Show OTSO RICH bich dis dib doy has recently deen mado made that tho the soil is unusually u lagally productive and rich and that th the c count country is one of the best in the nation nation for agricultural product it does doea that this was known until qui quite gulte te lately the pathfinder as gen john C fremont has been called declared that it would bo be impossible f io follow a gr lural pur pursuits sulta in this region for the cold was so extreme in the summer that everything like vegetation particularly whore it was cultivated would wither afo before r the keen frosta which the mountainous country was subject evenin to eten even in the summer season and old mountaineers taine tai tat ers ors who considered themselves well acquainted with the great basin coffed scoffed at the idea that anything could bo grown here to support a population yet in tho the face of these statements the poor persecuted mormons cormons Mor mons fleeing from tho cruel hand band of christian 1 oril made mado their halting place hero and immediately commenced the i practical solution n of the question by breaking up the he ground and planting seed how they succeeded titter lifter yeara Veara of trying experience i guve guce bas has as b become cco eco me a matter of history canals habeb ha ve been ta cut ul ditches havo have bm been aud the nie water ii hm sib th thus ben carri ed edat at areat great exren expense and labor from tits ordinary ph aels to irrigate the land laud and under the blessing a of god the earth ilyes forth furth an abundance for tha tho sustenance uste na of man roan and beasi beast bu abu abundance dante danto has to bo be preceded by a toll toli hard work aed and eting eare care nd it appears aos if some seme jarson persons cannot allude to utah in tho the least degroo without aisie misrepresenting p res resenting entin 9 with nearly the same breath the bulk of hor her 1 citizens will be praised anil and reviled and her climate her soil hr hir minerals in inholt diott everything th that forms bj a bin siw ep for thought or care belv belonging belp nging lif lil ca 11 1 id to tory or tho people who inhabit itis mib mie ir To presented there wore more made somo some 0 m 0 little time tag 6 tage ige ide oile news away way a west and alad noall of allo alleged P d exten sivo and nd pa paying y in gald god db discoveries co verles veries having been made in thial valley tho the object was to bring a iange largo influx or miners here so fco late in the fall fill that thy th y v would ouid havo have cavoto 0 winter in thi there Thore vore wore no doubt other objects behind this one but be berthat ahat gwit asife as ibe ife iby may tho the design was evident to entrap if possible 4 a fc few w thousand men into wintering in this city whether khey khoy they wished to do boor BO or not now ve occasionally hear the wonderful fertility of the soli soil hero bero spoken of and at times timea we eel el inclined to auk think we are living in some other part of the national domain where there is not that amount of hard incessant toil toll demanded to wrest a living from the earth that there is here in utah some somo of those in individuals divI duals who indulge U in such misrepresentation look with covetous and greedy eyes on mormon farms and houses and would like to become their it may way be that they simply see the tho results of labor and i I 1 having no knowle knowledge dge of tho the labor itself they believe belle re that the earth yields her abundance heme here almost spontaneously if go they aze are mistaken vve we ave lotain pata f n very excellente excellent crops he here reime resme bome beato seasons ns i but there is ia a great amount of toil toll and hard work involved in the obtaining 0 of th those 05 c 0 ropa oropa and a degaeta of labor required to obtain them such as id is demanded by fow tow other agricultural countries this territory is rich in iron coal j copper and other kinds of minerals minerd ls but wo we have havo not learned of anybody being very successful in seeking for gold tho the climate is variable and the soil measurably productive when it is ili well tilled utah is a very fine place for those who are aro willing to work and desire to do right but it is not the place for a loafer or a lazy man who might think to become rich by viat watching ching ehing somebody else making successful pro garcea in life ilfe |