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Show The "Greater" Utahfl P. G. P. Wc arc living in an age of "Booms," 'in?! an age when every third person r ""you meet has something to self; lias organized a company and is willing to 'let you in on the ground floor. They ''"Sell anything from electric switches "''which arc so constructed that wreck. l in a few years will be things of his tory, to entire agricultural communities, communi-ties, where they have buildcd a ccn-tral ccn-tral town laid out the streets -after the latest approved fashion, installed sewer and water systems in the town. On its outskirts is the farming land you are to buy. In some rare cases , they arc pushing a good proposition, very pftcn the reverse is true. In the near future, it is going to be the pleasure of the Dcscrct Farmer to ... report on the various enterprises at present being carried on in our state. The writer is acquainted with the ma- jority of them and can say that they are bona fide, straight propositions. t He is also acquainted with some that cannot be included in this classification. classifica-tion. When a man advertises a community com-munity as something which it is not, makes sensational claims for his territory ter-ritory in an effort to interest homc-scckcrs, homc-scckcrs, when he knows that which he says is not true, that man is an -, enemy of the community and a mill stone on the neck of advancing agriculture agri-culture in that section. It will bo the I pleasure of the Dcseret Farn. to introduce a few of these people to the Utah public. Utah does not need any sensational advertising. She and her resources arc living advertisements in themselves. them-selves. What she wants is sane, thoughtful boosting. Utah must soon learn to distinguish between a boom of mushroom-like growth and) a natural healthly development. devel-opment. We fear a great many of our citizens have participated in a few "booms" and arc mistaking the somewhat phenomenal growth our staters making in an agricultural way at the present time for a "boom." This is evidenced by the fact that at the first jump in the -money value of their farms they arc hurriedly letting go and seeking new fields. They are wrong. Utah must recognize her present era of prosperity as the re suit of merit. You men of Utah, hold to your heritage! If land that was originally worth $75 per acre for alfalfa al-falfa and wheat growing, is worth $200 or $300 to the man from the outside, out-side, for fruit growing, it is worth that same $300 to you, nay, it is worth more to you. Those men who are offering you $300 for that land will double their money on it in a few years, and you living on a farm, you have bought somewhere else, will witness the transaction, trans-action, and be sorry. Utah has everything that is essential essen-tial to the making of a great state. There is no richer soil in the world. Our soil in various parts of the state is nearly as rich in the principal plant food's as many of the commercial fertilizers fer-tilizers being sold to our eastern-brother. eastern-brother. Our -soil is still comparatively compara-tively virgin. Its wealth of plant food is practically untouched. -Keep that soil for yourself and your children, you men of Utah. Our climate is such that wc can grow virtu'y every class of cultivated culti-vated crops, from the semi-tropicai fruits of Dixie to the sturdier cereals and roots of Cache. We have the kind of "people necessary to the mak- ing of a great commonwealth. I say we have "them. If we have not, wc should hide ouf f- s and blush with shame at our rapid degeneration. Our fathers and grandfathers were "" --1-"" the types of men demanded for this work. Those were the grand old men. It was they who made Utah from a wilderness of sagebrush .to what it is today. They toiled and starved and (lied to give young- Utah a heritage and the result of their life blood is the present great young Estate. Wc must carry on the work, 'for it is a sacred work, made sacred by the sacrifices, nay the lifcblood of the pioneers. Is young Utah now, on the thrcshhold of" her greatness to surrender what their fathers died for? Will young Utah surrender her sacred heritage for a few dollars and give to the man from the outside this battlefield, battle-field, where the sturdicst.mcn who ever lived fought the Desert and . the Indian and were victorious? The inspiration to feel in ourselves that wc arc the sons and daughters of those great men and that wc are liv'ng on land they have made sacred, should be worth many times the present pres-ent prices being offered to buy Utah., Keep the trust sacred and carry on the great worth of your fathers. Take the soil breathing with their grcat- ' hess and help carry it on to its great ' future. - fe ' 1 1 . 4 J " The paths arc open to yom Be up tfhd doing 1 Utah must sc"t the pace for her western sisters ii things ag- rfcuhural. It Utah be the teacher, J as she should be. To do this we must i ,:ccp, abreast of modern agriculture. Wc must learn to !bc masters of our , craft. The way here, top, is open and wide and easy to follow. The farmer of the future Utah must be a trained farmer, trained for his business as engineers en-gineers and doctors and lawyers are trained. The people of the state are realizing this and arc taking advantage advant-age of the Splendid schools w'ithin her borders where the sons and daughters daugh-ters can be trained to be good farm- ers and housewives and fathers and mothers. More young people are be-ing be-ing instructed in ,, this state along the lines just mentioned than in any half a dozen of our near neighbors, lltjis M ajiopcful sign. Xhc world in the fu- fl lure will turn to 'Utah for instructor M in things industrial. "'7 M J"twihc fSflleififahc mothc&isc I every- means to acquaint themselves M "AviOi their business. We cannot allfgp H ' to school but there are other ways.vA fl week at the State Fair is a royal va- cation after a'busy season, and to the 1 busy farmer is worth weeks injT a M classroom. Let the Great State Fair fl be the means of bringing us together M for a short time each year. Letli3 M become acquainted, teach each other, M and build together. If we have c M complishcd something the pat yjar M in animal or plant production,- letKis M build up our neighbor .by letting him r'scc it and know of it. The State Fair M is the medium for letting your neigh- M Jbor sec and the Dcseret Farmery's M the means of letting him know. Make M use of our columns. It is your paper. M It is trying to serve you in the best " M way possible. ' You can make .our M fvork easy. , ., .' !,,,;, & fl ;i Utah has room for the man with4 H capital, she lias room for the home- " M seeker. We have thousands of acres , M of. land waiting only the plow of tlfc JM 'Guilder to make it produce wheat M where now it produces only sage- M brush. We want the homeseeker, the fl builder. Wc want the man who will M H come to us',, be one of us and. lick) its H makV this great' stac mofe great M Utah is on 'the thrcshhold of an M era of prosperity that she has never' M dreamed of before. That era is .to conic with the development of ouf latent ' M resources. The greatest of these 'is H her agricultural ones. A comparative- H ly few years Will see her greatness j. M taking for.nv. It is on -already. Our M young men are training themselves H .for the great work. The nation lis M watching. The time is herewhen ' every man with the blood of Old jH Utah in his veins must come to gQtjwv- H and, work 'unitedly for the buildimj 'upof the New, the Greater Urajht'" M |