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Show which, in beauty and grandeur, are not surpassed by any mountain ranges in the world. Within these lofty mountains are bid-don bid-don precious treasures of mineral, already al-ready tapped and made productive by a class of enterprising and progressive men, whose increasing numbers and influence in-fluence will shortly and surely give this halting territory a character, a name and a place, among the foremost states in the union. They are the best friends of the mass of the Mormon people, and have done and will do more to help them out of the bogs of priestcraft and poverty, and into the life and intelligence of American citizenship than any and all other human influences combined. Utah, last, but not least, will wheel into the ranks of sovereign states in the union, and take her proper place as chiof of the mining column. THE COLUMN OF STATE?. The passage of n bill for the admission of Wyoming ns a stato, in tho house, is but the prolude to similar notion on the part of the Benate. The admission of Idaho will shortly follow, nnd with enabling en-abling acta promised for the aotion of psoplo in Arizona nnd New Mexico, nil the territories with Btnte aspirations except ex-cept Utah, aro provided for. She, like Lot's wife, clinging with regretful fondness to the abominations of Sodom, tinds herself stationary ns a solitary pillar of salt, which has lost its savor. Whatever of merit belongs to the Mormon piunesra and thoir successors in the priesthood, in Bottling nnd cultivating culti-vating these beautiful nnd fertile valleys, val-leys, The Times gladly accords them. The so-called "wilderness," which they by patient nnd persevering industry have made to "blossom as the rose," is not the desert ns somo have pictured it, but the bed of nn anciont sen, as fertilo as the delta of tho Nile. With water to moisten it,iU soi!,all rondy for the plow, when turned up to the kindly influences of an almost continuous sunshine, yields prolific harvests of grain, gross and fruits. These valleys, the home of Mormon farmers with their small well-oultivnted farms, lino the railways for miles north aid south of Salt Lake City and present to the appreciative eye of traveler an I tourist landscapes of quiet beauty. They are Hanked on either hand by snow-capped mountains, |