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there are now running in Utah five woollen-factories, 

 which are far behind in working up the wool produced. 

 Other factories are now being built, one of them 

 designed for three thousand spindles, which will manu- 

 facture different and finer cloths than any now made 

 in our Territory. I am entirely satisfied that we shall 

 be able not only to clothe our present population with 

 these home products, making these investments at the 

 same time profitable and self-sustaining, but be able to 

 provide for the large influx that yearly is adding to our 

 numbers. And we are pleased to know that with these 

 additions are many skilled workmen in the woollens, as 

 well as other branches of mechanism. One very advan- 

 tageous feature of the Rocky Mountain range in sheep- 

 growing is the adaptability of our many valleys for the 

 raising of roots, which afford them good food and en- 

 ables their owners — those in the higher and more 

 northern and more snowy portions — to feed them well, 

 and thus render more certain a large number of lambs 

 and a larger yield of wool. So much for our sheep. 

 Let me tell you, also, that Utah has cotton-factories, 

 and grows the upland cotton to run them ; and though 

 it may not in the cent per cent view be a big-paying 

 interest, still it helps to render the people to a great 

 degree independent. Madder and indigo are produced 

 in Southern Utah enough for domestic use. Let me 

 also say that our vineyards, so productive, will soon 

 enable us to furnish wine for export. The other fruits 

 you know are thrifty and prolific, and no finer flavored 

 fruit is grown anywhere. Silk-growing, too, is soon to 

 be one of our great interests, experiments in that direc- 



