Show I Get het Together and Boost It Pays Ways Says Gerrit Fort Now well we'll double our profits said Utah when with the rest of the world It read the st startling news newe that the Union Pacific railroad company was to spend In double tracking and Improving Its system from Omaha west to the Pacific coast And th then n That means we will got get more of the right kind of people was their shout when Gerrit Fort passenger traffic manager of the system announced that the biggest sum ever appropriated for advertising by any concern concern- was was to be spent to tell ten the world of the advantages of ot Utah and other parts of Union Pacific territory a as a place to build homes and not only onh make t t r. living but amass a comp compe compe- compe tence fence The land shows held In Chicago by bythe bythe bythe the United States Land Irrigation Exposition company compan and the tIie We Western l lLand Land Products Exposition held at Omaha opened our eyes to the advantages ad ad- vantages of telling the good things about Utah said Mr F Fort rt More More t ore than people crowded Into Int the Coliseums In Chicago and Omaha during the two weeks of the show to see the display of products of the West and South and the land hunger shown b by them did m much ch to convince Us tin that w we could not go wrong wrong In spending our money to to tb bring colonists to this his great West which makes thousands thO of dollars for It teo people le Gather the Beat Beet Utah Raised When we began our plans for the theland theland theland land shows show we found that In the far Northwest and In the South and Southwest there was a well wen developed developed devel devel- community spirit among the people who were planning exhibits and that they were working hard had to gather In tn the best of everything to take to Chicago and Omaha Then we went out into our own territory and looked things over The people had lad heard of the land shows but th they y knew mew their own advantages so well that they believed that every everyone one else elsen in n the United States Staten knew them also and so 80 the community spirit so so far tar faras faras taras as the tho exposition was watt concerned was not shown We men meu of the Union Pacific knew that that would rot root do lo We were proud of what Utah is doing and so io sowe so sowe we we made up our ml minds ds t that at the Utah b booth oth In hi the Union Pacific display y must show the be best t. t As a result c cur r rm m men n wore wire sent out olit ut through the state a and d they gathered the best bett of the tha fruits the best of ot the grains and the grasses that the slate scale grE gr grew w. w T These ese were were c e carefully packed and placed on 0 onboard onboard board Union Pacific cars and hauled free of all charge to Chicago and Oma Omaha a. a where they we were arranged o o othe 0 the best advantage d in the Hie be Utah booth Utah Booth a Winner And that Utah booth was as a R winner winner win win- Inner In ner declared Mr Fort enthusiastic enthusiastic- ally There never nc was a time from Crom the moment the doors of the exhibit opened in the morning until they closed at dt t night that the space In front of It was not crowded with people The big lecture ure halls haUs of ours were filled tr to the doors every ery timo there here was a talk on Utah It was only a regard for tor the fire ordinances es that kept us u from letting the people stand standup up In the halls hans The moving pictures pictures pic pic- tures turu and the stereopticon views ie of the scenic wonders of oC the state and the even eyen more wonderful work being bein done with dry farming and In the building of the bg projects projects kept the people breathless We had lad trained lecturers and the they told Ina in ina ina a simple and dire t t m manner of the results re suits t to bo obtained on Utah farms and ranches Chicago Furnishes the Colonists You know continued Mr Port Fort that Chicago and Chicago territory furnish tenths six of all ail the peo people lo who seek new homes In the West Government statistics tell us that and so the land show gives us us' an unparalleled unparalleled un un- un paralleled chance to display the best we have e l Utah has thousands upon thousands thousands thou thou- sands of cres of the finest land In the United States States today and with her splendid streams tre me there Is water enough to Irrigate a great grent part of this land I and nd turn tun- tunIt It into farms worth millions millions mil mil- lions of dollars donars It takes population to bring up land values and with with the population not only come increased land values but greater crops and a anew anew anew new prosperity That is one re reason son that we are malting this great great advertising ad pr We Wc know that It If t the e money mone money Is spent In telling of the latent wealth that lies waiting for or t the e man with a little tittle money n a lot of energy energy and determination determination determination de de- de- de termination and the spin to do that we wc will realize our profits In the years ears to come wh when n he Is settled settlE and is shipping his crops to market marlet Some of the greatest Irrigation projects of modern tm mos mas are being built right here in Utah The Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry valley project on which the g e government is spending millions s of d dollars will make fertile one of or the finest fruit growing sections in to the world Many private te companies are are beIng form formed d anc and these are are building huge dams and storage res reservoirs in which the flood nood waters that heretofore heretofore hereto fore tore have baye rushed away to waste yaste themselves themselves them them- selves will wUl be impounded and made to bring bring Into bearing thousands of acres B of what are now waste lands In the northern part of thu the state are ate also many great areas which are arenow arenow arenow now devoted to stock sto k raising but where It has been beer proved that the system of farming dry-farming may I 4 l y 4 ht 4 a t t- t a PART OF OI UTAH'S LAND SHOW EXHIBIT be made most profitable j Dairying a fa Source of Profit Dairying Is a source of great profit to the farmers who are engaged In It Utah Is pre-eminently pre a dairying state as the conditions are Ideal The winters winters win win- are a as a rule mild and open olen and little tittle shelter Is needed for th the much cows Then too the sugar beets which form torm a large part of the crops of the state are made t to pay a double profit They are sold to the mills for good prices and the pulp Is taken back to teed feed to the cows a as It furnishes a most n nourishing and even en ration Couple this to alfalfa ari and there Is little tittle need for grain feed at any time of or the year ear earIn In diversified farming armIng the tho men of Utah have grown wealtny wealthy the average aver age profit per aero acre rm running about And with the thousands of people from tram tho East who will flock fiock t to this state stat when the truth Is told them of or Its Sis re resources resources re- re sources they will grow even ven more prosperous prosperous because of ot the Increased Values alues Nowhere re In the tho country arbetter are ar better crops crops- grown and as me tae scientific methods come more and m more re Into use th the railroads railroad's resources resources willbe will willbe willbe be taxed even to a greater r extent t tent nt th than n they no now are to l handle the crops j I which must b be he marketed I nut lint It is In raising fruits that Utah ocels excels I believe said Mr Ur Fort A Atrill trip trill through the horticultural regions of the state stat will convince th the most skeptical The teen roen who came came here years cars ago knew their thelI land and nd their I knowledge Is s se Ie seen n In the broad expanse expanse ex ex- of acres acres of or apple peach leach pear plum and nectarine orchards In r rs- rs cent years Utah has captured more morn than 1000 worth of valuable trophies in exhibitions of t fruit products and as the years pass she will take even e I more Protective laws which make spraying spra and careful care of trees tr compulsory com com- compulsory have been passer passed and with the Insect pests thus kept under tinder control control con can only ont the best fruits are ar are brought I Ito to Ie maturity i its ill addition to the tree fruits the berries also grow to perfection and the highest market prices are ob ob- for the the- tr fruit lt i I operation Co operation Brings rings Brings P Prosperity The people of or Utah have BO so long f t fco operated cooperated co to secure the host beat l results for tor themselves t t the they know v without with out explanation the great advantages advantage to be derived from It It is the tho Intention i i tion of or the Union Pacific to toll tell the world orld the real truth about Utah and h her r resources anti to do this thijs intelli I If f 7 1 gently gentry we must have me tile c operation co-operation of the people of ot the state Ve We a must I ill get to together ther and talk over the plans plans' for advising ad the world wold anti ani particularly that part of It which lies In Jn n Chi cago territory of the wealth that waits wats here r for r the man who really wants to succeed The East does not know that in 1910 Utah raised crops crop to the following values Sugar ar beet bett cro crop Data O. O J 1 Rn or orn 1111 r Potatoes s r Dalr Dairy Dalry 1909 1910 1910 not not 2 18 And the total wheat oats otC con corn barle barley rye re potatoes oes hay sugar be beets is and alfalfa seed t-eed raised was A itA little co operation and these fig urea ores cannot help but bring to Utah thousands of Industrious men and women who will wm settle the farms and be a new source of or profit to every one I m In the state We must t t together for results |