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Show I UTAH'S RESOURCES. Wbile the demonetization of 6ilver, its deep plunge below the hope of profit in its production and the general commercial and business distress oc- casioned by the want of silver dollars in circulation, proves a vast injury to Utah, yet she has enough remaining in sight to lift her grandly above distress. dis-tress. One thing is certain in this direction, di-rection, however, she will, and cannot better herself by Bitting down supinely and lamenting over her epilled milk She has a hardy, strong and determined deter-mined race of men, equal to all muscular mus-cular demands likely to be made upon her by the exigencies of any hard situation situ-ation made for her by mistakes, made by either the national or her own territorial ter-ritorial government. Her strong young men were not cradled in the lap of luxury. They are not the curled darlings of luxury or fashion. They have followed the plow, herded cattle, attended the sheep, delved on her railroads, know how to work and glory in the triumph which comes to the steady, honest and industrious laborer. In her young men Utah hatha veritable verita-ble mice of wealth, which, when properly prop-erly developed will insure her financial and business future, and place it above peradventure. Take this seasoned muscle and open a brisk campaign againet the yellow metal in her hills, in her placers and.in fact, all over her territory, and very soon the dismal croakings of her idle and shiftless calamity howlers will be swallowed up in the busy hum created by her profitably employed gold miners. If strangers can come into this territory, hunt and find pay gold on every hand, develop mines and sell them at fabulous figures as has been done at Tin tic, Park City and fifty othjr , places Mercur in eluded why may not our Utah young men do the same? Were these sums realized by Utah men how long would it be until they would be among the richest and most prominent men and operators in the west? This result will not be worked out if we sit eu-pinelv eu-pinelv by and wonder at the "good luck" of outside min2rs who do the work they ought themseLves to do. A hundred dollars worth of supplies and a season's hard work may lift, aye, would lift Utah's young men. from poverty and helplessness to affluence and power. The game is worth the candle and our Utah boys will yet se e that it is. Of course gold mining is not all the possibility there Is in the situa- j tion. Our hills are filled with the finest marble, slate, onyx, asphalt, coal, cjal-oil, with enough in eight to warrant the liveliest efforts on the part of our people to secure some of the money these things bring in the markets of the world. Added to all this we have manufacturing manufac-turing possibilities of no mean order, while our rich, easily cultivated and cheaply irrigated lands beckon a half-million half-million strong hands to turn their latent wealth into golden ducats, upon a margin such as laying down our dollar dol-lar today and tomorrow picking up five. This is really no exaggeration. It is but a reasonable calculation based upon experiments made more than a generation since by many of the early pioneers of the fair territory. The times now are indeed hard and pinching, they will remain so until we set to work to do the things rudely and I hastily sketched here. No matter how prosperous the remainder of the country may become Utah has enough undeveloped un-developed wealth within her borders to enrich the nation, ifjonly she will take off ner coat and go at the task of 1 her development. |