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Show THIS PROSPEROUS STATE. Tho State of Utah has had an exceedingly exceed-ingly good year iu tho twelvemonth just closed. It bogan tho .yoar with a change of State officials, but without an3' change in party control or methods of procedure. Tho State has immenso natural resources re-sources and advantages and with favoring favor-ing conditions will show very great progress within tho next few 3'cars. Thoro needs to bo an injoclion of American Amer-ican spirit to vitalize the lctharg3' that prevails in so man.y parts of the State, and it is a satisfaction to noio that Americanism is making its wa.y even where tho Amoricau spirit is not open-I3 open-I3 recognized. Tho mines have produced well. There has been a little falling oft in the gold production, but taking tho metals to-gelhor to-gelhor gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc there has been an increase the past .year compared with the year before be-fore of almost. $2,000,000, tho total being be-ing $26,131,070.97 in the metals. Tho dividends from this source havo been $7,103,612, compared with dividends of $5,537,7.10 iu 1008, an iucroaso of $1,-565,926. $1,-565,926. Besides this there hns boou litany and increasing production of coal to moot tho conslantly enlarging demand for it. and the hydro-carbons of Uintah County havo .yiolded, chiefly for shipment over tho special road constructed con-structed to transport tho product to Mnck, Colorado, enough to supply all demand, with an unlimited deposit left. Tho great feature of tho yoar has been the inauguration of irrigation plans, the opening of orchard lands all these .by companies, colonics under tho Carc3- land act, and in such ways as wore found convenient and effective. The result must bo very grcatfo lo the advancement of the State. A feature of special satisfaction in all this has been tho spirit manifested lo eradicate inferior and infected fruit, to drive it from the .market, and compel the or-chardists or-chardists (0 obo.v tho law which requires re-quires spraying and (ho elimination of pests from tho trees. In agriculture and stock-raising it has been a splendid 3'ear. The wool clip was largo, tho ranges were excellent, excel-lent, and tho production and prices of meat products woro novor so high. Ag-riculturall.y Ag-riculturall.y and horticulturally the .year has been a great success. Tim frosts of (ho spring hurt some of the fruil, but the .yield was very good . nevertheless. never-theless. Apples mado an unusuall3r good showing, partl.y I13' reason of tho laws forbidding tho sale of worni3" fruit, and partly because tho fruit-raisers themselves arc coming into better accord with the law and with the requirements re-quirements of the market for sound, firsi-class fruit. The State is making progress also educational' and morally. Public sentiment sen-timent is beginning to havo its effect, and tho iron .yoke of the dominant ec clesiastical aulocrac3' is being loosened. Willi that 3'okc firmly fastened upon tho necks of tho people, thcro was no room for an3' public opiniou. no room for an3 advance in scutimcnt, moralby, religioush', or educational'. With the loosening of that yoke there is advance all along the line, and wo live in the livcl3' hope that before man.y years the people will be thoroughly disenthralled, and public sentiment will have its controlling con-trolling sway here as. elsewhere in the Republic. And so the State enters tho now 3'car full of vigor and of hope. I.t is The Tribune's' expectation that the. present coinmcudable progress will ho continued, contin-ued, and judging by the carb' and plentiful plen-tiful snowfall wo havo reason to expect ex-pect an abundant supply of water for all purposes next season, and with abundant abun-dant water hero everything is likely to go well. Ab(j so wo as a..St.ato bid tho old year farewell, with thanks for its bount3', and enter upon a new year with courage and satisfaction. |