Show resources of southern utah i i r nees BEES E Es Ou rhoney ey making season continues generally about abou t nine months here IVIng a great breadth of time the yield of lioney honey being proportionately great our orchards gardens and meadows of lucern together with forage on our mountain plants are continuo an unlimited number of colonies may be kept without overdo overdoing Dg the bustness business ness I 1 FOWLS pioche and the various mining camps around make an extensive and good market for fowls and egg eggs sunni sufficient clent for the employment mentor of considerable capital and investment in an extensive heu hen hennery nery capable of producing chickens and 50 tons of eggs at a most satisfactory profit and besides eggs and chickens mako make hearty and delicate food which may be produced as easily as that more common under a systematic mode of operation DRIED FRUITS our little experience has proven that our dried fruits bring the highest figures fi guies and a figure above in the eastern markets for their excellence cel lence and delicacy deli dell gacy of flavor and superior style of euring curing the season for dryla drying generally being ear car early when the sun is in his height of power and from their being cured ur ed free from any injury b N rain aside from flavor our ofir fruit grows to large beautiful maturity and thus when properly cured can scarcely be excelled in appearance or flavor we have also prunes almonds and the finest grapes in iri the world from which are made and these grow as easily and profusely here as any lety bety biety thus southern utah can furnish for or all this mountain region and much to spare for markets east wine canned fruits dried fruits fruit figs and raisins making money plenty and an abundance of necessary comforts besides enough left for our own enjoyment another thing which adds greatly to our advantage is the fact that here we can produce our crops of vegetables and fruits a month earlier than in ordinary temperate climates giving us a market without any competition save that of california sorghum grows well here and syrup made from our fleo fieo fields is quito superior to that grown north the consumption of castor and sweet oil in the territory amounts to a large sum yearly all of which might bo be saved here the castor bean is is very productive liere and produces well with slight irrigation and the bean from which most of our imported sweet oil is made seems to the manor born and and yields remarkably making an oil sweet as a nut and and little inferior to the best imported sweet oil SILK GROWING is another money making industry four crops of worms per year can easily be grown from one set of trees worms healthy and make su superior perlor superior silk mulberry trees am are heat healthy y and make rapid growth silkworms eg eggs 09 a grown here would bring a premium over any others in diff different merent localities there are hundreds of acres of varieties of yucca whose is known in commerce as tampico and makes brushes ropes and anti cordage of great excellence the is easily cleaned and the root is large larg e and bulbous or tubero tubert i and often weighs from ten 0 nifty fifty pounds and contains a mattur maiter wonderfully er asive like soap makes strong suds and is equal to the best of soap for washing clothing some cute yankee will yet make a fortune out of this plant who is the one we ve have mountains of gypsum plaster of paris water aten ater lime limestone cement ac which in countries bear exportation cant wo engage in these industries finally there are few that have as many and great natural facilities and resources tha be developed and lead to wealth ours these need the magic of genius and labor enterprise skill to give us prosperity and surround us with all the blessings comforts of life utah |