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Show I.VCUEASI.NC BCSIXESS.' On Thursday rooming the Herald stated that fifty car loads of freight had arrived in this city for the three preceding pre-ceding day-i over the Utah Central railroad. This is the strongest com-ffiit com-ffiit that could he wado on the increasing in-creasing business of our home railroad and of the city. Wneu less than three months a;o we expressed the conviction that trade would materially improve here during the fall, many thought us over, sanguine, let that' expectation is al.eady realized; and the increase in business will continue. But the freight received must have a counterbalance in exports, or trade would speedily become dull again. Ore shipments have helped to increase money; and so have the shipments of grain, flour, vegetables, salt, fruit, butter, eggs, and other articles that hire been sent off for sale in mirkets at a distance. These have all brought money back into the Territory, Terri-tory, and this money, finding its way ' ijiO the various channels which have ciused it to circulato through the com-mmity, com-mmity, has increased the general business busi-ness and made the improvement we no witness. This is but the inauguration of a permanent and increasing prosperity, if untoward influences do not operate agaiDst it. The great enemy to the prosperity of the Territory, at present, pres-ent, is the fanatical disposition of a few who are determined to make trouble trou-ble if they can; and who do not cure what injury may be inflicted npon the whole people and upon every interest of the Territory, if their pet schemes for the "overthrow of the Mormons" could only be successfully accomplished. With them it is a flagrant attempt to "rule or ruin." Under the pretext of wishing to "enforce the authority of the United States," it is their personal spleen and insatiate vanity which they seek to gratify; and for this every industry in-dustry in the Territory must suffer agricultural, manufacturing and mining through their senseless attempts to create an impression abroad that there is trouble of some kind or another here. The steady increase of business is the first refutation of the slander, which if correct would inevitably paralyze par-alyze trade here; the second lies in the fact that so far they have failed to make the trouble which they evidently desired to see cxistiug in trait Lake City and Utah. Bu5iness will increase, and after a few more spasmodic kicks they will flicker out. |
