Show written for wo paper progressive MATTERS there are several movements in a quiet way all making for the develop of utah in interest teresta of a local and general character manufacturing is on the increase and add suggestions suggestion a on branches hitherto untouched are stir irling in the hearts and thoughts of men who are enterprising eater anti ana sense the industrial dilemma which environs the people systematic bog raising in sevier county is one of the signs of the times and it if those engaged possess busi esa aptitude and thus succeed the spirit ol of imitation will draw others into that jine until importation will be affected ana that much retained in the territory alt ali the information bad here in regard to this matter was fr arm m the letter ietter of a correspondent in the NEWS it was certai jy somewhat of an u unexpected n thing of which we hope to hear bear more after a time and the example may yet he as fruitful in results as was as the example of tue first beet raisers uk utah county several inquiries have been made lately by a low lew ef if the brethren who think that olive culture will do well in salt river valley Arl arizona tuna the cultivation of the olive is a successful industry in california arid and the valley j referred to is deemed superior in dim clim ate te und and soil to a y part of the golden state tate the olive grows readily from outlines aad these can be at tow om 10 to 16 per thousand or seed lingo can be had froni from six to twelve inches high tor for sixty to 0 e hundred dollars per thousand or maybe less jess for Y s quantity there are several varle varieties ot of the fruit the mission olive is the k standard one it is a quick aou and heavy bearer of large size and full of oil at ton ten years yearn of age it will yield twenty gallons of fruit or three gallons of OIL seventy trees to the acre with oil ut tit five if ve dollars dollan the gall jn n would be profitable fi table and the trees are good for a generation or two many of the older trees of california were planted near years ago and though these are gnarled and stunted from neglect anil and long cutting they show the persistent vitality In heront rei in them and thousands of their children are found under biver ifield conditions in all sections of that state it to well known that verb very little of 01 abe oil in common use here is from the olive most moot of it is from cotton seed sed or at the best to is the heaviest of aro european manufacture for it is mainly the i elective oil which is imported particularly ticul arly to america our temples tern plea are mainly supplied from palestine a leatine but there la is probably no reason why salt river valley should not produce s better article than that or one certainly at less leee cost the brethren who undertake this will have a useful aou anu valuable ml aaion and the same climate will admit of the cultivation of all the vitrus citrus family and railroad facilities will enable them to export as ae quickly as ae they will be prepared to ship another great industry may fall fai lf if ahey wish it into the hands bande of the lwellen dwellers in southern utah or Ariz yoa that is the growth of the gave dugave or american aloe for its ite derous qualities as now used ifor aitor rope from fifteen to twenty car joady at a cost coat of over thirty thousand dollars cornea comes into utah annually and anis in la plant while probably not so ao prolific in our south as it Is 1 in yucatan all that Is ie needed could no doubt be made in the catlone lo 1 indicated in the he north the grip was waa lost on the manufacture of glues glas bottles of various forms forma year over twenty carloa doof of fruit jars were imported and the demand was waa not nearly out plied Z C M 1 I could have sold some carloads car loada more than they did but the distance dia tance from factories and a regulated output were in the way a condition wb which libb the small factory in north bait lake could have obviated it la Is not unfair to state that when running it turned out a superior article to some imported ones odea of this thia year if new like management was wae the cause of this thia lailure failure it ought to be resurrected under nare intelligent intelli Kent con arol ir if the skilled labor was waa not handy why not import that ability tor for a season an aa was waa dot doie a for squar the canning of local fruit la is ame H me thing not dot yet lost sight bight of although it might have been realized real iced years azo asto an enterprising gentleman offered to put one thousand dollars into it and with an expert from san ban jose joee cal solicited from our leading lead int merchants a measure of support their shelves were all full of imported goods but whether from fear that these would not be sold or fur for other causes the needed help and interest was respectfully declined the planting of sone five hundred acres of small email fruits and orchard by a company who are utilia ing the rio virgen Is a straw showing the way of the wind AS this cornea into bearing an outlet for fresh fruit will be in the near vicinity aej canning as a matter of course will be on the program not for that farm alone but for the locality as far as practicable so that southern utah coo con jointly with arizona will supply to the th e north and east at least some of their products now excluded from the market of such product will be early vegetables early small and stone fruits raisins wine figa oranges lemons lemone canned goods preserve peanuts olives and oil castor oil material for or manufactured soup soap rope of all kinds paper material syrup sugar for use mustard dotard m for home use and seed for export nuts and other kindred products now receiving little attention because of difficulty dt exportation large numbers of prune prone trees are being set met out in this northern district and growers will well to be studying the best methods of curing so that this desirable fruit at a low price so as to compete with california may be used and enjoyed by many who curt little for dried peaches apricots or apples the granting of a franchise by this thie city for a railroad to the cottonwoods Cotton woods carries its ite possibilities also alao the establishment lish ment of an electric power at the stain Stair sPy in that canyon and maybe the resurrection of the paper mill unfortunately destroyed sometime gome time ago by fire will hinge binge upon the buil dlug ot of that road to say eay nothing of its accommodation mo dation to a thrifty population lalioo the probability of a railroad weed ito i till still on paper and in the air now that minars know the bek beet or worst of the silver dilver question new 1169 of treating low grade ores orea will be found capital already invested la is bound to work for its ito own salvation silver te fit oot not yet discontinued as aa coin and its 18 use uee for articles do w twee luze is but in its ito infancy as the returning tide of prosperity will assuredly show nor is in the building of a road to the given up in despair As aa the prophet said in regard to some other thing though it tarry wait for it it will assuredly come P 1 coal cannot be dispensed with yet it to la a necessity as much as air or water almost and any pressure of monopoly will only hasten a consummation desired by thousands ot of irritated con the consummation of the great bear lake canal and it its transfer to local Wf influence luence and involve the creation of now new towns this side the wonderful works in the divide large tracts of ladd laud are already platted several thousand heres bores will be broken and sown this season and many desirable homes will be created under the liberal terms projected by ane enterprising wen who are moving in ILI this gigantic but assuredly promising so bouvine uvine arff proffered ered advant agett ages will offset abose which belong to colonization in more remote lacall ties nea fur railroad certainly influence tue prosperity ity of within a range of their accommodation ahou utah takes on the airs ain of a sovereign state elate human nature will awers aabert itself MB as heretofore hereto lure men man feel lug ing as aa if they owned themselves thema elTea and ad a it if their were doubly secure because subject to legitimate aau local control will out for improvement permanency will be written more legibly than it has had hitherto been done even by a san aan giue people popular sentiment in lavor favor ol of home Idus industries tries ils ia now BOW quite active ail our manufacturers should seize upon quickened feeling measures Mea eures shoula be take by them to let the people see their goods gooda it if a house to canvass has to be done tor fur its ito success they have not been sive enough push puah Is needed in thence days of competition new york men massachusetts men eastern men me representing all grades and kinds of goods have headquarters in our largest olalee but every town and vil jage bit hda beau invaded by glib bougues agents who have outdistanced in the race or trade our local men who partly expected traders to come to them our nursery nurseryman nurserymen men years ago were pis hessed of this lethargy they stayed at it home waiting tor for something to turn up and it did men from we the east with consummate cheek anu and highly colored of impossible truit fruit ran over our territory and boosted boasted year after year or of selling from fifty to seventy five thousand thoua thou aud saud dollars worth of trees and shrubs of which but few were a success or true to name but local stock accle acclimated mated and proven remained bed unsold because of this thia apathy of the growers everything feces cities must be canvassed for and presented to buyers the pertinacity of outside drummers and agents has ha cap aured much of the trade of at the territory and forced it into both unprofitable ani an i unde for a patriotic ano and self ell reliant 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