| Show advantages RESOURCES AND opportunities WHICH AWAIT COMING OF capitalist AND H HOME OM E BUILDER A state rich in possibilities with pro ducts thit that gb to satisfy every human need which has bom room and lana lands io for 1 r thousands BY JACOB COLEMAN COLEMAN salt lake city at the quarterly meeting of the utah press association held in this city april 10 the following address was delivered by jacob coleman editor of the juab county times mr president ident inen members ibers and friends of the utah press association I 1 am asked to toll tell in 10 minutes the resources of the state of utah why mr president it would take more than ton ten minutes to enumerate the different products that can be raised on one of 0 our city lots where I 1 live at nepha and as for the states resources it would require a book as large as an ail unabridged dictionary to list tile the thousands of baths products that go to satisfy almost every human need ours is a magnificent state it Is an inland empire within whose boundaries of 0 nearly square miles sixty seven states like rhode island or two chios and one deleware cou could d be more than comfortably fitted in n and would not cover its vast area D behold e its majestic mountains whose snow crowns rival in grandeur pikes peak of 0 colorado or the alps of switzerland nowhere in the world except the innermost recesses 0 of russia can such beautiful coloring of mountain foliage be found as during the autumn days in our canyons and dells where on the globe except in utah can call a lake be found where the bather can dreamily float on such buoyant waters while attending atte school v we e studied of the wonderful natural bridge in historic virginia but our state can show the virginian faur such bridges with which his would appear as a medium sized culvert la in comparison and the metals ani minerals of utah aliat an azid andiss ss variety I 1 have it on good authority that of all the metals and minerals in human use tin Is perhaps the only one not found in workable quantities within the borders of utah let us briefly inn over a part of the endless list alum is found in utah and salt lake counties aluminum in davis and morgan counties antimony in box elder flute and garfield counties counder agates in large quantities and great I beauty in emery county arsenic in washington Vas hington and iron counties bismuth in juab sanpete and morgan counties copper in millard and salt lake count counties les with bing bingham ham as tile he greatest copper producing c camp in the world great quantities of coal and iron while now cons conserved arved n out of the way places removed f aiom i orn a railroad could supply america r years to come oil is found in san juan uintah and other coun cona his mr charles D a recognized oil expert of los angeles who lias has just completed a thorough investigation of the utah fields colds stated the other day utah will in my judg want approach it if it does docs not excel pennsylvania as an oil producing as well as in the development of iron and steel manufacture there are almost inexhaustible deposits depo alts of brozi ron and chalin coal in utah ave we will soon be calling pennsylvania the utah ot of the fast east 11 the iron county thero is an ideal combination for or the manufacture of itel one of the most remarkable deposits of iron ore in the world is stored here experts that there are tons in sight and to smelt the lion ind and cure the steel there are in thie thic same county veins of coal feet in A railroad is now being construe to atif 0 branching off tile the salt lake route HC lund and going through iron county to dixie we therefore expect to witness a great influx of capital and population to this region of mineral nin cral miracles alt this Is not all carbonate of soda by thousands of 0 tons tolls is found in salt lake county quicksilver quick silver in Sari pete county garnets in tooele thoele county gold in salt lake juab too ele lad and other counties granite ln in S P lake juab sanpete and every other county in the state gypsum in juall juab sanpete San pete sevier and wash 1119 all I 1 will say that at nephi nepal in juab county we have a solid mountain of gypsum one mill is grinding g out tons per day anotia mill is being planned tile the coming surri summer filer and wo we have mountains molin tallis enough of t to keep live five or six mills going indefinitely in garfield Garti eld and kane counties there are millions of feet ot of good timber awaiting the advent of a railroad to haul it out mountains of 0 marble are also found on tile salt lake route at mills not tar far from nephi the owners r of 01 a 1 mountain or of marble halve hava received assay tests showing it to be equal to the vermont or italian italia marbles they are installing machinery and preparing to ship carload lots to eastern manufacturers mountains of onyx adjudged to be the finest in the world are found in utah county mica nitre ditre oolite silver opals sulphur enough to supply tile the world in millard deaver beaver and utah counties great salt lake could also supply the world with salt without evl r missing any then there are the topaz tale talc rala baster amethysts asbestos and n arly a hundred other metals and minerals that I 1 night might me mention which but awaits the efforts of man to extract them from this great natures storehouse the mineral ini output of this state last year was more than and its mountains have only been scratched on the surface the livestock stoc k industry produced a little over two thirds of this amount and its manufactures about half and although our farm products produced an amount equaling that of tile the mineral output yet in view or of the fact that we have twenty two million acres of arable lands with only about one tenth antu under cultivation and only about one ona fortieth under irrigation with the new nev enthusiasm for the soil in the future our agricultural and horticultural interests will be many times greater than all of our other various lines of industry put together this state has room and lands for hundreds of thousands of settlers it can offer tile the would be all the essentials for a daou essentials for a home seeker daou ile he is looking for utah has an ail ideal temperate climate according to tile the recent report af president joseph F r smith of the mormon church the birth rate is per one thousand the highest in the world and the death rate 9 per one thousand tile the lowest in tile the world it has a soil that has excellent fertility and as professor Pre fessor merrill told the californians recently ours is a much deeper soil it goes without a saying rig that our irrigated farms can produce 1 much larger crops than the famous wheat felds of the mississippi valley and even our dry farms with continued on page six AM continued from P page age two the new M methods of cultivation can produce yields from 25 to 40 per cent larger abin the average crops of iowa kansas nebraska and illinois tile the doubt as to the success of dry farming is forever dispelled for last year which was driest sn in tile the history of tills this new agriculture there was not st 1 failure recorded record where proper methods 0 of f cultivation berti were employed the people who at are e farming these lands are in three years making them pay for the purchase price cost ot of breaking up lip and cult cultivation lyn you can call produce SO cents to dollar wheat at a cost of loss less than 20 cents per bushel tile tha alfalfa raised on our irrig irrigated abed lands is recognized as ill the e greatest of all fola folsie e plants and with butter at 40 cents per pound with not an all uncommon price for the meat ot of a hog with prices of beer extremely high as a consequence utah people are fast recognizing that fortunes can call tie be made in these industries then too what state can call surpass us its in fruit raising name if you can call a laud or fruit show that that horticulturist J edward taylor has not carried oil off the prizes and trophies at sacramento at albuquerque quer que council bluffs we were all proud of the tributes paid to the unexcelled ox celled quality of our fruits and as with grape nuts there is a reason mr smart of the 13 Y U states slates there aie live fundamental reasons chy utah find and her sister states of the arid west can raise superior fruit and are destined to become a fruit producing center there are first soils comparatively rich in potash and phosphoric acid second a water supply under the control of the the key note in the intelligent production ot of fruit buds third four months ot of continuous sunshine which means maximum food production through the foliage and high color in the fruit and a dry clear atmosphere sphere the most potent fungicide in existence because ot of these fruit producing qualities in our soil and climate our farmers are rapidly discontinuing the growing of alfalfa and cereals lor for 25 per acre and are raising fruit from to 1000 per acre it would take an hour or more to 10 tell of the better than california cl climate of dixie her cotton her figs almonds and her berries and vegetables that will be brought by the new railroad to our markets three weeks earlier than california can call supply them the magnificent ent orchards anil and berry berri pat clies of utah valley the endless variety ot of fruits raised in box elder and davis counties the new apple orchards ot of cache and hundreds of others that are being planted out la in this state where the jonathan is king and the elberta is queen all might be de scribed ascribed to you but even then ihen 0 only ly a 1 small fraction would be enumerated or of the almost exhaustless resources of 0 this clety made storehouse but gentlemen ol of the press association cia tion we might as well not have these rich endowments tind ind latent wealth if we are going to keep alse these things to ourselves and wile hide our light under a bushel it we could take care ot of all ot of our products this might be well but the present population and capital in this state could not dream of utilizing in a thousand years the untold resource of this vast empire As well might an ant attempt to remove the bricks and stones from a dilapidated dwelling house we need hundreds of thousands of population to help tickle our soil that it may laugh bounteous harvests we need capitalists to establish a glass factory to use our silica sand which is 90 per cent pure cereal plants and starch factories to consume our grain and potatoes woolen mills to manufacture the twenty million pounds of wool annually produced plants to handle our mountains of sulphur potteries for ur clay deposits and so on and so on and the only way to get these wings is to advertise in this day and age the merchant who has a store full ot of good bargains and never tells the people about them never advertises is soon relegated rela gated in the hands ot of a receiver just so with cities and tates states it if they do not in some way attract capital and men they will rapidly decay and will be lost in this present day race ol of keen competition between communities which are bidding for the home builders and captains of industry the the progress of a community as ot of a person consists in looking for opportunities with which to make a still greater progress thanks to the last legislature a bill was passed which allows clues cities and counties to appropriate money for advertising ver and publicity purposes the people ot of every community should take advantage of this and should aid the development league first to advertise the resources of the state tar far and wide to create the inquiry and second to send the in inquirer booklets and literature explaining truthfully and accurately the advantages the different districts ot of the state have to offer the prospective home right here too is where the local newspaper may be a power for good it is surprising the way the home paper is mailed to d distant friends and hundreds of people have thus been induced to settle in the different towns of our state A community la Is largely judged by the up to date dat ess and enterprise of I 1 13 newspapers it reflects the prag essl essi veness of the locality is represents the editor should never an opportunity to sing the pra praises ics acs of his town and exploit its resources not only should this be done for the effect that it may have on the possible nonresident non resident reader but for tile the education of hi his homo home readers your community may be rich in resources and yet no matter low much outside advertising it gets gels it if the home people are unappreciative cia cla tive indifferent and ignorant ol of the tha possibilities ol of their district it will have a tendency to discourage the new settler who has come to this state and frighten away the prospective one let us its then as members of 0 the utah press association realize that the future development of this state is more or loss less in ill our hands that a comm community unit Y is judged largely by the paper that it Is tor for us to lead the people of 0 the towns we represent to a discovery of the hidden treasures that lie in the mountains and valleys of our prolific state we must forever decry indifference and pessimism and exalt local patrIo patriotism and optimism let this be ever our unfailing duty as we labor hand band in hand with the development league for the up building of this greab great state |
