Show for welcome the new year it opens under aro t favorable auspices forem ery coun prosperity 13 emblazoned ita banner the scare that its predecessor us it its latter end and wie of which at linge linges s is baat fading into a memory only inflated values have been knocked and wor h less water squeezed out of stocks leav in the real gubatan e A few wildcat bai ks and trust compan es have been put out of commission but general confidence in banking institutions and tie fidanc al system of the government is stronger sti to day than it was six months ago the general tone of the stock markets is better than ever and the real value of the old stand by se canties was never beatr at the very dawn of the new year comes the as aurance that the great 1 belt of this county is to be systematically and earnestly exploited a standard stin dard rig and ament now being in transit from the rail road to the feld th opening up of coal mp in miller creek at a po nt dose to emry county and the early completion of railroad to haul the output gives to the farmers of th s county a still greater demand for their products at a mar acet somewhat bearr home than at pres although conditions condit ious in th s respect are at most favorable it is altogether probable that within the year a coal camp will be opened up on cedar creek in emery county which will be tapped by the railroad to be bu it to miller creek these proposed camps one of which is already in the course of construction will only a few miles anait the great cottonwood cleek reser voir gioi under the prom ot on of don robbins looks 1 ke a winner it is the most magnificent natural res site in the state of istah and wh ie the expense to con the great dam according to the plans out anel luna into th hundred of thou ands of dollars the coat ia a mere bag atelle when measured by the great ac creage that could be reclaimed by the water from the proposition A half mill on acres of as fine beet and alfalfa seed land as can be found in utah could be irrigated from this plant just previous to the financial flarry the powerful of the smelter trust were to finance this proposition pio position and had it not been that the bottom fell out of copper proper ties ind smelter lecun es quicker than anything else work might now be un der headway on the reservoir enter puse the successful finance g of the var ious land enterprises of which the utah land and power co s gooseberry res ard price land reclamation scheme is a part insures every idle i man and team in this county with plen ty of work for th m ng year th resumption of work at price is likely to commence within a few days then we have the castle valley nil road vulgarly termed the salina cut afi th s is always a theme for hope ful and conjecture and particularly so now because of the as of the vast number of car loads of tips at green river at the eabe and m sanpete county at the west it seems to be accepted by railroad men as a foregone conclusion that the purchase of the sanpete valley road by the denver rio grande meana a divers on it major portion of through billed freight in and out of salt lake city from I 1 he soldier summit line to i more favorable route to be made by linking the gintic tintic sanpete valle and castle valley roads together salt lake herald as usual is sued a fine ann number on sun day last the of the states of utah idaho wyom ng and nevada and the progress of the same for the past year w ere fully and cleverly pres anted and th illusto athons were in keeping with the herald s usual high class estyl TTE salt lake tribune s new year s number was an exceptionally good one this year it ft as replete with statis matter pertaining to all the lead ing industries of utah wyoming idaho and nevada it is seldon that such matters are handled by any paper as well as the tribune presented them this ane should be in every business man s hands and reta ned for occasional referee ce THE element had got so reckless ai d arrogant in denver that the governor of the state was appealed to put a crimp in its operations the result is orders have been issued to all i police officers to vigorously enforce the laws in regard to gambling the liquor traffic and prizefighting delegates from the south to the democratic national convention will find special provision has been mc dc to accommodate their needs THE citizens of georgia are expel the most lecul ar novelty of their lives on january 1 the most drastic prohibition law in the union v ent in to effect there As a result 10 people lost employment and prop erty worth about 7 is for the time closed the governor is de see that the law is enforced and states there is plenty of work in geoegia for those who go out of the liquor business and plenty of work for all of the time of those who have wasted half their time through the use of liquor |