Show RESOURCES OF THE WEST mr J A Ija teka in the september forum has baa an am Inter interesting eating article on gold and other resources of the she par far west in this ibis he says la in part it if a pin be placed at denver colorado or the map and anY another ther at oi o i california and n I 1 siring do 00 drawn aiom one to the other an aft jy 1 ane will be marked roar ked passing ih rouiA the heart of a wonderful gold terrt territory tory sightly to ithe north of denver la Is cen v trot trat city and southwest ot of that city Is cripple creek about thirty miles to en the north of the string siring leadville wm be found in the southwest cor cornet net of colorado will appear telluride and other points pointe where gold cold to Is ral marysvale Marys vale in utah almost due so sous of salt lake city will ap appear ear to t tans south of ithe string fifty miles to the north of it near the line between esst and nevada will appear ose Osce oscette ote deep creek lies north of amsk on the southern edge of the great flog i ert west of salt lake detroit abc anal several other olther rich gom gold camps axe ares al most moot due east of osceola Oa ceola pioche ilea one hundred miles south rf ae tha straw and the wonderfully rich gold terri territory torT of the monkey wrench dI district lies southwest of pioche z now north and south of the string t will appear dotted on the map of no vada the gold camps of grant prel burg reveille kafieh valley j antonio Ant onlo gold peak hot iMa belleville candelaria Cande larla and numas num wS others almost under the string in california we find bodle and to toa tike I 1 north of it M and other points all on the eastern slope of tl th sierra nevada mountains on the th western we stern slope of the great sierras the me string will be almost on mhd I 1 mine which is located between san andreas and sonora north and so of the utica mine are hundreds of rich gold mines in profitable operation the distance dla tance from denver to stock ton is about twelve hundred miles on no portion of the habl habitable bable globe to is there a region so gon tenuously 93 enormously rich in told gold as the tory described and yet 81 ing athis fact the pr saive yank yankees has scarcely made a start in opening and develop developing 1 ng the these 3 e r riches ile he s w which h 10 teay been entombed for millions of yema and which will remain so 11 until we awaken to an appreciate appreciation IU on ina jb ir l the fact that the states of Ai utah nevada and Cali california forhia bear walthin their bosoms more wealth chaa ever was dreamed of by croesus 1 I but bu colorado utah and nevada the writer in the forum says MY have bound less possibilities of develop mentIn ad w to the mineral resources and d to s proof off of this he states that thirty ago he traveled southern aou thern call and found a sagebrush sage brush wa waste ate att land worth 60 50 cents an acre A 0 time los angeles contained taday it Is different A great transformation gor mation has bias taken place the region is now the home of the rose the lily ind and the luscious fruit los angeles lias IMs a population of over while flourishing villages dot do the valleys where only a quarter of ft a century ago the jock jack rabbit reigned supreme in utah asid and colorado irrigation has baa produced marvelous results re vegetables are grown there superior too to of almost any other portia port iori ii of d abe united states corn equal to the teat cultivated in iowa or kansas can be grown in the irrigated valleys leys peaches beaches equaling the best grown in delaware are produced in utah and in grand river valley colorado utah produces duces fine grapes prunes and wt cotton ton mr gateka makes the following statement it at will doubtless appear incredible to moot readers that a belt ot country averaging one hundred miles in width exists in colorado utah and nevada where more of the bounties of nature na ture could be enjoyed if the country were properly cultivated than perhaps in any like area on the face of the earth yet tet sn ch is the fact |