Show E EDI dit DIX TO R YA L S j I 1 A lale FAIR representation 0 ONE ae of our most valued exchanges id ij the chicago of com mez mey cc its columns are never devoid of interest the financial and commercial articles articled which it con bains are always well written and full fuli of ideas which incite reflection nud und comment and it is evidently conducted on ou a basis of truthfulness and respectability in its issue of june appears a long article from special correspondents pon pou dents on salt lake city C ity from which we make the following ei extract we had but hut one object in visit ug this run renowned owned city to familiar iza ourselves elves elvea with the vast mineral and aud agricultural resources aud and commercial interests of utah and to make them knowd known to your readers iu in as clear and comprehensive a light as possible unvarnished by extravagance and anti without the color of prejudice if afler after close observation and thorough investigation our views are found to ditler somewhat from those of the ihu journalistic loggerheads logger heads who cume come here apparently to destroy ail all nite hiLe reate without distinction by trying to dib discover cover a bloody r lcuy lluy to 0 decapitate intruders iu in 0 dys back yard it is because we havu have no ambition to become no by promulgating clion n we protest against the malicious of the press presa and at assert sert burt that there is not the slightest baube to derogate from name aa as a peaceful peace lul territory of great wealth and prom promise lse ibe wa we do not desire to defend the religious hallucinations of the people if evil exists among thum them tut tuby they y cannot remain long deluded uli uti buu but 1 t in the light of the nineteenth century the better principles principled of education and refinement will be among them vind their plesent Vi resent Ebent duginas will soon be things ur ut the thi pazo past newspaper raillery only lwy their beliefs and filid them with no uns rhe the business world 0 on i n the other r hand band ia Is pei put with dis hiudt and capital ca that sensitive hensl kensi tive element of progress looks with suspicious glances upon opportunities pore port unities and aud ins instead mislead lead tead of the vast wealth which it might grasp without au an effort sees only factious tact tuot luus lous turmoil and aud barile the cominis commission sion who has bas tormented and misrepresented the people of salt halt lake city and the Teni Teril tory generally through the columns of a vacillating and new now york newspaper has certainly by a 4 system of auda cieus prepared many eastern people for an uprising heie and a come cowe consequent quent mormon war lie he has i ivun vun even gone so far as to at empt to destroy the credit of leading commercial houses because mey they ure ara contic controlled lied by br Mor momi mona THUS has eastern capital become mure and aud more timid and the progress of development in utah has been delayed if not permanently impaired when gentlemen of much buch sagacity and as governor Gov einor emery generals Gene rals rala crook aud und smith after persistent invests kation galion pronounce the people peace aul ul dwell an disposed it is not nob hut buT mable Sable that iho statements of the tile above mentioned lous have any authentic 0 origin it would per napa hapa have havo been a benefit to utah nud aud to society if it the mysterious as ii moil moll whom the utmost falls lnla to produce either in the form ot mormon or gentile had been ef of in his dha disposition position of the 1 commissioner we hope the readers of tile tiie journal nour Tour nalof of commerce into luto matters lero bete for themselves becote they credit the pernicious balderdash that the sensational pat sat t ional lonal press jur juat now abounds with we have found the busine business cs men of salt lake city to be wise honorable courteous courte couite ous and liberal their ideas are progressive and they ork with exceptional energy to build buildup up and aud develop the pi ilie ille io thirty years ago was wag considered an uninhabitable wate waste harmony and good will exia kihong them to a remarkable deon degn deglee ee and they join hands in at hii ma mailers matters tiers ty ui li public in ad and charitable atit institutions mu of almost every creed thrive here and are encouraged the territorial rit orial and city governments are i well administered the tho courts are conducted in a manner calculated to insure justice to everybody and there id Is perfect protea protection tion to life and property behave we have only one objection to tho the above remarks concemi concerning rig the commissioner it is a mistake to suppose that he has I 1 tormented the people here amused is the proper word la in thia this conne coune connection cuon cdon knis hid and invention inventions his hia susceptibility to marvellous marcellous marv ellous yarns and blood and thunder clories orles ories which boak hoak boik buik into him as naturally aa as the beverages he imbibe nid hid faculty of spreading over fi beveral everal columns a tissue of 01 fiction nution woven around an almost in visible filament of fact and hla hia woud wonderful erful escapes from mythical and imaginary have served to make tuu tun fur our catiz citizens oli oil 8 but have llave inflicted nothing approaching pro aching to anything I 1 like eor lor torment the religious hallucinations of orthodox chris lians elnus are respected by tiie the mormons Mor mons so far lar that we never attempt to interfere inter tere with those who indulge in them yet they are quite quito as ridiculous at least in our eur etes as anything peculiar to our religion may my seem to them of coulso we do not expect any delen fee of our faith raith irom the of commerce we only claim the right tu and practice it with the same tre edom we accord to others othere who ditler from ua us give us a fair field neld and i no favor favo rand raud and if our dogmas cannot survive contrast or col coi collision ision with the doctrines of modern christianity and tho light ot of the nineteenth century iel jet them go down by all meals means but if they are treated tri abed iu in the etame beame feame manner aa am the journal material in leibald lei eals eald them as they are without colo coio coloring rim or we have no feats ot the le i laue isue sue aue rhe fhe whole articie article which occupies nearly two full lull columns culumns of the journal ia is well worthy yf perusal WANTS TO KNOW ALL ABOUT IT I 1 i THE montana new IV northwest orth of the sa sas aas 3 a we believe there I 1 is 8 no more probability of revolt in utah at present than there thet a I 1 is a I 1 in U sew kow new jersey which is right so er tar as it goes but the same paper id is not so sure of the future and aud is la very a anxious about it wishing to know if in the event of the arrest trial triai and con conviction of a distinguished citizen of utah upon serious charges the thib mormon people would yield peaceful obedience to the decisions of the courts or resist the infliction of legal punishment the y N JV igle tf IF thinks thet NF vvs can ean tell what people contemplate jn in tho the event of etc as the american people generally are very de desir sir dir ous oua of knowing if it people would exercise their own wits calmly coolly and collectedly and with wilh caldor eal caL dorand and impartiality they might know as mu much b about such things for them feives t ives elves us we do for our ourselves elves we call cali to mind an instance of the 9 mormon people ever resl resh resisting 4 legal processes they are pre eminently a law abiding people and we believe that they would like to see all constitutional laws observed and administered in the proper spirit and intent thereof hand and justice done to all parties innocent or guilty we do not think that the mormon people now contemplate reh reb istance resistance to the legal of the courts we hear of no such thing aa as resistance except from t a few sensational papers and others which copy from them we do not recollect hearing the word red reo resistance stance used or the idea of resistance descum discussed d by the mormon people that kind of talk comes from the anti antl wy people the moto more rabid of whom are always talking abo about ut it aa as if it was their native and congenial element and as if without it they would be like a fish out of water we do not think the 41 mormon 11 people contemplate any legal con vict lons ions therefore it is i not reasonable to suppose that they contee plate igny resistance to the carrying out of buch tuch convictions if any pelson pt ison lson has e we believe belleve that the gerl 1121 Mon ormon nun people wish euch such i tuch person to be puni purd hed heo ht l in the manner provided by constitutional law if trials such as are arc alluded to by W X W should bo be instituted we shall endeavor to represent the proceedings fairly and be in favor of their being conducted strictly according to the I 1 lawand the eoll constitution ution leaning caning as asmuth I 1 much in the direction of justice as can reasonably be desired that is what we are going to do about it ihn THE ild D wel eel E el tt LAND ACT tim THE following is found in tile the ogden junction of july 5 june 21 1877 rito to the commissioner of the general land office SIR I 1 beg to submit for your consideration a copy of a letter just received from john gwyn jr esq counselor at law santa fe N AL and to request you to inform me if you ent entertain ereain erealu the restrict restricted eI views relative to the desert land act which are accorded to you by mr gwyn very respect respectfully fay ray your obedient servant fervant ser eer vant JAMES fl mandeville in HON ON JAMES A N 11 SAnte santo fe N al I 1 june 13 1877 JAMES H mandeville esq attorney and aud Coun counselor belor at law wa washington D 0 DEAR SIR I 1 am in receipt of your several beveral letters of may 24 SG 06 and 29 and this morning arrived your last letter of june ath 1 I had lad sils suspended all action on my cases until I 1 could get some positive instruction in the premises when I 1 first examined the desert land act 1 I placed a more liberal construction upon it than tho tha appeared willing to grant from tho the nature of our climate all a our lands lauds in new mexico are desert lauds none will pio pro duce agricultural crops without irrigation riga tiou not even the lowest bottom lands lauds on stream 1 and as a the law neither required a residence upon or cultivation of the land or otherwise than flow ing water upon it ahad I 1 had arrived at the condu bion sion that it ifould co uld be made available to to our stock men bienn in se euring securing permanent water rights our bt streams reams are principally principal ly mere branches brandies two feet and four or six bix ix inches deep fed by bs living springs ara are remote one from the I 1 other unusually me hie in the mountains and run down through li the prairies or plains I 1 wenty or fifty miles and f it t is impossible to obtain water by sinking wells at points between these stream streams A any ady ily lly person owning the them lauds immediately along abebe these streams would b have ave entire con control troi ov over er I 1 it t the water because it is only sufficient lelent in quint quantity ity for irrigating the land lands immediately along each stream As the former preemption pre emption laws had bad been cons construed trued that a person cultivating one or at most moat a few acres was construct constructively vely int a acres which he had located e I 1 had concluded the same or a similar liberal would be made by the commissioner in regard to flowing water upon acres iut but you inform me that all the land will have to be reclaimed by flowing wate rover roven ali all or every acre this I 1 could not domorat do forat for at intervals there thore would be hills mounds cliffis ac that water could not be made to flow over but there are garfs of every location that could be reclaimed irrigated and cultivated yet cultivation was nu nut my ray object it was to secure and huld hold the right to that water for all alt time tin to come and as the land Is now mostly vacant no prior rights to contend with and and the law permitting locations upon tracts and also the instructions of the cammi commissioner permitting conveyances of these locations after they were wera made and before patent issued I 1 had arrived at the conclusion that if the law permitted us to avail of these advant advantages agea it was right to act upon them but your letters have put a damper upon our expectations however you appear to understand what I 1 wanted and get the liberal con placed upon the act wery very respectfully signed C JOHN GWYN iii jit general land office washington june 22 1877 respectfully returned to airman air hian alan deville devine 1 I cannot go farther than to say that the whole of the land preempted must be reclaimed for agricultural purposes ies but the raising of grass would meet this requirement any more liberal construction of the desert land act aeb might em barass my successor or the future policy of the land department this statement is unofficial JAMES A WILLIAM williamson SOX respectfully f transmitted to mr gwin after the Commis commissio commissioner sio ner nen said baid that lie could not answer this ietter letter I 1 framed the foregoing endorsement and asked him to sign it upon this ground if the people whose interests are BO so largely affected see that you are fiat flat footed in carrying out the law strictly they may attempt to secure additional legislation 0 I 1 should like to haye have your views publia published hed so that parties may proceed understandingly instead of expending large sums of money for an object which you sou believe to be ille flie galand illegal and therefore would have to disprove after signing it he replied substantially ly you know there was a good deal of opposition to the law and that it has been denounced aa a swindle I 1 have no objection to additional legislation to accomplish what mr gwyn wants but I 1 must execute this law as I 1 understand it the commissioner knows that the anew cew mexico people desire to preempt pre empt aeres acres under aliis bills law for the purpose of stock raising much more profitable to them than the usual agricultural pursuits buttrom but from what lie he said I 1 believe that he would not approve oren of entries made for that object JAMES H MANDE mandeville ville VILLU washington june 12 11 in former articles on this subject we have suggested the advisability of parties attempting to take advantage of tiie the deseret land law taking into consideration the fact that the law jaw requires the land to be reclaimed within three years by conducting water for irrigation upon it some borne persons may bave have supposed that they could fulfill fulfil the requirements of the law by ir ing an aeri acre or two of the mile square or five ten or twenty acres ef of it ft but thia this does not appear to be the view of the matter taken by bv the authorities of the land office ai at washington and it may be added that it could hardly be expected that thes they would accept so bo unreasonable a construction of the law the law undoubtedly was vas pushed d through congress in the interest of land grabbers but it is not reasonable to suppose that the land office authorities would accept the extreme construction which the I 1 and land grabbers would like to put upon the tho law to suit themselves and their grabbing purposes jt it will be seen by the foregoing correspondence that the autho authorities ritte ritie s referred to are inclined to construe the law to mean that the whole of the mile square claimed under the law should have brought upon it water sunn sufficient lelent for irrigating purposes within three threes years so that the whole of the |