Show southern utah active railway operations are under headway looking to a road from the wast to connect with one ot the southern extensions of the main lines in this territory actual work hag begun at the of the line the route is already surveyed and ere another winter brings its cold of snow the northern cities of utah may be enjoying the semitropical fruits of fair dixie the opening of that road will develop one of the richest sections in natural resource a that there are in the entire west the halt has net bean told when you only have beard the wealth of northern utah in the southern part they have some of the richest copper mines in the world stgeorge people have been shipping copper bullion miles by wagon to the railway uns and then by rail across tue and found copper mining because their copper ores are 80 per cent pure iron county possesses extensive coal nelda and mountains of iron ore the i richest in the entire country garfield county has a vast area of timber beaver county posa esses man acres of sulphur harla pa 1 l 11 1 L rt 1 state of sevier county has mountains of salta millard county has thousands of aares of rich lands being reclaimed by reservoir there ara developed and undeveloped of all kinds of ares in all thesa cou in short the greatest and richest rs bourgea of this territory yet lie undeveloped in southern utah there is enough wealth there to found an embira when the railroad is built through that section utah will see a great era of prosperity population by the tens of thousands will flock new towns and cities will spring up end the present settlements will grow ath astonishing rapidity and how will all these inhabitants feel if they have to come near unto the northern boundary line to attend to business in the capital they would certainly feel that an injustice had been done them and their children and childrens children after them if the capital is left at salt lake ak ready thare is a population of south of the salt lake latitude and only north of t what will it be when one or more trans tal railways are built through rich southern utah there will then be four times the population south thai there is north of salt lake latitude therefore our legislators should look to the future bhea they decide to creot the state capitol |