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Show o BEAR RIVER VALLEY, UTAH. -Jt A monopoly or trust Is a combination combina-tion of Individuals to control tho sale of certain articles or commodities so they can ralso or lower tho prices at will. Nature has formed tho Utah farmers Into a natural monopoly or trust. Tho farmers of Utah aro on an oasis In tho centre of tho Great American Ameri-can Desert. Tho farmer of tho eastern or mlddlo western states looks around him and sees nothing but farms In ovory direction for hundreds of miles; I ho sees millions of farmers raising tho same crops that ho does and competing compet-ing with him In tho same market. While tho Utah farmer has practically no opposition for seven hundred miles In any direction, ho sees over two nun-feared nun-feared million acres of grazing land upon which grazo millions of sheep, cattlo and horses, whose winter hay and grain depend largely upon him. He sees thousands of coal, Iron, gold, sliver, sli-ver, copper, lead, salt, sulphur, asphalt as-phalt and onyx mines, whoso miners depend almost wholly upon him for food. lie looks upon tho many gnitips of health-giving hot springs, tho stimulating stim-ulating Utah climate, the energising and invigorating Salt Lake bnths, and these olements coupled with a salt sea breeze at an elevation of 4,200 ft above tho ocean (and tho Salt Lako Valley Is tho only spot on tho globo whore a person can enjoy a ntronoa salt sea breeze at so groat an oirva-Hon). oirva-Hon). This valley Is truly an Eldorado Eldo-rado tho great sanitarium of the world, and tho thousands of pcoplowho flock hero each and ovcry year for health, wealth and happiness depend upon It for their food. , When wo know that 7 tons of nlfulfu 25 tons of sugar beets, 400 bushels of potatoes, 100 bushels of oats, 85 bushels bush-els of Imrloy and 50 bushels of wheat to tho aero aro not uncommon crops In tho Bear River Valley, we can read lly see how tho Boar River val ey farmers aro so prosperous and con tented. Natnro has given the Bear Itlver valley farmer a good cllniato. n deep, rich, sandy loam soil, airl plenty of water for Irrigation and wlnn he adds to those three elements good seed brain and muscle, ho will reap ench and every year a bountiful harvest. Thcro never has been a crop fnl!urc In Utah. Tho high mountains that surround tho Bear River valley afford a protection against any cold or hoi. winds. Suddon or extreme changes In tho tomporaturo aro rare. Blizzards, tornadoes and cyclones aro unknown. Grasshoppers, potato bugs, army worm and cut worm aro also unknown. The millions of sea-gulls from tho Great Salt Lako aro tho scavengers that rid our farmers from theso insect posts. Tho elevation of Bear Hlvor valley (4210 feet) Is ono of tho reasons why hog or chicken cholora never mndo Its appearance. Every tree, fruit, grain, vegotablo, shrub and flower that grows in tho tomporato zono grows to perfection In Utah. Tho Eastern States farmer, -if ho wants a few days recreation or rest, goes to Watklns Glen in Now York or Glen Onoco In Pennsylvania, and lie looks upon tho ravines as wonderful works of Nature, and thoy surely nro; and yet If Watklns Glen or Glen Onoco could bo placed In Bear River Canyon, Can-yon, It would look like a baby carriage In a Unjon Papiflc passenger coach. To tho Bear River farmer, tho Bear River canyon Is small when compared .villi tho Ogden, Provo, or ninny othor ranyons in Utah. While nt the same time, if Bear River canyon could bo placed near any city in the enstern or mlddlo westorn states, pools would sin;,' Its praise, choirs would chant Its Witness and preachers would tell their congregations how God had so womlorfully blessed that city. Tho enino can bo said of tho great Wnsatch mountains, on (ho oast side of Bear River and the Great Salt Lako valleys. Theso mountains stand Ilko glnnt sentinels senti-nels and during June, July and August they seem to hold up their ovorlastlng whito snowy caps as an ollvo Lrnnch, beckoning the peoplo of the torrid enst-oin enst-oin stales to get under their sliadow, where sunstroke nnd stilling boat never come. And should the Bear River farmer, during December, Janu 'iy nnd February, want a warm summer sum-mer climate, he Is only ono day's ride without change or enrs, on I ho South-o-n Pacific railroad, to California, the lnnd of sunshine, orango3, lomons, figs, dates, and raisins. Tho owl hoots In many New England farm houses nnd li e spider has spun lis web across the cornhouse door, tho onco prosperous farms arc being deserted and Iholr owners nro going westward, whore they will recelvo for tholr labor three lines tho rewnrd (hoy would got on the old, wornout farms. Tho Irrigation farmer, when he sows his seed knows nlmost to Iho day when ho will Irrl-gato Irrl-gato and reap his crop, but tho rain bolt farmer has to depend entirely upon Iho weather for his success or fnlluro in rcnplng tho harvest. The men or women of tho eastern states who have studied tho govornment nnd other reports on Irrigation nnd have geniilno push and determination, aro not tllo peoplo who aro willing to "work all day and do chores nt' night" to eke out an oxlstcnce, but nro going to move westward to bettor things, These people are not going to sit down, and with a long, lazy faco complaint agnlnst tho trusts nnd railroad combln-ations, combln-ations, but nro going to make tho most out of life nnd use theso railroads to their own advantage. They aro going to see the Bear River valley, Salt Lake City and the grent west seo tho great possibilities that nro beforo them, and once seeing is to possess. Nlncly flve per cent of tho great captains of In-duslry In-duslry todny wcro reared on the small farms which they soon outgrow, enmo west whero tho possibilities were equal to their demand. |