Show UTAH THE HUB OF 01 THE WEST wis we have daria luring the last two months been treating of the resources ol of utah giving of her ter mines her agri culau celluro cul luro to her importations exhortations exportations and improvements for 1872 with articles on her railroads banks and me ric ce 5 antics this wo havis dono done to stimulate and to cupply lus bus ibets men and adil capitalists abroad with a compendium of our native resources and opportunities of growth during the next few jean Tears in which utah will male make a bound to social greatness and wealth not surpassed by any portion of the be con in the given circa of time not kot even the past of chicago will parallel her career and development during the next celt quarter of a century gna and this ibis reference brings us to a brief consideration of utah is as the hie hub of the west and the cosmopolitan cliar character acter cf the people destined to fill up these valleys statesmen anduar and fair minds who 0 track the direction of commerce and empire can ecar acly do leu im than nark mark utah on the moo map as a geographical center uniting it with the east and the west and who say indeed that if not the head utah may m ay not in a quarter ora of a century hence be esteemed as the very heart of ef the american republic ifer her destiny as such each would depend first on her geographical situation second on her native resources and third on the character ind and stamina 14 of her people in her situation she las has often been spoken of as the hub or the halfway half way bouse house between the east and the west general taylor being im impressed with a 3 similar conception and with the import once ance of this country to the nation exclaimed at the first settling of utah my god the mormons cormons have kot got on to the at backbone of 0 the continent ill cat but no longer are re the ifor cormons mormons mons slant on that backbone beck bone in ia isolation iso latiol LuIl bu ilJin Jing up a mosaic economy of church an aad 1 stale or a modern theocracy and evolving a one man power the gentiles are arc also alao astredo astr iilo of it today and this mineral inin crol backbone is too valuable for cither to ran its if possession consequently mutual l interests will recon reconcile cilo both to the facts of the aitu acion and their common necessities will mil bring about rapidly after the trans transitional ie i c I 1 led is pas past a grand fusion of society in utah in which there will bo be neither clotio nor mormon lormon remembered only as names of bygone by gone gono d distinction neither either clam cilia can caa prosper an and d reach the be vast influence which they are severally several ly to wield not only over tills country but also in llo alo nation at large when utah a state bolh folly stu aej un less there grows growa up a lasting bond or ol peace and amity andily beLi veca them their very berylle no lle will force these two classes to bury hatchet and to engage with one accord in the development of our vor varied aed resources and every branch of industry and work for tile tho common cow well good M lite hie entire people of utah the of both tides sides who will not dot do this thin will wiil fco be looked upon as pert illiF disturbers disturb ers of the peace and the enemies of the real interests of his this territory or state as it will bo be undoubtedly after this fusion beall have hare fairly liken with these two clasma tl cla asMa swit the mormon lilor won and gentile united or rather bleir dib Li linc actions tiona of class tunk milk fort leir vcr tyer tho the old qua and now battlers bett lers combined Com bloed in i it their different sphere a to out bo be great ricas of utah her rheed to importance import anc in the would resemble that or 01 the railroad itself the old settlers or of utah excepts excepting rig out oui estaba marchant mor mc chant and capitalists will principally P engage in in agricultural ri pursuits puri nod and the products ol of the territory in tint that department of in industry will multiply ten fold for the demand will bring br edg forth tho the SU supply aply and the capacities or of increase of tho the land answer to the irrigation and cultivation expended on it while on the other hind hand the new settlers will chiefly devote themselves to the developing of the mineral resources manufactures railroad and I 1 general commercial and ud financial enterprises thus united for a common and intelligent purpose and with the batia babis of wealth that a territory of a quarter of a century old will a afford all clec classes nill ill push butth ut ih into every 7 of growth and both bolli old settlers and new will lill wonder that they ever regarded ench each other As enemies seeing how bovia asseo they will ill hayo have E become to each others cris welfare Arc |