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Show MIXIXG IN UTAH. i While the other western states and territories were busy with their mine developments, Utah was looking only to the development of her agricultural and manufacturing interests. During the days when the government of Utah j was a theocracy this was both a wise and a natural policy. Church government govern-ment was never and can never be, efficient in a state where all the complex com-plex pursuits of man are carried on and where special favors are granted to no one man and to no particular interest, in-terest, pursuit or business. The leaders lead-ers and founders of the Mormon church wisely, we have said, determined to develop first the agricultural interest. There were excellent reasons for that. The territory, before the advent of railroads, rail-roads, was a very remote one and hauling provisions a thousand or fifteen hundred miles on wagons by ox teams was a slow and exceedingly expensiye ! . 1 affair. Wisdom demanded that the poor first settlers rely only upon their own exertions at home for bread. Cali-fornia Cali-fornia had taught the early settlers ot Utah and their leaders that with a mining craze on, there would be no j farms opened ; thus it carae about that mining was relegated to the rear while the bread problem was being solved by labor and irrigation, A mining i people never become an agricultural j people;' neither are they noted as a i pious people. It seems natural that a pastoral people should be ruled and ! controlled by church influence, but the active, turbulent and wicked, if you will, miners need something of a sterner force to control them. Then, too, the miners, as a rule, are of a faith most at war with the faith of t&e Mormons. All this, however, has passed away. I Theocracy has given way before the ; dominant forces of civil government. The near approach of statehood renders ren-ders the people eager to make the most of all their varied and diversified in terests and avenues of wealth. So im-i im-i porta.nt a matter as the mining chances in this highly favored mineral region can no longer be discriminated against. It will force itself to the front despite ; church or any or all other influences or powers, needing only the restoration of silver to its old office as money to place Utah at the head, aye far higher j than the head.of all the states as a rich, ; gorgeously rich, mining section. Here no u4vb an me precious metals and minerals of eyery kind and all capable of easy and inexpensive operation. If statehood is had, and whether or no it comes at all, ten years hence will see the eves of the civilized world turned hitherward because of the ! enormously rich mineral wealth being i developed. Were silver again at $1.29 per ounce as It was prior to '73 and for a few years thereafter, there would be I ten thousand more miners in the terri tory within twelve months. The farmers farm-ers of Utah would grow rich in feeding them. There would not be an unemployed unem-ployed man in the territory. All would i be at work and all would be richly re- paid for every stroke of labor done. It would not stop there. New enterprises would spring up. All other lines of business would be quickened and Virnaf1ori W :j .... cw iuea,s, new pos sibilities, new sympathies would spring up. Utah would soon be in touch with the advanced, best thought of the world. This would put a new face on everything, and with the wonderful won-derful educational quickening, now being be-ing experienced, ehe would soon lead the west in all that relates to moder n progress, soundly based richness and reasonable and rational freedom of thought, and intellectual indulgence. The old frontier methods must give way to the on flowing tide of modern ingenuity as well a? of modern superiority. |