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Show "NO PLACE FOS LABORERS." Under the above capiion the Omaha Herald has the following sensible remarks re-marks : Utuh is the centre to which many are heedlessly rushing without thought or knowledge of the actual situation in that country; and from a better understanding under-standing of it than many possess, we deem ir, a duty we owe to the public to warn certain classes against going to that country. Utah is unlike mining countries gen erally, for the reason that it is permanently per-manently well settled by a frugal, intelligent in-telligent and iudustiious population. The Mormons are there by the tens of thousands. Those who want labor can get a plentiful home supply iu the immediate im-mediate vicinity of the silver districts. That people are ready to sell their labor to ail who want it, and it is a fact th it the capitalists whose money is to develop what practised miners discover, can ripply the present and future de-mind de-mind at low average rates. Men are now eiuploved m the mines at ?3 per da, boarding themselves. The Ilera'd speaks understandingly on the subject, having a knowledge of the facts. It would be an unwise proceeding pro-ceeding on the part of journalists to deceive the laboring population in any part of the country, by holding out to them the idea thac (J tab. is a place to which men without capital can come and make mr.-.ey rapidly. The people of this Territory two summers ago built several hundred miles of the great Pacific railroad. The Utah lueu were scattered along the line from Humboldt, Wells almost to Green river. Yet the agricultural interests of the Territory were not neglected; for though the grasshoppers destroyed much of the growing crops, there was that season an unusually large breadth 01 lauu cuiuvuieu, auu a ciup suuioicul to meet the wants of the Territory was garhered. This single fact shows how abundant available labor is in Utah. And it comprises com-prises skilled and unskilled labor, with thousands of practical miners who have spent years in the mines of Illinois, Illi-nois, Pennsylvania, England, Scotland and Wa'es. We have smelters of long experiecc-', machinists of almost every class, and in fact the bone and sinew to do all the work which the mines are likely to offer for a long time. We endorse the statements of the Onaha Herald as eminently wise and just, and they who have not capital to invest in mining or something else, need not come to Utah with the h)pes of becoming be-coming rich in a few months. If they have experience in prospecting and can make a lucky " find'' somewhere, they may succeed without much capital. |