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Show HAVE WE A HOSTILE ELEMENT! Oliver A. Tattou, Esq., tho recently recent-ly appointed register of the land office in this city, has published an article in a daily journal, giving the existing laws in regard to the preservation of the timber upon tho public lands, and tho court decisions ana instructions instruc-tions to the local land officers, who now have this matter in charge. As we have recently published, for the information of our readers, a compilation compi-lation embracing these points, it is unnecessary to repeat them; but we wish to call attention to tho concluding conclud-ing paragraph of Mr. P i'.toa's letter, which is as follows: To us there seems t bo a peculiar necessity ne-cessity for the vigorous enforcement of the law in this territory, there bemt; one element of the community intensely hostile hos-tile to tho development of mineral and material resources of tho territory, while upon tlio other hand there is nn entor-prisinp, entor-prisinp, industrious and intelligent class drawn hither by tho boundless resources of Utah, who by their energy deserve alike Iho admiration and encouragement of tho rooplc of the United t'tate-. There may be someexcuso for tho I register in making tho statement of tho existence here of a hostile element ele-ment to the development of our mineral min-eral and material resources. Being a comparative- strauger in the territory, terri-tory, he has perhaps accepted as a fact what a little judicious inquiry would have convinced bim is in general and in detail an inaccurate assertion, and which there was never any foundation for in any broad sense. If he refers to the class which comprises the majority of the people here, the contrary of bis assertion is tho fact. It is to the original settlers tho Mormons that the territory is most largely indebted for-tho advanced ad-vanced development of its resources, and its capabilities of self-support, which have contributed in a large measure to its success as a mineral-prodncing mineral-prodncing country. 'While great credit is due to foreign capitalists, who have made liberal investments in our railroads, mines and manufac tories, still the tact remains that the "clement" so slightingly alluded to by the register, has been tho vertebral column, if not the brains of a great prtot tho industry ot this commonwealth. It comprises the agricultural wprkt-rp, tho railroad builders, mo.-t vf the manufacturers, and much of the practical mining industry in-dustry of the territory. It is true that the development of our yreat resources in any single dircctiun. ii.is but just commenced; but taktu a ,i whole, is there any territory m America Amer-ica that has shown so remarkable a growth and prosperity as L't ih, when considered in reference to the outside out-side capital and means employed ? It is simply ridiculous to assert that this position has been attained by a people hostile to the development of the resources of tho country, as the register of the land office may come; to understand, either by inquiry 1 among even nJn-Murmons, or by a ' littla retloction, combined with tho ' use of his senses of observation. |