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Show it to them as a reservation, the asphalt, coal, coal oil, mineral wax, gilaonite, marble and alabaster stored there becomes be-comes useless, and one of the richest portions of mineral Utah is thrown away. Keep out the savages, and in a few years railroads, oil-wells, oil and as-phaltum as-phaltum refineries, coke ovens, in short, all the appliances required in a rich and varied mineral district with a large and adverturous population will spring into existence, on what is now culled a desert. Over the Wasatch mountains and into this teeming valley by way of Salina and Huntington canyons, and along by the streams which make thoir way eventually into the Colorado river, railroads from the Pacific coast will connect con-nect with the main railway soon to bo built down that great river to tide water and a harbor, on the Gulf of California. Utah, at present, can well afford to have this south-easterly corner of her domain neglected as a desert. When the inexhaustible inex-haustible fields of coking coal which abut on the valley are opened, and give employment to a lino of coke ovens sll along where the mountain merges into the valley, thoy will be reminders of past noglect, and tho indicators of a present and future prosperity. AN UNAPl'ItHCIATKU VAI.I.KY. It is supposed by some that the portion of Utah lying east of the Wasatch mountains moun-tains and south of tho present Indian reservation re-servation is well nigh worthless. For this reason some would say that the little strip of fertile land in Coloradoon which the Southern Uks aro now located is worth far more to the government, or to settlers, than the whole of the wilderness wilder-ness referred to in Utah. From information infor-mation dorived from prospectors, herdsmen herds-men and adventurers, it is evident thm s a mistake, and that coal and tumoral of the hydro-oarbon family abound them, j Mo v the ("o'lthern Uten thrfd ("id giy j |
