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Show DIXIE'S DARK DAYS fl flOW li PAST Citizen of St. George Saya Region Is Making Great Progress. GROWTH IS APPARENT Improvements Are Being Made Which Were Formerly For-merly Impossible. Returning from a vacation spent in his native town, St. George, Clarence S. Jarvis, engineer of the Sevier bridge dam, declares that the time when "Dixie" will come into its own is imminent. im-minent. "More progress has been made in the last year," lie said, "than in the previous five years, and more was made during those live years than iu the previous pre-vious twenty-five. ' ' Mr. Jar via recounted in the office of State Engineer AV. D. Beers yesterday afternoon his impressions of the momentum momen-tum of progress and development that he says is becoming so noticeable in the south land. He said: Of course, the one big handicap has been largely removed bv the building of better roads. The heartbreaking heart-breaking wait of the pioneers of ".Dixie" for the advent of a railroad rail-road has been relieved by the advent ad-vent of the automobile and the construction con-struction of state roads that make 1 its use possible. Big Fruit Crop. This improved possibility of communication com-munication with the outside world never could have been more opportune oppor-tune than at the present time, for there will be an abundance of fruit in "Dixie" at a time when the rest of the state is suffering a shortage. short-age. The prospect of a market for the fruit product of this semi-tropical section of the state has had a wonderfully won-derfully stimulating effect upon industry. in-dustry. There is room for much reclamation work in Washington county in the best fruit country the state has and the residents of the locality arc awake to the possibilities pos-sibilities of their vicinity. The young men of "Dixie" are getting a two-handed hold on tho forelock of opportunity and there is a prospect pros-pect that they will grow up with the country rather swiftly. Modern improvements, such as it was not thought possible for the little lit-tle southern colony to afford in years gone by, are dow being instituted. in-stituted. One of these is a fine ice plant and cheese factory and another an-other an up-to-date canning factory. fac-tory. Dark Days Past. Indeed it requires no stretch of the imagination for one to see that the dark days are past for "Dixie." Many of the old residents who have toiled with an unwearying faith in the future of the country will doubtless see something of their dreams realized within the next few years, for the realization has already al-ready begun. Prospect of a storage reservoir for tho city of St. George is another an-other promise of improvement. .A natural volcanic depression at what is known as the yellow knolls is to be utilized. The site has the advantage ad-vantage of being so located as to be of no possible menace to the town. If a dam should ever go out the reservoir water would be drained off through a wash leading away from the direction of the town. |