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Show CLEVER MORMONS. i THEY KNOW TOO MUCH TO LEAVE UTAH JUST NOW. A. ft. da R c(le Tell. a Detroit Journal How Smith'! I)loipl. .re They Realize Real-ize the Klrhnea of the Country and Will Han- On. A. E. de Ricqlos never loses an opportunity oppor-tunity to put in a good word for Salt Lake. The following is from a recent number of the Detroit Journal, which interviewed the young Frenchman when in that city. "Somebody said a little while ago" that the Mormons were going to move to Mexico and settle in land purchased by John W. Young. There is a live citizen of Salt Lake City in Detroit now. He is A. E. de Ricqles. That may be a familiar name to many Detroit people because Mr. de Rie(les is an old Dntroiter. It is hardly probable that there is a shadow of truth in the rumor," he said. "The Mormons are the owners of immensely im-mensely valuable lands in Utah, which yield a good living with but little effort on their part. Their Salt Lake City property has increased nearly ten times in value during the past six years, and the mining development has also added to their prosperity. The Mormon people are too shrewd to leave Utah. They can see us readily as the gentiles that the combination of agricultural and mining resources, together with the delightful climate and several health resorts, will make that territory the leading western s late before many years. "John W. Young is a son of Brigham young and a very bright man. Mr. Young is the vice-president and general gen-eral manager of the Utah Central system. sys-tem. This road was built by him and at the present time be is constructing a very considerable mileage of new line. "The business mon and owners of property in Utah worry less about the Mormous than do the newspapers 2000 miles away. The prosperity that has followed the Mormon downfall in Salt Lake City has been a great lesson to that people throughout the territory, and will do more to destroy tho power of the priesthood than all the legislation legisla-tion and opposition the United States government has from time to time offered. of-fered. From only one standpoint can I see a grain of truth in the Mexican movement, move-ment, and that is only a theory. It is possible that the Mormon church, seeing see-ing its power slipping away, may undertake un-dertake to establish a colony in Mexico where its power will be as absolute as in days gone by." Mr. De Ricqles mentioned incidentally incident-ally that the prosperity in Utah today is greater than in any " other section of the west. The mineral output for 18110 will be about $16,000,000. The wool clip was over 12,000,000 pounds. The cattle interests are in excellent condition. condi-tion. During the first six months of lSdO the real estate transfers of Salt Lake City amounted to .$18,000,000. In the same city during the entire year buildings and dwellings to the value of $7,000,000 were erected. 40 miles of electric street railway lines built and equipped, and a complete system of sewerage put in. The business busi-ness passed through tho banks is over $',000,000 per week. R. G. Duu & Co's reports, he says, show Utah to be in better condition tnan any othr section of the west. , |