Show provo becoming prosperous provo prove suffered more than an city of the state perhaps by the free trade panic and the four long years of democratic depression the municipality ici did not anticipate what was coming and just before the hard timesia tim times esit loaded up with a bonded indebtedness of a hundred and awen ty thousand dollars business men were filled with the same boom spirit find and they overreached themselves in in the erection of large buildings and by loading up with extensive stocks of merchandise banks were careless about securities and took land at boom prices when the crash came caine therefore provo was in a position to get the full force of it i 4 sat but times are growing better here as elsewhere and the business of the city is ia improTi improving ng where the woolen mills cace caca had to hunt for a market orders now come to the mana management nemen j by mail and there is ia plenty of work in sight prices are still low for foreign made goods are yet on oil the market but they are gradually being worked off and dealers are looking to the tha american factories for future supplies farmers feel the benefits of advanced prices for their produce and sheep men are praising protection which has again made their business profitable aside from present profits the prospects for provo are brighter than those of any other city in tho the state A temporary power plant at a cost of a quarter of a million dollare dollar 3 is b being e constructed in provo canyon which will supply electric power first to the gold mining camp of mercur and later to neighboring ng silver mining camps 0 with cheap power it will be a great inducement for capital to come to provo for investment in manufacturing enter enterprises prizes it at once makes the city known in the financial world then the city can boast of a railroad extension through provo can canyon y on which is ie now under headway that will eventually so it is reported run through the rich reservation making a much shorter route to denver when that road is built provo ought to te become not only the junction cit city y but the center of trade for all the vast district that will be opened to settle ment meat that would give splendid opp opportunities ort unities for wholesale houses bouses at this point indeed with the bright future before the city its citizens citi zeus ought to be at better business than engaging in petty patty partisan wr wrangles augles |