Show J lH I Birth Growth And Ad Destiny w Of Three Great t States JL TAlI Idaho Nevada I What a trilogy of UTAH U splendid states in fu the great tier of inter intermountain mountain commonwealths I Their fIu r birth hirth was in the waste places Their travail was the cry of Nature Their growth is progressing to the full stature of off individual ual and collective mag magnificence magnificence The future is so full of promise that no imagination is lively enough to picture the possibilities Small wonder then that the Christmas News considering what has been becu wrought the subjugation tine tion of the forces now under process of control and the transformation that is yet to conic come seized seiz ll upon the thc opportunities afforded by this triumvirate irate of Giants to compile illustrate and prints print in tn he tIl finest edition ever issued by hya a western that which will tell the world concisely comprehensively and accurately what it should know concerning them The fhe News believes indeed it knows know in advance nc from the assurances a received and from past holiday holida ul other special number efforts that its work i t I still ll be appreciated d dI Naturally Utah people are arc interested in Idaho I What benefits the latter pleases if it does docs not n t profit I r Iii UTAH UT IDAHO NEVADA i I I y S tM fit 11 7 ai jt T 7 f A I 11 rin I fl L S n nV V Ai M t IBS II lS V iy fill t J r I j I t d I t M i the thc products that made existence tolerable at first and Ind then a bless blessing blessing ing The student of oi today teda who de dc desires desires sires to rend read that entrancing narra narrative tive t e must go to the pages of his history history tory tort for there is not space enough h for an all epitome of that ing big period Aerial in an edition even cven as large as this number of the Des Deseret eret News N cs How Mow the brave men and women of Utah toiled and suffered suf suffered suffered to accomplish that which has oracle made the desert lesert bloom and caused a bustling aggressive life to suc succeed succeed e where desolation only was wont to reign will never he be known Suffice it now no to say 51 that theirs is the victors crown j theirs theis the glory that will never die Today Tolay Utah is a great state The little band hand of 47 tf now numbers some hundreds of thousands The desert lands have been reclaimed the wilderness wiped out Happy homes thriving and prosperous people live upon its soil Its mines mins arc Ire among the richest of earth cuth Many of them arc are almost at the theates gates ates of its capital city the City of Opportunities The that bids a warns warm welcome to the stranger The city that can offer otTer him more than any allY sister city cit All over ocr Utah there th rc is i prosperity In every ever part of the state are alt mani malli manifold manifold fold and anal wonderful resources Some of these thele arc just beginning e to be III turned to account In moun mountain tain and in vale it is the same An All Allera is era of industrial and productive ac nc activity activity is on all Farms and orchards teem toem lines Mines and ane mills are arc adding immense sums stuns to the worlds wealth The greatest smelters ever ter erect 1 arc in it the process of con onla only a few miles distant nt u a r more ir irU I U r A I Ii i r rim 1 t I v 61 r 1 r J fr r e tTA r 1 I t 1 Hw i cJ J riM IJ 1 Ii 11 i i rl d s f the fanner former And nd why not Did not many man of the early settlers of this state cross the boundary line of Idaho I aho to make for themselves homes within her borders And Andare Andare Andare are they not still bound by the thc tics of consanguinity and common pur pm purpose pose pasc Was not Utah the supply station for the pioneers and placer miners of Idaho as IS well w as the pro provision provision I vision agent n ent for or the pathfinders and andt t J of California and the thc whole coast country And about Nevada was she not oat carved out of Utah even as Eve Ec is popularly believed to have been made from a rib of Adam Was she not represented in the thc law lawmaking lawmaking making body bod of the mother state And though there were occasional i I ripples of discontent horn born of that i desire in the hearts of all Amend Ameri Amen Americans Americans d cans to govern goern themselves has there not always been an affinity 1 which has and which continues to tor r bind the inhabitants of lx both hoth th states together And lastly is there not an au underlying hope in the breasts of the citizens of all III the states Utah Idaho and Nevada of One ne for All and 1111 All for One On c The story of the thc settlement s of Utah a thousand miles beyond the pale of civilization is an old and un undying undying undying dying one The Pioneers sought sou ht and found the mountains what the Pilgrims Pil their ancestors sought sou ht and found beyond the At Atlantic lantic religious and civil liberty I And as the thc rugged ru ed shores of New NewEn England En were made to give up from their unbroken soil those things that sustain life so was the sterile wilderness of or the Great American Desert compelled to yield amid more now new railroads are arc build building building ing fug hither from both hoth the time cast east and lid the west So nil all eyes that have not grown weary at watching the trend of events now in progress are look looking looking I ing in towards the future which is to I tell of the matchless destiny of the thc Great Beehive State To the north is Idaho whose name is derived from an Indian word signifying Gen Gem Genof of the Mountains And gem gent it is in the thc truest sense Its expansion and population increase at the thc pres present cut ent time arc are phenomenally rapid Everywhere time the Maim hum of activity is heard Where sage brush prairies were only a few years ago towns townsand townsand and cities have arisen as ii if by magic Mighty j ht wastes have been redeemed by the application of wa water water water ter taken by hy man at the cost of millions from the rushing and tu tumultuous tumultuous Snake e and other rivers Canals and laterals cover the coun country country country try carrying here and there time the life Io j I I TO THE STRANGER I i While you watch Neva Nevada it crow row rowAnd And leep seep an eye e e on Idaho You Yon may as well extend your view view And keep ia in touch th Utah too For Utah in in the limelight ht Her Iler course is in fn the white light li ht Right t in the tie center of the stage sta e there h her r great stature you may guage e Pier Her sun eun shines hines very bright sir And wealth is i in her soil Boil oil sir air ir irSo j So join with us ue II in in this one view And Anti come and live in Utah too giving fluid to sections that were never moistened before except by bythe bythe bythe the dews and and storms of heaven Result Farms that give extraordinary extraordinary returns orchards that bear the most luscious of fruit villages that become towns and atilt towns that becomes cities trade and commerce that beckon to the railroads rail roads and Iud branch ranch lines Jines forthwith arc built where most needed while transcontinental transcontinental systems arc Ire making in inquiries inquiries inquiries and ail investigations that augur au augur augur gur well for jor the future Meanwhile the sugar industry is assuming large proportions and extensive coal deposits are arc being uncovered uncovered Freight Frei ht is piling up at the railway mil way stations station until it becomes so volum olum voluminous voluminous inous that those who make e a busi Lusi business business ness of transporting it hold hohl up their hands and say We Wc c are arc sorry but we cant handle it unless you OU give us more time And they get it It Itis Itis Itis is the only alternative i Metal mining too is an nn industry I p I L Lf f j i Ii r 1 1 4 1 IF r IU d i l lt t ml t i f NN ti s 1 ip Itt ft t t r 3 I y I 1 i jl JI JItt il N Nr t tt j Il 1 ii j i IJ iff J r 1 tl ff h 1 JI M if II c Lu Ln LD U ii U I grown rJ l I r Pr o lIH s tI t j tj aI I 1 C I I of genuine importance in Idaho Just 1 list now it is i receiving a vast ast amount of attention from capital both hoth within and without the bor borders borders borders ders of the thc state slate This year it will produce of time the lead of the United States Stales as it ha has hns done for a n considerable tinge time past put while gold old silver and copper mining arc are being more extensively engaged I ed in than titan ever before It is estimated that they time will produce in 1905 19 1 ores orrs worth at least Well Wellmay Wellmay may this happy realization cause e Idahoans to refer proudly to theirs as The State of Tomorrow Surely it i is receiving its due share of attention from front and capitalists in these days of western growth and development Nevada N as the Spanish S anish say sa sig signifies covered with snow This from front the fact that the tops t of the proud proud and majestic Sierras were capped with white for a n great por lor portion portion tion timm of the year ear Frown f ful til and J trinus spirits among them men who would have made mad their p personality and power felt in any part i 1 of oJ the world Naturally they came to the front In i t finance law and an literature they shone forth then i and subsequently like the bright stars they were Their history their achievements achi will ever be he rl I read with an uncommon interest I i I During Daring time the heyday of its prosperity the Com Coin Comstock l Jj stock mines produced out of o the Mother Iother Lode of 1 Ii the district and its numerous ramifications a sum fj i inow now estimated at Alto c her the 1 i state has given to the worlds wealth nearly a thousand million of dollars The sum suns almost stag staggers sta 4 S l gers goers one at its It II mention But Hut it is a fact nevertheless less After Arter this period came the time when the th bottom dropped I d out of the prosperity that pre prevailed prevailed i wailed and the general exodus from the state fol followed followed a lowed cowed But Hut there were men who ullo believed l in Nevada elda N I still who pinned their faith to it and worked according ac according according cording thereto who remained to witness a real realization realization of some if not all of their hopes The Thc dis discovery discovery i covery of Tonopah made it clear that there were yet million millions I of gold old and silver to be he mined in t r Nevada The camp was a sensation It Il has pro 1 forbidding as nature was w v is s found in Nevada the Architect of the Uni Universe verse venc placed within her confines in fn lavish that for which man luau has ever and probably will willever willever ever risk even een life itself gold old And AnI more than gold silver r in such stich quantities that cause the fn fa fabled hIed bled mines of the Peru Peruvians Peruvians to pale pall in ill comparison Salt Lake was the time great stopping place the station at which the eastern prospector halted hailed on his way to the wilds wild of Nevada in search of fare fame and fortune It was here herc he refilled his hil larder after a brief period of rest and barter with the early carl Mormon settlers who had hind been en giving g ing their attention to tilling tillin the soil and building homes for themselves and their kin kiu kindred dred Between here and his hi des destination destination was a desert that often meant death eath from front either cither one of three sources thirst starvation or Indians The first named was probably the most dreaded But all these were braved as thinks things of naught ht in the hope hopt of the reward that might lie he at the end of the journey The famous Comstock days day which are recounted bv by a veteran Nevada writer in ism another part of this paper were days that read like fairy tales talc All AU that is i said of them themis I But there is I is perhaps not true I enough of facts fact to relate to drive fiction into obscurity The men met who gathered in Nevada in those th stirring times limes were in a measure I a motley motle lot but In I a measure only There were some char 1 I I I J i f and prospered pro r rIt I It will still continue to 0 do so for lor a 1 long longtime i i time to come conk Then Theil Goldfield came cane cameon i I n non a aon on to the time stage of action and In l broke I Ithe J 4 r the record of the time world in the thc pro production f t duc on of the yellow ellow metal within I a given RIven time Bullfrog next com cote commanded I Ia r attention and ald now noty Rhyolite I jr and AmI Ely anti and 1111 other camps c are arc marching forward to the songs of gold and rind silver The state is full of fortune seekers and many man are t getting netting rich Not all are Ire among the fortunate however All never have been All never neer will be It is not in III the great plan plats of human econ Icon economy any omy Even liven the old mines and an i camp campi i are again paying I dividends r rand and one hear hrar Nevada slight slightly ly I referred to as The Rotten Bor Borough Borough ough as frequently as in the past t i t Nevada is fast fasL carving carin out her own destiny And the indications N Nare are arc that it will be he happy and glor gior glorious ious ions Her people are also turning to the agricultural possibilities so long Ion neglected ne Uncle Sam 13 is helping them He is assisting them i ito to understand the benefits to be he de rk derived d rived from the National Irrigation nl law He has haa under way one of nf the biggest of reclamation r schemes that has haA yet been launched The state is producing fine cereals and I t fruits and altogether it its inhabitants have much to he be encourage I over oer I and he be thankful for this Christmas Christmastime Christmastime J time With the tremendous rail railroad railroad road activity ad ity now in progress pro ress in inthe UK the i k a i 1 i development of oft off r t i i f he the certainties i it I t I i Mr t r |