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Show ILLINOIS VISITOR IS IMPRESSED WITH WEST M. Copenhaven of Champaign, 111., a graduate of the big university at that point, is completing a tour of the west, his main purpose being to investigate conditions and to ascertain what the opportunities are in this interniountain country for energetic iudcavor aud profitable investment in the industries. "I arrived in Salt Lake only Saturday," Satur-day," said Mr. Copenhaven, "but have traversed a considerable portion of Idaho Ida-ho within the last few weeks, and I feel justified in saying that my travels through the west thus far have been remarkably pleasing. "You see, I" am from the greatest producing section of tho middle "west, central llliuois, but the trouble with us is I mean the rising generation the land is valued so high, from 200 tO'iyJoO an acre, that we can't afford to cultivate it. I have seen enough of these valleys already to convince me that this is 'the safest and most pleasant spot iu which to settle." |