| Show THREE GREAT STAtES Big with opportunities of future greatness if the they are not iI already I rea d y entitled I ed to that rapidly expanding states 0 of f Utah Idaho and are U the evada eada that period of time that is measured by the calendar I In 1906 theirs has been an almost phenomenal year yea growth Su Sure ly I they exemplify and emphasize time the verity of the words rc one who long ago looked Into the times ahead and of declared d p I that westward the course of empire make its Either one of this trilogy of young tv ivay a commonwealth almost an empIre in 11 extent exten t 0 of f area Combined S IS they that shadow of are beyond question Consider in that their united wealth of regard r resource industry and attractiveness and all men will concede the title to be worthily worn To da day enterprise capital ll three are engaged in th their material development I with WIt I I sue such 1 zeal that thinking their population n will be doubled during the men sa say next d decade ad Perhaps tins this VIew may be looked upon as a little extravagant liS as applied to Utah the older sister of the triad whose pl pI outnumber those of the other two But as to Idaho peo and N Nevada the prediction may lilY come near having fulfillment owing to the larger pristine conditions that prevail in the them At home it is a matter of widest knowledge and con that 1906 i will go down in his history tor as havin hating dis its gifts and blessings more generously by far than any of Us its predecessors Everywhere time the hum of prosperity is heard There has and is now plenty of work for all who employment and that too at wages that have in fn the main been higher than ever before Fields farms jarm and orchards have established new records and the mines and mills have hac yielded profits heretofore The livestock interests have thriven to unexpected proportions and new industries have sprung up in many places the certainty that more are arc to follow in theft wake In our own fair city the star of hope is not only luminously resplendent as relates to the future butt but its rays are making brilliant the thc present A Greater Salt Lake is assured Its Ih growth cannot be checked its good name ruined or its place among the larger western citi cities s successfully assailed What nature diet did not do fo for it its loyal inhabitants will Time The time is not far distant when Salt Lake will assert its position so positively that the defamers and croakers must retire for very shame at t their onslaught In the Gent Gem State to the north of its liS arc a 3 people who are arc ver proud of the section of the very west vest the they call caU th dh lr ir home And they hI have a right to be for its progress for sty m crill cral years cars past has hils as they say in time the army been made at double quick step This year car the march has increase I almost to a run and the country is beginning to wonder when it will case down to a normal gait On every hard its manifold resources are being turned to rich account It is a significant fact that more nets homes have been but butin butin in Idaho during time the past three years than in any other we wc ern commonwealth Her fertile soil soli is producing crops II t astonishing yield and more of it is being cult Vast fast stretches of laud lanel hitherto unbroken by bj man manis manis is being matte maele productive through time the application of water b by private and government and canal building en enterprises and amid soon prolific farms and teem teeming ins gardens grdens supersede time the waste places Nevada is is no longer slightingly referred to as the Rot Rotten ten Borough The mighty might fortunes that have hac been made in it of late cause men to speak of it with respect and to flock to it by thousands s In the last year new towns have been placed on its surface almost in a night and ill iii a fel few weeks or months they have hae become populous and fabulously rich It is true that lurid have hilve been told of Nevadas a a that the heads of men have been tuned In some cases when its marvelous mineral wealth has hilS been hecl re recounted reo counted and it is doubtless also true that there has been beca some wildcatting indulged in But behind it all ar are actual gold and copper finds that have startled time tile which will do much to transform the Sage Brush State Slate from its present physical condition to la one oi of large largely increased population and industry and which incidentally arc pouring much of their treasure in the direction of Salt att Lake time the natural and amid logical center of the thc intermountain country countr and particularly of Utah Nevada and Idaho |
