Show THE transformation AT GARFIELD years ago garfield utah on the shores of the great salt lake was a noted bathing resort thousands of plea pleasure sure s seekers eakers and tourists annually visited this delightful spot di sported themselves in the crystal and invigorating vig orating waters of the lake and went away telling of the wonders of this inland sea of this delightful resort whose background setting is the beautiful oquirrh range of mountains but no one in describing the attractions and delights of garfield ever predicted that the day would come when nestling near the lake and under the shelter of the mountains a great industry would spring up whose life would be sustained by the mining industry of the west or who ventured to foretell the fact that the day would come when the foothills would be covered with mammoth buildings for the protection of gigantic reduction works that thrifty and prosperous towns would spring up around these works that a railroad would be constructed reconstructed from the great copper camp of bingham for the transportation of ores from the mines to the mills and smelt ers and that in fact the whole face of the valley around garfield would be changed and that a locality whose heri heritage was the desert would in time teem with aitu lit and vitality to have made such a prediction fifteen or twenty years ago would have invited derision today the condition is a reality millions are being expended la in carrying out the projects the creations creati of the finest talent in mining milling and engineering circles to be found in the known world and these millions are but a tithing of the millions which will come of these vast enterprises when once they are in 1 n tangible shape when these creatures of the brain have taken the form of iron and steel when the throb of the engines is heard when the crushers groan the concentrating tables vibrate and when the seething furnaces transform the hard cold ore into a molten mass whose crystallization in the casting pot begets in gots of the precious and baser metals this is the transformation at garfield that has taken place during the past few years A wonder has been accomplished within a comparatively short time and all has been brought about through the medium of the mining industry an industry belittled in the east but a few years ago and one that was classed clanged as illegitimate in higher financial circles but which is now so popular with all classes because of opportunities for safe investments and large profits the great enterprises now being inaugurated at garfield will stimulate every line of business throughout the west its vitalizing influence will be felt in almost every mining camp throughout this intermountain inter mountain count country y and while its benefits will be felt at home many an eastern man will receive his dividends or will take down his profits and rejoice over the fact that old garfield has been reclaimed from the desert and that on the shores of wonderful dead sea there has been established an industry through whose channel a world of imperial imperi sl able wealth will flow from ocean to ocean from pole to pole |