Show A Ar At A r Y I I t i 1 Looking to the Future o Q 1 j Te HE time is rapidly approaching when the in- in stat states s will lose their heir iden identity ity- ity as a aJ J- J particular lar section of the United States Western development is rapidly sweeping this group of states into closer relation with the P Pacific coast a d h o oli er or later it is bound to be the feeding Jer ier rY y for Western Vestern America It requires little tittle sf e i of the imagination to see the Atlantic and the P Pacific coasts coasts' in keen competition for world fr trade de w What has alas heretofore been regarded as the Pa Pacific gro group p of Western Vestern states tates cannot maintain this this this' competition alone It will need the support sup sup- P port oft of elf the wealth and resources to to tobe be be- found in inline ih intermountain district and eventually this p particular lar section will be a 13 part of the Pacific c coast s a st t industrial group Utah is favorably situated situated situated sit sit- for this order and arid may expect great industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial development as as a result Our coal and iron deposits will figure prominentlY prominently in this change Development of th these se deposits are of prime importance to the Pacific coast in any effort lo to compete with the East in supplying the industrial needs of the world The changing g order would provide an outlet for far the latent wealth of Utah which is seemingly exhaustless ex- ex The interests of the P Pacific coast and the jn intermountain erm states are arc becoming linked j closer loser Ito ether and d it world n not t be surprising Jo eventually y see fee ee them considered as one harmo- harmo group gr group a up of states rather than two M Many ny changes are necessary before this order c can n assert asset itself chief of which is a readjustment oaf T transportation This s means that the Pa Pacific a t i is bound to reach the point where it it will 1 e maintenance of favorable rates for Wt St points ts at the ex expense en e of t the e intermountain l J t tort ry can only result in m shutting out the mals ma- ma f as ls and arid products it is going ging to need to l itself as a greater trading center |