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Show UTAH. Tho Stato of Utah has enjoyed unprecedented un-precedented prosporlty during tho past year. All of ita Industries, its business, busi-ness, and its productiveness in overy lino, havo been at high pressure until within tho past two months. And tho pinch of these two months camo after tho chiof rocord of tho year had been made. That pinch affoeted principally tho mining industry, and did not go to tho damaging of genernl trade or business busi-ness to any marked extent. Tho holiday holi-day trade in Salt Lako City and throughout tho Stato has boen of enormous enor-mous proportions, nnd every ono hns spent freely and bought variously and largely. The mines of the Stato have yielded enormously, and paid dividends of unprecedented magnitude. Tho fnrmers havo hud a year of great pro-farmors, pro-farmors, with prices so high as to made them dizzy, nnd made thoso who had to buy their produco dizzier yet. Prices havo been kept up oven to tho last of the year in a way novor beforo known. This was partly by reason of trado combines and partly by reason of increased demand, especially in Salt Lako City. Tho growth of this city l,no r-,,,.1, ov. ..oi-aoc, : n, J mand for all forms of household and j personal necessities that tho supply was found inadequate, and tho usual result followed. Tho early portion of tho year, last spring, showed a tremendous wool clip, which realized to the flockmastcrs within with-in tho radius of Salt Lako City, the settlements being made here, something some-thing like $4,000,000. Live stock generally gen-erally has been at boom prices, and all that could be furnished has been eager- I ly taken nnd promptly paid for. The demand, in fact, in almost every instance in-stance outran the supply. The Reason had an abundance of water for all purposes, pur-poses, tho only drawback to farming operations being the uncertain season, which opened with prematuro warm spells succeeded by frosts und cold storms. The frosts nnd cold itijurod the fruit materially and damaged tho alfalfa iri some localities; but tho great crops of graiu, of hay in gcucral, of vegetables, and of small fruits, were abundnut. Money is more generally diffused throughout the State than ever before, and on an average the inhabitants aro better supplied, both in their homo life and for tho prosecution of their farm and stock business, than at auy former time. Moro farmers and slock-raisors have money, and moro of it, in tho banks than they havo over had, and the era of prosperity has been exceedingly exceed-ingly kind to them, and is kind to them yet.' The year 1907 deserves to bo remembered remem-bered long in Utah aB ono of abundance in every product of mine, field, and farm, and tho prices realizod by tho producers havo afforded a profit never beforo known. And so tho year passes out of history as one tho liko of which, if continued, nothing moro need bo asked of any year by any of our people. |