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Show ore of all kinds, but copper, iron and s i 1 -.- -i- an- in more evidence, and we only lack !he railroad to cause them to open up and be an important factor in the mining industry of the State, Silver Sil-ver Reef has millions of ioim of silver ire in sitrht that could be worked. The West Mountain group, t le- ( ii-and Gulch and various other rich mining proper-: proper-: ies w ill bo fine paying pieces of prop-rt prop-rt uln-n the long-promised railroad reaches Dixie and gives it an outlet. 1'cter Anderson of Toquerville has forty acres of land in peaches, plums, :tc, and grapes. Last season his orchard or-chard produced Huuo pounds of dried peaches of very superior quality. In Irving the poaches are halved, then placed in a drying apparatus to be -teamed and famed with sulphur, after which the fruit is sun dried This process preserves the 11a vor and makes the fruit of tine color and so clear as :o be almost transparent. From his vineyard Mr. Anderson produced over a ton of as fine raisins as the market ilf'ords. He is one of the most successful success-ful fruit-growers of Washington coun-y. coun-y. When we have direct railway eon-lecfion eon-lecfion with Dixie, Salt Lake will get much fine fruit from there. Till-: IMXIi: rot n th v. (X.-.v V.-ai-'.-, Tribune. ' I b Dixie" in soiitle-rn 'tab is the i'leal spot of lie- Went, itssemi-li-opie-il climate is ini.-an-pa.Tii-d by an on the American continent, and its pi-.-tl little vales i j -: t ) -rl in the valleys of tie- mountain:, on I he ( 'olorado slope give il the advantage of the warm son ! her. i huh (luring the winter months that make., il the homo of the invalid. Il is situate,! i, ii the Colorado slope jest over the rim of ( ii-ea t I !asin in tin "V" made by I he two ri Vers oft lie Rio Vii"ii and the Santa Clara, embracing mi i. it ail of 'A ; ih ington county. Coming from the north one leaves the cold northern blast to drop, in the course of a few miles, into the lovely val lo s of Di. ie, where on every side out: sees the arduous work of the hardy pioneer" in penetiating the almost impassable im-passable barriers in their efforts to reach their land of promise in tinsmith. tin-smith. When they reached this section of the country nothing- greeted their eyes but the barren sagebrush plains devoid of vegetation of any kind that was inviting to the eyes of the weary traveler, but under their hardy pio-nei-rship nothing was unsurniountable, and the streams were soon utilized and the land began to bloom under the sunny in licence of t he southern sun and plenty of cult ival ion. until now a prettier pret-tier spot docs not exist in the West. From Spring-dale on the northeast to Price on the soul hwest along the Rio Virgin in every nook that can be set-ilcd set-ilcd or farmed you can look on the green pastures and fields almost evergreen ever-green from spring to spring, and from I'ine valley on the north to St. George on the south one has the choice of any climate from the cold north to the balmy south, in the course of only twenty-five miles along the Santa Clara river, which is thickly wooded with till kinds of timber growing in the ! different climates. This stream is the ideal spot for the angler, where the speckled beauty I abounds in the cooling waters, hence making it. the. lovely retreat for the summer tourists during the hot sum- i nier months, and the mountain scenery I along its course is ever inviting for the sportsman, where all kinds of game abound from the grouse to the deer or bear and almost every kind of wild fruit that grows can be found in the picturesque canyons in their luscious native state. The products of the farming district are as varied as is the climate; everything every-thing that can be grown in any semi-tropical semi-tropical is grown in this Dixie land, the apple, peach, fig. plum, apricot, pear, quince, almond, cherry, and berries of every kind can be found in the gardens: while all kinds of vegetables vege-tables grown in any climate can be raised in the land of Dixie from the Irish to the sweet potatoes and yams. Her industries are fast forging ahead. While capital is lacking to aid in developing the resources of the country coun-try the patriotic instincts of the people to a large extent overcome that difficulty. diffi-culty. At Washington five miles from St. George, the busy hum of the large cotton cot-ton and woollen mills is constantly heard, and a market for all the cotton raised in this section of the country is created, a-nd it is brought from south-, south-, era Nevada and northern Arizona to this market, hence not only furnishing labor for our own people of southern Utah, but portions of other States as well, while its wool is to a large extent ex-tent imported from the surrounding counties. In the same tow n is one of the finest roller mills in the State, giving giv-ing to the people a grade of flour that equals any that can be imported, lu St. George there is established a modern mod-ern tannery in every respect under the efficient managership of Hon. Thomas P. Cottaui. where all material needed for the footwear is manufactured and placed on the market at. a price that cannot be competed with outside mate-. mate-. riai. This country furnishes everything needed for the tanning process; the canaigre root grows wild in- profusion, ail over the hills aud sandy bottoms of Washington county, hence can be gotten got-ten for the mere digging of it. St. George has now in course of erection a due schoe.ihor.se that will he the most substantial one in the State of Utah without exception. It will cost about f.'.i'i. "Ob and is being built of cut black Volcanic rock for the foundation, while the main poia:o'! c! ;Ui building will consist of red reek of the pitch a,h!ey f-;wc. It wili be1 equipped w-iih all modern appliance-, and is being rapid- liwl- il'...o ;.e Ut-.-:-i.'.'. ;tx v.,!;:: w itu |