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Show SALT LAKE CITT. To the casual visitor Salt Lake City now presents a picture of business activity ac-tivity which is destined to rapidly increase. in-crease. Searchers after precious silver and the busy bees seeking the nectar of trade and traffic, fill it with a hurly burly aspect which promises no immediate imme-diate decrease. Men from all States and climes are already pouring into this commercial heart of Utah, and the rush has but just commenced. There is not a branch of business, unless un-less it be silver-making, which will not be overdone in Salt Lake in less than ninety days. This is our own opinion, and the result will soon venly or impeach im-peach it Regard for truth aud for the welfare of those who think trade in Utah is to be so great as not to admit of sharp competition compels this statement Those who think of locating lo-cating there in any branch of trade would do well to remember that Utah and Salt Lake are old aud well organized organ-ized commuoities. Heavy merchants, both Mormon and Gentile, are already there with heavy stocks of goo is in all branches .of merchandise, which they are able to increase at -pleasure. The Co-operative and the Walkers are the representative establishments at which goods are sold to-day as cheaply as they are in Omaha. Salt Lake is not a White Pine nor a Helena. The principle that regulates labor- there will regulate trade. There will bo a large home supply for the increased demand. This view is our own, and proceeds upon the cautious side. Many new merchants and traders will make money in Salt Lake this season, and nest season ; but, from the case as we have presented and hinted at it, will it not occur that many will fail to make money '? Salt Lake City is a seething cauldron of anxious hopes already, and it will soon reach boiling heat. Many bub bles will swell ana Durst tnere unaer the inevitable excitement of the silver mania. If silver could be picked up in the Wasatch ranges as gold was picked up in Australia and California in the glorious days of the "Gulch Diggings," the case would ba otherwise, other-wise, and so it might be if the silver ores of Utah differed in any striking particular from the silver ores of other silver districts. They are not richer in silver than similar ores are in Xevada, so far as precentage is concerned, con-cerned, but they can be reduced and refined at less cost because, as we understand un-derstand it, they are softer and more tractable ores. But this difference will offer no very great advantages to the poor man; it will only increase the earnings of legitimate capital in a country where labor is already cheap. This we assert to be a great advantage, but it is not such as will enable poor men to become very rich in Utah, unless un-less they become so by accident, or in the old-fashioned way. We say these things not so much to discourage as to caution. One feature of the influx into this hitherto quiet, sober, moral and intelligent intelli-gent Mormon community, carries with it its own comment to the thoughtful. Whisky shops, harlotries, faro banks, and all the attendant forms of vice and iniquity already purvey the way to the changes that are to be wrought by these" silver discoveries. To the lasting last-ing honor of the Mormon people and System be it said, that, for more than twenty years, such machines of moral intauiy were totally unknown in Utah. Whatever may be the evils arising in Polygamy, and we dare to say that thev are not half so great as thousands of deluded people suppose them, great indeed as we hold them to be, it cannot can-not be denied that the Mormons have achieved victories and conquests over the most gigantic evils that curse our race, and which are to-day ,h rdibf bancs of every civilized state. Already the hydra-headed monsters of iniamy are gaming footholds foot-holds in Salt Lake City, lhe diamond gilded eambler, with his alluring cloth of green, is there and so is the woman of the town. It docs not alter the tact that she plies her terrible vocation behind be-hind the curtains of honest callings, lest Mormon authority punUh the crime. The fact is what we state the damning fact, so creditable to Mormon morality, that it is only by the surreptitious evasion and overthrow over-throw of Mormon authority that these and kindred curses now invade the beautiful city of Suit Lake. hat tho consequences will be upon the .Mormon .Mor-mon vouth and people depends upon the power of the Mormon Church and Sv-toui to hold them lirm jj.iins.the w'iie of cild-d temptation, and ru-ht here we detect the chief danger to that people at this critical junctuie m their a ff a i rs. Omi'i t Mcml'l |