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Show Communicated. UXAB vs. COLORADO. That the latter is rapidly outstrip ping tneiormer in aaaing to tue number num-ber of the tune and einew of her population and which is being drawn from every section of this great confederation, con-federation, in as undeniable fact, and also that considerable wealth is being brougnt into that stale. The average arrivals per day at Denver are estimated at about 500, each of whom can efely be put down as ringing uuu aot. lrue, many of them return, hut then they leave at least about $50 each in the state before be-fore they can get away. This furore and undue excitement in the long run cannot but result unfavorably to the general interests of Colorado, inasmuch aa many, aye I very many thousands will leave her borders in disgust at the fraud and deception that have beon practised upon the tonguo to strikes which were of no actual value unless to the individuals who made them, and the richness and pormanency of which were ut once as trivial as uncertain Colorado is doubtless possessed ol eome fairminingdietriotsand has good mines that, after very heavy expenditures, (so very difficult are most of her ores to work) have rade a fair return to the capitalists who employ men to work them. It is in most cases too uncertain and far too expensive as a general propoeition tor toe working-man, working-man, unassisted and backed by capital, capi-tal, to undertake single banded, such developments. True there have been a la, ar, i-ara arnnnllnrg hut. Intra tha whole yield ot the Leadville camp and the uumber of men actually employed em-ployed by the producing mines and the wages they receive, the yield would show quite a small sum to each man, compared with tbe number who are now hunting, without any success, while the wages paid to the workmen would not BUpport a town one twentieth part the size of Leadville, as it now is. The lature of that state b compared with that of central and southern Utah ia really very shadowy, as so much depends on the snow; while here the mines are known to exist and have proved rich. All it requires is to let the world know that tbey are here. But Colorado haB got the tide turned towards her at present, though there is no doubt that a reaction will surely act in. The real yield of mineral in Utah places her third among the mineral producing statcB, and this year her productions will far excel those of any previous one; but independent of ber mineral she has got the beat and moat productive agricultural landa of all tbe states. Tbe failure to aucceed in the Colorado minea will compel many a one to turn his attention to and offer his services, for a time at least, in the departments ol agriculture and of stock farming, but the result will ba even worse in either of these branches of industry. The amount of land that can be ultiltzed for profitable farming witbin ber wide borders is eo extremely ex-tremely small, as compared with ber vast prairie wastes, that no induce ment can be oflared to the immigrant to come there to settle with any hope whatever being held out of realizing more than a hard earned and bare subsistence. Tue lands that can be made at all uaelul for raising cereal and crops of any kind aro all now taten up, and it ia only by an expensive ex-pensive system of water ditches that tbey oan be made to produce even ordinary crops. The native grasses that used formerly to abound on the prairies are fast fading away; they have been eaten down so often and so bare as now to refuse longer to pro duce even half enough to fairly feed, let alone fatten, the thousands of cat tie that are constantly roaming over the plains. The state depends on tuia and ber border sisters for many of tho nice ihitigj iu the way of viands that come daily to her tables. Then can she give to thu emigrant a home and a shelter such aa Utah can eo easily oerf find which, compared to tho other, woyld indd bo one in p land flowiog with milk ami with honey, surruumli-d by every tuppi-! ness aud cv,n:: i r jo. ttio bunmn human hear'. :,n.d desire. Gjimudu has n-.'it iirr tue land nor the climate to cbVr more tbau a meagre livtli-' hr,oJ in a ble&k, culd and shriveling atmosphere, whiie Utah possesses a climate unsurpassed for bilmy purity' and exbiUratiog freshness that gives, toue and viulity tu the system by) wuicu lite in extended and i hanpiot-ss iucreaded; with a boiI which lor productifenosB cannot be equaled in any other state or : territory in ail the broad Union. Her agricultural resources have heretofore been developed eullicieot ty supply little more than her own wants, but now she has commenced to ship to tbe English market, and as it has becm found it c:in be done, even after pay;ng freight lo Sau Francisco, with I ifuoi margin for profit, an impetus wid be given to iii-nuulture that will pUce Utah iu the Jroot ranks of the yreat wheat producing sections of the world, boe will now uJd annually to her area ol wheat lands, and also to the amount she will export. Of wheat alone the yearly production is greatly niur i niit nnn ki,i . this year of ovor 275,000 bushels, and she has shipped two cargoes, consist-! iog of 120,000 bushels, direct to England. Eng-land. Her exports of dried fruits have been very large of dried peaches alone over 250 tons have been shipped, and an equal quantity ol various other kinds, besides 1,000 tons of potatoes and half a million three last named have goDe to Colo rado; alio dreesed beef has been forwarded in large supplies to California. Cali-fornia. Give Utah but half a show and her population will double in the next year, and in another decade she will be teeming with a rlardy and a happy people twenty times the number ol what she has to-day, and she willbe-come willbe-come aB Bhe has the wherewith to do it as productive and rioh a state as California Cal-ifornia is at present. But alsu! Utah is now held up to the world aa only fit tor universal scorn and derision, and by one of her leading newspapers newspa-pers too, which mistakes its mission as the pretended exponent of public sentiment and uses tbe little energy it may possess, to thus injure the prospeois of the country which it ought rather to have been its honest pride to foster aod support. It casts a Blur thus upon the whole- community commun-ity by whom it ia supported, and with a petty, narrow-minded malice by wiucu it iuiuks iu creiue auu gain Bort of business capital and popularity, popul-arity, simply gratifies its own mercenary mercen-ary ends at the expense of the whole territory. The course it adopta, of rule or ruin, its low inuendos, its vulgarity and loose jokes uro, to Bay the least, as dangerous aa contemptible, con-temptible, showing a degree of narrow minded aelfiabness that sinks those from wb&m they eminated away down in the ecale of humanity, and as being only worthy ol silent scorn. Tbey are bringing the retribution but it is not on their heads alone it is falling the whole' territory is now Buffering for the grievous errors of those whose duty Buould have ted them to uphold and present the advantages ad-vantages they have worked eo faithfully faith-fully to damn in the eyes of tbe whole world. Blind policy indeed, to ruin a rohnlfl miintrv hv ivnnrinrf Hifl mnnt vital interests of the land and running it down and blazoning forth to the world the most vicious and vitiating calumnies, which keep capital away, drives back what is here, paralyzing every enterprise and depressing every department of trade. It has used all the influence it had, be it little or be it great, it matters not, to shake public confidence in the land where wo live. It has done its best, it bas tnea m nsraest, but it will find there is vitality, and to spare, yet in tbe country when the Tribune has lost tbe IhsI of its remaining brains. The people will boldly come to the front and rally to tbe cry of LEr Utah Flourish! |