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Show have to work hard and teach their children to work. a message to the General expressed As,embly these beliefs in the Deplorable, indeed, whose . sons are of the State of Deseret, poignantly words: following must be the situation of that practice of every not trained in the in Brigham Young, people, useful avocation, and whose daughters de not mingle in the hum of Fathers, teach your children to practice industry. agriculture, or some useful mechanical trade. Mothers, you • • • called upon to bring up your daughters to pursue some The enjoyment of a free useful avocation for a sustenance. can be and independent people accomplished only through this Produce what you consume; draw from the native are principle. Let home elements the necessities of life. I home article of consumption. produce every • All the latent resources veloped simultaneously. of Quickly a • • beginning territory the pioneers food production under arid conditions, but more an slowly. Manufactures were pionee r cannot be de- discovered the success indispensable immediate need for certain industries to wants of the industry to supply in a industry to came There degree. the key was more pressing gold and silver group. Iron The early settlers of Utah had no desire to find mines, but they did realize the necessity of locating supplies of iron and coal. and As the iron supply brought industry increased, prosperity 1 across the plains diminished the demand for -thi s metal became urgent. of the settlers, and, almost their very existence, depended . Milton R. Hunter, Utah In Her Western Salt Lake City, Utah; The Oeseret News Fress, The Setting, 4th ed.; 1940, p. 474. |