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Show power, and able manufacturers and only need the energy and enterprise of our people stirred up ' that 'another hundred thousand, twice told, .msy be saved at horns to assist us to more capital, that other new industries may PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY J. E. JOHKSOK. ONE DOLLARS YBaR. be started. . - , . sugar. The great staple of sugarjtakes tram. oar territory annually .nearly a hundred thousand dollars. Here in the Sonth we have soil and climate for sugar cane and there, is no counto try in the world better adopted the growth of sugar beets than Utah genLet the amount expended erally. in machfor one year sugar be invested ' to the raising people inery andjset can't and sugar beets and this great vlirtinagcforeiwppAy'' V 7" tobacco. This is another; great j staple that makes a drain of money about equal to sugar, and yet this plant thrives as well, and makes as good a staple as the celebrated James River here in two counties of Southern Utah. In ' Utah County we planted an acre, and the staple was pronounced excellent for both cigars and chewing tobacco. There are men in the Territory skilled in all the styles of manufacture of tobacco. Nov if we will us he weed, why not have enterprise to plant a few hundred acres and furnish ourselves. It is a profitable business, as has been amply illustrated by the steady and great increase of its production yearly in California. ( KOFIS, CORDAGE,' BAGGIN(AKD CLOTH. Throughout the Territory several textile plants grow well, and here in the Sonth all varieties flourish abundantly Hemp,' flax, cotton tampico, jute and ramie may be grown here, and the staple of these famish all our ropes, cordage, bagging, grain sacks, cloth-Ing- ; warps for carpels and summer and with wool, and mohair from the Angora and Thibet goats.and silk, adorn ourselves in the finest fabrics ever cut from the loom. Wool can be grown as cheap here in the South as in California; and we cannot read of are any country where as will or more bealty many produce in as this region. creps per year Besides all the above textiles, we have thousands of seres of Yucca on our deserts, which furnish a staple, which, when 'shipped from Central America, is called Tampico , or Sea Grass, makes strong ropes and cords, and is much used for brushes, and even dyed and braided to ornament the heads of our wives and daughters, under the name of Switches. We hare a great abundance of water silk-wor- . -- BATES OF ADVBBTXSXWCh OILS CASTOR, SWEET 5 AIDi' ESSENTIAL. For transient advertising fir', laser-t:o- o, 20cts The Cartor Oil Bean grows here per line . Insertion Each subsequent (pr line) lOcte very luxuriantly, and so,does theBene $7.00 Card 'of 10 lines one year 4.00 fromwhictimuch of the sweet and six months do 20.00 salad oils of commerce is made. .V column one year 40do is do Linseed, as we have said, does well. 65.00 do do. 1 ' do Sunflowers are native to this oountry. All of these make valuable oils, and QfPOBTANT HOME iWDUSTBIZS. so does the seed of grapes and cotton, o and fwe hare reason to believe that '.The ryaried'eoil'8ncl climate of our the Clive may be grown here. Territory gives us opportunity; above Then are many native plants there all.other states and territories to pro- that yield oil, by distilation; Cedar, duce all wo .really need, besides very Southern ood.Erigeron, Peppermint, can well do withjnany luxuries .we Ac. . Wormwood, out. Aside' from the ordinary variecteateV 'Should.we supply for onr ties of grain, vegetables and fruits own the' uses re for various people that grow abundantly and generally cr another unt we might quirea, through all our valiies, there are twenty-fiv- e thousand at dollars'saved many specialities that, might be taken home. and individ- hold of with great public ual ' adv antag e v saving thousands and soon millions of our money from going abroad to furnish the goods we may better supply to ourselves. Now we will name some of the industries that might, and ought to be, developed by our citizens, and not only furnish ourselves, but also our neighboring states and territories with many neoessari$s we are now importing, and thus unnecessarily draining our country of what little money may be afloat. spartan. It brings a high; prise at home and among "onr neighbors in the mining camps. Very few districts have as many bees as may be profit ably kept, and but very few have any at all. . v If this industry was np to the capacity of forage, every thousand inhabitants may' have from' two to five tons of honey, which, if made byconsuni ers, st an average' expenieof five cents per pound. ; 1CNDXOINE I. We send abroad' every year for many thousands of of dollars worth of herbs, roots, essential oils and prepared medicines and cosmetics which in ay be produced and gathered here, and many without the trouble of cultivation. If all the pills and syrup used. were, prepared here and herbs and roots produced and gathered here that msV be, we might have another twenty-fiv- e thousand dollars for pocket change and have better and safer medicines. - IRON, COAL, LEAD AJTD COPPER. These minerals abound in almost every locality, and the metals have thousands of uses and are everywhere valuable and in demand. A little capital, with necessary knowledge, would make millions for circulation. This branch of industry is so well and lees of wine and other material alked that yearly goes to waste; and even np by onr citizens that we will enter into the argument. the nice grapes, and maze all the not quantity that is required to save im- ALUM, COPPERAS, SULPHUR, SALT OTP-SUportation, and we shall, when old UIHSLASS, PLUMBAGO, RTO. enough, have a purer article and auye All these abound in different refifty thousand to tLe territory. gions and might be made immense reAND ROSIN. TURPENTINE TAR, PITCH, sources of comfort and wealth. It j These are all manufactured from only requires that some enterprising Pitch Piue, ajery fertile variety oi firm or person should lead out, and if which abounds throughout all South- they have not the means, form comern Utah; and besides, there are other panies and develops toe magnificent varieties that yield largely of these resources of onr country that a .bounproducts. Now the capital necessary tiful Creator has spread for ns with a this business is but small lavish hand, and that only awaits the to carry-oand within the reach of anyone who the magic of labor, skill and enterprise is willing to engage in tiiis industry. to turn into shining gold - We are We are annually importing of these poor, and think it is fad luck, bnt it is articles not ieBS'taau nat..A.t.tiL(LmAn(iiuni, . HfrA are abundant resources for genius and a dollar not worth. thousand f Why fur n sli ourselves? and sell as much for labor. If we want money and comforts, we must produce something more to our neighbors. lo exchange for these. If we do not PRCIT CANNND,DRIID AND PRESERVED . I we may wait till doomsday for that No one will question the high good time coming and never sae it, and flavor of car fruits, and and for the best of reasons: we fail to of these in great variety we can raise create the canse that produces the to any extent. There is at least f fleet. Go to! young man, middle thousand dollars expended twenty-fiv- e aged and old, make wise use of the every year for canned fruit, then bow blessings around you. Take hold of much more for wine, nisins and other one of thero many industries aiund dried and preserved fruit, we are un- yon, whose development will bring able to say, but probably a like you abundance and comfort. Go at it amount; And all this we might save with energy, zeal and determination. at home, for onr grapes will make as If yon fail once, don't give up, try, good wine and raisins as tli8i of try again, snd you will succeed. ProFrance or Spiin; and as for prunes, duce something needful and useful figs, almonds and other nuts, we can and you wiil be sustained and soon not only supply ourselves but onr see that good time coming. neighbors also. Frnlt canning is a simple process, ANOTHEB HEW PLaKT FOUND HE2E. and can be done as well here as in "Shepherdia Eempervivens(l) Baltimore or San Francisco, and bring A shrub 3 to 6 feet high) grows on us a revenue instead of depleting our drv hanks of cl.tyey soil, evergreen, purses- foliage thick, leathery, very thick set rice, (upland), sweet potatoe, pea- around stock, flowers yellow, bloom nuts AND BROCU'CORN, ing in February or March at the axil All important products and cos'ing of the leaf; fruit) acid, about inch us a handsome sum each year, may be long and inch- thick, both ends produced here in abundance, and tapering, pubescent, or hairy, of a much enlarge our industries and ex- dirty yellow; ripe 1st of July, leaves ports, if taken hold of energetically. hairy, or velvety, on the under side, and oval snd glossy on the upper side. SILX CULTURE Is an industry very specially adapter! A very singular, effective and noticeto our circumstances and business of able plant. great magnitnde which has only AST INMOTIOIT, been experimented with enough to show its adaptibility and prove thst We have authentic information thst here four crops of silk may be madr our esteemed artist friend C. R. from the same trees eaeh season. The Savage, together with his partner, eggs produced here are most valu- Mr. Ottinger, are about favoring Our able and the cocoons bring a pre- Dixie with a. visit for the purpose mium. Now who is ready to under- of taking views of most notable places take this light and profitable business. and objects, both with pencil and inHONEY. struments, for exhibition at the Honey is also a staple delicacy, and American Centennial.at Philadelphia, always obtained at great)prnfit to the next year. This is an undertaking of If SPIRITS. : ; x alcoholio spirits, ve and there is no way to avoid its baneA fnl presence, make it at home.' Obtain a license, gtt a good apparatus and use the waste fruits and pomace we must-ha- M, n no little importance, and the exhibi tiou of their wonderful collection will incite thousands' to visit the region of the original of tha pictures. This firm of artists are unexcelled in their .. enterprise, as well us the beauty snd general character of their work, and we wish them every possible sucoess, snd bespeak for them a reception among our citizens as warm astfleirown generous natures. Gome on gentlemen, we reaoh you the hand of welcome. BOTANY OF SOOTHZBN UTAH. Dr. C. C. Parry commences in the American Naturalist an account of the Botany of Southern Utah,' which is to continue through several successive numbers. The following account of1 an CEnothera is pleasant as well as instructive reading; . , . the With 'disappearance of late spring frosts, which freqnently continue to the latter part of April, and occasionally as late as early May,, the intense heat of the lengthening days, rarely obscured by clouds, or .tempered by showers, brings forward a rapid development of the more characteristic forms of vegetation. By May 1 st, orchards had mostly dropped their blossoms; the fruit of the apricot and almond were developing, snd strawbeiries beginning to ripen, giving the fields and gardens a summer aspect In the opening country an analogous feature is brought to view in the native vegetation. We accordingly note the appearance of several species of CEnothera, conspicuous among which is a Urge yellow flowered one, which being undescribed, I take pleasure in dedicating to my esteemed iriendf J. E. Johnson, Bsq as Oenothera Johnsonii n. sp. (see Appendix No. 64). Mr Johnson, who has had this plant for m:ny years in his garden, called my attention to gularity and suddeness its of opemflg. frem fifteen to twenty This opening minutes after sunset. , l -- - . Vj- - both of us,' is accomplished hv a shrinking downward of the valvular calyx, the accumulated tension at a certain point suddenly releasing the segments from below upwards, which, becoming reflexed, allows the closely confined convolute corolla to unfold visibly, its petals expanding in about thirty seconds, to a horizontal position. Quite constancy, just at ill is time, a small bee, apparently cn the watch, darts in snd loSfls itself with the springy, adhesive pollen, to be carried, to another flower. Generally, soon after, another bee on the same truest lands on the same flower, and finding the pollen gone, travels quickly over the stigmatic arms and soon flies away. This process frequently ensures repeated Other Oenotherae include a large white fle ?ered variety of the polymorphous Oe albicculis (No. 63), as a rarity we also meet with a very neat Qepximi verts Gray (No. 65). cross-fertilizatio- ' n. COTTON CLOTH FOB HOT BEDS. A successful market gardener states that ho uses cotton cloth, at a cost of one -- eighth that of glass, for more than three-fourth- s of his ho1, bends, and not so good for the earliest although beds, is preferred for all later ones. . It is prepared bv making Ihe cloth covers a few inches wider and longer than the frame, hemmed and provided wifh small curtain rings fifteen inches apart around the border, stoutly sewed on; and by hooking over hails, the cloth is drawn sir tight over the frame. One quart of linseed oil, one ounce of pulverized sum of lead, and four ounces of pulverized resin are heated, dissolved and thoroughly mixed in an iron kettle, and one coat applied while hot to the upper side of the cloth. 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