THE foundation OF PERMANENT prosperity travelers on arriving in this territory I 1 are struck with an air of age which pervades our cities and settlements and with the home attractions which abound so plentifully after a journey aljourney across wide prairies and seemingly interminable sage gage plains the shade trees and orchards among which this city lies emboss omed have a peculiarly pleasant and inviting appearance no one unacquainted with the facts when comparing this city with those of the neighboring territories would think that twenty years ago the place where it now stands was a sage desert on every side are to be seen houses with an air of home comfort that is attractive the soil naturally forbidding and hard has been blessed by the lord and the labors of the people under that blessing have produced comfort and plenty from a desert men build houses not simply to live in for a year or two and then sell but for their cb children Ildren lidren to inhabit they plant trees around them that all may luxuriate in the coolness of their shade they setout set out feurt trees that their families may enjoy the fruit flowers are cultivated and with them a taste for the delicate and alad the beautiful grows up the east and the west furnish seeds and cuttings and roots which when planted and developed develop minister edminister to our gratification and delight these and many other things easily observable show that we have not come here only to acquire wealth but to live that we make of this our permanent home a home which we seek to beautify and adorn for our gratification and comfort and the gratification comfort and delight of our children it is usual in the mining districts of i this western country cou to see se cities spring up in an exceedingly short space of time houses House sare are built bulit asif as if by magic magie streets grow stores multiply and business thrives for a time all is bustle bustie stir life as it is called and making money which by the bye only a few can make the rest merely helping help heip ing them to do it after a time the contiguous 0 mines do not yield so richly dils diss discoveries cover are reported elsewhere and much of the population floats off omm havin having no home inducements to bind bini them there A few years later and that town is measurably deserted business has moved other places while the streets are dull silent and comfortless looking this is the picture of many towns in the mining regions sudden growth great aud and rapid prosperity quick decadence and desertion because those who built them did not design to live there they sought only to make money that they might carry 1 it t away awa y to enrich other places we have come here to live our cities are permanent their prosperity rity is not so quick but it is steady and ever on the increase business may become dull for a time for the merchant and trader but the comforts that are drawn from the earth and elements around us are the same to our use consequently every settlement nide made every farm fenced and broken up every orchard set out every house built bull t every water ditch or canal dug ISA permanent improvement which will not depreciate but will continue to increase in value and will aid in making more valuable all the property contiguous to it when men talk of energy and enter prise in developing the mineral resources of this great region of country they might on reflection give at least a part of the credit due to the energy and enterprise which first settled and opened it up and without which the development now so highly lauded would have been impossible for many years and when they talk of the adventurous spirits and hardy miners who dare the terrors of the savage that they may obtain gold they might once in a while allude to the adventurous and hardy women and children who set them the example in braving such dangers not for gold but to find and make a home being driven by mob violence to the desert for shelter and thore dangers were braved too by weak women and children when their extent was unknown the progress and development of the country west of the east ridge of the rocky bocky mountains as far as it has depended upon we the search for and the finding of the precious metals has not been healthy nor permanent this thirst for gold oid 0 old so strongly pervades all classes that when the attraction presents itself in scenes wild dangerous and rude it draws together large numbers of the wildest most reckless and desperate of men who to supply their wants to find excitement and to gratify their thein desires would dare much more than they have to do to obtain the prize they seek following them to prey upon their reckless waste and extravagance come hungry speculators and all that vice can provide to minister to mans gross desires or depraved appetites is fa provided that the hard earned gold may pass into the hands of others than those who toiled tolled for it are these the elements thus gathered C together of which a prosperous and truly progressive community are formed does it not take years of opening up the natural resources of the country agriculturally and before a permanent foundation is laid on which the super superstructure of prosperity can be successfully raised let the facts bear witness west of us lie california and nevada two states each with the dignity of being a republic in and of itself they have had all the advantages of heavy capitalists aiding in developing their resources their mines have been exceed exceedingly higly rich gold and silver have been dug there in immense quantities ties but etwas not until california took a position as an aga agh agricultural cultural vine growing rowing and manufacturing ring state that her real prosperity began to be developed ve loped nevada today to day with her rich mines and her much vaunted wealth is poor and almost bankrupt and it would be no boasting to say that plodding slow going agricultural utah could buy half balf a dozen such states and have a margin left to put a picket fence around a portion of them without drawing sustenance from some other place her mines would have been still undeveloped and it will take years to weed ken ker her population of those characters who are the bane of society to whom we have referred and who follow the careless reckless hard work ing easy spending miner like sleuth hounds what we deduce from this is that the very foundation of progress and prosperity in this western country is developing its agricultural mud dud horticultural resources this utah has done and done it first that without this development which utah pione pioneered tred tied ered and in which she still stands in the front rank the mining districts would not could not have I 1 been opened up at least for many years for the difficulty and expense of freight ing produce over a long way away through a wild unsettled and unknown coun country try would have precluded it chere there would not perhaps havo have been any telegraph wire connecting the pacific with the atlantic there would not have been even a nominal daily mail across the continent and the union pacific railroad would still ha have veen a thing of the future for bursting eloquence to elaborate upon we deduce also that the society thus drawn together when those districts are opened up is not of the kind which conduces to the real prosperity and 0 growth of the place where they temporarily locate and that a state or territory so settled and peopled has to pass over the yeasty waves of insecure moral and financial elements before it can reach the calm balm still waters of true prosperity and public moral health the progress of utah is far in advance of her near neighbors her prosperity is steadily increasing 0 she has within her all the elements of greatness power and importance not in her rich soil but in the policy industry and virtue of her people which are being surely developed ve loped she can feed and has fed her thousands who have been engaged in this opening up and developing process and her prosperity has the air of age and the stability of permanency about it utah has bas done well for fon our country she has cost it less and done more for the development of these vast western possessions than any other state or te territory atory in the union that is simply S stating xing zing a fact in so many words her people have 0 opened ened a road from the mississippi to the pacific settled a wilderness der ness wrested bread from the desert to feed the thousands who seeking for a fortune sought the gold and silver in which our neighboring states and territories ri rejoice and thus have been the instruments in developing and placing in the hands of the nation the inexhaustible haus tible wealth in which it takes such pride justice simple justice justlee would seem to demand that utah having done so much for her country should receive some better recompense than taxation without representation arid alid failing falling I 1 such that she should be allowed to de t celop her own prosperity and her in resources in her own way according to the wish of the people offer ing the iest pest best assurance for the future in the present which is but a result of the past that it would the dignity prosperity and financial and moral f health of the nation