Show GOLD AND stroner nir ahn winced force all eold cn aped ilg coarts euard its mike and thrones belld walla td still wo can not eat itri either drink it nor cover our nakedness with it and yot we all hunger and thirst after it and feel bare and acs licule without it thousands Thou ands are employed in delving it out of the bowels of mother earth or washing it out of tho mud of rivers every body wants it and became every body cant get it therefore the strife and contention the hatred and bitter nw among these children of one commod father but there are products of earth not so shining not so durable nol so enthralling but more valuable for the sustenance of life for the preservation of health such one is that sweet hydrocarbon compound commonly called sugar et us see how much money there is in this article the U S er of agriculture mr le due in a recent report to congress say that since 1849 when gold was first discovered in california and other western states and territories doami to a late date seventeen hundred million dollars of the first mentioned beguiling precious metal havo been addotto toe worlds wealth while during the bame period the deorle of the U S h uva actually consumed over eighteen hundred millions of dollars worth of imported sugar in addition to alie whole amount produced in the united states this is indeed an astounding fact thee american people have consume ed more than one hundred millions of dollars worth of sugar in addition to the entire home product in the short space of 31 years than all the gold wo have taken from all our idinea this is a most serious question and must and will be met promptly by our people the momentous question which demands our careful consideration at present is how we shall meet it and we are pleased to notice that steps in tho right direction by our own people in utah terri tery no less than by the american nation at large there is in fact no necessity for one pound of the beloved sweetening substance of being introduced inta these valleys of the mountains our broad fielda and fertile acres can produce sugar at least to the value of all the and silver dug out of the rocks of now this production of sugar hot he one bided either our farmers have mainly themselves to the raising sugar cane or rather sorghum for the ob of molasses yet this is only a preliminary step it is high lime that our energies bo directed towards manufacturing our own augar there is the land wide rich inroad and inexhaustible inviting the industrious husbandman to utilize st there is capital not of van dimensions or aster exuberance still capital enough to establish sugar refineries by which our doi mcatic demands could be supplied skilled labor and the necessary talent is midst then what in the name of hinders us to launch out and raise our own augir so a to keep our gold at home or spend it for things we can heretofore raise we bare exclusively relied on sugar cano and sorghum as the base of sugar but as the cane is a tropical blant and only flourishes an fn a warm climate and requires very fereal care and culture it is wise for pa to attention to whatever will equally meet the supply now it is well known that england and the largest and most populous of the continent of europe franco many and russia rely almost exclusively clu upon the beetroot as n the production of sugar we need not waste our lime and printers ink in a superfluous en to prove that sugar beets can jve raided in territory it has been done before although with timidity and diffidence and hence the expected results did not arrive As we said before we need manufactories manu factories right here at home among us to work the raw erial up for our own use and benefit as we ought to do with our wool hides and many other necessities oddo life before wo cloo we will adduce some little an dmn figures that it vouches for 03 being correct with regard U be cultivation oath n root chopi ten acres of land rent plowing and harrowing 2500 planting with driel seed for cultivation four times 1600 digging and hauling ton total ten acrea will easily produce ton or twenty tons per acre and at the price alf per ton the crop brought a net profit of now let u for cultivation and all other expense there vill a margin wide ti give a living to many then domce tio of the augar which aaen would give to adny adlei hands and bring money into many a poor dwelling ieta think over it but not only tiling or tak bat act and work fetn bo up and doing TUB number of the contributor idorna our table and delights our critical acumen with a full budget good literature religion history astronomy literature geography all are represented in prose or poetry I by able who know where gel a valuable subject and how to treat it creditably family in tho land ought to patronize this excellent journal the young man improvement iong which la so cn edl Udby elder bunim V K ll |