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Show BY JACOB COLEMAN '.Continued from last week.) It baa a soil that has excellent fertility, fer-tility, and, as Professor Merrill told the Califorainns recently, ours is a much deeper soil. It goes without saying say-ing that our irrigated farms can produce pro-duce much larger crops than the famous wheat fields of the Mississippi valley; and even our dry farms with the new scientific methods of cultivation, can produce yields from 25 to 40 per cent larger than the average crops of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois. The doubt as to the success of dry farming is forever dispelled, for last year, which was the driest in the history of this new agriculture, there was not a failure recorded where proper methods of cultivation cul-tivation were employed. The people who are farming these lands a,re, in three years, making them pay for the purchase price, cost ot' breaking up and cultivation. You can produce 80 cent i to dollar wheat at a cost of less than 20 cents per bushel. The alfalfa raised on our irrigated lands is recognized as the greatest of all forage plants, ana with butler at i0 cents per pound; witli $50.00 not an uncommon un-common price for the meat of a hog, with prices of beef extremely hifh, as a consequence, Utah people are fast recognizing that lortunes can be made in tnese industries. lnen, too, what state can surpass us in fruit raioing? Name, if you can, a land or tVuit snow at which chat horticulturist, horticul-turist, J. Edward Taylor, nas not car-nea car-nea oif the pnzes ana trophies? At Sacraineiitu, at iiioiiqu jiq je, at Council Biu.t's, we were ail prjua o( the tributes pau to cue unexcelled quality or our f.uus, and us wicrj Grape Nuts, 'there is ' a reaaon'. Mr. bmart, of me tS. Y. U., states: "fnere arj rive iuiidamenCal reasons why Utah ana ner sister states ot trie arid eat can raiae superior fruit and are destined to Decoine u Iruit pro-tiuciug pro-tiuciug center. Tney are: r irsi., sous comparatively ricu in pjus.i and pnoop.ioiic acid; secoiu, a water supplj Unucr tne control m Cue orciaraisr. tile key note in tn intelligent production oi iViiii, oads, mirj, four moiuns ui coii-tniuoasau.isiiuie, coii-tniuoasau.isiiuie, widen means maximum food jjAAiuecion througn the loliage and hi.i oior in in.; fr d.tj'a.i j, fodrcn, a. d.y, clear atmospnere, tne most potent fungicide in existence." because of tnese iruit prouueing qualities in our sod and cumace, our farmers are rapidly discontinuing tne rowing of alfaKa and Cereals lor $5 per acre, and are raising Iruit lor xrora 50d to $l,0od per acre. Ic would taKe an hour or more to tell of tne becter-naii CaiuOi-nu cli.nace of Ua.i'j J.xia, iur cotton, me rigs, almontfs, pomegranates and her berries and vegetables tnat will be brought by tne new railroad to our marKets three weeks earlier than Caluornia can supply sup-ply tnem. The inagniricenc orcnards and berry patcnes ox Utah valley, the endles variety of iruits raised in Box Elder and Davis counties, the new apple orchards of Cache and nundreds of others that are being planted out in this state wnere the Jonatnan is king and the Elberta is queen all might be described to you, but even then only a small fraction would be enumerated of the almost exhaustless resources of this "Deity-made storehouse." But, gentlemei. of the Press Association, Asso-ciation, we might as well not have these rich endowments and latent wealth, if we are going to keep these things to ourselves and "hide our light under a bushel." If we could take care of all of our products, this might be well; but the present Dopulation and capital in this state could not dream of utilizing in a thousand years the untold resources of this vast empire. As well might an ant attempt to remove the briCKs and ulation 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; wo )len mills to manufacture manufac-ture the twenty-million pounds of wool annually produced; plants to handle our mountains of sulphur, potteries for our clay deposits, and so on and so on, and I the only way to get these things is to advertise. In this day and age, the j merchant who has a store full of good j bargains and never tells the people i about them, never advertises, is soon I relegated into the hands of a receiver. Just so with cities and states. If they do not in some way attract capital and men, they will rapidly decay, and will be lost in this present day race of keen competition between communities, hidi are bidding for the home builders and captains of industry. Tne progress of a community, as of a person, consists 1 in looking for opportunities with which to make a still greater progress. Thanks to the last legislature, a bill wns passed which allows cities and counties to appropriate ap-propriate money for advertising and publicity purposes. The people of every community should take advantage of this; and should aid the Development League, first to advertise tife resources of the state far and wide to create the inquiry; and, sicond, to send the in--quirer booklets and literature explaining truthfully and accurately the advantages advant-ages tne diiferenc district of tne state have to od'er the prospective homeseek-er. homeseek-er. Right here, too, is where the local newspaper may bd a power for good. It is surprising the way the home paper is mailed to distant friends, and hunJreds oi' people nave thus been induced Co settle set-tle in tne dilferent towns of our state, A community is largely judged by the up-to-datedi.ess, newsincss and enterprise enter-prise of its newspapers. It reflects the progressiveness of the locality ic represents, rep-resents, i'ne editor should never overlook over-look an opportunity to sing toe praises of his to .vn and exploit its attractive resources. re-sources. Not only shuld tnis Oe done for tne ed'ect tnat it may ni'vi on th ; possib e non-resident reader, but tor the ed .icacion of his home readers. Your community may be rich in resources and yet no ma.ter ho.v mucn outside ajver-tising ajver-tising it ge.s, it the home people are unappreciative, in aiiferent and ig lorant of tne possibilities of tneir district. It will hive a .e.i lenoy to discourage tne new settler who has come tJ tnisscate, I and frighten a.vay the prospective one. Let us then as uumoers os tne Utah Press Association realize chat tne future development ot tnis state is more or less in our nauds- tna.-a com in unity is judged largely Oy tne character and appeari'nce of its newspaper; tnat it is for us to lead the peopie of the towns we represent repre-sent to a discovery of tne hidden treasures treas-ures that lie in the mountains and valleys val-leys of our pro.ific staie. We must decry de-cry indifference ui.u pessimism and exalt local patriotism and optimism. Let this be ever our uniadin outy as we' labor hand in hand with the Development Develop-ment League for the upuuilding of, this great state. |