Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-16 | Page 5 | Utah Praised as Land of Resources

1 d UTAH PRAISED AS I LAND OF RESOURCES Current Magazine Corrects a Misapprehension Concerning Concerning Con Con- on- on conditi conditions ns The Tho opportunities that present resent themselves them them- themselves selves selves' In Utah and which encourage settlement in this state are set forth by the editor of the Popular Magazine In his Caught in the Net department of the current number Dumber Utah is captioned captioned cap- cap a state of opportunity Here Is what he says Utah produces more sugar beets to the acre than any other place in the union It also has woman suffrage suffrage- and the women constitute a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able item item of the population In Utah It Is one of the the only Western far-Western states where the the thew women w women men could almost hold hoM their own in h ha a war of ot- there ballots ballots there are twenty thousand more men than women women In the state Peaceable and Thrifty Utah has suffered a great deal from bogy stories and Jests yet et no similar community in America Is more peaceable law abiding thrifty and harmonious Whatever one may believe be belIeve believe be- be lieve In regard to the Mormon doctrine one must admit the people of Utah have fought a good fight and made a barren desert flower into a wealth of fruit and grain and crowned it all with one of our most beautiful cities Let us correct another hension Utah is not exclusively for Mormons The doors are wide open all creeds and those who worship only the wind and stars are welcome And if It those who come behave as as' as aswell well as their Mornion neighbors there will be beno beno beno no trouble Horn of Plenty And it is a goodly land Out of the mountains come sIlver sliver and gold and copper and lead and zinc that sell for nearly annually In the valleys grow an average of f fifty bushels bushels bushels bush bush- els of oats to the acre and acre and thirteen one half tons of sugar beets to the acre nearly acre nearly two tons above Its nearest nearest nearest near near- est competitor Utah was the first state to irrigate its farm lands It has over miles mUe o of canals and main ditches costing over This irrigates about acres which leaves or more still capable of f Irrigation And there are several million other acres suitable to dry farming The government still owns over 2 acres acre subject to entry under the enlarged homestead act And by a special provision not applicable to any other state one who enters this land does not have to live on It Immediately Any citizen of the United States may enter acres of land In Utah