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Show MUINTINGTOIN Are the towns of Huntington Cleveland Cleve-land and Lawrence going to buy and own a coal mine, or are we going to wait until this opportunity passes beyond be-yond our reach? There is very little j coal land now in Emery county that I has not passed into the hands of capitalists, and will never avail us anything. While we know these mines will be developed and will be the means of helping ua to build up our county (and we appreciate it all), we will nevertheless have to pay a hiVi price for our coal. There are too many smelters that need this coal and too many points where it can it can be shipped for high prices for these companies com-panies to make any sacrifice for the small amount consumed in our own county. Almost every acre of land from Carbon county, to the border lines of Wayne, Sanpete and Grand will be bought for different purposes. We will find that this whole county is not entirely ours and we will have to buy all our fuel, both .wood and coal. The time will come when the attention of the.speculators of the world will be cast this way and if Rockefeller should decide to bring a part of his nine hundred hun-dred million and start to buy, he could take our whole county sun, moon and stars and never know he had spent a cent of his vast sum of earthly treasure; and if this world continues on in its great financial race for the next half century that it has in the last half century, cen-tury, we are inclined to think our Creator will find it necessary to make another earth for his people to live on for a very few will then own this one. We can only see the large hands of the capitalists reaching ' into every city, town, and village, grasping everything that should belong to all citizens of our nation. There are a few men now that individually own as much land as would cover whole states. And now coming back to where we started from. Not long ago steps were .taken to secure se-cure for the above mentioned towns, a body of coal that would last them for a many year and we fear the time will come when we will find that we have missed an opportunity if we don't take advantage of this. Bright lights and warm fires affect us juat tne same as does the sunshine. Mrs. Vilate Meeks Howard. The Murning and McElprang horse race that was to come off on the 15th was postponed until the 2nd of September. Septem-ber. Other races are matched for the same day and a circle track will probably prob-ably be made. Mr. Montell Guymon met with a painful accident last week on the mountain while branding a calf. His knee cap was dislocated. The Sheriff of Bingham, Mr. Lafayette Lafay-ette Chidester, spent last week here visiting relatives. Miss Vera Leonard has returned home from a trip through Sanpete, county and to Salt Lake City. Henry A. Fowler requested us to announce in our columns that his son found an emblem of the Odd Fellows lodge. The owner can get it if they will call at his home. |