Show OUR EXAMPLE TO WESTER SETTLERS the cheyenne argus in a late leading article advocating the cultivation of 0 the poll draws some comparisons be tween the work accomplished here herewith with the difficulties which had to be encountered and the facilities which offer in that region for success in agriculture itaas the only thing needed to make that place lace jone ione of the richest agricultural rd 1 l districts of the entire inland plaint plains is a well cand conducted acted system of irrigation the argus angus says about salt lake city the tho nature of the soil is for agricultural purposes pur ahr poses far less favorable in appearance than that hereabouts and the character of the natural productions of the soil is anything but prepossessing consisting in fact of nothing but weeds and gage sage brush yet in spite of tile the originally desert like appearance of that country the mormons cormons set to work with industry and perseverance and by the judi judicious management of a stream no larger than crow creek they have made their city one of the agricultural and horticultural wonders of the american continent cheyenne is called the magic city its growth is perhaps unparalleled in the history of cities and if such a policy aa as theargus thein their gus advocates is followed its prosperity will be steady and continuous and not of that fluctuating character which has marked many places of rapid growth on this continent it has many great advantages its location at the foot of the black hills where the rolling stock of the over everlana overland iana lanA I 1 railroad will change its central position with growing states and territories around and its proximity to eXten SITI mining regions place within its reach rare elements of sudden growth and prosperity but when the mormons cormons Mor mons settled this region they had no advantages of the kind they could not hope to get rich by selling their surplus produce to miners in adjacent markets as hs some billy silly scribblers scribble rs have intimated because there were no adjacent markets nor any people to make them there were no miners minera for no mines had been prospected for or discovered and ni no 0 white men the present mining re regions I 1 ons around what is now called utah T there gere was no pacific railroad talked of much less in course of construction for I 1 this western country vias vlas was looked upon as and named the great american amerlean desert yet the the mormons cormons Mor mons came cams here inexperienced in the soil soll the water the alkali and salem gal Bal eratus which abound here and irrigation by which alone crops could be raised they rooted up the sa sagebrush sage e brush broke the soil labored and persevered and show a steadily growing prosperity which n no state or territory in the nation that depends entirely on mining cart can show we have been prospered greatly and strange as it may seem to some this un favorable and unprepossessing soil of ours produces more wheat to the acre than the richest alluvial soils of the great grain raising states east cast of the missouri river As a people we aro arc grateful for our prosperity we feel encouraged to persevere in industry and good works and with the example which our career furnishes to the set tiers tiera of this entire western country they need not hesitate as to thevis theo Wisest est policy for them to adopt to secure great and permanent prosperity |