THE MORMON COMMONWEALTH 



growth of these hard-won industries has naturally fos- 

 tered a feeling of intense loyalty to home products. 

 Foreign goods are not a badge of honor. The Utah man 

 wears Utah clothes, made in Utah factories, from wool 

 sheared from the back of Utah sheep, with the same 

 pride that a New York man wears a London hat and a 

 New York woman a Paris gown. 



Let us look now at the broader results of the Mormon 

 labor in the wilderness. The church historian, Mr. A. 

 Milton Musser, has made a careful estimate of the finan- 

 cial results which may fairly be credited to the irriga- 

 tion industry in Utah. In doing so he communicated 

 with church leaders throughout the State and compiled 

 the results of his correspondence with the utmost care. 

 The statement is given just as he prepared it, without 

 attempt to discuss it in detail. To fully comprehend it 

 however, the reader must remember that the Mormons 

 began in poverty, having almost nothing to invest ex- 

 cept the labor of their hands and brains, and that all 

 they have expended in a period of nearly fifty years for all 

 classes of improvements from the first shanty to the 

 last turret of the last temple came primarily from the 

 soil. Here is the balance-sheet of the Mormon people as 

 Mr. Musser prepared it : 



Cost of establishing the 10,000 farms ($187.50 



per farm per annum) $75,000,000 



Cost of making irrigation canals and ditches 



($37.50 per farm per annum) 15,000,000 



Cost of irrigating 10,000 farms and gardens 



($24.00 each per annum) 9,600,000 



Building factories 5,000,000 



Building temples 8,000,000 



G7 



