| Show nS me menS pen o a Q ln Lk 0 O Ome t ro dj xi k Ils y 4 r r rc r I r rJ J c fO ill O Ora d ire a i id t tr Q 0 IID V VW W ra ST GEORGE UTAH LOOKING EAST TEMPLE m IN THE RIGHT HAND TOP OF GREAT COUNTRY AWAITING DEVELOPMENT i HE probability that the tho eastern THE route onto may bo chosen as the tho best st wn way to avoId the tho dons by flood recently I meed In tho Meadow Mcadow Valley country countr In Inthe int t t the relocation of oC Its lino IIno through south ern em n Utah b by the tho SnIt Salt Lake Lako Route noute has had the effect of oC centering public at r un on tho counties lying to the 8 youth of oC the tho present line of oC the tho rood road d and of oC bringing Into promInence tho distrIct lino as L L That the building of oC the tho railroad through this favored section would bo be 1 a 3 payinG investment almost from Cram the tho x start Is conceded The advantages f possessed by the tho St George or eastern over oer the tho Pioche or western r route ute are arc apparent to anyone who cared card r I ito look oven oon to a slight degree Into the tho Practically the tho entire country which the tho line would pass the tho present main line IIno at Lund settled In addition to tho minerai resources ot of the tho countr country there thero are aro the additional resources developed to a ar r mare more or ai less extent or of agriculture stock and sheep raIsIng oils producing oil millions or of feet ot of I standing timber which would be access to n a branch lino IIno besides the open ng up of at n a semitropical country pos J climatic and other conditions for tor an Ideal wInter and health A ROUTE ROUlE NEAR GRAND CANYON Another feature which has hereto rf been overlooked Is that the rail raU railroad troad road by selecting the tho St George route Cor Its now new line would bring nearer by several hundred mites miles that great mecca la las s I modern tourists the Grand Canyon of the Colorado In northern Arizona I f fi Jr III This wonderful natural gorge gorgo Is I i iNed II rd by thousands ot of people every year oar wand the only Way In which It can bo be ber r reached without long and arduous stage Is b by the southern Bouthern railroad route fi over the Santa Fe A L Uno lino from St StGeorge StI I George across the Utah line to the tho Bright Angel point from Crom which r nence one may per peer over n a precipice II extendIng three mIles In n a sheer dr drop p pido i ido ato the bottom of oC the tho chasm would trav traverse erse erso the tho BuckskIn mountains conI con I taming a growth of oC timber estimated I at four billions of at lumber feet and end J 1 at the brink of oC the tho mIghty canyon no m h which Is one of oC the most 1 sights over oer vouchsafed to mortal vision It IC Is said that ono one of oC the tho ambitions ot of the tho late Ioto E H Harriman WM was to con n a line IIno through southern Utah to the tho Grand Canyon so 60 that that mar marvol marvol vol or of natures maj majesty ty might bo be reached from the north approach as aswell well as from the tho south The Tho center ot of the tho southern country through which the tho road would pass pasa Is St George Georgo the county sent seat of oC Wash Inston ington count county The Tho town now has a population ot of about 2000 T The e country Intervening between the tho main maln line of the tho Salt Route and the i extreme southern end of oC the tho state has been settled for tor nearly nearh 60 years and I man many thrivIng towns and villages have sprung up and prospered St George was lS established b by the colonIsts from the tho north The pioneer In the tho settle settlement settlement ment of oC Washington count county was Ivas John D Lee who Tho In the tho year ear 1852 located a ranch on A Ash h creek which afterward became Fort Harmony Harmon 20 miles north of the Rio VIrgen Fort Harmony became the county seat scat but In 1867 1857 WI was succeeded In n that position by the tho town own ot of Washington BIRTH OF ST GEORGE GEORGEIn I In 1861 several hundred families left leftS S Salt lt Lake Cit under the tho direction of I Brigham Young to go south and strengthen the tho colonists already In that country countr and to raise cotton These families were cre headed b by George A ASmith ASmith Smith Erastus Snow and Horace S Eldrege Eldredge They wore wOle a sturdy band pIcked from Crom the mole substantial set settlers ot of Salt Lake Davis Weber San Sanpete te Juab Millard and Beaver counties Tho They located the city ot of St George which was named after George A SmIth who was called tho father of at the tho southern settlements The following year more reinforcements wore were sent Into the country and the first crop ot of cotton aggregating pounds was gathered Joseph Rome Horne of at Salt Lake City was wae In charge of at the cotton raising and although milts milia were constructed and the manufacture of oC cotton goods was wall carrIed on for some somo sometime time the distance from a market final finally ly Iy rendered the cotton Industry un unprofitable profitable and the tho people turned their attention to tilling the soil soli and kind kindred rod activities In January 1871 President Young proposed that a temple templo be built at St StGeorge StGeorge George and the tho proposition met with unanimous approval The Tho dedication of at the tom temple pIe block took place on Nov 9 ot of the ante samo year the first ot of earth beIng removed b by Brigham Young The Tho same samo afternoon the ox for tor the foundation of oC thc tem temple temple commenced The first stone In the tho foundation was laid on March 10 1873 and on Jan I 1 ISH 1877 the tho building was dedicated d The Tho St George temple templo la Is feet 8 Inches long IonS b by 93 feet teet 4 Inches wide Its height from the sur face tace or at the tho ground to the tho top of oC para parapet parapet pet lu la 84 feet It is 18 surmounted on the tho east end b by a 0 tower havIng a square base and an dome It Is estimated that tons of rock wore were used In constructing the tho buildIng and feet or of lumber SPLENDID RESOURCES Some of oC the tho ot of the goun coun country I try and of bf its almost almot limitless rell resources is 18 Elv given n b by Jacob Gates who nho moved to St hIs and amI spent years or of hI his life lito In that section The Tho resources of the tho St country are arc man many arid and varied said mid Mr r Gates rt It Is the to best fruit raising country In the tho world The crops there are about a month earlier than they are here hore and all kInds of oC semitropical fruits and products are arc raised In iii profusion The Tho Dixie grapes are conceded to ho the best In the tho world Orld beating the tho California product as q tile the saying goes a city block The California if climate l n Is h while the f eh and hot climate e of Dixie IX ripens p I Ithe the grapes S without Interruption giving thorn them a a flavor and a sweetness which is 15 unexcelled And while the climate Is hot In summer sum sumIller mer Iller the mercury going gains sometimes a as high as degrees the fact that It Is dT dry takes away the dl fea feature turo ture of a humId heat and the tho people there do not no notice the warmth an any anymore more than the tho people of this latitude notice the heat here Grape culture ha hanot has not been exploited to an anything near like liko Its possibilIties on account of the lack of transportation facilities b by which to get the product to market Dixie fruit truit Is celebrated wherever it itIs itis Is known If Ie the country countr had a rail railroad railroad road thousands of oC acre aCIe of orchards would spring up and deliver for trans transportation transportation hundl hundreds ds of cars of the grapey peaches almonds and other products Where only small amounts are shipped out at present There Thero Ie s much land on both sides of oC the tho Virgen rIver susceptible to intense cultivation cul simply awaiting the advent of oC the railroad and the hand of oC the agriculturist agri R EA R The St George distrIct Is an Ideal place pIneo too for wInter residences In Instead Instead stead of going to California and spend spendIng spending Ing their mone money there for winter homes homell the wealthy class would find It moro more pleasant to spen spend their wInters in n southern Bouthern Utah The climate Is betler and woUld render It unnecessary to travel to California to avoid the rigors ot of the northern winters When the railroad Is III completed It will Abe possible to GO to bed In the Pullman sleeper In InSall Sail Sall bike at nIght and next morning In a 11 temperate or semitropIcal cal climate The Tho climate Is adapted too to the euro cure of oC wIth pulmonary affections and eSp especially to those suffering ButterInG with asthma St George would become a health resort in a short time after atter the of oC rail ro toad I communication Tho people now living In the tho south southern om ern counties are the descendants of oC the tho hardy pioneers called b by Brigham Young to settle up the Dixie countr country The They are aro nn an excellent lot of oC people and worthy Orthy sons Hons of oC thou faithful par parent parents ent who In many cases caes sacrificed their all In subduing a L country countr whIch wn was tho and for many years afterward milts s from fron ROUTE D G For the last two weeks locating enl engi engineers from the Salt r i tike railroad have havo been going gain over oer the proposed St Geor George o route Chief Engineer E G Tilton nc ac accompanied companied IW by Carl Stradley locating engineer r for Cor the Oregon Short 1 Line lne are aro In the Geld carefully scanning the country and are re expected to make a 11 re report port soon It Is said al that a 2 per cent grade Is po possible between Cedar City and St George and the engineers arr aIb now reconnoitering the route down the river towards Moapa The Tho St George Commercial club has appointed special committees to provide data for presentation to the railroad mil road management In favor ot of the Dixie route and the tho County Count News at itt Ht George Georgc has prepared It a great reat deal of information on the subject showing the tho advantages which would accrue to the tho railroad b by this route Iron and Kane counties mo are bon bonding ln eel every energy ne to Induce the road lOad to take this route ac according cOI cording to The News and are arc pledging themselves to throw nil 1111 their business now going to to the Salt Inke Route If It is III built that way Kano count county ships annually pounds of wool besides large numbers of oC live Iho stock hides etc tc at Marysvale Washington and Inno Iano counties and the tho Arizona strip slurp ship annually bend of oC steers besides other r live stock a rood good deal of which goes to Marysvale The amount of oC farm and ranch that would ho be shipped on n a lino IIno going through the tho St George Geore country COUntr Is very ery great besides the product of mines etc ete Then there Is 15 an unlimited quantity ty of the tho VOI very finest red and whIte sandstone for building purposes FIC BOTH WAYS A route through Washington county would have business throughout It its whole extent There would be no tok tak In ing out full Cull cars and bringing In empty ones there would bo be and plenty of oC It both ways Such a route lOUto would tap the inexhaustible coal beds bed a at Cedar and Harmony the vast ast copper and sliver deposits nt at Silver Reef ReeC besides being belnE the tho means of oC start starting Ing development on promising mineral mineraI prospects copper sliver silver lend lead petroleum cannel coal conI kaolin iron hon etc The fhe oil all field is III proved havIng four COUI producing wells and work would bo be resumed on other wells if IC the tho railroad enters the territory The road would run as aa far ns as tho Bellevue ridge In a direct line for the plateau whore there II is between four Cour and five fio billion feet board measure of saw mw timber immediately Immediate available so esti estimated mated b by the government timber experts ex experts und and nt at this part of the tho the grandest part of oC the seener scenery or of the Grand Can Canyon oll Is opened to view The rho roa road between Lund and Harmony would traverse good dry farm farming Ins coun countr country tr try and entering the Dixie settlements would woul draw front from them temperate and subtropical products MINE 11 E SHIPMENTS At the lie southwest corner of oC the count county It would receive the ores On the tho Grand Gulch Cunningham and Copper mountain mines The Tho Dixie mines In ht the district which have already shipped pounds of copper and ore would resume work now non suspended oln owing to ec pensive transportation There is 15 an Inexhaustible ible supply of oC the finest grit stone nt at Diamond valley alle near St George which would supply the tho entire west wIth grindstones for fOl ages to come com said stone being pronounced b by Sliver Dros Bros Brosof of Salt Lake and others who have hoo use used It as superior to nl nil others IRRIGATION SCHEMES m Besides the tho lands under cultivation In Washington and Kane counties very ely large Irrigation schemes are now be beIng being Ing worked on One known at as the Lauritzen project proposes reclaimIng over acres aCles ot of land lying east cast of oC St George The lan land and water has been filed on the engineers ha have 0 pro pronounced pronounced It feasible an and eastern capital is being interested In It Another scheme known as the Virgen Valley Irrl Irrigation atlon company proposes reclaim lag about acres of land from the tho Rio fie fhe land and water has hasI been flied on and l money o to posh I It I secured g rc Still n a another h scheme n proposes S i storing waters at the narrows of oC the tho thoI I river to reclaim OWl over I acres ot of rich land lying north or of Lit Ariz about 25 miles south I Ie w e lerl of St George Engineers WC W I C Alexander L E EllIott and M T TI Burgess Bu nil of oC Salt Lake Ike City were welo I investigating this scheme to report on I Its about a month ago ngo De Be sides aides these large larlo Irrigation projects there Is III an Immense amount of oC land In Kane county count und and parts part or of Washington count county that would ha be taken up as dry farm lands It if the railroad was wall near nearer er the tho district Is too Isolated ut at pres present ont ent to otter offer any encouragement Co I such Much undertakings The railroad would hurl hurry th these sc projects alonG and be the thu moans means of oC bringing In many thousands of ne new settlers tiers and amI the ultimate ton tonnage tonnage nage accruing to the tho railroad would bo be enormous It would be steadily IncreasIng Increasing Ing and ami of oC n a class that is III always s In demand and cnn can always bo be supplied EARLY CROPS Dixie Dixit has hus a climate and soil Boll that favor the growth ot of vegetables earl early enough to put them on the Salt Lake I und and other northern markets In com competition petition with the early earh from California and the competition would woul not last long for Cor the tho superior flavor and quality of the Dixie product would soon drIve all others out of oC the tho mar market market ket this Is especially true of oC asparagus gu gus Los Angeles people C T f Inman and others saying they never tasted lasted any so delicious and tender as the Dixie article The fruits grapes figs figI peaches al almonds monds pomegranates etc can not be beaten and the they have brought honors to the state on exhibition 11 against other fruit growing states Dixie could fur furnish nish all Utah with poultry and eggs egga In winter if IC the demand was created h by putting railroad facilities wIthin faIrly en ea 1 reach The long dry an and warm summers an and the short sunny winters make Dixie a most desirable place to winter In anti and hundreds of oC people |
