Show OMS it is ia said that leli lehi is leading out to have established there some onyx works tho tha citizens believe it will wil 1 be a at spaying paying investment to begin working up this precious stone in ia a small way we believe too that it will pay and have hoped that would see the advantage ot or starting each anch an indu industry atry undoubtedly t the 7 e polished onyx will find a ready mar ket in the east A gentlemen i told old us na last saturday Satu rasy that a large firm in new york whose name he ha d did dd d not want mentioned at cresea present was negotiating for or one oae thousand square feat rf ct onyx sawed nto into slabs of an inch and a halt half in a thickness and pol fished on one side for which it A would pay 1 per square foot 1 I can malie make good wages polis polishing bing 1 by hand at that rate said the oen en clemen but it would of course 0 be more profitable to work up the stone by water power and a few hundred dollars worth of machinery JL 1 few such orders as that would soon fayfar pay far a small plant and there is good reason to suppose that as much of the finished product Rs as 0 onyx nym norl workers ers could out would find a ready I 1 market the salt lake laira temple would have taken 36 I 1 worth woith 0 of fonya onyx at the rate of 6 per square fact for flais finishing hing 11 the inside had utah been able to polish the product properly the architect waited for some time hoping that some home homa syndicate would begin working up the onyx claims and finally he had bad to do the finishing in hard wood we wa mention m this to show the encouragement onyx works might hecei receive here at home tax E hopeau thai our beau stud and abundant onyx may soon be sent bent out to bring back in return a needed revenue for the territory utah Uta ought hought to have the rest of tb e country paying tribute to her on her many natural riches in gold silver snIp sulphur bur salt asphaltum I 1 onyx slate marble etc which practically lylis li undeveloped to wait for eastern capitalists to come and work our natural wealth for us if we be bein begin in ourselves to do the work I 1 capital will not be slow in hunting us out and seeking investment |