Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-12-29 | Page 46 | Why Utah is a Good Place to Come To

t. T J T Why Utah Is a Good Place to Come toBy toBy to toBy By Maurice M M. Kaighn Receiver United States Land Office I I I t- t w ws s HERE are so 0 many reasons why THERE Utah I Is a good gooel place to come to that only a tow taw of them thom can be bo mentioned in a n. brief article The Tha first Is IB the climate This Is never excessively excessive excessive- ly hot In summer Bummer and never extremely cold In win winter tel The climate of Utah is infinitely more beneficial to persons afflicted with asthma and lung diseases diseases diseases dis dis- eases than Is that of California where thousands are arc sent every even year ear b by mistaken mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken physicians In all parts of the state are arc found mineral springs spring's of holand hot hol and cold fresh resh and and salt water having in their great variety varlet all tho T minerals and curative curativo properties of ot the celebrated springs of ot the world The I Great Salt lake lako only twelve miles dl distant tant from Salt Lako Lake City Is a a. beauty I and delight and a natural sanitarium Tho lands of ot Utah are of ot great grent variety variety va va- va- va and of marvelous and seemingly inexhaustible fertility They can produce pro pro- duco duce with our splendid 1 system of ot artificial ar 01 ar- ar Irrigation all the grains fruits and vegetables l known to man save savo tropical fruit These products ran range o from grain and hard fruits hardy In the northern part of the state to cotton almonds oranges lemons and tho tender tender tender ten ten- der varieties of ot grapes In the southern portion When a a. railroad Is constructed construct construct- ed to our extreme southern counties wo will not be dependent upon California for tor peso luxuries It Is a fact familiar to tote the tho people of ot Utah that our homo home homegrown grown fruit Is superior In flavor to toan an any that Is Imported Utah holds tho the record for tor tho ho Jar largest est production of ot wheat per aero acre In the countr country There Thero are arc still millions of or acres of ot valuable public lands land in Utah that under tho the liberal and beneficial beneficial bene bene- possessions of the amended homestead law t familiarly known as the tho Smoot act net may bo be acquired b by settlers sot sot- tiers In areas of ot acres b by merely cultivating cultivating- a n portion of ot that area This Is tho the celebrated dry farming land which under tho the present advanced methods of cultivation produces shun A dant danl crops of ot all nil kinds All the tho minerals an and metals gold gold 1 silver copper lead zinc Iron and coal arc are found In tho the mountains of ot Utah The total output In 1912 1913 was Within twenty five miles of or Salt Lake Is the tho largest copper mine In the world handling ov over r tons toos of or ore re per da day Tho The deposits of ot Iron and coal aro are of ot enormous extent extent sufficient sufficient aI al- al mo most moU t to supply the world They must Inevitably In the near future find the capital enterprise and energy needed for tor their development That would give employment to tens of ot thousands of oC men and have e an output excelling Pittsburgh h and Birmingham ham Jt Ii Salt Lake Is already a a. great railroad metropolis with five great reat trunk lines Unes centering hero and two O or moro morein more moreIn In process of ot construction Harriman was right when he ho predicted that Salt Lako Lake was destined to be one of ot the tho five lve great cities of ot the countr country 1 Utah has a splendid up to date publIc public pub pub- lic lie school system crowned by tw two great reat educational institutions the Uni University University of ot Utah at Salt Lake an and the A Agricultural college at Ilo Logan an together having ha 1000 students This is only apart n a part of or the wonderful rul story j 1 jI I