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Show Utah's Governor Encourages Prospector fljlHIIIl ' Covernor M.tw trios his hand with gold mines' pan; encourages development of State's resources. "I believe in encouraging capital to corr.i! to our State," writes Governor Gov-ernor Herbert B Maw in an article contained in the booklet "The Mining Min-ing Industry of Utah." His state-ini state-ini nt. in pari, follows "Utah is blessed with more varied i natural resources than most any State in the Union In many respects re-spects it has a natural setup for a great industrial center, though its distance from regions of heavy population are other factors provide pro-vide dlfiealties, Since statehood j the government has never taken the I lead III developing its possibilities. Utahns have been converted to the thought that they should wait and pray for outside capital to come In and develop what we have. "Like most of our citizens, I believe be-lieve in encouraging capital to come to our state. I believe In providing pro-viding reasonable Inducentents to get It here. Hut I do not believe in standing Idly by and waiting for lt to urrlve. I think the time has I come when Utah must take the ! lead in getting things started for its own people. The Legislature should eliminate every possible restrictive measure which discourages discour-ages capital Investments. "The administrative departments should adopt a policy of helpful regulation, and business should be made to realize that the state desires de-sires to assist It. not discourage It. In. fact. I believe that all state of-licials of-licials - houlil be i 1 iuir d to work on the assumption that the average aver-age business man is honest not a rogue and that the state need not employ a corps of workers to get something on someone as has so often been the case In the past. The slale should be especially Willing Will-ing to cooperate with its own titi-Sens titi-Sens in the various business fields. "Such a program as this will go a Jong way toward giving hope to Ut ill busines.-i and Utah citizens and will reduce the relief roll "The mining Industry of Utah provides a total or partial living for nearly HO per cent of our population. popula-tion. Every means should b; adopted to help this Industry." |