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Show TM Gl HTT. A Well Deserved Tribute Paid to Provo City. Her Fortunate Situation the Foundation for a Commonwealth. Com-monwealth. Natural Resources Sufficient to Capture any Home Seeker. The location of a town has frequently frequent-ly more to do with its prosperity than the mineral, agricultural and other natural wealth in the immediate vicin-j vicin-j ity. Where the means. of developing the natural resources 'are wanting or are contracted, lue lown aepenus upon its railway facilities and mercantile opportunities. Provo City is fortunate in both regards. Its railway facilities give it easy access to a very considerable consider-able territory and afford a means of distribution for manufactured w7ares and the products of its own mills and manufacturing establishments, as well as the agricultural and mineral products pro-ducts of the vicinity. Being only forty miles from Salt Lake City, and a dis-i dis-i tributing point for the various roads, with almost the same railway facilities, facili-ties, Provo City is enabled to handle her own products at a considerably reduced re-duced cost of transportation from mines, etc., to the main lines. The town is delightfully situated at the base of the Wasatch Mountains on the east shore of Utah Lake, a beautiful bod t of fresh water with an area of 500 "square miles. The lake is well stocked with fish, and in season is the haunt of ducks and other water-fowl. The sportsman will find this an excel lent place for hunting and fishing, and the neighboring mountains afford additional ad-ditional and ample sport of the same nature. Provo City is well situated for a manufacturing city, as the raw material for smelting and kindred industries in-dustries lie south f the town. Owing to the quantity and excellent quality of the fruit grown in the vicinity and the superior means of transportation the canning of fruit and vegetables bids fairy to become a great industry. The water power in and around Provo is of the best, and is a decided feature in the economy of the various industries. indus-tries. The valley is fertile and the grasses luxuriant, so that grazing and stock-breeding are certain of a prosperous pros-perous future. The climate is healthful, health-ful, mild and uniform and nothing is wanting, in nature, to build up a prominent commercial and manufacturing manufac-turing city. There is a wide field here which is rapidly being developed, aud the certainty of success is an established estab-lished fact, for, possessing all the natural na-tural advantages of equally fortunate places in Utah, it has the additional advantages of superior railway facilities. facili-ties. This is a good place for investments, invest-ments, and visitors are accorded a hearty welcome at all times. The commercial and manufacturing interests inter-ests are under the superTision of the Board of Trade, and the material in- j u-rests are zealously looked after and guarded The town is located in the very heart of Utah's most prolific yalley, and upon all approaches to the settlement settle-ment will be found farm? and orchards complete as will be seen in any portion por-tion of the Union. At Provo the Rio Grande Western makes direct connection with the Utah Central Railway for Nephi.Juab, Mil ford, Frisco and all points in Southern South-ern Utah. "Heart of the Rockies.1' |