Show A TRINITY OF GREAT STATES UTAH U TAIL TAl Nevada l For weeks weel the readers of the Deseret News have hae seen the names of these three great states frequently and an inseparably associated associate This because be because cause cluse they comprise the theme of our annual holiday effort And a happier one unc could hardly har lly be suggested at this tills particular lar time Each state slate is not only on the eye eve of better days it itis itis itis is at the very cr high noon of a splendid industrial and com commercial commercial mercial growth In III Utah the people have hae much to be thankful for The soil Boil has yielded abundant crops craps Whether it has been upon the tho 1 fann or the orchard the thc result leas Ins ken been the same The Tile mines have given JC cn up their treasures trea in richer prodigality thin ever before The Th smelters have taken their products in crude form and anti have hate reduced reduce 1 them th to a state all hut hilt approximating to that of the of the realm itself f Thus thou thousands thousands sands have had hart profitable employment and many more the benefits to be derived Immense reduction works have been planned and what promises soon to be tic the great greatest greatest reat est smelting smelling center of the world is rearing itself as if by j magic on the saline shores of our inland sea An army ami of l men is now employed there and md large numbers will witt make a livelihood 1 there in n the thc future The railroad situation was never so bright The new newline ne neline line to the th coast which became a reality early carly in ht the far is ib tt s to be he followed by other transcontinental roads From cast and west they thc are arc headed hither The file survey stage is past pa t Construction time tinge has arrived Building is under tinder way It will sill ill not be he long before we wc will wilt hear the toot of a Western Pacific locomotive as it pulls into Salt Lake with its human and anti other freight transported over the thc Sierras and across the desert And simultaneous ith its coming conning will be he the thc ability to board a passenger train of the Moffat road and make a flying l trip towards the Atlantic seaboard over ov r the shortest short cst railroad route to Utah that civil engineering eng has yet devised Hut But that is not all ally The Thc long promised steel via viaduct viaduct duct will next year connect the west side with the due east cast and make safe More Ire still The Deseret News is assure assured that man Ilan many other splendid improvements arc to be made in n the coming conting year ear Dank Bank clearings have reached their highest mark this year arc sound Fail Failures Failures ures have ha been few and far between Well stocked stores and tt l iP l l tr s 1 w w let J t buy t r ars t f ore nearly the general rule than at t at y previous similar period The fhe herdsman has found f a fair market and the tIle has received top topnotch topnotch topnotch notch prices for his wool cool The and the laborer have hare both had work at a good wage Peace and plenty have pre prevailed prevailed railed and the state stale has been entirely free from the plagues and calamities that have vexed the inhabitants of the earth in some sOllie other sections Of 01 Idaho one can only speak or write encouragingly Surely is her star a lustrous one of praise concern concerning concerning ing her filer vat vast possibilities arc are being sung all over this broad broadland broadland land Just now she is enjoying a most rapid and remarkable growth Immense public and private irrigation projects completed and in process of completion are causing her waste caste places to be bc transformed into teeming farms orchards and gardens Her thirsty prairies are everywhere being made moist and prolific through the system of modern irrigation irrigation gation g Great canals cross and the country while t ulc laterals and other waterways carry the thc fluid to the thc remotest spot of fertility In mining alining too she is showing to the thc world that she Iqs has hasa a right to be taken into account among the larger mineral states stales Her record this year ear will eclipse her greatest previous prey ous production for the same S length of time tune The immense area of timber in her northern north rn territory bids fair to become the big lumber producing region of the northwest The Tile discover dis discovery cover covery of large coal beds heds the building of new railroads power and electric lighting plants the founding of new towns and anti the establishment of industrial al activities all pro proclaim proclaim proclaim claim an era of prosperity no state west of tIle the Mississippi has received more store attention in 1905 1903 19 5 than has Nevada evada It would seem that the curtain which fell with the closing of the famous Com Corn Comstock Comstock stock mine has again been lifted to reveal anew the marvel marvelous ous mineral wealth that lies practically untouched within her confines As the discovery of gold sent thousands into California and aud as the fame of the Comstock district was a magnet in the days that are arc gone g and al i l as z s Virginia tl City t Pioche I r l and Eureka a were names moles to conjure with wilh in ill those times so too are arc Goldfield Tonopah and Bullfrog magic names today tolay The story of what these mighty camps arc doing in the thc way of adding to the worlds wealth reads like a romance and was never so comprehensively and accurately given by h any newspaper as asit asit asit it is in this tills issue of the Deseret News The chronicle of what they are m yielding twell nigh Idles defies belief It would seem scorn that all the gold of fabled Ophir and atul the riches of Potosi are arc to be surpassed by some of Nevadas modern bon bonanzas bonanzaS bonanzas anzas New towns spring up in n a night Railroads arc are building in all directions A spirit of hustle is s in the air Nevada is on the boom boo Utah is much interested in her splendid growth and is glad to sec see many of her people turn turning turning turning ing to the soil as a means of making a living I iuA as well as pursuing pur pursuing suing the calling of the miner miner With a few reclamation pro projects projects projects such as the enterprise successfully launched and and with her new tic and atul old mines producing their millions of gold and anti silver her destiny will be more certain and her da days das s more bright than any Comstock enthusiast ever pictured picture |