| Show SURVEYING FOR RAILROAD 1 in another column will bo found nn article showing that a company has been incorporated having for its object tho building of a railroad to the grand cannon from lund it will be seen by this article that the man at the head of the company is frank dudley mr dudley was in this city tho middle of list march accompanied byj W burke of tho firm of J 0 white co of new york the eminent railroad builders ever since his visit to this section mr dudley has been corking on a railroad scheme that would tap this section and at tho Js same time prove a proposition apparently a railroad to st georga did not give promise 1 of fulfilling these conditions but a iff T railroad to the grand canyon will most likely fill the bill and st M s george will consider itself lucky if this proves and is carried out or ft ill probably then bo our A nearest railroad point but would not long remain so because a branch line would bo built to connect this city and tho other settlements that como between it and the new railroad will have anbu tary to it an immense amount of a i new lands which arc to be reclaimed w r by tho waters of tho rio virgan and will afterwards pass through u largo bodies of land susceptible of dry farming if it ia decided to build tho road the decision will be a great impetus to reclamation work and settlement and tho country will go forward in leaps and bounds md rapidly build up into rich and progressive gres sive settlements all this dixie country will bo tributary to it including the settlements bettle ments down tho river and kano county has large areas of land valuable for dry farming besides the irrigable portion that will also help to feed the line while tho grand cannon will provo the big attraction for tourists during the summer months wo have scenery nearer homo that will bring thousands of tourists during the winter time probably the best rf time to visit it as alie camato is then mild and delightful wo allado to tho sublime and marcellous marvellous marv ellous scenery of tho or little zion canyon which has been set aside by alio government as a national park alio scenery of this glorious region has been described by noted authorities as exceeding the grand s cannon in beauty and coloring and tho proposed new railroad will run within a few miles of it thief section will bo wonderfully attractive te wishing to spend the winters in a mild climate roses bloom in abe open air nearly alio whole year through and alio travel ou this account will be considerable of course the fact that a company has been formed and a prelim inary survey hae been commenced does not insure the building of the road but everything looks so favorable that wo feel decidedly hopeful that within a very few yeara as IL boon ae wo are r it the railroad will be here in the time let us work as if we were sure beyond all doubt of it that ia the surest way to encourage those who propose to do the building the farmers fruit growers and others interested in the various branches of agriculture and horticulture should not lose sight of the fact that there will bo a farmers institute and school held in this city from november to inclusive these schools arc productive of much good and a great deal of very valuable information is gleaned attending them that could hardly bo gotten in any other manner the last school of this character held hero about eighteen months ago was highly educative and was of great benefit to all who attended the coming school promises to bo even better from an instruct e point of view and the farmers and others interested in soil production throughout the whole of dixie should take advantage of the opportunity offered to gain valuable information and exchange ideas in addition to the school instructors Gocr nor spry will attend and deliver one or more speeches and the state superintendent of public instruction and others will also give entertaining and instructive tive talks altogether it pro bibes to be a week of good things that one cannot afford to miss the people of enterprise are to bo congratulated on the completion of the dam to their big reservoir the completion was celebrated on the ulac by a day of great rejoicing jo and tho settlers may well rejoice after the years of hard toil spent in building this dam it is more than twelve years since the enterprise was started by tho mere handful of people who took up land at shoal creek carries largo quantities of water in the spring but dries up as summer advances and this was the water which the people started in to conserve each year some work has been done on the dam by the get tiers and this car marks the completion of their labors it is a good work well done the dam is built in a cannon and backs the water four miles up the creek it is built of concreted masonry and the depth of at dam is forty five feit the greatest width being two miles the soil about enterprise is very fertile and the completion of the dam ensures the people good crops and comfortable homes under the heading keep it up brother the bhaer weekly press says the following it docs one good to sec how alie washington keeps hammering away for a railroad some of these days the people of that section will wake up and find themselves in touch with all the outside world and it will be in great part due to the perseverance per of the south country paper we habein mind the po of a route via beaver carowan parowan Pa rowan cedar and st george with automobile service into all tributary country thus bringing ua all into closer the indications arc today that our dreams of a railroad are to crystal ize into a tangible reality and it is not much of a tax on the imagination to see the steel ribbons winding over tho hills to the south and bringing up in dixie among other things mrs annie bezant is reported to hac said is that centuries ago she was a gub that was long before she knew bradlaugh A good many people have the impression that she hag not changed much through the centuries thit th it she is detill a gub |
