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Show . New Mexico is exulting over the And of several acres of aaphaltum, and believes it the only deposit de-posit of the kind in tbe United States. .After that we are not sure that New Mexico has the proper intelligence to manage a state government, for Utah haa aaphaltum enough to pave all the roads of the west. Not only aaphaltum, but when the interior department outgrows its present policy of scooping everything. in sight in the west. Utah will have the finest oil region ever seen ; it haa no end of sulphur and salt, gold, silver, copper, lead, cinnabar, smc, and iron eaough to supply 90-pound rails for a roid to the moon. Even the' clays of Utah are half aluminum. New Mexico is not in it by csmparison. |