Show GEN H 8 ELDRED6E INTERVIEWED INTER-VIEWED He Talks to a San Francisco Gnrcaicla Reporter A recent number ol tbe San Fran CMQO Chronicle has an interview with Gen H S Eidredge now in 6aa Franoieco After a few prefatory remarks of a general character the interviewer Isads out with the following follow-ing If tLe reader holds the opitioa founded upon a knowledge derived from the siege teat all Mormons are buckakinclad gen tltiaoc of a hangdog expression of countenance coun-tenance given to c skulking gait end wearing tee brand of Tartufib upon their forehead he should at once disabuse himself of jcb a fates idea The gentleman gentle-man who received the reporter was abate a-bate etardiivbailt person nearer GO perhaps than 50 dressed irf a wellfitting suit of broadcloth hiving the manners oi a 4 kind keen face surrounded and crowned e with gray hair and beard After come SI I casual conversation Mr Eldrodgo reel re-el that this was not ha first visit to Nan i rncuco and that his present so I jouij was simply for the purpose of taking a rat after yean of hard work i m his van cus position Are the Mormont clannish So at al said Mr Eldredge and that word clannish puts me 113 mind cf a very popaa error regarding us Mormon Mor-mon are gcnsrallT looked upon ts es clusie ectiv fact They are not Bt ail at vV uus wa are p rfectly willing tO Itt all z CS i CjH f hey pcin W8 are only uo serious to receive all who are willing to join us JReligiousIy peak leg the work of making proselytes is joicft oo all the time especially in Germany Ger-many and Scandinavia and with as mash vigor as fiftyjears ago and 100 with as much sncoeas as then for eon epts are coming in all the time Com taercialjr speaking we ere as willing 1 and pleased to do business with Gentiles i ts among ourselves 1 Then said the reporter the cabal that u supposed to be carried by the Mor I moos against the Gentile business men dce not ezhl Not at all as many of your prominent merchants know In Salt Lake City a Gentile bas equal facilities too basinets with a Mormon except of course the Mormon trader has naturally by far the largest clientele Hr Soars is in SBD Francisco today for the purpose at making purchases which you may bo rare will not be from Mormon houses and the Ttttulion of which I am super iatcndsnt not caly deals with outsiders end the faithful alike bat hs Gentiles btncng its stockholders It is a very extensIve irsUtution is it iI aLr a call Late OMy there are brancb > oun nt Ogden Irtcan City U T roan Soda JSjJriDgi t I T Tao branches receive their instructing from tho bead office and rem intimate correspondence therewith j there-with and ell ho houses deal in every j conceivable class of merchandise both in J retail and wholesale The business t done cs you may imagine is quite j largo added Sir Eldredgo modestly the cash trsntactions aaaountiag to j3000000 II I I a year and geneally a little over Before anti ip to the year 1873 he transactions amounted to over 4000 000 per annum Along with everybody else we suSersd in that yea thanks f hiefiy to the blockading of the railroads and an csoumulted stock butgradually wo have righted our eastern creditors dealt kindly with us and since then not a piece of our paper has gone to protest From where do yon draw your stock asked the reporter All oir produce comes from the ter rtory raid Mr iSldredge our cutlery nod moot of the crockery we procure from England and our fabrics and rw materials ate supplied from the eastern factories and dealers Tfaa institution must give employment employ-ment to raitc a number of people the reporter suggested To about 160 replied Mr Eidredge Then in connection with it thee is z shoe factory with 50 hand n tannery ha wLch liter re about 70 band and a fcrnr fiCUy employing from 50 to 00 ill f w onx we cilcolain anport i < from twovffivectbcre 1u hOld ai p itlei n = 6 djectorof tL 3 DdJept Natona Bsnk 1 believe I am ts vicapeeiqcni and this banh like the coupOT tive iasttut iR though a Morm irstitutipn hoe Oon > tiles ariprg lie etockholdera and ths buitiv9 w th Gentiles Willara ii Ho pci is president cf both Ibo bank nn store aAjeorg < Cwino deltas del-tas u a dipcl of Lith Tee bank ma cot ar laigeafiair our capital being 9IiV 000 with 5QOUOsurplu end piofite HTo tern from business to the mare weighty 3sirs ef tate aid the re sot Lair Mrt VIi annib n HTW je4na 1 toubks between yearseivs and the I deai authorities 4 Hot Sr the cant twenty yea t at iacw r a4 iJr Eidredga At present r ihiaf trocba u the deferred admission of the teritary to tie rank cf a state We are r Tr iisn cfcur coctoral righia and havpciala thrust opon tu wko are antagonistic Gull affairs go aorg quieiiy our relations are amicable andit is car endeavor to keep them so As to any federal interference with our pre > t Lcet > f oygm we da not look upon that as among th 2 possibilities It would be uncc il lutoLa and as such wo chonM mst certainly combat it All wd uk is to bo left alona besides which we l look upon it o our right We hate mad tie desert land fruitful we iave made Utah whcl it is and having dpe so wo intend to keep U teats sI I s concluded Mr ZIdradIe r rahe egciflcanly by all kgI nsai The preseo numerical status of tbe Mormons I can hardly exactly esti rastp 6H Like City was founded by t hirtyaix saints There arc today 140 Xk souls in Utah Territory of whom nine tenth aw iioranoa while the mcaibers of car faith are to be numbered by millions1 Then when the exodus takes place maid tbe reporter it will bo an extensive one T srI ulna it takes piece said Mr Eldrede bat at present to era lana in Cation making KC Rich rnrv Yc I en P pclrgamiEt and hkvr boss R Mororo for tea part fatly ytasa nad over T oe cocUaaei 5tr Rldr radg inqji n g a coapla of Soog ledies vLo had been intoranted stcacri to cu foregabg eoevenatloc re two of my dancitteci b one wife and them spreading a number of photographs photo-graphs on the table era the pictures of cibas of my nineteen children Nice teen living and eight buried not a bad family concluded Sir dredge peB4nUy all obedient wellloved chiWrea and all content to grow up in the faith which bas reeds me happy rich and contented tbo faith of Mormon jim and the practice of polygamy |