| Show COLORADO is sa rely on the road to greatness with ita participating in governmental offices last week mrs cressingham member of the lawor house of the state legis lature introduced a bill for the purpose of establishing a state board of sugar beet culture of six members providing for county boards and the encouragement of beet culture appropriating 1000 tor the expenses of the board and 2 per ton on all sugar beets grown in the state under state supervision that kind of legislation will rob utah of an industry that should have grown to such importance as lo 10 supply the sugar of the entire west THE simple fact is says tom aeed that the government is running behind a month and the remedy is simple there is nothing intricate in the matter make the revenue equal to the output he goes on to declare and you will restore the public credit and cure the situation democrats have reduced the revenue by their free trade tendencies beyond the actual requirements of govera ment THE opinion ia growing that ajit tle cottonwood ie possessed of gold bearing veins should the district provo as rich as the salt lake papers report it will verify the statement president young is reported once to have made in his office door he is said to have declared that ha could eee from there where great treasures of gold lay hidden by nature that would some day aigule be developed ir seems to us that utah county parties who own anch magnificent onyx beds should take steps to polish the beautiful stone and place it on the market it would not require much capital to place a polishing plant at provo where it could be runby wa ter power and there ie certainly market enough for the onyx in a finished state it is farat class stona UTAH to be one of the great centers of american sugar production bays the st louis globe democrat the sugar beets grow there to perfection and irrigation makes it a certain crop e forty fifth state to enter the union is already unusually interesting in ite agricultural and other industrial fea tures of the utah bugar co paid us a visit today and reported the farmers quite anxious to sign coc at 4 per ton they expect even a worse redaction with all ohp bounty removed the armors now know how to raise the beets to rood advantage in a position to know say the provo river power scheme is not yet abandoned there will be money in the project if once trade revives again IT will now remain to be seen if he prophecy of john M zane as to the partisanship of the supreme court is true government crop data indicate an increase in the area sown to winter wheat for 1893 beason the acreage harvested in according to alie department part ment figures was 23 acres and the planted area this season is 24 acres THE chattanooga tradesman says there continues to be steady increase in the number of new cotton mills and in additions to plants now in operation more attention is leing given to the making of the finer grades of cotton goods several additional iron furnaces are to go in to blast in the birmingham district where the demand is well maintained |
