Show A TAKE AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW For a good rood many years men meu with surplus monc money have been investing in stocks and approved securities securities securities ties or putting their money in iu trust corporations satisfied that if it did not return them large profits profit it gave them a small interest and was safe The last test half balf o of f last year car brought such men many surprises The securities ceased to pay or if paid and they put the money in the banks the banks hanks made them a world odd of trouble and anxiety Some of the supposed ed strongest trusts were found roUen rotten And one trouble followed another until confidence failed and md men took the balance left leit and locked it up But in the meantime another harvest has been gathered and quite 2000 millions of new money money has been given the people in profits The rhe reports are arc quite luite as good from the manufacturing industries From our foreign trade another profit of quite OO OOOO will be bo repotted for the year The mines were never yielding so generously as when the crash came three months ago n This all an means that in three months more the country will have somewhere somewhere either either in banks or under hearthstones hearth hearth- stones stones hundreds hundreds of millions of dollars that the owners owners own own- ers era would be bc glad to invest if they but knew where it would be safe This ought to be a hint t to our real estate dealers That there ther is to be a great city here is a demonstrated fact It must be great to meet the requirements of the surrounding country country coun coun- try for an area greater than some European empires empires empires em em- pires has no other oilier central depot What safer investment investment investment in in- vestment can men with money make than to come here buy and improve property l There is something more more worth looking up lip There is yet a great deal of water running to waste asto in Utah wat water r that could it be saved sayed and turned upon the land would double the area under cultivation in Utah But this would need storage reservoirs and places ces for these need looking up and locating and estimates of cost should be made and sur surveys ers completed completed completed com com- so that the propositions can be reduced to tangible form This kind of investment is growing popular in the Ule east cast now And it has this advantage Every Everyone one thousand acres thus reclaimed means that ten more families can have acres each abd aid clear from it every two years rears its original cost That increases population an and makes a prosperous people at the same time We sl suspect that in a few weeks the metals will willI I go back to a a. fair price and then investors can be made to at least investigate facts about the mines and some sonic of them then will realize that there are banks s which contain mone money that are quite as engaging to contemplate as those that handle iheI the I coined metals v Of course on the lie farms already supplied d with water vater the promise of a reward is better than in ill any eastern state ate for save once or twice when crickets I have come there has never neer been a failure of crops on Utah farms There is an immense amount of work to be done on uncompleted structures and aud more are arc areto areto to be bl built lt so trade conditions should be good lire We t think jn business me men have a right to take an optimistic I tic view of things in III Utah and over the prospects of tho the new year ear Sing a song of hope |