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Show io iiniif Capitalists From Twin Arc Heavily Interest. nJJta m HAVE UTMOST CONFIDENT IN FUTURE OF THE al h People of East, They Say, B . Conlidence in This t . State. in i O. A. Robertson of St. Paul and' Kenaston of Minneapolis, capitl and business men, arrived in thoifl Saturday morning and registered Ji?nl Knutsford. Mr. Kenaston is a 1 manufacturer of threshing macb which are sold throughout the I mountain country by his agents Utah Implement company of Salt Lir In the course ot an interesting coTf sation with a Tribune represents'' I Mr. Kenaston said: 8 3 "We visit Salt Lake on an avM 5 of about three times a vear. B'rf? our interest in manufactured maclny? ' we own considerable land inD which we are putting in shape fdi! V tivation. Our coal interests in BP, Columbia are of considerable xoPf tude. The quality of our coal is-!0" anthracito and bituminous, the- coking coal to be found anywhert is furnish coke in large quantities ,t ve smelters o British Columbia ai the United States to the amoltei i tho States of Washington, Moi i4 1 and Idaho. The duty on coke imp dfl into this country is 90 cents a and 63 cents a ton on coal. Thi nadian Pacific railroad runs thi i our coal fields, which arc situated, ?, sixty mile3 north of the National s 1 dqr line. o, "My .partner, Mr. Robertson,'; . large timber interests in British io nmbia, and is heavily engaged ii in manufacture of lumber, for which s d is a strong local demand. That' c. country up there, which is as lar ijq three or four or our Western 8 i is settling up very rapidlv. Atij 100,000 farmers have been Roit, there and settling yearly during r. past three years, 60 per cent of arc from the United States. That' r". scope of country lying between Al and the Eastern boundary of Man13.1 is about the richest to bo found ii 171 country. They raise immense cropP" small grain, and as a grazing cofi it can 't be beat. It is a great cotf' for stock, and those engaged infK stock raising industry aro doingjtfJ and making money. jX Doing Large Business. $ "During tho last six or seven i0, we have oeeu buying lands fromC Government and the railroad compsff and disposing of them in largo tfij to companies and parties foundin&L onics. Up in Alberta I notico tbe0 a large colon' of Mormons, princiru from Utah. The' arc going inter sugar beet business, and ought tL. well, as that country is admit"; adapted to the growing of beets", -' splendid degree of perfection. i1 "Our land interests in Utah Ur the counties of Emory and Millard A, own about 40,000 acres, Our reser. J are about completed, which will tF these lands under a perfect systenvj irrigation. We have even-thing a'1 in shape to turn the water on. JFr land, with plenty of water, will immense crops. Emerv countv is i? for tho excellent quality of the luiF soed raised there, and this crop caB made very profitable. It is also if. celled for the quality and quantity the fruit which it produces. T'' lands, which carry a sufficient ii-right ii-right with tho title, aro estimate., bo worth from $50 lo $100 per Thero is jio future water charge:,,, the only expense is for maintain? "Tho peoplo in the East are hi , ning to learn that Utah is a 3afe, rc profitable plate in which io.engag j, agriculture, horticulture, etc., andJj Salt Lake City is flestined to hecTj the foremost business center iimll; intc-rmotiniain countrv. Salt LaKg now taking a start along progrosu lines from which she cannot recede, fc, development of the great mining sources, the expansion of ngrictntjf horticulture, etc., in the State btffe impounding of the manifold wf-streams wf-streams that flow from her niosnta, and tho centering of several contlner, railroad lines here are fast deterlii' Salt Lake's future greatness. a. The gentlemen, aft or attennw, their business, will visit thc-y IsnL interests in Utah before returning j |