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Show THE BEST PLACE. The possibility of a partial failure of the corn crop fills all the region from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains to beyond the Mississippi with apprehension. The profits of the year hang upon that possibility, .a failure of the crop would fill all that region with sorrow and, in many miles long and 600 miles wide, practically depends upon the corn crop for the visible reward for the upon the corn crop for the visible rdeward for the v farmer's toil. It is tne people's bread; indirectly, it is their meat, their clothes, their schooling, their Improvements, their comforts and luxuries. The""merchants lean upon the corn crop for their trade, so do the manufacturers. The railroads rail-roads depend upon it for freights. Labor, directly and indirectly, depends upon it for wages. One . year's loss would be a mighty calamity. Three j successive years of loss would be the beginning of a famine and would result in the utter demoralization demoraliza-tion of the people. It is almost a fearful thing i lor millions of people to lean upon a single crop for their progress. It is different in Utah. It does not raise much corn, but It does raise wheat and oats and ' gold and silver and lead and copper and coal and , sugar beets and alfalfa. Its industries make a full octave with no end of variations and accompaniments, accompani-ments, for the grand Anthem of its Industries. The failure of no one or two of these, could cause universal distress. The desert, indeed, holds in its rugged breast beneath its robes of serge more blessings than do the fairest valleys of the eastern east-ern states. It has, too, more sunny days, fewer storms, less frost, less extremes of temperature, softer and more buoyant air than any spot beyond the hills. If eastern people knew the truth, they would cease pitying us and go to pitying themselves. |