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Show UTAH WORKS NOW ON SHOW Opening of the Chamber of Commerce Proves Splendid Splen-did Success; Exhibits a Fine Advertisement BY ZUXA NEVTTT. The new Chamber of Commerce waa formally opened to the world last evening even-ing and - more than 300 persona were there daring the evening to view the permanent exhibit of Utah's resources and products. Myl How hard they have worked the Utah State Fair association, as-sociation, the Manufacturers and Merchants' Mer-chants' association, the Salt Lake Real Estate association and the State Board of Horticulture to get all those mounted birds and animals together and to construct con-struct those miniature mines and that huge reproduction of the Augusta natural nat-ural bridge, the original of which is in southern Utah. Was a Great Success. And what a success it was. that formal for-mal opening of the chamber, with the whole Legislature there and the Mayor aad Fisher Harris from the Commercial elnb dropping in just to help the thing along. And Gov. John ('. Cutler was there, doing the honors, admiring everything ev-erything from the real live mountain trout in the pretty, fern-banked fountain foun-tain down to the wheat'Trom Sanpete county and telling everybody how great a thing the exhibit will be for Rait Lake and Utah. The Governor's name headed the register, too, where the names of all visitors henceforth are to be enshrined, .and after his came the names of the members of the illustrious Seventh Legislature. Some Striking Exhibits. The exhibits are unusually fine and give an excellent idea of the thirtv-seven thirtv-seven chief industries of Utah. Especially Espe-cially good is the mining exhibit, consisting con-sisting of a "prospect covered with rocks and trees, and looking unusually natural, and a miniature coal mine near the Augusta arch, and in the rear of the room a smaJl mountain with a mine containing many different kinds of ores. The ores in these exhibits represent the greater part of the largest mines in the State. Then there are horticultural and flori-cultural flori-cultural exhibits. An excellent display is made by the manual training departments depart-ments of "the district and high schools of the State and the school for the deaf and blind at Ogden. Some Rare Relics. A great deal of prominence is given three relics of great interest the press on which the first copy of the Book of Mormon was printed, the drum useJ bv the Nauvoo brass band, and a spinning wheel that figured in the carlv historv of XTtah. Music was discoursed during the reception re-ception last evening by a stringed band. The opening will be continued tonight, the doors of the chamber being open from 8 to 11, and it is expected that a large number of people will attend. |