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Show THE TRUE POLICY OF UTAH. Kx'reuiea are ilnnicrou-. The true-isui true-isui is none the wor.se for being often repeated. The people of this Territory, Terri-tory, if they felt so disposed, might shut their eyes to and set their faces against wining, until labor from a distance dis-tance would come in here and take the wealth which the minerals around will yield, while labor in the Territory would go a-begging for work. This would be rank foolishness, and will not Le done. On the other hand, everybody every-body might become so wrapped up in mining and everything so have to give place toil, that agriculture, horticulture horticul-ture and manufactures of various kinds would be entirely neglected, and the Territory be made dependent upon importations. im-portations. This would be another j extreme, even more serious than the previous one. Utah has the best start for solid prosperity of any of the Territories. Terri-tories. California has had the advantage advan-tage of Utah, not because she had mines, nor even because she had earlier ear-lier seasons, but because she had a seaport sea-port like San Francisco, which was the entrepot for commerce and immigration for a large section of the Pacific coast, and by which she received wealth and population while Utah was isolated, measurably cut off from the facilities of commerce, and only reached by a long and tedious journey overland. But during dur-ing all the years from the time when the west was pioneered, Utah was laying a foundation of prosperity which wiseacres wise-acres may sneer at, but is none the less broad, solid and secure. This Territory to-day can produce food for its entire population and spare a small army of workmen to develope its mineral resources. re-sources. But this could not have been done as late as two years ago. The un-1 certainty was too great to ri;k it ; and if Utah had stopped raising produce and shipping it, the whole of the mountain moun-tain Territories, this one included, might have been in the situation Montana Mon-tana was in not so many years ago, when flour was a dollar a pound and hard to get at that price; and a miner could barely.make enough to buy ''Ben lloliaday's chickens and biscuits" rusty bacon and second-rate flour. It is wise policy for Utah to-day not to neglect any of the sources of prosperity pros-perity opened or industries commenced for the permanent benefit of the community. com-munity. If paying mines are worked, there is the more Deed to encourage manufactures of every kind that have been established and to establish others; there is the greater need to improve in agriculture, use the best agricultural machinery, diminish the cost of produce by farming on a more extensive scale, which in this Territory can best be done on the co-operative principle; utilize the ranges and mountain moun-tain sides still more during the summer sum-mer with vast herds of good cattle: and raise larger root crops to feed them in the winter, so that by the chemistry of nature the feed may be changed into fat beef for exportation as well as home use, and into butter and cheese for the same purpose. By encouraging every branch of industry and necessary occupation occu-pation now engaged in, and by adding to them of those that will most increase the wealth of the community, we retain re-tain the full value of past labors, and avail ourselves of the resources that may be opened up for the benefit of all. |
