Show the millionaire visitors the presence in salt lale city of eighteen millionaires who camo here to hold a conference about the development of the iron and coal resources of utah and entire western country is a brilliant prophecy for miny years utahna have been aw are that their state contained suf iron and coal to supply the world for hundreds of years nor has this information been entirely confined to the inhabitants of the stile fame in this regard his long been know n among the iron ind steel men of the east ind nov G are led to believe that in england and on the continent of europe the iron resources of utah are looked upon to supply alie needs of the world in not remote future the captains of industry who have met here in the capital of the western country to discuss alie future of the region have not disclosed all plans but enough has been made public to assure us that they and their associates are preparing to take full advantage of the marvelous changes which alie ganima canal will bring about in the western states with a few birge strokes of the brush so to speak they have given us a glimpse of possibilities that make us gasp in spite of alie fact that writers and orators who have understood the west have been for half a century that the region from ohp pastern slope of the rocky mountains to the pacific coast would be the richest and most prosperous portion of the united baates while most of us have been content to dream about the effects of a canal across the isthmus of panama financiers all over the world have been to take advantage of the canal with the practical wisdom that fauch men possess they hive directed their attention unerringly to those parts of the globe that are certain to profit the most abundantly by the shifting of the worlds center of commercial gravity wo can see that these financiers have been watching utah and the pacific slope from the time the panama canal was started and that they now possess exhaustive information and data with reference to the ic sources the present and future transportation facilities and the mg possibilities of the western pirt of the anted states this knowledge these gentlemen undoubtedly could tell us with comparative para tive accuracy how soon to expect the establishment of big business enterprises but even if they leive us in doubt ve may be sure tint the beginning of a vast development is at hand many years will piss no doubt before the west will be operating at full capacity capi city some of us may live to see this con summation ion of which we can form tho brightest dreams at this time w ith a certainty that cv en our dreams will bo eclipsed by the reality rei lity there is to be no backi vird step from this time forward the history of alio west will be the history of unfailing progress and prosperity tribune |