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Show ami prospectors are glad at their approach ap-proach aud the jocund songs of labor with an anvil chorus of exultation follow fol-low their retiring footsteps. WATCHMAN WHAT OF THE MGIITT As the war horse snuffs tho battle from afar, so do the keen-scented masters mas-ters of tho iron horse follow tho trend of business where nature has planted her treasures in her rocky fastnesses. Tho military pathfinders, Messrs. Palmer and Doimie of the Kio Grande Western railroad, defying drifting snow and driving tempests, on horseback horse-back and afoot, have recently explored their proposed line of railway through the fertile valleys of Sanpete and Sevier and to the very summit of the great mineral belt under the shadow of Mount llaldyv When, railway dicuitariea leave "Tiehind. them luxurious special cars and in tempestuous mid winter, in pursuit of prospective business, traverse the devious linesof advancing railways, scale the massive mining ramparts of tributary districts, the men of tho mountains know that transportation, wealth and civilization are at their doors. The men who engineered the wonderful won-derful (light of the "scenio road" over the Ilocky mountains aro the men to search out the hidden treasures of the Talleys and mountains of Utah. Flaukingjthe moribund Union Pacilic railroad with its wooden-shod Salt Creek adjunct at Nephi, and skirting the western edge of that vast Held of coking coal which crops out on the eastern slope of the Wasatch rango aud dips under tho extensive Castle valley, the Kio Grand Western has already reached temple crowned Manti and only waits for the melting snows of spring to push its conquering ways to the headwaters of tho Sevier and to the richest mineral district in Utah, abbut-ting abbut-ting on tho royal ranches of Marysvale. The Sanpete and Sevier valleys with their environments may not move to activity the dry-as-dust Adams or the fctock-broker Guild; but the eagle-eyed eagle-eyed Palmer and the merry Doikje peize the opportunity aud tho victory is theirs. And what a victory! Inexhaustible fields and veins of coal, asphaltum, salt, marble and building rock, on the sunrise sun-rise side of these valleys; gold, silver, copper, antimony, quicksilver and lead galore on the opppsite side. Cattle aud sheep on the thousand intervening in-tervening hills with thriving towns, well-cultivated farms and beautiful streams meeting and kissing each other all along the inter-vale. By turning to the left and using the partly graded road and right of way .through Salina canyon, the 11. G. VV. road secures and controls tho local trade of the growing population of Castle valley and the best and most extensive exten-sive coal fields west of the Kocky mountains. The coke ovens of Castle gate will be indefinitely multiplied all . along the foothills from Huntington to the mouth of Salina canyon in Castle valley. Long lines of loaded coal ears for the local and Pacific coast trade will leave the vast coal region by the most direct line. Coal and coke for the iron regions and for the cities and rising metallurgical works in Utah will bo in increasing demand. de-mand. The mines of precious metals on tho Sevier attracted attention and wore favorably noticed in the official reports of departments at Washington, earlier than any other mines in I'tah. aud when railway transportation and facilities facili-ties reach them, they are bound to stand first among the great mines of this territory. ter-ritory. Forever, let us repeat, the backbone of this prospective state is in its mineral wealth. This element of prosperity waits upon railway facilities and incoming in-coming capital. We welcome the advent ad-vent of a live railroad corporation with pushing pathfinders like General's I'ALMtK aud Dodge." Solitary places |