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Show This is the way in which a correspondent of the Omaha Herald speaks of the wealth and material progress of Utah: The Mormons are a busy, energetic, and in the whole [?], a prosperous people. They have emphatically made "the desert to blossom like the rose." Their cities have developed great enterprise and wealth, they have almost universally paid all demands against them until their honesty in pecuniary matters has passed into a proverb. They have made a garden instead of the wild sage brush that once covered their land. Their farms, many of them are models of patient, persistent work; their manufactures are marvelous, considering all the obstacles that they have met but overcome, and are increasing every day, and the bowels of the earth contain untold wealth in iron, coal, lead, salt, gold and silver. They have all the elements of a sure and great prosperity and only one blot on their civilization. It is to be hoped that this will pass away and be remembered as a thing of the past, and that a commonwealth will be developed that will contain millions that may be sustained in this territory teeming with the elements of the greatest prosperity. |