Show 1 CHURCH NOT GREAT NEVADA LANDOWNER SA SAYS YS C. C W. W NIB NILEY lEY Denial of Statement Made in hi rt It Nevada Paper Comes From Church Official ik Plaint that the Mormon church has hasi i I bought great tracts of ot agric agricultural I and land ranch land In Nevada cada and that thoI tho I bulk of ot Nevada business will be bo turned from San Francisco F to Salt Lake is made b by a newspaper published In Neada Ne Ne- vada ada R. R L. L Fulton of Nevada ada de described de- de 0 scribed as perhaps the tile best posted man on Neva Nevada a real estate is quoted as ris authority for tor these statements 1 The Mormon formon church has s not invested InestI invest est I 1 ed d d one cent In Nevada there Nevada there la Is t no foundation of or truth in statements said Bishop C. C W. W Nibley when shown the clipping from tho I Nevada NO paper paper yesterday The Thc church certainly gets ets credit for being th the worE worst t gobbler smiled the bishop and doesn't deserve It The church has never nevor bought ht an any I land and In inN N vada and Is attempting no colonization colonization tion there then Individual Own Landi Some omo years ears ago the Eccles Interests inter- inter Interests ests acquired land in Nevada the thc owner own- own T er r belD being under obligations to the tho First National ban bank of or O Ogden Ogdon Jesse Kni Knight ht of or Provo land there T Taylor f owns own n. i T TS jf r al it estate t firms ri of this city t- t are r f Interested t i In Nevada Xo lands I believe c As s an In Indi Individual In- In fl di I some sonic time ago alo looked at a ranch in Nevada but did not bu bUyS buy This TIIS X Nevada vada article states that Wil Wit WIlHam William liam Ham Kent has hns bon bonded his ranch in Iii Clover Clovel valley and hl Ms his Golconda Cattle company to E. E P. P Ellison who represents the Mormon church Mr 11 Ellison does does not represent the Mormon church As I said sald the church is js not Investing in an any mono money monc- there Tho Metropolis Nev Xe enterprise Is spoken of ot in this article AS one in which the Mormon church Is inter Interested sted when hen as we Wc all know lenow Metropolis Is anybody's place pace Tho The entire article Is untrue The Utah men who vho own property property property prop prop- erty there have bought It as private Investments or are real estate dealers who ere nrc 10 se selling tracts there just as they do lots h fn in the tho city It R. R L. L Fulton is quoted by the Nevada paper as saying that with Mormons tn UD up land in that state the they will trade at stores in S Salt Lake Lao an and that San Ran Francisco and the coast will Mill suffer su- su stiffer suf stif- fer tel as a consequence Should Get sine Hu There Is every ory reason wh why Salt Lake should receive a good bood share of the Nevada Nerada business commented Bishop Nibley Let Lct us hope that tra trade e eIn In our elt city from Nevada eva a Increases right alon along Tile The situation of Salt Lake entitles us to a. a good share of j I business This city is js as accessible to j I most N Nevada points as Sun San Francisco It Jt is hI more accessible than San Francisco Francis Francis- co to many of or the ranches mentioned in this article as having ln been gobbled up b by the tho Mormon ormon church That part of oC the Nevada Ne article article ar ar- ar- ar tide In which Mr oIl Fulton gives the names of the property he lie declared have 0 b boon been en acquired b by the church Is Isas Isas Isas as follows Since April 1 more than a n. quarter of a a. million acres of or the Humboldt and md adjacent valleys s have 1110 gone Into the han hands s of or tile the Mormon lormon church or allied Interests and instead of oC being sold oid to who become customers customers cus cus- of oC the west coast they will do doeer eer every cent of oC their trading at the ZIon stores sto-c Three times as many acres have o b been n absorbed in the tho same way a within a a. very cry few ew Many cr of Ranch The Sparks Sparks-Harrell coun country tr with it II acres the Hardin ranch on QuInn river with acres and the RIley ranch rf adjoining with the Godchaux OOOO In Paradise e valley tho the Promontory country with Tom Nelsons Nelson's and Blossoms Blossom's 2000 acres are already absorbed Salt Lake m mn n took the Hardesty Hardest ranch three years aco ato and added acres of oC railroad land tn to Its built buill the town of or Metropolis laid miles I oC of sidewalks and sewers built the best hotel between Reno neno and Ogden then offered the land laid In III small sized farms with the results that crops ore are already r reaching reaching- market |