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Show Utah's Advantages BY JACOB COLEMAN Salt Lake City. At the qimrtorly meeting of the Utah Press Association, held in this city April 10, the following address was delivered by Jacob Coleman, editor of the Juab Comity Times: Mr. President, members and friends of the Utah Press Association: I am asked to tell in ten minutes the resources of the state of Utah. Why, Mr. President, it would take more than ten minutes to enumerate the different products that can be raised on one of oir city lots where I live at Nephi. And as for the state's resources, it would require a book as large as an unabridged dictionary to list the thousands thous-ands of Utah''s products that go to satisfy sat-isfy almost every human need. Ours is a magnificent state. It is an inland empire within whose boundaries of nearly 85,000 square miles, sixty-seven sixty-seven states like Rhode Island, or two Ohn's and one Delaware cjuldbj m rattan ra-ttan comfortably fitted in, and wo.ild not cover its vast area. Behold its majestic ma-jestic mountains, whose snowcapped crowns rival in grandeur Pike's Peak of Colorado or tte Alps of Switzerland. Nowhere in the world, except the innermost in-nermost recesses of Russia, can such beautiful coloring of mou itain foliage be found as during the autumn days in our canyons and dells. Where on the globe, except in Utah, can a lake be foun 1 where the bather can dreamily that on such buoyant waters? While attending school we studied of the wonderful natural bridge is Kistoii Virginia, but our state can show the Virginian foursuci bridges, with which his would appear as a medium-sized culvert in comparison. An I the met.ils and minerals of Utah what an endiess variety! I have it on good authority that, "Of all the metals and minerals in human use, tin is perhaps the only one not found in .voi k-abli k-abli qi iiidcie-: wahin the bjrders of Utan." Let us briefly run over a part of the endless lisc. Alum is f.und in Utah and Salt Lake counties, aluminum in Davis an I Morgan couiuies antinurw in B .x Ei ler, Pijte and Garfield counties; agate. in large quantities and great beauty in Emery county; arsenic in WaShingto l an J Iron counJes; bismuth in Juab, Sanp te and Morgan counties; c ipper iu Juab, Millard Mil-lard and Salt Lake counties with Bingham Bing-ham as the greatest copp -r pro lucing camp in the world. U tah's great quantities quan-tities of coal and iron, while now conserved con-served in out o; the w iy p a -s removed from a railroad, could supply America for 50) years to come. Oil is found in San Juan. Uintan ani other cou itiis. Mr. Charles D. Dickensheets, a recognize! recog-nize! 1 expert of Lis Angeles, w.u his just co npleted a thj.-oug l invest, -Ration of the Utah fields, stited t ie other Jay, "TTcin will, in m ju dgmen approach, if it does not excel, Pennsylvania Pennsy-lvania as an oil producing state, as well as in the development of iron and steel manufacture. Tnere are almost inexhaustible inex-haustible deposits of iron and c ial in Utah. We will so . be calling Pennsylvania Pennsy-lvania 'The Utah of the East.' " In Iron county there is an ideal combination com-bination foi the ninKacture of steel. One of the most re narkaoio deposits of iron ore in the world is stored here. Experts declare that there are 500,000,-i-'OJ t ns in sight. And to smelt the iron and m i.nuf ictura the steel, there are in this same counry, veins of coal 100 feet in thickness. A railroad is now being constructed, branching off the Salt Like ft j.e at Lin 1, m 1 go ng, through Iron county to Utah's Dixie. We, therefore, expect to witness a great influx in-flux of capital and population to this region of mineral miracles. But t'nis is not all carbonate of soda by thou ands of tons is found in Salt Lake county; quick-silver in Sanpete county; garnets' in Tooele county; gold in Salt Lake, Juab. Tooele and other counties; granite in Salt Lake, Juab, Sanpete and every other county in the state; gypsum in Juab, Sanpete. Sevier and Washington. I will say that at Nephi, in Juab county, we have a solid mountain of gypsum; one mill is grinding grind-ing out 200 tons per day; another mill is being planned the coming summer, and we have mountains enough of it to keep five or six mills going indefinitely. indefi-nitely. j In Garfield and Kane counties there I are millions of feet of good timber j awaiting the advent of a railroad to I haul it out. Mountains of marble are I also found. On the Salt Lake Route at Mills, not far from Nephi, the o.vners of a mount lin of mirble have receive! assay tests showing it to be uqual to the Vermont or Italian marbles. They are installing machinery, and preparing to ship carload lots to eastern manufacturers. manu-facturers. Mountains of onyx, adjudged to be the finest in the world, are found in Utah county. Mica, nitre, oolite, opals, silver, sulphur sul-phur enough to supply the world in Mil-l..rd, Mil-l..rd, Beaver and Utah counties; Great Salt Lake could also supply the world with salt without evir missing any; then there are the topaz, talc, alabaster, amethysts, asbestos, and nearly a hundred other metils an.l minerals that I might mention, which but await the e forts of man to extract them from this great Nature's storehouse. The mineral output of this state last year was more than $ji,0)J,00J, and its mmntuins have only been seratcned on tie surface. The livestock industry produced a little over two-thirds of this anil it, and its manufacturers about h ill. And although our farm products produced an amount equ.iii n tnat ot tne mineral output, yet in view of the fact that we have twen-.y-tuo million acres of arable lands with only ao.mt one tenth under cultivation, and only auout one-fortieth under irrigation, wun the new eutnusi ism lor tne soil; in tne future, our agricultural and hoiti-cuitural hoiti-cuitural interests will be many times greater than allNjf our other various l.nes of industry i ut together. fnis s.ate has room and lands lor hundreds of tnousindi of settlers. I-can I-can od'er tne w iul l-be ho.neseeker ;UI tne essentiais foe i ni.nesteal thit lie is 1j king for. Utinnts in iJeai te n-perate n-perate cum ite. Aceording to tne r -cent report of Preside it Joiep.i F. S ii! oi the Mormon cnuca, i.ie o.r.a rate is 38 per one tnousan I, tne mga i i tne world, an 1 the dea:n rite d per one ihxu -1 n I, th lo ve.iL in .-u wjrid. (Continued next week.) |