| Show MICHIGAN GAPIT CAPITALIST ALIST I I LIKES UTAH'S LAND Finds Big Opportunity In ft Irrigation gation and Refutes Some Current Slanders John R. R Van nn g Evera of Marquel Mich to Utah to look Jook over o so orn mining properties and In general t tt Investigate In the mining conditions o 0 othe the mountain Inter-mountain region And In hi has lIns been lIeen per persuaded that land Is Js I thi bettor better r proposition He lie went vent down t t. t Price with a number of ot members o 0 othe the thc Utah Improvement ement companies month ago laJo and has become mIt Interest Inter OP est ted d with then them He lIe has haR been heen I COIr fo COI yours yearn r a n prominent citizen ot of Michigan and the Mining Journal o 0 Marquette prints an extended 1 Inter IntervIew Interview view with him him from tonI which the folio follow followIng ill Ing Int Is hJ taken Yes I haw have spent the tile last months In Utah sal said John R n. V Vat Yat Kvera g when s h by a n l Mining man yesterday esterday lster a What do o I 1 think 01 the tle country Well Vell ell I 1 cant can't answer r tin thai tha question In a ri monosyllable Utah I is f hate of ma magnificent r resources Ir IT mining smelting agriculture and Ir stock I raising It Is unsurpassed by y on ai country I ha e over I visited The Tile lOC 10 roel 11 ribbed I range nse of or the le Ul traverses ravers-es r the state stale from from north I t tt south Is a storehouse of or mineral wealth which nce hut but the ouch touch of t energetic anti and nervy men I Ipen If hi pen open the till door to untold and anel ni tin measurable riches and anti there are arc a U lol JOI of or f chaps out In Utah who 31 are n nol afraid to 10 give the tle touch louch The Tue gold gob silver lIver copper nUll anti zinc Inc now nov coming out Ut of or these mountains are art making a ale ol of the le Salt Rail Lake valley th the greatest greate sl smelting center of the great rat west Inthe In Tn 1 th the 10 south of t the tho state tate there are art practically call cally lily untouched deposits of or iron orid ore or and id coal oal which In quantity and purity will Ill compare favorably ta with those o oake of ot Lake LaIC ake Superior and auth Pe PennsylvanIa anla The growth th ro of or population anti and Ih the tho development develop ment COt of transportation are sure suro to bring about tile the th elc development of these thes re resources rf sources source nn and It Is not n a far tar cr cry to U predict edict th the manufacture of or Iron ant and steel eel products In ill Utah not Utah not only for tor domestic use hut also alo for tor export tro trade 1 to the tile oriental countries just t the e Pacific ocean 4 A Elicit nirh Agricultural l The Tile valleys of Utah continued Mr r. r Van Evera EVem have ha a deep rich al alluvial al- al lu soil oM oil as fertile n as the tile valley ailey Y of or orthe the Nile The Tile carl early Mormon Jormon settlers Introduced in lii a comparatively smally small way y the tIle system of or irrigation first pl practiced by the tile ancient Egyptians Tho C results have lave been lIeen won wonderful You Shou should l d take with mo me your our after lunch hunch siesta stretched 1 at full len length th on the green reen sward sard In ono one of these Utah valleys val vol- nl leys Jes feel the earth carth throbbing with fertile ferUle energy enerS' beneath you ou anti and with eyes s 's half closed look Jool tho the mid-day mid sun gun full rull In the face You'd find no fierceness fierceness fierceness fierce fierce- ness there but instead 1 a n. warm genial friendly glow working Its lis Wl way Into your er e every fibre Roll Roil over o absorb absorb ab ab- ab- ab It In ill cr c every part of your our anatomy You'd grow row m my bo boy you'd oud grow You I couldn't help growing Everything grows Then turn your Jour eyes ces In every direction and you ou will see seo on every ever side Fide the tho grand army array of ot snow capped monarchs baptizing with their pers- pers tho sun sun ed valley amid you ou will know as aJ you von c could not nol otherwise l know now why these Utah valleys los need I but the slightest touch from the hand of man to produce a a. wealth of ot agricultural agri- agri a rl- rl cultural products unknown under nn any other conditions If It I 1 told m my may a agri- agri ll lor cultural friends In Ill Michigan all I know about the pro productiveness of those lands the they would probably think I had been hypnotized ed lr by hr the grandeur of the tile scenery the tho altitude or some subtle Influence or or may mav beby be bo boby by tho the Mormons Immons Yes Yos I have met man many Mormons Ii Individually and anti have observed them collectively Perhaps the most prominent prominent prominent nent characteristic of the tIle Mormon peo peo- people people pIe is thc their lr openhanded warmhearted hospitality I 1 have felt It In tn their public houses and In their alfalfa haystacks hay haystack haystacks stacks stack and have havo observed ed them tending tending tending tend tend- ing their herds of or sheep and cattle I I have come into close touch with them themi i In Min th i. i lire of or trade and rind eArn com merce and everywhere c 1 I have ha found them to bo be bright ht clean spoken honorable and patriotic citizens Several Several Sev See eral oral times I attended their services at tabernacle In Salt Lake th tho famous CIt City It must be admitted m my going there was to gratify curiosity more than to satisfy religious fervor The preaching I 1 heard was strictly Christ and ami him crucified from crucified from the Immaculate immaculate late conception to the tile ascension They sounded much like e good Methodist which I have or OJ PIs Presbyterian terlan sermons 5 stron but butI with strong heard hear 1 interspersed to their people to I kindly admonition and follow evil ll practices refrain from straight and narrow path the same anti and I I which was pointed out to you ou I and sure suro way the tho only safe as wondered If these e people were ere not Christians If It not why Wily not Polygamy Not Now o Sanctioned Polygamy seems to have havo been their the tile ecclesiastical error By lly manifesto church ha has cut ofT off this withering polygamOUS polygamous poly poly- bianch anti and there aro are no more marriages under the sanction of of th the church Did Dill you ou ever cr hear other rell religious sect abandoning any in their cre creed d and practices errors errol's having ho admitted the error enor and abandoned it would SeOul seem tobe tolie to tobe the tho practice one th tho mantle of to spread pread be lie proper charity charlt of or which wo we all talk too loudly loud loud- of tile the scene and that part parL I over oyer ly la toward better etter citizenship citizen citizen- turn our eyes ees and Christian living I am persuaded Ier- Ier shill ship this la the attitude of tho the sua that majority of or Gentiles In large e broad TT I t to w the Mormons tho the prom l om- om exception to this being perhaps a certain class of 0 politicians who seem scent c m to be trying to mAI make c the Mormon lormon 1 a political Issue I do not be- be believe be be- question much macit lIe lieve their efforts aro arc actuated RO so o by patriotic motives as ns by personal political political po po- po- po Interests I have hayo foun found the tue Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon people p to bo be th the most a abstemious I have over ever met In their habits o of an any The church by It Its organization comes close to tho the people and Its Us In Influence In- In very fluence as far as I 1 can observe is all directed toward making Its It people live 11 correctly anti and ab abstain from front nil all practices practices which tend tena to degrade the tho physical tlc tices s of and moral character cal mental an manThe manThe man The Thc public school chool system of oC Utah and especially of Salt Lake City Is of ofa ofa ofa high order and I am nm Informed a very third In state stands I that Utah as a educational matters among tho the states I of the union Perhaps SO some seine O of m. m my ed ed- ed friends can verify this state state- state ment I 1 give o I It to you 1 0 not from actual knowledge e but from Information There Is no more likelihood of oC my becoming a a. Mormon than there Is ormy of or b becoming an orthodox Jew but my Brevet E In conclusion I Itale said Mr Ir Van Tan In silent client respect In the take tale oft m my hat honest religious con COIl conviction sence of or an un pr presence I art arc artI and I 1 believe these people I honest 0 a I |
