Show SALT LAKE CITY july 1870 editor wems news in looking over the nile file s of eastern papers that dally daily mail facilities furnish famish us one very noticeable fact prominent among the rest stands out in bold relief and that is the strenuous exertions made to create abroad a belief that the gold and silver mines of utah are not only paying institutions but inexhaustible and that the disappointed of every country have but to come to utah stake their claims and return to beir their homes millionaires lion aires the past history of the territory should be sufficient evidence of itself to convince the most moat casual observer of the true state lof jot affairs as far as financial prospects are concerned to those who strive to make means by mining thousands upon thousands of dollars of ready means have been expended to no profit as far as securing prominent bi benefit to the territory true the whisky vender the gamblers and the boughs roughs have to a certain extent found tuni ties to ply their different avocation but the resident citizen the laboring man has been taught by experience that these things militate against the true prosperity of the country he is endeavoring to build up UPI and that while money may for the time being flow in it as suddenly buci bucl denly disappears and eaves them in a worse condition than their previous one from the fact that their apparent prosperity was not built up upon on a proper foundation but rather upon expectation the foregoing is singularly true in regard to mining as at present carried on it is not chathas what aas has been done but what we expect to dochat co that keeps alive in the min miners erb ers heart the feeling to risk everything on the cast of a single die the question presents itself very forcibly as these accounts of the vast deposits of gold and silver are read are the correspondents of the different papers publishing thes articles ignorant of the facts as they exist have they been bought up by speculating claim owners oris or is there still another meaning to their laudatory correspondence in regard to mineral wealth does not the present political excitement give a clue to the real meaning of this hue and cry about the rich claims that may be found anywhere and everywhere throughout all utah from its first inception up to the present time cannot we trace the history of this to foist the idea of rich diggings upon the minds of the non nonresident resident as simply the work of a few broken down political hacks who have made our territory a general rendezvous for the purpose of replenishing their starved purses aud nud as a means of again placing them in position that their neighbors east refused to entrust to their care for reasons p pe sibly best known to themselves the influx into our midst of the transient population 0 pu lation by whom we are surrounded w who ho are ever ready to stampede in any direction that may promise the prospect of mining clai elai claims ms would afford these miserable defunct fossils of a past political day the means of swelling a vote to a respectable size bize and thereby increase their chances for a contested election do the resident citizens here hero take into consideration the true nature of the case or of the edfort effort that is being made to deprive the people who have bave made the territory Terri territory tor y what it ia is of the right that belongs to every good citizen that is the weight of his vote at the ballot box we have bu but t to go backbone bac kone or two sessions of congress to view the spectacle of the entire vote of people le for the candidate of their zoo choice OC e ro eing being bp put in question against but little over transient votes for a confessed oni y claim for sympathy was the fact of his mental aberration this of itself should be sufficient sum elent clent evidence that we should be on our guard against the movement of political tricksters trick who catch at the shadow of a straw in expectation of accomplishing their object it would possibly not be e inopportune at this point to suggest the idea to our young men who have gone wild over the prospect of suddenly acquired wealth that they are in a fair way to be made pliable tools in the hands of vile demagogues for their own overthrow certainly a very consoling reflection to them after the experience they and their fathers have passed t through cofone of one thin thing they can rest assured ie e I 1 ail ali I 1 all that glitters blitte ra Is not gold this fuss and feathers about claims 11 vast mineral wealth rich diggings paying lodes etc etc is not on account of the money these mines minea possess but for a different reason and that reason is simply the political control of the territory orji which a few whose political friends have repudiated and whose political fortunes were on the wane wish to possess themselves of that they may the better supply their needy wants at the expense of a hardworking producing class this view of the late mining excitement is the true one and today to day we see its gradual development in the political moves of the very men who have for the past twelve months agitated the mining question for the sole purpose of causing the immigration to our territory of a class that they can handle to sub their own villainous iniquitous purposes A few have been so thoughtless and blind as to allow themselves to be carried away by this sham belief in the existence of gold and silver utah with its schools its factories its prolific nio fic soil its immense mineral wealth in the shape of iron lead copper and coal will yet be buch euch a country as the sun never looked upon the light of the nations and the glory of the earth but it will never be made so by disappointed office seekers who seek to make tools toola out of transient miners and political capital out of bogus mining claims now sir I 1 am engaged on the pat sey bl marley arley ariey that no puffing may be charged please consider it wild cat until further developments are announced our company having a blind faith in its indications work day and night chas chass S hammer esth J july uly uis 1870 the patsey marley has geen been been abandoned as utterly worthless the proprietors have given over the fruitless task of endeavoring to find mineral where bounteous nature seems not to have placed it ahlner A miner from little cot wood july 1870 pass around the bat hat A free pass and ten days rations required require d for a corporal guard of the grand army of great expectation pec tation capitalists another hole in the ground to indicate where the dollars have gone respectfully J MORGAN PROVO CITY july 1870 editor deseret news dear brothen believing a few words on would be of benefit to some and feeling an interest in bee keeping I 1 give you a few of my ideas gained by experience about twenty brethren met in this city on the dinst and organized under the name and style of the utah county bee keepers association with A 0 smoot president A F mcdonald and edwin whiting vies vice presidents L john nuttall secretary and R B R hopkins treasurer with near twenty members salt lake county was represented by moses Thurston and davis county by mr L H putnam bee keepers throughout the territory are invited to join the association after atter some instructions from the president vice president and others the meeting adjourned until the of this month in consequence of the cold storms in may alay bees in most parts of the territory have failed to rear young queens a and n consequently have not thrown new swarms after waiting until the of june I 1 commenced dividing and have continued dividing and t transferring until the present time with very good success I 1 transfer according to L H put bams plan from the old box hive into moveable moveably move able comb hives I 1 have different kinds of moveable moveably move able comb hives and would recommend K P widders kidders as the best I 1 have yet seen I 1 would advise all who luave have large swarms to divide them by placing the old stand bottom side up with an empty hive on top after stopping all avenues for bees to escape take sticks and drum on the old hive until the queen and the majority of the bees have gone into the new hive which will require from tell ten to thirty min mih minutes utes ift if the bees that are aro left ft in the old oid hive hise have young brood and eggs in the comb they will rear an other queen and after twenty five or thirty days the bees comb with honey in the comb can be transferred ot out it of the old box hive into a moveable moveably move able comb hive if the swarm is not very large I 1 would recommend transferring them without first dividing we should all have our bees in moveable moveably move able comb hives by all means then they are easily divided or equalized if one is strong and another weak I 1 have observed in visiting those who have bee bees some who are careless abou about t protecting their bees from the toads I 1 consider the toad if let alawi a much worse enemy to the bee thao thac the moth and would advise a aboard board fence to keep them six or eight feet from the hives or to dispatch them whenever they come about I 1 am satisfied bee culture will prove a success in utah and hope the brethren will take good care of their bees I 1 am sending for italian queen bees any one who wishes can send in club with me by forwarding address and three dollars kepping feeling a lively interest in bee keeping beeping I 1 remain yours truly WM A ROBERTS |