Show THE FARMING DRY FARMING DRY CONGRESS The people of Salt Lake must not forget that on r Wednesday next the great dr farming dry congress will convene in the Commercial club building building- It Ii is expected expected ex ex- peeled that flint at least strangers w will be e present among them very n many any distinguished men and it is isa isi isu u a i courtesy which Salt Lake owes to these these- gentlemen gentle gentle- men to see that the they are t taken ken care cal of and that thia their visit isit here outside of or business i is made pleasant We Ve fear that a great many people do not understand understand under- under stand tand or appreciate the importance of this meeting We Ve have ha it by revelation that the desert is sometime to o blossom like the rose Now No that prophecy is about to tu be fulfilled We Ve have the authority of Mr Luther Burbank the very highest farming dry-farming exert expert ex- ex pert ert in the land laud that an acre nere of desert land properly sown is to be more valuable than an acre of arable arabic land and We Ve h have ave the word of Secretary rr Wilson Vilson that he ic is introducing plants that will grow in an arid soil most valuable plants that will produce immense crops If what Mr Burbank says he lie has accomplished accomplished pushed is true and we do ho not doubt it then ten acres of this rebellious soil across ross the Jordan Jorda will in inIve five Ive years from now provide more forage for stock than hau fi five acres of land laud now cultivated in this valley vaHey i ind there is about that which a beauty the desert esert is isto I Ito to 0 bring forth The plant that grows seventy tons to the thc acre provides also the water for the stock so there will win have to be no provision made for that and it looks to 0 us this is not hyperbole as though thought a man with acres of land on which he can work vork all the year and raise th this the vegetables and the grain and the fruit for forlis his lis f family milr and for sale if he lie can secure also twenty acres of desert land and plant it with cacti theres there's where c his profits will come in This congress that is coming next week will discuss discuss discuss dis dis- dis- dis cuss all these matters possibly Mr r. r Burbank will be here possibly also Secretary Wilson Vilson will be here and and between Mr rr Burbank and aud his experiments Secretary Sec See Wilson and his search of the world for new things and Fisher Harris as a great reat regulator of executive ve affairs there is very little hUle doubt but that Utah will be the richest state in the union in the tile next t ten years rears and the people of Salt falt Lake City should keep in ill Iii mind that this great convention is going to lo meet h here re n next Wednesday and while the delegates s will be bus busy during business hours it is the duty of the thc citizens to sec see that their time when not engaged in convention work work- should be bc so employed that when they go away they will each cach one record a certificate that among all the places the they have ever seen Salt Lake is the tho Yer very loveliest and the most hospitable |