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Show "Dixie" MAXCFACiri.Es. Mr. ' Richard Bently of St. Ge, rge, Washington Wash-ington county, who is in town, has brought up with him specimensof manufactured man-ufactured fabrics from the Washington co-operative woolen and cotton mills highly creditable to the enterprise of our southern settlers, and showing how rapidly they arc progrecsing in the manufacture of woolen and cotton goods. We examined yesterday some very superior specimens of woolsey, plain and striped, which were substantial substan-tial fabrics, well woven, from evenly spuo thread, and most excellently colored, co-lored, an evidence that their dyer is master of his business. The mills are under the superin tendency of our friend, Mr. Joseph Birch, and having lately received considerable additional machinery will not only be able to supply sup-ply that region with the kind of goods manufactured at the mills, but to sell largely in this market The Washington Washing-ton mills should receive the warmest encouragement from the people of southern Utah, who have in them facilities for working up their wool and cotton, and we in the more northern part of the Territory should also give support to them, by a preference for the goods manufactured there over the same quality imported from the factories facto-ries of the States east or west. Mr. Bently also brought with him a case of fine light port wine, made from the vineyard of Mr. Walter E. Dodge, which affords conclusive evidence evi-dence that with age the wines of Southern Utah will rank high in the market. This wine is three years old, and will take precedence of many fa- I vorod imported brands. We congratulate our friends in "our ! Dixie" on their continued success in developing the growing industries of that region. There is a bright future before them, and they richly deserve it, having surmounted difficulties of no common character. |