Show THE INVESTORS PRIZE ESSAYS we referred some weeks ago to an offer tha had bad been made by the united states investor publish d at boston new york fork and philadelphia to give 1000 in prizes for the beat essays respecting reacting OP spec ting american Amer loan cities and towns three distinguished congressmen ron HOB henry cabot lodge breaker charles F crisp and hon julius C burrows will be the award ing judges and the competition closes december the above named periodical ex expecting tafe acting to begin the publication of the essays on saturday january uh 1898 we note that among the towns and cities from which contributions have already been received salt lake city alone re represents presents utah As AB other writers from this and other towns may be interested in the matter and as there is yet time we again give particulars of the competition the prizes are three in number for the best essay respecting any american city or town tor for the second best and tor lor the third best each essay is to deal with the merits of the city or town chosen as am its subject either as a desirable place of residence as affording opportunities for investment as a place of peculiar location as a place of unusually rapid growth as a place in which an unusually large amount of capital anu labor is employed in any particular industry as a place possessed of great undeveloped resources such as water power coal and iron etc which is peculiar because it has ham long escaped attention as a place of great historical interest or as possessing any other claim to unique interest or special distinction in awarding the prizes the judges will cor consider isider the literary merits of the essay e as am well as the merits of the town or city described they will not how ever go outside of the essay itself for evidence that the town or city possesses any special interest among the ambitious cities that are already represented in the competition are tallapoosa florida oskaloosa iowa Pema pemaquid quid maine tacoma washington nauvoo illinois illinoia baraboo wisconsin muskegon michigan arkadelphia Ark adelphia arkansas niagara falls now new york sleepy eye minnesota Minne eota and philadelphia pennsylvania in such a goodly company as aa this there are a boore of utah towns that could be made to out cut a very respectable figure |