| Show inaugural day celebration at salt lake OV II 11 M ADDRESS Syn binl of points is published governor wella inaugural address at the bait lake tabernacle bufore that vast of newly made united citizens cili zens occupies over seven columbe apace in the bait lake papers the enquirer regrets the fact that its facilities will not permit it to publish it verbatim today the governor congratulated all the citizens ol 01 utah first and foremost the pioneers that heroic band of patriots who blazed the way for western civila bation and began half a century bince the wort which hai made lovely and won kerful utah what it is today a BOV erelyn state in the union said the governor As for those of ua who followed in their wake whether we came to utah iu the blow moving prairie ech coner of frontier days or in the ii klien n express train of diore recent years cr whether born upon the soil let us clasp hands upon this natal lay and congratulate each other upon the happy solution of all past contentions and our eucce eBion to the full rights and privileges of citizenship in a free and sovereign state of the grandest cran dest republic the world has ever ecea he reviewed many ol 01 our causes for felicitation and congratulated the union upon the of commonwealth mon wealth of proportion a and superb he then re viewed our history under territorial government and our many attempts to get statehood and the obstacles that were thrown in our way the issuance of ing manifesto tho divorce of church and elate and the lod feeling toward utah that then spread over the united baates and the entire world he then enumerated tha beatea re as follows the assessed valuation of our prop erty in 1895 wag the total export value of our matra duct in 1895 was 00 computing the gold and balyer at their mint and other metals at their value at the ee aboard would increase the value of tho mineral 14 we have barme in utah and of thea are absolute ly free of incumbrance total acreage irrigated acas number of theeo owned in utah in 1891 valued at yielding yi eldine a wool clip in year of D 3 ands valued at shipping points at tha value of our agricultural products in 1891 was the output of ranch and range the number of our industrial concerns in 1894 was employing laborers paying in wadea a total capital invested of and turning oat a product of annually there were 1974 stores in utah employing persons paying in wages representing a capital invested of and belling per annum worth of goods the total amount expended on public and private buildings and publio works in was total number of banks doing business in utah anna 30 1895 thirty nine employing a capital of and having on deposit we haye in utah 1316 miles of railroad and 90 milea of street railroad ocr population in 1895 was which ia greater than the population of the stale of deleware or nevada or montana or idaho or wyoming or north dakota number of children attending school in utah attending vate attending no schoola total school population total number of schools ot all kinds 1 total valuation of school property including grounds buildings buil dinga furniture and apparatus 94 and then said surely with such credentials creden tiala aa these the admission gates ought to be and are wide open and utah passes the portals ot the union while ibo new year bells for 1896 are yet ringing with all the borno porno and splendor befitting her power her prestige and her past achievements our future will be what we make it it with her resources her location in the very heart of the continent her fruitful abil her wealth of water her glorified air her thermal springs her wonderful lakes her phenomenal fields of natural gas her new land to cultivate her new mines to open her new railroads and factories to build her new reservoirs and canala to construct if with all these added to tan impetus which statehood gives utah does not become one of the foremost slates of the union it will be the fault of her own people god holes them who help themselves in his bounteous wisdom ho has given us a paradiso of mountains and plain it remains for us to fashion it ao that it will be pleasing in his sight jur wonderful material progress under all the disadvantages of territorial an I 1 the other obstacles that have been ilacad in way cited particularly the development of our gold silver and other mining hoped for the rehabilitation of silver as money in the near future the immediate of a line of railway to the south and west of us and for other necessary for our material advancement the near approach ol 01 the opening ot the uintah and indian reservations was referred to and then the governor complimented ted the woman of utah who have greater cause for joy on the advent of statehood than hava the man for they come in as qualified legal voters with all he righta of fellow citizens iu very daei the govonor closed as follows let advance the etan darl of enlightenment and humanity lat aba glories ol 01 our liberty penetrate every latitude and all peoples of this earth until this country shall become the model of government for mankind in the great firmament of nations the united estalea is the constellation most beautiful most sa blime down the stream of time through all ages and aaen may utah be one of the stars in that glorious constellation tho was well received and at the cloae of its deliverance bev T 0 iliff offered up a beautiful closing prayer the reception and ball at the theatre was a glorious success |
