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Show j require here anc titer ru'lroad. Tucre is nruVe room foi another sjar factory in the ncrtii. We should have a Cciinir factory, a starch factor'' and other oth-er industries. Now tl at . the i success of one large factory is ' assured, others should follow in I its wake. "Pavements now line some of our prinicpal stree'. and others are planned for the coming ' season. Some of those may come, or all may come. True, j none may come. But the leaven j of progress is at work, and is j bound to produce grand results. j A Year Lost and Won- Today marks the opening of another year. The old year is dead, and buried with it are all its hopes and its plans; . its trials and triumphs; its follies and frolics; frol-ics; its pleasures and sorrows. One more milestone .lies to the rear. One more link in the chain ot life is sealed.' It was a beloved. year Jt began be-gan with, the roseate beam of promise filling the future with the li jht of hope; and it . did not The coming year will witness 1 a radical change in the policy of this paper, announcement of which will be made next issue. But nothing will cause us to fail to, cherish the support we have received from many kind friends. There is a field here for, this pa- j per, and thus it is here. It will! continue as in the pa5t to give a brief review of jocal and national events, together with considerable consider-able miscellaneous information for general perusals More than this, we will try harder than ever, ev-er, during this year of 1902, to give, our readers all that they could desire in a local paper. And nov, .on the opening day of the annual peiiod, we take occasion occa-sion to wish our readers and friends and the public generally a happy, prosperous and "healthful "health-ful New Year. fail. As the winter wore away, unusual activity was developed: Men of means and action required the aid of men of toil. 1 he elements ele-ments proved favorable, and a heavy crop was sown."' As' the sun's genial glow warmed the atmosphere, all awoke to ' the busy duties of life. A . mighty mill grew into being to the south of Logan. . A ponderous waterr way of iron and wood was completed com-pleted along the face of the eastern east-ern canyon. The final structure of our grandest temple of learning was begun.' The green fields; bprourea and tilled their yellow kernels. The sweet tuber ' spread their juicy forir.s far and! wide in Mother Earth. Sheep1 and cattle fed contentedly upon a hundred . - hills. ,- Autumn brought its harvest . of wealth; and the chilly sunshine of the new ,year falls npon tvent' thousand thous-and prosperous and ha ?py souls in this beautiful valley. No casualty of unusual severity sever-ity marked the progress , of the1 old year. Here and there a pib- J neer has passed to his or her well carJed rest full of years and) .'honors. AT?W flowers of youth 1 have faded and u. spreading tintold sorrow amori theiV ,cir-cle ,cir-cle of relations.' But bid &ed -dents have een : responsible- of nI 3 meagre number of deaths'; ' disease has gehecally held its hand aloof; and good health 'has been the rule; : ' - Independence Day was celebrated cele-brated in the good old fashioned way, diawing the hearts of the present generation in r, revere nee , before the memory of the fore-fathers, fore-fathers, and calling the attention ... of the young to the mighty-deeds of yore. : In many ; other' ways the year has passed as other years have passed. We have all laughed and cried and sung. We have all had social pleasures and jolly outings. We have all had dark disappointments. We have walked in the shadow 'and i n the light. ;'; '' We have all toiled and played, and filledout' the breadth .'of another 'span ef life here in our pastoral ' valley, after (he manner of our kind. I- ::. Even as the old year Witnessed (he fruition of many hopes and plans, so do9the new ysar hold out promise ml great thirif. We |