There is not a more hardy. industrious. pertinacious people anywhere than the Mormon community. In the orderly and daily conduct of life. in thrift. in industry. in frugality. in sobriety. they are a most remarkable people. If any community. if men of any sect or creed. can be said to be fitted to fight that area of desert to find water. and to make the country blossom and bloom where water was not accessible before their immigration. they are the people who can conquer the obstacles of the desert and the arid region. They have subarid regions. and in some places they approach the arid region. according to our geological description of our vast country. which is lacking in copious and abundant rainfall. They have in a measure solved this irrigation problem. They are now moving farther south into New Mexico. and especially into Arizona. It has been here stated repeatedly. and denied by nobody. that onefifth of the political power in Arizona is in the hands of the Mormon people who have emigrated thither. It is more than onefifth. There is not in respect of the Mormons the uniform slowness of increase of population in that Territorya slowness of population which is quite lnusual and quite unAmerican.
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Hardy, industrious, pertinacious, orderly, thrifty, frugal, and sober.