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Show ATTACHING UTAH. Do you know what our neighbors over in Colorado ara doing in reference to tha trade of Utah? Do you know tbey are working like beavers to make this vast region a oommerolal dependency depen-dency of their busy capital? If you are not familiar with tbe facts upon which this assertion is founded you ought to look them up and study what tbey portend por-tend for the future of Salt Lake. It is folly for our people to remain blind to tbe fact that wires are being laid which will carry ths business of Utah to Denvor. The busy spirits of that city are at work all tha time. They are reaching out to make Colorado centers the permanent ore market for this country; and tbey will at tbe same tlmo capture a large part of our trade for the merchants of the Colorado city. Of course, if Halt Lake could not control tbe business, our people would rather sea It go to Denver than any other point, but the spirit which is laboring to control It for that .city, if it existed here, could secure tha field for Salt Lake. We can all understand bow transportation transpor-tation companies can be manipulated by ths merchants of Donver so as to prevent any other point from securing oontrol of the trade of Colorado, and we might just as well realize tbe fact that Salt Lake can be sids-tracked as easily as Leadville If we do not stir ourselves. If D'uvor bad not made a determined fight for Its own interests in-terests the Missouri river towns would have controlled the buniness of Colorado; Colo-rado; but it did make the light; it has won In a large measure, and now reaches out to attach Utah, just as Kansas Kan-sas City, Omaha and Chicago would have attached the Centennial slate. |