Show THE TEE ON OM MN ISO ING 1 tho the bauth church it lie tea an and the church lia ito vo for some borne time tat past endeavored to writing and by their conduct that they never were in opposition to 0 o the development of the mineral un wealth ot or the ilia territory bol and so fo well have bavo they succeeded that many many hon ban mannona III balice alicle at i the prep pre Ecott hat it not interfered with tile thy ind and opening up of ftc bc country p to unrestricted ott on chii ihs contrary wa agat tha a at one ona period in the history of utah every olf ob stacle was plind in the waylis way or tb tic a prospector and itu an information that ilia t could have been given by cormons lor mons thada tha dw was nas carefully med so H much so eo that in ia several where discoveries had binl been made by test dc ants they were by tile the priesthood d to to cover them up and say eay nothing about it for fear or of in aa idaus of out outsiders sliders an event which iwa more dreaded by the chuch leaders than allcot anything elc cli in tho the jays of which we speak the idea of wai waa I 1 so baroor stron g I 1 that contat with the was strictly forbidden and every oula outsider ider who lived in the country at that time well knows the aversion of the people to ct thing that was calculated to breal V api upi bolato I 1 I 1 in charch opposition to mining we cao can cita aitt cawa cases occurring as aa fat back as as ched teen loon prospecting in the calious caTi oiLs were compelled to guard their property in of threats undo made against then them one of the excuses fur such conduct being acia that thai ilia right to ilia ali actions had been granted by the territorial rit orial legislature to church dignitaries who claimed absolute control of those callons where abera m moral existed when tho the fi edibility or of the mormon policy is 1 it ig ia not difficult to account for foe tho the tiro faced statement so frequently made thesis this is calo a VY ge true or of OU all that conc cone cros the mineral development of the |