Show UTAH TAR j ITS 11 SILVER MINES AND OTHER industries S jk it I 1 ifrain Cru lall A intern world 1 I 1 utah ii IA tho american america anomaly whether cheth e r in physical geog geography faLy ir mode t mineral develop c ve 1 ap pp elent political and social systems BYS krusor sor 01 ol ideal liw she seeds it a marke marked excel lion thing that we bur blip posed settled in science or y on oil liichi nf her aall we w a rest r will you tea f of our t aai ani twelve thousand reel feet high cur call ering liala balfour our territory of out our jed des berls or of send soda floda salt sai anil and alkali flint anil and gravel gratcl covering thirty bbous bud and square of ulah of out U wonderful lake jake four fu thou und annd tw Il lindred reee above sea level y by y forty miles in extent three i and ud square milea of pure bi ine ing large rivers and none f basins where all lie streams loir flow to io alic center anan annj none one outward to ta the he aca rea of sinking creeks running WO aca and strong fram liol hol lows lowi and toon soon lost in 10 barren deserts or kir of walled lakes and roaring catta cata I 1 rilda cc 1 1 of our mountain salt alt and fountains of bf brine abat 1 bat agolig these wonders a new anil and industry I 1 line has sprung tip ru ng tip ap within two years I 1 it and in a utilitarian spirit more will 1 desire to hear bear of our silver beustring bills to the general reader who approaches alie subject for the first time a brief outline of utah may lc be of assistance in comprehending IL i mort more special li description Krip lion or the lie mining minin regions A utah contains a little over square miles milea in tho form of a pami 1 i lel dogma except where a small square is fl cut from the northeast corner liy by WyO wyoming milic of this fist area tiei mora than two tiro mid and a half times the size fize of ohio not flat more inore than one tenth lenth in ia or of tny any use to civilized man at least one half is IB covered ly by barren mountains with very small strips fit for grazing and ham sr ingall ealler cr strips covered with timber whilo while an I 1 able desert includes nt at least square miles mileson of tho the remainder only the lowest valleys can bo be cultivated as irrigation if is 3 required and eve even U of the small area fertile enough for farming leu leal than lies in ina a position for water to be brought upon it at a cost to justify the attempt tle desert results rca ulli froni from four cassesi first I 1 elevation and cons consequent cold second drouth great tracts lying too high to bo be by any ity ream or too fir far away from high mountains tle y n e air rain from the clond clorida which cling to llie lulls hill third aril ari excess of inorganic matter as took rock gravel gratcl ac and fourthman foar four than excess of chemicals as a ioda alkali and nd plant destroying salts salta from all of these causes it results that not moro mora than que nut tenth or of utah ii a 0 of f any use either cither for grazing grazin tillage or timber on the bert ilo strips r ip S tile mormons cormons prospered because tl there was no railroad and they had the eai ex elusive supply of 0 all the adjacent mining countries c oun tries I 1 the railroad destroyed agri culi cul tural aral monopoly and montana nel 1 vaili vada dad idaho could supply apply them selves from abroad for less ICES than aalf the lowest price they lad paid utah la in 1868 corn told sold in this thia city at 3 bushel and flour at 10 per hun lunt gir red one ye year at alter flour wait waa 89 9 per 1 arrel on the railroad ona otio hundred miles nearer montana and corn was ecoling for tho same game price a as a in in I 1 indiana or south or of this city wheat was down downa t ty sixty cuts per bushel slid and barley sa so cheap that fed their stock upon these grains if utah becomes great then it must be through her mines minea the dream of in an agricultural ri cultural supremacy Is forever deepe d af cd for the roan man who irrigates five or lou leu acres can call never transport his grain and compan with the california or iowa farmer who BOWS forty acrea norca for each man with the assured certainty of rate rin and dew the most utah can hope for is 13 to su supply p lehome lioma market with such buch p provisions as all cz cannot abnot profitably bo be I 1 transported r aro for that hat market and our real wealth we must look to our Ix ills if practice and scientific observation aro are not alike at fault we are upon an immense lm base metal range a basis for one ona of the like richest mining countries in tho world utah ol of a succession of lasins each cacti having a water sy of its ita own or of which the largest and moist important in im thell salt like basin which receives tho iho bof tho the northwestern third or of the tha territory this lanin basin extends counting from rom the iho headwaters of in iri flowing streams front from near bear lille on oft tho 06 southern lorder border of idaho to mount nebo a miles month boulli of this chii city and from the weal wea mountains or oquirrh ranee ra n e I 1 which shuts us ha off from the great reat nevada e lesert la sert to the summit ortho of tho wa kitch mountains which form forin the wb w ter acied between this valley a and d th the c effluents of the colorado river I 1 at al present duly clude mines which lio fin in ia tho southeast portion jorli of tho the basin I 1 have marled marked out the lie two cottonwood Collon wooda and american fork ark districts iron f from which I 1 have just returned after ader some bunie w ei take tho a map of f Uta bind and from the colorado f follow ao up its ill josin affluent the and it willa found to licad bead iu in the wit wa hatchl i aalia ff ki pretty I 1 well the center f thia his irom the boidan liver its ili affluent ama 8 big lii anti anil little cottonwood can IK be traced up bp to tile dinino peaks fro to 11 utah laka iao follow up tip the provo nr r Timp and ameria Amer iian 20 1 1 ork avire and ana they at aie a seen to heal head n q up tie I 1 litak cottonwood Cull onwood that aw ali nari west of ri ridges idi to divides ii J es them 21 1 il I at brown ai k klirs dimp of we ari arc within eve miles ol of abe of five I 1 in anti anil around chii range of particularly on the iho west side bide and rl lialo cottonwood are ra the th olt lct anti and best developed I 1 only consider those mines which pro pre best developed and ami which lait best la it enable us to judge jade or of tile formation tho dp dip of tho et eureti tile bof S dio 0 and ondi above all tho the gre great ilal U adlon al flu to fo whether stif mines in ill titita I 1 barq anro only jockola or deposit sr or whether wb tato bave lrus fiss A veins which aro arc lo 10 rc aloin I 1 in enduring in and band upal suver stile state andril and alii ls ii tho the ilu in u ft com coin tinna nil viii I 1 lost des its ila great ecat on aba it li thi jhc norn on question Qt estion 1 it sittle that wi an enduring clan c or of mines and shall as wo we proceed ge reasons for my faith tube conlin ewd |