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Show PRODUCE THE BEST- Utah impnrts beef, pork, butter. chochQ ami corn, when it hhould export ex-port every one of them in largo quantity. quanti-ty. It exports largely of wool aud hiiJe, and iuporifi woolen gooda by milliouH of yard, and bontit and abacs in hundre'lo of thousands of pairs annually. an-nually. It exports lead by the hundred hund-red to tin weekly, and imports all the manufacturer of lead which it requires. This is tlio policy of poverty; not that of prosperity. Take the richest mine ever diuovered, and on fist as it ie worked ita value decrease:-; and if the revenue derived from it is not utilized util-ized to increabo more wealth, wuen it fkilit altogether poverty and wretchedness wretched-ness succeed. Some exhausted oil regions re-gions in the oast and miuing regions in tho weat are apt illustrations of this. A few years ago there were flouribhing towns, thriving business cstablishmenta and prosperous communities in the lo-oalitioa lo-oalitioa referred to; now silence reigns, poverty olaims them for its own, and business has fled, for the aouroo of' wealth in exhausted. V hilo our mines continuo to yield, thoro will bo money in circulation, aud all the oviacocea ol prosperity; but lot the mineral deposits depos-its of any one district beoomo exhausted exhaust-ed and aco how quickly it would be deserted and despised. And what is true of one district is true of all, under liko oiraumstanoes. The mines must bo developed and worked, for they will yield wealth, and mctalB necessary in tho arts, soionoes and manufactures; metals in the shape of iron, lead, gold, tilvcr, copper, cop-per, and so on without which civilization civili-zation would rolrogrado. But every wise community adds manufactures lo its mining, which forms a source of wealth incrcasiog'.in productiveness the more it ii worked; and every such I community endeavors to make and produce tho very best artioles, to ooni-pete ooni-pete in price and quality with those mado and produced elsewhere. To enooutago manufaoturos it has been tho policy of many wise statesmen to protect them by taxing similar importations. impor-tations. But, apart from the advocacy advo-cacy of any theory .of protection or free trado Utah cannot bo aided by any protcctiva..tarifF imposed by law, though nature itself has provided one, in tho freight tariff which must exist between points from a thousand to fif teen hundred miles apart. 1 his may be light, yet is stilt a tariff in favor of tho native manufacturer. The point wo wish to make is, that to compote with, importations of any ( kind wo must produco as good artioles, to sell at an low figures. This u the ec-oret ec-oret of success. All tho butter made in Utah could find a ready salo at the very highest price paid bore, were it a good article ; and this is proved by the fuot that really good butter .is bought up so quickly that it is often difficult to find it on salo.at provision dealers or elsewhere. Ko with other dairy produco. Beef is Eearce because a few years ago young cattle were sold eff wholesalo and driven from the country. coun-try. Pork is scarco because, when tho hygenio polioy of not eating much swioo'a flesh was wisely advooatcd, many persons imagined it was as unhealthy un-healthy to keep porkers as to eat thorn, and stopped raising them; forgetting for-getting there would always be a mar-kot mar-kot for them. Considerable cloth manufactured in this Territory has been woven from unovonly spun yarn, under the direction direc-tion of men who havo not been thoroughly thor-oughly acquainted with all the details de-tails for finishing in tho best manner; so that it has bocu left rather greasy, not properly calendered, and lacking that finish whioh would have added to its appearance and intricsia vuluo. Yet any one who carefully examined the oloth exhibited at tho last Territorial Territo-rial Fair, must havo been satisfied that thoro wero men and machinery here capable of turning out an article of doth that would successfully eompctc with anything of the same kind that could bo imported. It is gratifying to know that in tho large new Provo faotory every appliance appli-ance has been or is being secured to manufacture fabrics equal in every way to any of the eame olaeees ol goods that may bo brought to the Torritory. With this faot in view, and with the knowlcdgo that when tho Timpanogos or Provo faotory is in full working order it will have over twenty-four twenty-four hundred spindles and over a hundred loom 3 going, we think the Territory can be congratulated on a new era in woolen manufactures, whioh will bo at once an ioimcnso benefit to the community at large, and a source of great gratiticauon to its projeotor. But in everything made, manufao turcd, or produced in the Territory, wo would urge upon all to endeavor to produce tho best, in accordance with the old truism, that whatever is worth doing is worth doing woll. I |