDUCES In extending an invitation to some
other. The committee OF ladies on the invitation
ticket embrace the upper ten and with considerable
cuteness they hit the brethren severely with adding
extra gentlemen SIX cents cach." BY way OF
meeting the expenses Invitations 70 the ordinary
so cents" or "t5 per couple, extra lady ST." TAX
Ing umbrage and the smallness OF the charge for an
'extrau lady, the committee revenge themselves and
the rest OF the sex by showing their still smaller ap
il Is all pleasantly enough done, but II is the
less an effective blow. All the dgniiares will be
there this evening, the major portion Of whom will
doubtless be Invited by maidens In their teens. And
such Is lfe.