Show DIXIE HAS BIG RESOURCES ray henks of richfield says it Is A paradise and tells of the great riches here ray hanks returned from dixie on saturday where he has been promoting the interests of the brown correspondence school he secured over 80 pupils in washington county the school his added a course in pedagogy by one of fore mosiah hall of the U of U and air hanks expects great results from tins course he brings bick glowing reports of alie resources of dixie at present the trees are all in leaf the fruit trees are in blossom tho lucerne fields show a growth of several inches and in fact dixie is a paradise at present the people are building great hopes on the railroad possibilities As soon as the engineers of tho salt lake route had left that country it is reported that a party of R G W surveyors went oica the ground and it is confidently expected that there will be a railroad in there to tap alio great timber coal and copper resources of washington and kane counties the greatest timber belt in the west is that of the kaibab plateau great coal fields and copper deposits exist in that region and a railroad into that country is the one thing needed to make southern utah boom sir hanks also traversed the Laun irrigation project and ho sees in it wonderful possibilities for a great agricultural and fruit enterprise the soil and climate arc ideal and the application of water washington county will make rapid strides in development richfield reaper |