| Show arwen drw for this paper SOUTHERN advantages PAROWAN nov NOT 8 1893 to a person accustomed to live jive to in any of the various settlements in northern utah as a well as southern ssu thern idaho and who has haa removed into southern utah inslfe the rim of the basin nothing civet givet greater surprise than to see eee and realize the many what ahat would be coni in the north good openings for settlement nay even for what there is so BO great a cry for work thereto there ia but one news piper pa per in four or five of these cou counties coun and that with a very limited circulation anti and but few correspondents tu to northern consequently the bulk of the population of utah does not appear to me to be posted as to the wealth and possibilities of southern utah more especially inside th great reat basin ot of the salt lake the railroad does not quite reach here tiner therefore wore the busy man and will not come here bore positive necessity of some nature alone bring men here and it puts one in mind of dalt lake city in the sixties or earlier in saying there is work hire here to Is not saying that there Js is cash paid for work anymore any more then than there was in salt lake city in the early prosperous times almis when trade was the rule and cash the exception to prove the assertion that ignorance prevails in the north concerning the south I 1 have only to refer to the assertion publisher publish ea in a recent issue ot of the NEWS over the signature of an exceptionally well informed man in a general way that there wat wah not a pound of leather produced in utah why I 1 live next house to it a good sized tannery doing however but a limited for reasons best besl known to the management though all other mechanical industries are bet bei crowded a few nondescript trampe who dont want what they ask for asks for or want work in this locality there is also a tannery in cedar city twenty miles further south the foundation is laid hereabouts toi foi a prosperous and v wealthy community but it needs advertising there if ib stagnation of trade because there art arc none here bore tu to embrace the opportunities to take up and improve laud opportunities tuni ties to till on shares what is already improved opportunities op ties to labor fur for the necessities of life wood is accessible sible lumber is cheap coal within a few miler just what the poor man oi 01 more dense communities needs ano and yet unlike bear lake county idaho within reach of good fruit in abundance and water in the land accessible to afar a far greater degree than in similar situations in box elder county where settlers are making an excellent living on the subject of fruit dis distance from the needy mackto it so that it cannot be ci 01 arit ably given away witti only a moderate crop to draw upon distance yet yep the truble in most of these oases cases of internal iu trade happily there is no duty on the ex change of a box of grape or of apples for alike a like measure of grain or bale oi nay bay but the roada though well graded over the rim of the basin ano ana through the defiles of the are allowed by a government that hao bas authority to protect by taxation or duty everything imported Imp to be a oiled put cut up into ruts and chuck holes boles by narrow tired freight wagons now there is quite a wail for railroads but there are plenty of horses to use the natural and graded roads if their roads were protected by regulations of the wagon tire which have prevailed as an economic measure from time beyond our recollection in other L oun tries and that without any hardships whatever on the beers when once introduced trod there is lots more to be said but for the present adieu P B P |
