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Show PAH GAML WILL BE HELPTO UTAH This" Stale Is Certain to Secure Se-cure Many Immigrants, Says Realty Man. That Salt Lake City will dorivc much benefit from the opening of the Panama canal Is the strong" bolicf of a member of tho firm of Kimball & Richards, land merchants, who has just returned from a visit to tho Pacific coast. It is pointed out that about 75,-000 75,-000 people will pass through tho big canal from European ports tho first year alono and that emigration directly to tho Pacific coast will bo tho biggest factor in the building up of the- entire wost. Tho poorer emigrants will stay on the coast, while those of more means will push further inland, and Utah will gain the cream of this movoment. Utah and Salt Lako City aro directly connected with all of tho California ports by rail and lies about m tho "same relntlvo position from thoso points that Ohio docs from tho port of Now York. Ab Ohio and the surrounding' torritory has long boon benefited by the Atlantic soaboard emigration, so will Utah and surrounding- states receive all tho real advantages of the Pan tit coast emigration. emigra-tion. It is a well-known fact that many large California land corporations aro quietly buying large tracts of inter-mountain inter-mountain land in anticipation of this very condition. Salt Lake City, boing the largest city in this section "and the natural centor of western activities, including- mining, manufacturing and agricultural, will gain more than any other city m tho intermountain torritory. torri-tory. Land values horo will climb very rapidly with the increase in population, popula-tion, and thoso far-sighted individuals who have heeded the warning to own land here will reap golden profits. That the next three years will bo a period of great prosperity to tho entire country and particularly to the west is freely predicted by tho most conservative business bus-iness men in tho nation. Salt Lake City is surely coming into its own today. Three 3ears hence, -who can tell what strides sho will have made? that "after mature consideration ho has docided not to mako any public appearance ap-pearance ponding decision," of his caso in tho federal court. "Tho general statos that ho desires to avoid all situations which might lead to complications, howovor slight, or to give riso to controversy," l.r. Kerr said. It was explained that Castro fearod that i ho made a spooeh ho might ut-tor ut-tor aentimonls that could bo construed as JiOBtilo and would complicate his chances of boing allowed to remain in this country. |