| Show PIONEER IN irrigation progress in western civilization HOMES FOR MANY THOUSANDS hand of providence guards the west from a semiarid semi arid desert the state has developed into a modern utopia agriculture reduced to a Science Ogden the seat of manufacturing fac turing greatness giant projects for harnessing the elements ts do mans bidding A heaven blessed region where nature smiles under the sunshine futy years ago july the advance agents of civilization in the shape of a small band of mormon pioneers hoisted the american alas on ensign peak and planted the beeda of western progress from that day the steady march ot advancement baa kept pace with nineteenth centary progression aa athe anniversary 0 tho aemi cen i tennial will find a commonwealth of en lightened and prosperous people from a wilderness of savage battle arounds Rr barren hills and desert valleys utah has become in 60 yeara of i prosperity and wealth the empire state of the west over its area of square milea are dotted cities and towns that thrive and prosper under a protecting and health guarding climate and the annual gitta from a productive soil from the northern bo andary milea south to the arizona line are cultivated valleys lying beneath towering mountain manees a land of permanent homes and pros contentment u the milca from colorado on the east toj nevada on the west run never failing mountain streams that furnish the life giving moisture so necessary for the temporal salvation of the it is a paradise of mountain and plain from which man has wrought an empire of magnificent splendor and lasting promise a the population of utah ia abelt i the mountain chains usually 1 ann north and couth and nearly all of them contain zones of precious metals probably no other detate in the union contains within its borders such a variety 0 resources no other state could be so nearly independent and self supply ing it intercourse were totally cut off from the outside there are very few ot the necessaries or luxuries of life that could not be produced within the boundaries of utah in abundance it is an empire within itself this fact will be easily realized by a study of the endless variety of products described in this account although it ie less than fifty years since battlement began in this territory the extraordinary scope ot our possibilities in mining agriculture industry in ranch and range production and inte nal commerce already developed proves this beyond question and of what is now imported might easily be produced in our midst should it become necessary with every variety of climate which is generally salubrious and agreeable there are the t valleys for the farmer the gardener and kibe the foot bill elopes and terraces for the cheep the moun ine for the miner the ec enery fishing nd hunting among the mountains the ter fowl and grouse of the prairies tor the pleasure seeker thermal springs the sl lake air an bathing for the invalid and plenty 0 opportunity and occupation for the man of business and enterer se the bl lowing terse account of the status the state as regards advantages nd is by a well known writer utah extends from 37 degrees to 42 reea i orth latitude aud from 32 de 7 degrees west longan almost exact square ailee each way it has square miles or i of which 2780 equale acres are water it ailee or acres larger than maine new hampshire vermont massachusetts rhode island connecticut new jersey and delaware all combined end there is no region of equal area on the globe that overflows a with more abounding and diversified richea ot resources and possibility utah was llast settled by a detachment ot cormons mormons Mor mons under the leadership of brigham young in july 1817 and there is no stronger in favor ot the mormon claim to divine revelations and inspirations the fact that they should have been led through nearly three thousand miles of unexplored wilderness infested at every step by hostile eav agee to u a land of promise where every promise finds glorious fulfillment guided by the jehovah swayed pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night israel of old wandered forty search ota promised land that would hardly make a cow lot in utah lift all new england and new york bodily a mile above the level of the sea add fire thousand feet to the height of mount washington and seven thousand to that of mount mitchell throw in dozene of other peaks fully as high all punching holes in the eky with their enory crowns pile up everywhere on thousands to fourteen thousand feet bieh edae fifty fold all the wild gorges and glens of eastern america and multiply them by acoree send cataract and cascades leaping and foaming down thousand dizzy precipice chan nele in parka larger than whole elates in the email east and gardens of blaut of yde and beenu aad gnomes litane centaurs aud unnamed monsters thousands of feet high hewn by ages on ages of wind and waves and whirling waters a all the mountaintops mountain tops with everlasting ice and enow and clothe their shaggy bides with waving forests of valuable timber fill all the valleys to the mountains with orchards and gardens vineyards and grain fields bending beneath the burdens of their own magnificent fruitage and dot the barizon bounded pas ture lands with flocks and herds waist deep in the very wantonness wanton nesa of plenty underlay the whole vast abea aiea with gold and silver zinc copper bead and iron ores marble of a hundred hues anthracite th bituminous and channel coal salt sulphur soda lime and gypsum and nearly every other metal and mineral in fiuman use through countless wondrous canyons pour mighty rivers with water power to ann all the worlds machinery smite the ribbed laboratories laborn tories of omnipotence and let unnumbered healing floods gush forth rich in miracle work log virtues for the alleviation of many of thee orest ilia that flesh ia heir to As the dazzling jewel of the whole transcendent ant acene spread out hundred square milea of that majestic and mysterious lake waters bold in eo lution wealth enough to pay all the national debts of the world and leave afortuna for every man woman and child from cape cod dam and over all throw the elory of climate unsurpassed under heaven since ain and death climbed into eden and the translucent splendor of skies more radiantly than ever bent choir crystal arch above the far fame d and flea burt bay ot naples or the lake of como on enchanted chorea lay the bogus ranch 0 that glib tongued bunco claude melnotte and you have a faint and puny approximation to an idea of stahl it is a land where moun taina of gold and silver ore that rune from five to five thousand dollars to the ton wall in valleys that yield from sixty to eighty bushels of wheat from seventy five to one hundred bushels of oats and from five hundred to nine hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre it is a land shore every man makes his own ra inand the chopa never fail where the rewards of industry aie as sure as the decrees of god where wonder treads on beautys heels and riches rush to meet the earnest seeker its resources are as boundless ae ita i limite and ae varying as the ever chane I 1 ing hues that bathe its aunet in prismatic splendor here ia ute opia indeed the year 1897 finds the detate with the material forces of an upward and onward march to a higher civilization and peerless prosperity within its grasp waiting lor the breath ot life riving before awakening the energies that will lift it into the proud position ol 01 chief among western states the boil so far an the cultivation culi of the products that respond to the husbandman toil has been reclaimed the hidden treasures of the mountains bave been summoned and a steady stream of riches bouie into the lap of wealth and now the rock of electrical energy has been touched by the magic wand of cantal and the ree ponee ie the foundation of manufacturing power for empire |
