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Show THE n nitl.ll l FA lit HUNK. Attention is directed to tho call for a meeting of tho exchange, oti Friday evening next, which appears in another column. This meeting is to be held for the purpose of considering what part this city shall take in the groat project of making an underground luiuiug display dis-play at tho world's fair. Tho plan has been fully described in these columns, and that feature of ihe subject ueed not here bo gone, over. The business men of the city understand what is proposed, pro-posed, ami it but remains for them to determine to w hat extent they will as-, sist it, .Mr. ,e .i(i;i.; V. CitovvK will be present to more fully explain the scope of the cuterprlsu and clabornto its possibilities. pos-sibilities. Hi exposition of the matter will bo highly interesting and nono .sliniild fail to hear it. We believe further that no one should fail to pin his name on tho sub. scription list. In ,o lieivo contest which section wages against section f.r recognition and supremacy, no city can expect to attain a commanding position except through tireless exertion in its own behalf. The proposed World's fair mine will be ihe greatest advertisement advertise-ment of the mining industry that has ever been undertaken, and if Salt Lake shall step in now and take tho lead in forwarding the unlcrpri.se it will bo tilde to hold that place to the end. Al- iiwhi uiav i'i.icc hi me enu. Although Al-though tho scheme originated In Colorado, Colo-rado, no public action regarding it has yet been taken in that slate. The subscriptions sub-scriptions havo'ull been tillered privately, private-ly, the project not having yet been ' taken up in a public way. The people there aru ready to do so. but have left the door open for Utah to get in the lead. If too Friday evening meeting result in a hearty endorsement of tho enterprise enter-prise and liberal subscriptions for it, the scheme will thenceforward belong to Utah as much as to Colorado, and it Will not be ditlieult for our people to prepare such an exhibit that the territory terri-tory will he kept abreast or ahead of all other sections in the great display. The opportunity Is presented to stamp this as a Utah project, ami to secure a leading lead-ing place for this section iu the public mind iu connection, with tho great display. |