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Show ’ “ Vw « * 2 “ ‘H3 A. as citizens of the great Republic. We offer to the homeseeker and investor the protection of a glorious State. Now a State, and a’ potent factor in our country’s growth and progress, with strong voices and votes in the Congress of the Nation! And just now, while depression and uncertainty rule in the Wnesrices affairs of other States, while calamities grow common and awful fears strike deep into the hearts of men, Utah, the young and fair, steps out before the world as the richest of all the States, the center of the one great region of all the great and still the greater West. If, as a Territory, Utah held her own and prospered better than tii older States during the five dark years since 1890; if with the people of other States in ignorance concerning her resources and capabilities, she yet forged well ahead during the years of the dark and dreary past, may we not now with confidence predict great growth for the future? Suddenly forced into prominence, her wealth of climate, fertile valleys, hills of gold and silver, and the conservatism and industry of a quarter of a million of people challenging the admiration of the world, surely those of other lands who want homes in better places will hear te ti the story and investigate our Utah ing upon * will gain, for she deserves that after the so flag; many that years after Yet, not all the gain mine and i, or other strong, from attractions prosperity! many years Shall do not have the new doubt the Nation of star Agricultural in hardships, but acknowledged as conquerors in the * -] In other lands, and in other parts of our. own fair land, industrial conditions may make unbearable the lives of thousands; but in Utah the oppressors of human labor are not in control and the red flag of anarchy does not move. The helpless and hopeless under poverty’s lash are not the bone and sinew of the forty-fifth star. No royal road to luxury may be ours, but less want, oppression and injustice are found in this fair young State than elsewhere among the sons of men. Along the great coast lines angry waves may roll and destruction follow in their course; upon the broad prairies may come the heated winds, and blasted crops may crush the hopes of whole States filled with industrious people; where the Father of Waters rolls the deadly cyclone may hold its awful. sway and thousands die and thousands more in a state of terror be forced to pass their lives; but in the grand old Basin region, of which Utah is the heart, in the splendid old mountain valleys where the eternal hills are the barriers against the storm king of the Eastern slopes, here the land of safety is at last made known and soon thousands and thousands more will turn and here seek happy They peace homes. will find is known protected and homes and where safety yet where health not labor * an and wealth empty shall boast; receive * good can be secured; where capital where will be care. * With conditions favorable, with opportunities for investment not offered elsewhere, with a world of raw materials waiting to be utilized, surely Utah need fear no rivals now. Having sent to the world nearly two hundred millions, and with marvelous gold reserves now known to all, her mineral wealth no one disputes. No doubt can come about the richness of her soil, for crops are sure through irrigation’s splendid work. Great orchards now prove her wealth of fruit. The water powers in many canyons being harnessed for use in work- ing into form the raw materials for thousands yet to come, and making great the leading cities of this great undeveloped area of the greater West, now all may see. ok ok 1K The iron ,jhorse, now soon again to bound toward the setting sun until the Angel’s city shall be surely reached, will open in his course new lands of gold and fruit, cotton, oil and coal, and untold treasures buried in old Nevada’s hills, and thus again will new fields for enterprise be added to the great list already placed before the world. The true and simple story of Utah’s charms and wealth is so attractive that the rich of other States must listen, and soon their work will show the progress we have so long hoped would ccme. And with this growth Utah will score a grand success worthy of her sons and daughters. Decreasing industries made and taxes, following quickly will mark a splendid record, cannot make. A great land her developed such grant as other will add and expanding rich be this: of soil or and good In Utah e yy TR of Utah. of available profitable use. There tain that a acre than dearth of there land is will farms. will nothing be in Young be put more to cer- a few years farmers who bréad-producing land does not increase; * ok ES Utah has a land area of 52,601,600 acres. The area in square miles is 84,790. The best estimate that has yet been made of the possible farm lands is about 3,000,000 acres. Of this latter amount there is under cultivation an area of 467,162 acres, divided into about 20,000 farms, which produced in 1894 products of the value of $7,122,686, leaving out of calculation the increase or decrease, as the case may be, in the value of the livestock of the farms. According to this estimate, only one-sixth of our available agricultural domain is farmed. Were it a question merely of getting settlers for these lands, they would be vacant no longer than it would take settlers to come from other States and file upon them. But in the arid regions the irrigating ditch is the forerunner of settlement. Could the water that is running to waste in our streams be made available tomorrow for the irrigation of these lands, it is not at all improbable that before the close of the present year our agricultural population would be multiplied by four, and the population of our cities would be doubled, and in a year or two when these lands could be brought into a good state of cultivation the value of Utah’s agricultural products would be fifty millions instead of less than ten millions. Only a business man will appreciate fully the extent of the business prosperity that would come to the State as a result of this immense agricultural production. +. * * A brief statement of our agricultural products as given by the most recent statistical reports will show at once the money value of the farmer in Utah and the diversity of our soil and climate. When it is said that the products of 1894 showed about 20 per cent decrease in value as compared with 1890, it does not mean that there was a decrease in but production. owing was On to the less by the great that contrary, slump much. A there in prices few was the of the an increase every money value of the principal items are as follows: Wheat, $1,440,096; corn, $151,433; oats, $470,658; barley, $100,207; rye, $20,094: lucerne, $1,851,639; hay, $604,399; potatoes, $522,855; butter, $516,259; cheese, $82,075; orchard products, $357,233; wool, $864,260; honey, $88,170; dried peaches, $30,037; dried apples, apricots, plums and pears, about $30,000; grape wine, $30,744; cider, $20,729; sorghum, $54,120; sugar beets, $166,714. * a6 * The increased production of orchards, which include apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums and small fruits, increased 35 per cent in Utah is rapidly coming quantity during the four years preceding 1894. to the front in the fruit line. The fruits mentioned can be grown with have not great not are unexcelled in flavor, size and productiveness; so are her apples and cherries, With the adaptation of new and improved methods in how conceived, and increasing wealth will] soon bring for taxation an x we revenue States a riches the and if those people are to be fed, if those farmers are to have farms, there will very JAMES DRYDEN. soon come a time when it will no longer be a question of finding new farms in order that the increasing population may be fed, but it will be a question of increasing the productive capacity of the already cultivated area. When that time comes the peculiar advantage of the irrigated farm will make itself manifest in the more bountiful and certain response to increased demands. Irrigation makes possible scientific farming, and scientific farming must obtain in the future if the increasing millions of the earth are to be fed And the change when it comes will _ make of the present and future farms in the fertile valleys of Utah the most beautiful and prosperous farms in the United States. products ; It will Resources i the year, 3 lands / must have farms, people who must have -~| bread, are increasing faster every year, but develop- eo magnet. every and ment of a rich territory in the wilderness of yesterday, are given the full privilege of American freedom? - Such an experiment—under such conditions, in such a favored land, filled with temples dedicated to education from whose spires Old Glory floats with a meaning grand and glorious—will succeed, and the world will quickly know the truth. or from other When prosperity again comes to the coun| try it will make itself instantly and strongly ) evident in the agricultural aspect of Utah. There will be a rush of landseekers and trusts the people—the builders of a State in the heart of the Nation’s desert lands—and cheerfully places upon an ambitious young commonwealth the crown of Statehood? Is it nothing that a whole people schooled to come, from Here human fiends will not terrify, and the storm king will not drive away the people of the mountain lands. And sure it is that as thousands come from other lands to Utah’s golden hills, all will know that in this favored State liberty and happiness will continue to attract, 4 i and that here is indeed the favored spot where Nature’s treasures have been combined to build the greatest State in all the great and marvelous West. C. E. WANTLAND. is placed yields me to fight to live. it count for noth- waiting draw will be the greatest * of patient cd wealth to the State. This will all the talk of twenty es oe claims. * expenses of capital than ~ increase overtaking the increased be a card worth more to bring new years. 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