Show NO PLACE LIKE UTAH Colonel Pat Donan Goes Into Ecttisy Over This Region TILE GREATEST MINES ON EARTH I One Can Slide Down an Incline Plane From Perpetual Winter to Everlasting Loveliness The original and only P Donan of Dakota and of pretty much every other place is in the city Mr Donan is the man TVDO has directed the stream of emigration emigra-tion on this continent for the past fifteen years It was the magic touch of his potent pe 4 that turned the tide of homeseokers to Dakota landing 400000 of them in that state within four years and converting tlio blizzardswept plains into a fertile granary gran-ary It was his poetic effusion of her fabulous possibilities that polarized a I email percentage of the dissatisfied population popu-lation of the world on the illimitable farms of the Dakotas By bis striking originality he attracted I the attention of tho public and he held it by his adherence to the main fact Ho described the country in his matchless style and the people fell on with it I The Chicago Milwaukee C St Paul published and distributed seven million j f copies of Mr Donnas celebrated Fourth of July oration delivered at Fargo in 1SS2 and had it translated into all the languages of Europe since which the speech has found a place in the school readers where its jocular extravagances delight young Americans Colonel Donan is now in Utah and hel 1 finds here a greater field for his peculiar gifts than he over dreamed of in Dakota I The fact is was the reply that right i here is the finest field for immigration and I investors I have ever known You can I transform a desert into a garden just by I turning on the water Turn on the water End nature will do the rest While In I Dakota bushels is a good crop to tho ucre hero I am told you raise 75 S3 and even iK I bushels A man by farming well j here gets more out of twenty acres than ho can produce from onehalf a mile square in I other places tIt t-It is no wonder that there are revelations in a country like this If the tide of cultivated tourists that 1ms for 2000 years poured into Switzerland Switz-erland and Venice was turned to Utah for five years the travel of the world would be brought here for all time to come There 1 is more sublime grand and picturesque scenery iu 100 miles square in Utah and Colorado than there is in all Italy Switzerland Switzer-land France and Spain combined throwing in the Alps and Appenines and all the duck puddles like Lake Como There is i no other region so far as I know in the temperate zone where one can find at every turn mountaius whose summits are capped with t suow while their feet are buried in foliage fruits and flowers as they are in this region In natural resources Utah is simply an t amazement to me I did not know until I came here that the Ontario mine which is one of the greatest silver mines on earth if not the greatest was in Utah The Horn Silver is another of the worlds great bullion bul-lion producers and it is a Utah mine 1 have just got in today from tho Tin tic mining district which contains some of the great mines of the country and where they are constantly opening up new ones which are bound to take places among the great silver and gold yielding mines of the world The whole town of Eureka is walled in with mountains of gold and silver ore I was in Salina the present terminus of the Rio Grande Western last Friday If we could just pick up ten square miles oft of-t the mountains surrounding that little place mountains of pure rock salt mountains of pure gypsum mountains of pure kaolin and drop them in Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Wis-consin or Iowa we could build a city of 25000 in two years on such a treasury house of resources hIf the charms of the bathing in the Great Salt lake were known throughout the east you could brine 50000 people out here every year for that alone And in climate It is absolutely incomparable region re-gion for a man can any day slide down an incline plane ten miles long from perpetual flowers now and Ice to everlasting foliage and I I see in the papers a report that the apples arc baking on the trees around Chicago f Chi-cago which boasts of being the great American summer resort Even in DakotaS Dakota-S and Minnesota whoso climatic advantages I have done something to celebrate the thermometer for the last ten days or two weeks has been boiling np to 110 and 115 degrees in the shada and 90 degrees at midnight mid-night Here 1 can sit at my windows and see the snow on the Wasatch mountains glisten white and cold in the August sunlight sun-light Last Saturday morning in company with Superiatendent Welby of the Kio Grande Western S H Babcock general I utility man of tho same road Dr Fowler and Major Erb of your city I was at the L Pleasant Valley coal mineremember it was tho 8th of August vhen all the eastern east-ern and northwestern states were roasting f4 and swelteringwhere we were ice formed an eighth of an Inch thick and we could p write our names in the frost on the depot f platforms Utah could supply the union with delizhtful climate every day in the year out of her surplus You have said Colonel Donan rising t to give force and emphasis to his observes E tion the worlds real wonderland right here and it is your duty to let the world know of it Mr Donan who has traveled the continent conti-nent in private cars and special trains y said that Superintendent Welbys car is as fine as the best and the cook a great deal betterS fsf better-S He is now employed by the Rio Grande E Western to write up the scenery and resources f re-sources of the country through which the y linepasses It goes without saying that y hn observations when published in book 141 c 1 e y a form will start emigration in this direction direc-tion as never before This effort of the Rio Grando Western to popularize this matchless country is but one of many other enterprises for the building of Utah which Colonel Dodge the enterprising general manager of this lino has in store |