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Show "Mormon" Leaders Pushed Development Utah has risen into prominence as one of the great raw resource centers of the world. The growth of its mines has been steady and cooperation from the state has a vital part. The following extracts from a letter written by Brigham Young on April 10. 1S73 to the editor of the New York Herald la an indication of the early encouragement encourage-ment given capital: "We have another railroad here doing good business. The Utah Southern is built about 32 miles, narrow gaug. Roads connected with this are being constructed into Little Cottonwood, Bingham Canyon and American Fork, to meet 'he demand for transportation to jnd from the va. i.ns mining camps of those region.;. The Utah Northern North-ern is being constructed from a junction with the Central Pacific through our principal northern settlements into southeastern Idaho, and other narrow gauge roads are in construction or In contempla tion." "In Utah we have a fine country for stock raising and agriculture and abundance of minerals awaiting await-ing development, and we welcome all good citizens who love peace and good order to come and settle with us. It has been our policy from the first to promote the agricultural agri-cultural interests, seeing this was the foundation of all others, and we have been for years furnishing staple products to the surrounding states and territories, and we are now able to supply any demand likely to arise for grain, vegetables, etc. at the market prices, to those engaged in mining pursuits." "We have iron ores and coal in rich abundance. We have called mercahnts in every department of business, but we lack capital, and there is no safer place to be found in the United States, where property prop-erty of almost every kind is less taxed and better protected all reports re-ports to the contrary notwithstanding." |