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Show "Within tvo miles of tbe flowia.s: gas wells ia Davis county there are deposits of limestone lime-stone carrying from 90 to 90 per cent of carbonate car-bonate of lime. The close neighborhood of these two factors, so useful in solving the problem of a profitable handling of the raw material of various kinds in our foothills must be clear to the dullest comprehension. That long lines of furnaces, mettallurgical works, glass factories, lime and brick kilns, will, in due time line these valleys north and south from Salt Lake City is only a question of how much waiting shall intervene. Thfre i aa be no better inTesttnent of money and labor for the citica and counties ! nf I'tah than in the building: and improve ment of wagon road through the canyons i and valleys adjacent to and within their j limits. The county road up Bis: Cottonwood j canyon hss been so improved and trans- j formed that it is a pleasure to gaze at the J beautiful scenery by the way as one drives i his team over the admirable mountain road from the mouth to the summit; while the miner and the mine hunters And their j)i-cperty, absolute and prospective, increased in value largely with good facilities to reach , it and transport its outcome. 1 , |