Year: 1878

than thirty or forty acres, but with ev-
cry inch cultivated carefully. Fruit
trees which are to be found in all the
gardens in the city cluster about every
farmhouse in the spring time, giving to
the valley the appearance of a vast or
chard. wearing its wealth of blossoms
and filling the air with perfume. Pic
ture for yourselves this city with its
broad streets, its streams Of water,
its strange church buildings. its hand
some business houses. its elegant resi-
dences, its queer old adobe houses in
the midst of a beautiful valley. green
with clover and alfalfa and young grain
just springing up; wild flowers mingle
with the green grass, adding the charm
Of their brilliant colors, until the carpet
Of Mother earth seems almost gorgeous.
Over the grass and the flowers hang the
dainty blossoms of the fruit trees-ap-
pie and peach and pear, mIpgling with
the nectarine and apricot; up through
the blossoms We look to the grand old
mountain tops, glistening white with
their perpetual crown of snow. So near
they seem we fancy we may reach them
by walking little while, for we have
yet to learn that the atmosphere west of
the Rockies is so dry and clear in sum-
mer time that we are readily deceived
as to distance. On our left is the Wa
satch range, in the distance the Oquirr;
both ranges have lofty peaks, some of
them towering $4,000 feet above the
level of the sea. They are not like the
mountains of the eastern States; they
are full of gulches and canyons. and
they are constantly surprising one with
peak where there ought to be gulch,
and gorge where one expects good
point of observation. O! but they are
grand mountains / looked upon them
every day for two weeks | saw them
in sunshine and in storm, By day light
and by moonlight; and | learned to
turn toward them as to the face of
friend. do not see how men can be
base and vile with those mountains for
companions. | could tell to them my
joys, and | could pour out to them the
torrent of great sorrow and be comforted
by their presence.


The development of the mines IN Utah,
has stimulated all business interests and
increased the number of enterprising in
habitants. In 1877 the produce of the
mines amounted to 81, ,236, $40, and the
yield for the present year will be even
greater. Even the Emma mine, made
notorious by the vast amount of dirt
finging INDUCED in by English capital
lists who declared that American cousins
were too sharp for them, has gone back
on its reputation, and for the month of
April produced $4,000 in bullion. Rich
as is the Territory in minerals, that
alone would not ensure her continued
prosperity, for mines may be exhausted.


Her most permanent advancement will
come, as must that of all countries, from
increased agricultural wealth. In 1875


there were under cultivation 233,395
acres of land add to this the ranges of
pasture lands where cattle and sheep


take care of themselves good part of
the year, and Utah has no need to be
ashamed of her resources. Then. too.
she is specially favored by the relative


positions of the mining and agricultural


districts, alternating as they do home


market is created for the surplus products


of the farm and the orchard, the farmer
having hardly to go from his own home


to dispose of every thing he raises and
for cash. In the mining districts of


Nevada, California and Arizona all tbe
necessaries of life are to be had only at


exhorbitant prices, for they cannot be


raised near by and the cost of transpor-


tation is very great.


In many respects Utah has the advan-
tage over other Territories. The patient,
hard working Mormons who first came
. there were quite unlike the restless.
gold-seeking adventurers who are scat
. tered over the Pacific coast and known


as s.forty miners" They came to Utah
to stag. and the result of their labors
is seen and will be continual help in


the future. Taught the necessity of be-


ing self-sustaining, various branches of


manufacture have taken-root and from
them will grow establishments which


will consume the coal from the mount


aims, furnish market for the cotton and
the wool, and furnish employment to
those needing it. Iron furnaces will
come in good time, perhaps mint to
coin the product of the mines and along
with all this advancement agricultural
pursuits will keep pace, and Utah may


count herself rich indeed. Taxes are
very low, being limited to II mills on
the dollar for State and county purposes,
and the whole drift of affairs is toward
. better and purer times. know this is
L denied by some who seem determined
e to see no good in anything but themselves.
" but believe know whereof | write.
believe, too, that the policy of the Gov
r ernment as shown in sustaining the
y nrocant Gouornnr is the onrract one He