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Show iM-.Mi,:ig. Slit nw toes in ( t pave-incuts, pave-incuts, (talk LiuleV.l.!. Tueie n.ive been six or seven breathing places added U the city assets m later yer. Sue is ii lit " laboring on a boulvard mat is .i be tlie sttet-t ol the w jrld. It 13 ,k unif, but St V oil learned tie lesson les-son at la.-t. Miime..D,!.s ' v ahead, but weare goiuj to "t the heat oul anyhow. Our rival may (ad down ot thru a shoeur bieak a sulky wheel.and St . Paul be a winner yet."-A 'amas C tly Mar. - - HOW TO MAKE A CITY. 7he attention of the leading men of San Pete.allif them, whether he be Republican or Democrat; People's ; Party or Liberal; Mormon Jew, or ;-,Gentile, or in whatsoever business they arc cngagedis called to the fol- lowing which we clip from the Salt , LaVeaurt a a Comment, and we predict that the town that takes the most heed of it, will distance their ' siater towns both in growth and the j ; good she caB accomplish. ; We have the railroad through our ' county now, in fact we have two of . them that will shortly run through our county, and it is about time i some of our towns were getting a Mnove on themselves. , win ! aino to lead nut in a wool 1 Who is going to lead out in a wool en factory? Who will give us a . first class tannery? Where will be tie first grain elevator? Who will tale the initative in a door and sash t facrory, and one for general wood ; weeing? Where shaU we establish a wool souring plant? Who will es.ablish a first class carding and spinning factory, to utilize some of our wool? . Oh ye men of money and brains, let out your energies and unloose your purse strings, and give to the muscle and sinew of San Pete something some-thing to do. Help to build up the County, and not only will ycu make money yourselves, but the present and future generations will hold your names in honorable esteem. See iwhich class you belong too, are you a mos.back or a progressive man. Read the article and see, shall Ephraim, Manti, Aft. Pleasant, Moroni, Gunnison, Fairview or any of our progressive towns be a St. (Paul or a jinneapolis? - ' "U nEflhtirlr icm irena mmlprn mpthrxls at the result is snown m the history of Minneapolis and St. Paul, with the latter ' presenting: the nn ssy side of the case." Th; speaker was a St. Paul man briefly (iu Kansas Ciiv on business. "I've lived m St. I'anl since '71, and I get sultry when I look back and see where we missed it and Minneapolis (-aught firmly on. St Paul was a big , town when Minneapolis was still in the ante-chamber ol t me, If you had told me eighteen years ago Alinner.polis w iuld race ahead of our town, I should ,h ,Vi J.ioked on you ns some humumt (and made ntirtli and scofl of yju. Minneapolis is a nijjger, richer.haud-lomel richer.haud-lomel ciiv than St. Paul. St. Paul, by JiiU ill an I do n nothing, performed perform-ed a great part in making her so. This ' talk sounds funny fiom a St. Paul man, bat I'm tired of lyinK,- I'm Roinit to tell ,the truth and see how it leels if I net ,1.-,, . 'uni-d anrt le iiheied when return. 1 1 hey pass by St. Paul like so many" Le" I Vitei, on the other side of the way, and teet straight foithe Flour City. It makes me sick. "How did Minneapolis manage this ipremary? Thai's easy: St. Paul is. as f VVestet n cities go, old. She was a great big spot on the map away befoie Mum-r Mum-r " " eapohs. In that older element, unfortu nately, it had, still has, in f.ict. a host ol mossbackf hard shell, terrapin sort ol people-wrujalwaysgoata walk. They wouldn't spend a dollar, and think more of a gold pi eco than an eye-tooth. Eye . teeth ain't in it with money; take their .notion. These moss-backs wouldn't do anything nor let anyone else. They .wouldn't spend a cent Jog-trot method and mud roads: that was their way. "Minneapolis as and is different. She didn't have any mossbacks. All modern men those outcasts who built up Minneapolis They went at city build lug as they d d at private business. They rhd.i't hegin by putting bobbles on them -lves and calling it sale conservatism ,1 ke St. Paul. They paved, sewered, uibed, made parks and planted trees ,nnd had some stylo about them They built palaces for thiir public buildings, tiiey nude a berutilul and aturcuve c ty.iu fact; one that a man would like to ,live in. , "There was no similarity in the two r'ties. M nneap jlis was a-gressive,mod m, public-puited;St. Paul was slow, .rn.jsy am howleJ if you spent dollar. .M'nneapol.s wore shoes; St. Paul went 1 ar foot, t n dressed up and had the i;. of prospt.viyjtlie other donned a tow hm, patched its overalls and seemed ! ha 1. 1 up. ; ' Vs 4 lact at that time St. Paul was lici.er, bigger and stronger than het rival. But she didn't 100k it didn't act it. She had the air and ear-marks tf unsuccess and hard luck, Minneapolis wis just the other way. "Now people don't join fortune with failure, or anything that looks like fail-ure, fail-ure, so immigration went clear of St ,Faul. Minneapolis was bright and even with the times, trotting neck and neck witn the age we live in. She had every thing every other city had. It miglii co ne high but Minneapolis must have J',ele w',! """''"g too opulent lot h iT ev werea-anguin-, umptiouss-' fihese A.j meapolis people. But they got everything a nineteenth city should have an I so immigration went theie. . " I he first thing St. P,iul noticed every body seemed going to Minneapolis to live. The second thing was that those extravjjancies of her rival turned out ,111 the light of time to be the bjst invest-"wiim invest-"wiim a city ever made. Paid great big . - - , umi mult uai it uozen i e . 1 hpir cuibs, and sewers, md p v me , and parks, and trees, and ulc ards.and what not that to us oyer i S , Paul louktd at first like the wild jwild rlintsjf Sume mur Liual spendthrift gallop.iitj un to rum, put up the value of coiitiifu us apmperty six, eight and ten lold ts af ire tune figure. We St Paul pe..p:e,4.jii,tilioiiKnlof.thiit I could i-ikevoutoMiiiiitajulisarid po nt out fc,"OJ,o o worth of public wuiks.which " 't were torn out ond nil hope of its res loritii.n revised, wo lid bring Jroo.ooo jo worth ol private property which lies adjacent d iwu to jo,ooo,ooo. That vanishing; ft ..oou.ooo has no foundation but the j, oj,ooo worth of city improve ine.iis a d vou take the last and the other eii.ks and disappears. A man who sav public 1 nprovemenis doa't pay, better get out 00 the pra rie and live in a dug-nut. dug-nut. Me can't be to hasty about it Mil -i -r " ' B it S: Ta ll lias beun to rub her con-fjvauvc con-fjvauvc eves.. Like ih-ii. celebnted :rson who walked offthe bridge in ti,t o rk, tht saw whet she missed it in the " ' . " a.-.-:; . "', ' |