People who have lived in Utah for years fail to discover these landsharks, and needy adventurers who keep up driving out the Mormons and taking possession of their farms and homes. The Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah are diverse in their habits and occupations. The former are a plodding, unenterprising people, who gathered to Zion to escape the impending destruction of Babylon, and who are content to settle down upon the soil and cultivate a few acres until that momentous event arrives. Americans who pursue a farming life find no attractions in Utah. Not more than one-hundredth part of its area is cultivable, and the necessity of irrigating crops imposes a constant labor upon the farmer. Small patches of five, ten and twenty acres are parceled out among the rustic Saints; upon these they gain a scant subsistence, and dream of future dominion and godship in the heavenly Kolob.