Show I on AU tffl DsfHrES Facilities and Avenues For Earning a Livelihood ard Acquiring Ac-quiring Wealth Opportunities for Employ Trjont and lnvcBtTn9nt AGRICULTURE HI colonists whoA who-A Ibunded Utah gave fJ their last I attention to agriculture i I i il Within a i few hour I after their all i hal on It tJ tin pot wheie was to htmil the capital city oflheir commomve ilih sevcial plows were turning ovir theviigin soil mil before sunset on hal fmoll sitholTuh suds ol virtus kinds had been Planted mitml half i I bushel ol potatoes win h the venel able Pioneer President Vllford Woodruff put in the griund The earth was dry anti the < k give no token tint moistmi sutticient to bring forth the seeds and 1 mature the ClOpS would come from above The pioneers knew the were in the heart of the Gicat American dcseit in arid und alniot rainiest legion What VMS tOJ t le done Slhllld thlstanll still awl I n it lit till dust their plows had disturbed If they dd tins what hot ofa lint vct had thev Yet hat could they do to furnish the element c 11 I moisture without which nature knell not how to j roduee vegetation I he question of moi lure for the soil 1 invoked everything to the Pioneers Pio-neers Upon it hung their I hopes and cry lives indmd ill th tOng glou t-Ong destiny they Hid their rn tentj were fiheord untd to achieve Never wcie the foundcis of a common wcilth confronted by u crisis involvIng involv-ing greater issue It ias supreme hour but tilt mspirilinn cf the Pro phct leader Bnghm Young VMS equal to it He dnictfd that the w utis running fiom the mountains past the camps of the Iloneirs be diverted from their intunl channel md made to flow over the lauds 1 that had lien plowed The I problem so v ist in the issues i which it involved w is solved md like mot gieit and suing truths th ollltion wore the form of sirn j h uv itself Thc null w is made mdep mil n of the ky so fir is crop r i sing w is concerned mil I mm i crul h J f dg 1 i lil hid found lie t meins of vuinrmg 1 fiom the b inui deiert n i dill untold in the form of food for himself and belstWhen When Morse was aked how he fn Ist came to conceive the thought of utililIlg the ItRlitn fir c Oil veying into igvncc lie J lulled It 1 was in in p rit on So Came to ling ham Y OJII the thought of ulihmg the scinlv vvitus of a mountain slreim fo geiniimlmg in the dry earth ml bi IILIIIL tomiturilv the I seed upon hidl le ent his brethren breth-ren must depend for food md hence for life and from out this msp nt on hue grown oi eijuenees of greater magnitude tlun evtn his giant minl 1 could it that tmieli ivccomiucd of Ills the key to the lItmption ohm measured area of the surface and the ctcilion of homes or un numbered million In J Utah irrigation Is to iLnctiiurc what blood is to the human body Without the former the Litter 1 must perish But bj irrigating the mil 1 I made more productive Icsi easily exhausted and capable of a I greater variety of crops The number of different pioducts grown on the firms of Utah is i one of their most striking mil valuable features Such idely diversified crop ire not known elsewhere m America Space will not admit of a detailed description ol all the firm crops that are profitably grown in the State nor the methods pursued with each Suffice it to say that all crops that will grow m the temperate zone do well in Utah Wheat is a staple product m every county of the State and the finet varieties and qualities of it ire raised while the yield pir nero is probably heavier thin invwheie else in the United Slate The potato grows to a perfection per-fection unsurpassed m the world and the yield per aero is enormous Alfalfa or lucent is perhaps all things considered the most remun entive crop the Utah firmer raises It usually cut three times a veir and about five tons lie obtained from in acre It is unsurpassed asa as-a forage Plant mil hogs cm be fed upon it until fittenmg time The value of this phnt to the Utah tI I firmer I is inestimable In Utah small fiimi ire fir more I prohtible than large ones n fact of great advantage to the settler who I needs I but a few acres lit order to iistim bUfi i ilerin comfoit I Withm a few years several vat land I mil irrigation iiitii > nses hive been I Inaugurated in tin northern ant I central portions of the State vihieh are offering firnn and water pnvil I iges to settlers on very idviiitie tct 1 f YII et ous terms I Tile agricultural devil opment of the State is prpceeil ng rapIdly I SHEEP AND WOOL Agriculture mm ng md sheep is the oilier it I nut nude of I the ll lei IL011111 mdu WiS ol Utah The I imiuntel nI v I iugllt into the Stall III retuin t i i w iof 1 and million I is enormous and rinks nct to the iIfW I totil received for the products of the mines I The dimnte of Utah nod the vast areS of grazing lands m the State olTord the best of facilities for the I profitable growing of wool mil mutton mut-ton mil Ilieeheep induliy has been profitable from the days of the Pioneers Pio-neers For mail years friction his existed ex-isted between the ow mrs i sheep on the one hand md the inhabitants of mall md remote settlements md the on ners of cattle on the other I sheepmen hivi chimed equd privileges with all other citizens m the use of the public donnin vhilc the cittlemcii mil settlers hive compluned of the destitution by tin sheep of the ranges Oil which the cattle feed This 1 contest h is broken out in the legislature it each session held duimg the last twenty yeais md at the last session be cattle m lercst suci icilcd m securing the page p-age of a bill authorizing county courts to hy a special tx I on sheep The I owneis ot sheep h ive organ gimcd and ire conducting in the courts a determined resistance to the enfoiccmcnt of the law 1 They 1 base their opposition to it on the ground tint it is unconstitutional Thc outcome out-come of litigation is i muted with I much interest especially by the OA n ers of sheep but it is i not gcner le rJl Illy believed i tliil the result whatever what-ever it may be will seriously affect the sheep industry LIVE STOCK Stock raising Ins always been profitable in Utah Thc mountainous mountain-ous regions ol the Sine which occupy oc-cupy the greater put of its area af ford pasturage fur herds of citllc without cot except for herding the yen loiind The climate ill all parts of the State is favorable to this m dtis rv except that in sonic seasons drouth cities iseircil of water for drinking While cattle may be kept 1 ill the mountains mil find siiflu > nt Iced the entire ear ill most counties of the State mCirhc and Rich it is ens tomiry to feed in winter The I eh mite in those two counties is cold md thc now falls to a cons deriblo depth This is especially true ol Rich omit Jut the c conditions do not dt trict from the pecuniary UCIP s ol the stock r iistiin mdtntry I normous quan tit ies of hay uc put up in sit lit ter which ire fid to cillle ill wmt r mil thc revenue derived Ii mi the sale of the latter is vciy large < In fict stock fusing is the chief industry of Rich count mil of sonic of the southern counties The prices paid to stock growers this year hive been 1 very good mil ill some counties the milrv among buvors has Rein intense leading to > the raising by one of the prices offered of-fered by mother greatly to thc adv ad-v of the grower Vast areas ol grazing hnds hive come under the control of the State legislature I since Utah was admitted illlo the Union and cm be teasel on rnsonible teims This condition will ud in reducing the friction be twcen the interests of sheep I md cat tic men respectively md must tend to the benefit of the latter There I is no question is to the permanent profitableness I ol the cattle indusity f leat 1 in this State t md 1 rcca is abundant i room for its future growlh I DAIRYING Within ten years pat the dairy industry his developed enormously m Utah mil m abundance of room rennins for Us continued expulsion The mountain regions of the State afford vast area of capital grazing land md numerous ideal loe itions for cheese factories md the production produc-tion of butter and cheese is extremely extreme-ly 1 profitable Cache county is noted for its enormous enor-mous crops of wheat vet its clairy products including pork the raising rais-ing of whiih is m essential feature ol the dairy business have lor some years pat produced i greater revenue rev-enue than his been derived from when One reason whv the dairy business busi-ness is so piofitible is the lact that the mining i igions in and contiguous contigu-ous to the State afford an excellent market for dairy products This circumstance coupled with the fact that it costs nothing for lood lor the cows six months in the yeIr except the herding ol them places the Utah d irl11an beyond the reach of eastern competition As above slued there is still unlimited un-limited I room for the eionth of this industry To engage in it requires but little capital or experience Its leturns ire quick and sure md its profits are large DEES The bee is a small thing but the nidus ry of bee 1 ccpmc ihcidy i an Important om m lLlh i ml milit cisiU b I mil fit i Ilim v 1I1110 n < lll1t I than II i i Th 1 s 1 011 Ila 111 16 0 I chinal I fill h I d I I 11 1 1 I cred ill III I i I I tYld I ito I II Ih it-o th r t I llo I gudens and tic w Id lluwe Ih iv I I produr lioi icv in grcit quint tr I win h til I V u < I 1JIl 1 t 1 11 I 11 I t and pla 1 Le n lilll n the re leh of i mm Not much capital is requ red to stilt with i ill this i pN 1 ne nea ic pro its m proportion to the investment md labor 1 arc enormous It n i a m ittrr of surprise that 11 larger nun ber of persons m the Stale hive not In tic i business 1 of IlOdllcin hone though large number of lirmei mil orcliirihsts keep bees is m incident in-cident to their chief voettion a practice prac-tice lint mght be very widtl ex tended 1 with most excellent results IIORTICULIURE Tti is difficult to give 1 sufficient lellSon why this mdslry his not flourish < mon mil attained greater proportions than it has line 01 egoliortions ehiids in most puts of the State have become moro or less infested with mspits dm int recent yeirs but this f irt done does not account lor the liilini to raise more fruit is I several diflu nt kinds ire not materially mater-ially iflcetpd by insects That Utah wIth i climate and soil absolulily u urp iss d in tin wold for 1 many kinds of fruit should fill to ruse i noneh of those veiy k mla to supply the home dun ml I is m anomaly However i great mi piovemcnt Ins liken place within i iiw years More mil bettor fruit is i being produrtd and it is being put upon the market ill bettT shape Thc ibovc ipphes more partiui1I h to large 1 fruits The 1 production of sm ill friu s Ins increased veiv much within i few years and is i very imp lallt in dustrv ill a number of towns m the northern 1 md central part of the State which ship large qumlities ol them north md east The IlOlits of this business 1 11 proportion to the capital required for engaging m it ire very large and theie is my amount of room for its further growth During 1 recent years the State legislature his take meisuies and pissed laWS looking In I the fistenne horticulture and there is cvciy reason to believe lint from now on I the industry will flourish I MANUfACTURES A history of manu ictnrcs ill Utah trilling all pluses of the subject would be excccdmj interesting and would iflord mm valuable bug cestious lehtivc to econom es mil social science The history of the world l up l to the lime when the Utih Pioneers began to idd important i chapters to it went to show that mmufictmes could not be success full istibhsicd mil l conducted fir remote re-mote from large populations but in this State this rule has been broken Frolll I the earliest settlement of Utah the people weie urged to en course home industiics and partly na spirit ol obedience to so wise in injunction md partly because they could not procure many coinmo h lies they icquired i without miking the sallie themselves I the engaged in manufactures more extensively thin did the first settlers of any State m the Union True 1 their early efforts m this direction di-rection were crude mil feeble I but u L I it comparatively I early due I i number of home industries i hid become 00 far developed as to afford cmpl n mcnt to mail persons beide In lushing nccess irics hich w mid h I 11 e been difficult if not impossible to lb tun m any other way and wlllwllt which the people must hive surtcic i very much The first articles mmufict ired io Utah were adobes and lumber N Ills were an inehsptiisiblc necessity md it in culy due their mmuficturc was engaged in They were fitted by hand md were also cut by crud machines imported or made here for the purpose The writer reeeinlv hall died some mils that were used in the construction ol an early dwillmg i house ill the Nineteenth ward which cost ten cents apiece 1 Leather was also manufactured it an cat ly late and for mail yeirs large quantities of it were produced There were tannel ics in this city and maul oilier of the larger tow is m the State But of late ycirs the m duslry has declined almost to the point of extinction the chief reason for this being the difficulty of obtaining obtain-ing tan Lark Hope is entertained that when methods for using canal grc root for tanning purposes have been perlected this Pi mduslry i will igim become an important one in Unl In the fifties President Brigham Young imported machinery for the imulicture of both cotton md woolen libncs The ittirapt to mbe cotton m Southern Utah was only partially successful md I ut litlle v is ever done in the production of cotton toods Hut the m tnuf iclure of woolens was very successfully eon dueled by President Young forman for-man years Woolen mills generally gener-ally on i small scale have been operated with more or less success in various towns in the State the Provo nulls established about twiniy ght years ago being much the largest ol them all Considerable success has attended the manufacture ol boots and shoes in industry that his been established it vinous times m many tOIl ni of Ihi State Several etlhlihnenh now 1 e i < 1 1m u in th t i ill ire hId i hI-d 1 I hi 11111W II t 11 h n I 1 I 1 I I I II b 1 I 1 I The manufacture ol paper cil I cnpigcd in it an culy date and wi ewitillned up to the burning of the plant of the Granite Piper 1 Co it Dig Cottonwood a few year ago since which time no paper has LeU produced in tile Snte It was avery a-very important mduti and its re cstibhsl l incut on a large scale would be a great benefit Spice will not admit of even a brief mention of ill the minttticlurci tint hive been engiged in Utah At tome ol the list cinlorill I turj more than one hundred different commodities manufactured in the Territory wer placed on exhibition exhibi-tion many of them possessing a high order of merit id successfully il Ih competing i lit quality ind price with the imported Ihe limitless vviter power of this Stale so easily coin rrtcd into electric elec-tric energy and conveyed m where combined with our other resources must in time make ol Utah a great manufacturing center This n i a subject well worth of mvestigtlion by citizens and capitihsls |